MAPUTO– The brothers of the late leader of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), Alfonso Dhlakama, who died last Thursday, Elias and Sebastiao, have declared that there is no need for an autopsy to be performed.
“There is no need for it. The autopsy, for us, brings nothing else but speculation, really,” they told the media here Tuesday. “He got sick like any human being,” said Elias Dhlakama, adding that the Mozambican opposition leader had died “like any other citizen”.
“Alfonso Dhlakama has found death in a place where a doctor has never gone before,” so everything that is said is speculation, he added. “Nobody knows what took him, what we know is that he was sick,” concluded Elias.
The two brothers spoke at the end of a meeting with a government delegation, which went to the family home in Beira in central Sofala Province, to offer condolences. The delegation included Justice Minister Isac Chande and Public Works and Housing Minister Carlos Bonete.
Dhlakama died at the age of 65, in the Gorongosa Mountain, where he lived from health complications. The official funeral ceremonies of the Mozambican opposition leader are scheduled for 8a.m. on Wednesday, in Beira and he will be buried in Mangunde, his hometown, on Thursday.
Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK