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DANIEL FRANCISCO CHAPO, was born on January 6TH, 1977, in Inhaminga, district of Cheringoma, in the province of Sofala. Son of Francisco Chapo (deceased) and Helena dos Santos Chiremba, Daniel Chapo is the sixth child in a family of 10 siblings, and professes the Christian religion.

His father was an employee of the Mozambican Railways and his mother is a house wife. Due to the armed conflict, Chapo’s family was forced to leave Inhaminga to Dondo district. It was in Dondo, where Daniel Chapo had his childhood and completed his primary education at Escola Primária Josina Machel.

In 1996 – Daniel Francisco Chapo completed grade 10 at Escola Secundária de Dondo, then he went to Beira City, where he completed secondary school at Escola Secundária Samora Machel. While attending the second cycle of secondary school in the same city, Daniel Chapo was announcer on Rádio Miramar and presented a sports program between 1997 – 1999.

In 1999 – Daniel Francisco Chapo, in order to continue his studies, he moved to Maputo, the capital city of the country where he joined Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the largest and oldest higher education institution in the country.

In Maputo, Daniel Francisco Chapo was integrated into Televisão Miramar as a result of his collaboration with Rádio Miramar in Beira. At the headquarters of that television station, Daniel Chapo was a featured reporter and presented a television program called “A Voz do Povo”.

In 2004 he completed his degree in Law, but continued to invest in his studies, having completed the Registrar and Notary course at Legal and Judiciary Training Center in Maputo Province of Maputo in the same year.

In 2005 he was appointed Conservator and Notary in the City of Nacala-Porto, in the province of Nampula, thus beginning his professional career in this area until 2009. At the invitation of the Pedagogical University Delegation of Nampula, extension of Nacala-Porto, in 2009 Daniel Chapo was Professor at that higher education institution, having taught the subjects of Constitutional Law and Political Sciences.

In 2009, as a result of his work and political engagement, he was appointed Administrator of the District of Nacala-a-Velha, where he promoted the creation of employment opportunities for young people, without discrimination, as well as organizing the installation of large-scale investments.

Even with his schedule under pressure due to his position as District Administrator, Daniel Chapo decided to continue his studies, this time to the master’s level in the Development Management course at the Catholic University of Mozambique in Nampula, in 2014. In same year he interned at the Mozambique Lawer Association, where he is member number 544, but due to incompatibility of duties he suspended his activities as lawer.

In 2015, Daniel Chapo was appointed Administrator of the District of Palma in the Province of Cabo Delgado. His mission in Palma lasted a short time as he was appointed in 2016, by President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, to the position of Governor of Inhambane.

In April 2019, the Mozambican parliament approved a new legislative package, which determined that provincial governors would be elected. In this context, Daniel Chapo was Frelimo’s list leader in Inhambane and the party won the October 2019 elections, becoming the first governor elected in that province.

Daniel Chapo is Married to Ms. Gueta Selemane Chapo, with whom he has 3 children. Daniel Chapo is a Basketball and Football player.

Daniel Chapo speaks fluent Xi-Cena, Xi-nDau, Matsua, Portuguese and English. If he wins the elections scheduled for October 9, next, he will become the fifth president of independent Mozambique, after Samora Machel, Joaquim Chissano, Armando Guebuza, and Filipe Nyusi.

SOME HIGHLIGHTING ACHIEVEMENTS

The Head of State, Filipe Nyusi, recently testified to Chapo’s competence, stating that despite having remained in charge of the Palma district for six months, he gained sympathy in that part of the country, to the point that the President of the Republic was questioned, if they didn’t deserve to have someone with their profile governing them.

During the last eight years (2016 to 2024) as governor of Inhambane, Chapo led the province to be the first in the country to complete the implementation of banks in all districts, within the framework of the presidential initiative “One District, One Bank”. This work was completed in May 2019.

It was in his consulate and under his leadership that the province of Inhambane organized two international investment conferences, as well as district development forums in all districts, a fact that catapulted the local economy by attracting national and foreign investment in several structuring projects that ensured employment for local labor.

With his leadership, the population of Inhambane Province stopped asking for food at popular rallies and started asking for development infrastructures such as access roads, schools, water supply sources, mobile phone networks, hospitals as well as agricultural inputs.

In this line of development, Daniel Francisco Chapo fought hard to ensure that Inhambane ceased to be the poorest province in the country, coming alongside the province of Gaza as one of the largest breeders of cattle, and the capital of national and international events. , such as the African Beach Football Championship, the holding of the II conference “Crescendo Azul”, and recently the holding of the III edition of the “National Meeting of the Association of Bikers of Pérola do Indico”, having brought together Bikers from all provinces, from the region SADC and Portugal.

The following achievements can also be highlighted in Daniel Chapo’s consulate:

• The Homoine/Panda road has been paved over a section of around 50km,

• Rehabilitated Pambara/Save section along National Road n1, a 200km route

• Construction of the new bridge over the Save River is underway,

• Jangamo district hospital built, and construction of Massinga and Maxixe district

  hospitals is underway.

• Two more waiting houses for pregnant women were built in the districts of Vilankulo

  and Morrumbene.

• Water supply systems built in almost all districts.

• Bank branches built in all districts of Inhambane province.

• Expansion of the school network is underway, with the construction of secondary

  schools at administrative post headquarters.

• Entry into operation of large investment projects for the agricultural sector in the

  northern region of the province.

• Built health centers in Chipole in the district of Zavala, Chizapela in Homoine, Murrie

  and Guigobane in Morrumbene, Tevele in Massinga.

• Under construction of the Cupo health center in the Funhalouro district.

• Regarding the supply of drinking water in rural areas, during the period under

  analysis, 5 new water holes were built corresponding to an execution of 6.7%, in the

  Districts of Zavala (2) and Massinga (3).

• 10 Water Supply Systems were also built in the Districts of Zavala (3), Jangamo (2),

  Morrumbene (1), Massinga (2), Vilankulo (1) and Inhassoro (1), 5 Supply Systems were also rehabilitated of Rural Water in the District of Panda (1), Homoíne (2), Inhassoro (1) and Govuro (1).

• 25 de Setembro de Quissico Secondary School built; Chicomo Secondary School in Massinga, construction of the Mapanguela Secondary School in Guma Locality in the district of Massinga is underway.

• Entry into operation of 6 primary schools.

• Approved 7 projects with a total investment value of 9,413.6 million USD, which

  corresponds to 10.5% of the plan’s implementation, with the prospect of creating

  249 jobs for national workers.

• Start of operation of the Chimunda irrigation system, which will boost the food

  production process in the northern part of the province and create jobs among the

  population;

• The Morrumbene pier bridge was rebuilt, which will guarantee safety in the

  transport of people and goods.

• Currently, all district headquarters in Inhambane have water supply systems (SAA),

  with the Govuro district missing, where the first stone for construction in Doane has already been laid. For places where there is no river course nearby, water retention dams were implemented. The exercise was carried out with a view to minimizing the scarcity of this precious liquid among the populations.

• Still in the infrastructure chapter, the importance of his leadership for the asphalting of the Homoine/Panda road, a route of extreme relevance in the development of the province, stands out; implementation of telephone networks in all administrative posts; construction of health units at local headquarters; as well as the building of the Jangamo district hospital.

• • In order to promote culture, tourism and gastronomy, considering the great tourist potential of Inhambane, Chapo led the annual Tofo and Timbila festival. Implemented the Mpabe (fish) festivals in the Inhassoro district, Macamba (shrimp) in Govuro. There were also Závora festivals in two different parts of this region.

  POLITICAL BACKGROUND

• Between the years 1995 – 1996, comrade Daniel Francisco Chapo was Secretary for the OJM Organization Area in the Dondo district, where with vigor and militancy he mobilized young people to embrace party work;

• From 1998 – 1999 he was Secretary of the Installation Committee of the Dondo District Youth Council as a member and member of the OJM;

• From 2001 – 2004 he was Secretary of Cell B at the University Residence of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, where with his colleagues he worked for the success of the electoral campaign for the general elections that year;

• In 2004 – 2005 he was Secretary of Cell A of the National Department of Registries and Notaries in Maputo;

• In 2005, in Nacala-Porto he was elected Secretary of the Registry and Notary Cell in that district;

• In 2008, he was appointed Director of the Electoral Campaign for FRELIMO candidate Chale Issufo in the Nacala-Porto Municipality, where Frelimo won the elections, removing the opposition from power;

• Due to his notoriety, he was appointed in 2009 to the position of Administrator of Nacala-Velha and Deputy Head of the District Election Preparation Office;

• In 2012 – due to his duties, he was appointed Deputy Head of the District Preparation Office for the Xth Congress in Nacala-a-Velha;

• In 2014 – he was Deputy Head of the District Election Preparation Office in Nacala-a- Velha;

• In 2016 – Member of the District Committee of the FRELIMO Party in the District of Palma, where he would be transferred by appointment to the Province of Inhambane;

• In 2017 – he was Deputy Head of the Provincial Preparation Office for the XI Congress in the Province of Inhambane;

• In 2017 – during the XI Congress of FRELIMO he was elected Member of the Central Committee and renewed in 2022 at the XII Congress;

• In 2018 – he was Deputy Head of the Provincial Election Preparation Office in Inhambane Province;

• Having been elected Head of List of the FRELIMO Party for the first elections of the Country’s Provincial Governors in 2019, thanks to the decentralization reforms in Mozambique.

  FRELIMO CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

  The Frelimo Central Committee, meeting in its 1st Extraordinary Session at the Party’s Central School, in the City of Matola, Maputo Province, from 3 to 5 May 2024, elected Comrade Daniel Francisco Chapo, Member of the Central Committee, candidate of FRELIMO for the VII Presidential Elections of October 9, 2024.