Africa-Press – Angola. The General Inspectorate of State Administration (IGAE) in Cabinda triggered a criminal action against some employees of the extinct Panga Panga Plywood Factory, for attempting to entice inspectors, when they were carrying out research work at the aforementioned production unit, about an alleged looting equipment for illegal purposes.
According to the provincial delegate of the IGAE, José Pereira Manuel, who announced the fact yesterday, in this city, he referred that everything started through a public denunciation that reported the existence of a group of former employees headed by the coordinator of the Management Committee of the aforementioned former production unit named “André Pátio”, who vandalized the Panga Panga factory, in order to subtract part of the equipment existing there, especially the press, to later sell to third parties as ferrous material. speculative prices.
Immediately, he said, the IGAE inspectors, placed on the spot, to assess the veracity of the complaints, “it was found that, in fact, the information available on the looting of equipment from the factory by some former employees was true, having then these (inspectors), in a pedagogical attitude, advised them not to follow this posture “because they would be committing an act of impropriety”.
Dissatisfied with the advice given by the IGAE inspectors, continued the provincial delegate of the General Inspection of State Administration, José Pereira Manuel, the offenders preferred to entice the inspectors with monetary amounts of six hundred thousand kwanzas.
In view of the corrupt attitude shown by these individuals, based on material evidence, whether due to the facts of the public complaint about the vandalism of equipment at the Panga Panga factory, or the attempt to entice inspectors with monetary values, the IGAE, said, “in scope of institutional collaboration in the light of Presidential Decree 242/20, of September 28, based on article 7, triggered the SIC to detain them and take them to court”.
“The process has now been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Service, so that, based on the legal mechanisms of action, it can capture the offenders who tried to bribe the inspectors”, said the IGAE delegate, for whom the process involves four elements in all. including heads of the Department of the Provincial Secretariat for Industry, Mineral Resources and Petroleum.
For the provincial delegate of the IGAE, José Pereira Manuel, the vandalism of the former Panga Panga factory, in a state of abandonment for over 20 years, “is deplorable at all levels”, as it is a State enterprise that has not yet been alienated and which continues to be under the supervision of the Provincial Secretariat for Industry, Mineral Resources and Petroleum.
In the view of the IGAE delegate, the only entity authorized to hand over equipment from the former Panga Panga factory is the Provincial Secretariat for Industry, Mineral Resources and Petroleum and not anonymous persons.
“The existing material at the Panga Panga factory is very valuable and in order to exploit it, authorization must be obtained from the holder of the portfolio of the provincial government”, he warned, adding that the IGAE also received guarantees from the secretary of the sector on the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against the officials involved, without prejudice to other administrative measures.
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