 He was removed from office (along with foreign minister Alcinda Abreu and justice minister Esperança Machavela) on March 10, 2008, and was succeeded by Paulo Zucula, the former director of Mozambique's National Disasters Management Institute.Although Guebuza offered no official reason for Munguambe's dismissal from office,
various news reports suggested
that it was tied to the transportation-related riots in Maputo in February that caused between four
and six deaths.The riots were sparked by increases of up to 50 percent in the fares for the "chapas" (privately owned minibus taxis)