Good afternoon. News that the government has approved the concession contract for a new goods terminal at the port of Pemba, in Cabo Delgado province (see below), raises suspicions that this is another example of government insiders trying to get their hands on lucrative contracts before they get replaced by Daniel Chapo when he takes over as president next year (assuming that ruling party Frelimo successfully manipulates the vote in his favour, as it has done for the past 25 years).
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Attempts to do this have already been made over the contract for the electronic customs management system, where there is a move to scrap the contract and re-let it, and over the concession for the port of Maputo, where there was previously talk of reducing the shareholding of the foreign private investors in order to allow a new partner to enter the concession company. This was resisted by then finance minister Max Tonela, and seems to have been dropped.
