Africa-Press – Angola. More than 200 national citizens who are serving sentences in prisons in Namibia will be able to serve them in Angola, under a cooperation agreement between the two countries.
The information was provided, in Benguela, by the director general of the Correctional Services of Namibia, commissioner general Rafael Amuniela.
According to the commissioner-official, Namibia controls 204 Angolan prisoners serving sentences in its prisons, 19 for illegality, 46 for crimes of aggravated robbery and theft, 26 others for environmental crimes and the others in a preventive situation.
Rafael Amuniela informed that 39 Angolan prisoners have already shown interest in serving sentences in Angola, and, of these, eleven (11) cases have already been sent to the country and are awaiting approval.
The high ranking of the Namibian prison police added that the eleven prisoners could be transferred to Angola at any time, if there is speed in the processing of their processes between the two institutions.
Meanwhile, the general director of Angola’s Penitentiary Services, chief prison commissioner Bernardo Pereira Gourgel, said that the country controls 36 prisoners of Namibian nationality.
The person in charge assured that, within the scope of the existing cooperation between the two institutions, administratively the memorandum for the beginning of the exchange of inmates has already been dealt with, but he emphasized that this transfer depends on the detainee’s own will.
The provincial delegate of Minint in Benguela, commissioner Aristófanes dos Santos, who received the two delegations, made it known that the prisons in the province control 1,871 inmates, so there is no excess of pre-trial detention.
Aristófanes dos Santos also informed that the public security situation in the province is characterized by calm, with an average of 15 crimes per day, mostly thefts and robberies on public roads, as well as occasional crimes of homicide and sexual violation.
He also explained that they are concerned about road accidents, with emphasis on the National Road -105, which in recent days has registered 30 cases.
In 2018, the two countries signed a bilateral agreement to transfer Angolan and Namibian prisoners to serve their sentences in their respective countries. This agreement can now begin to be implemented.
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