Africa-Press – Angola. The acting municipal administrator of Namacunde, Cunene province, Gilberto Tuleigepo, encouraged the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) Monday, to continue with rigor in the process of combating and preventing corruption in the country.
Speaking in a lecture on “Ethics and corruption”, Gilberto Tuleigepo said that the PGR, as the body that guarantees legality in Angola, must continue the process against corruption to eradicate it.
He said that to banish this evil, the intervention of State bodies and civil society is necessary, through denunciations of the acts carried out for a more transparent and corruption-free country.
He assured that the local administration is available to make its contribution to the eradication of this evil that impedes socioeconomic development, increases poverty levels and social inequality in families.
In turn, the Public Prosecutor at the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) in Namacunde, Francisco Rocha, explained that the body drew up an activity plan to make society aware of the harm caused by corruption.
“We must seek to further denounce these practices to related bodies, as a way of contributing to mitigating the corruption that “has harmed the country’s development”, said the magistrate.
The PGR in the province of Cunene controls five thousand cases of different nature, including 18 for corruption, in the investigation and preparatory investigation phase, to be introduced in court.
The lecture, addressed to members of defense and security bodies, public servants and private institutions, representatives of civil society organizations, traditional authorities and ecclesiastics, is part of the day commemorating the 20th anniversary of the institutionalization of the International Day Against Corruption.
The anniversary is celebrated on December 9th and was established by the United Nations (UN) since the Convention against Corruption, which took place in 2003.
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