Africa-Press – Angola. At least 37 assets of the Angolan State, which were in the illegal possession of former managers and people outside public institutions, part of which were surreptitiously transferred to the ownership of those now being investigated, were recovered by the General Inspectorate of State Administration (IGAE) , in Huíla, in 2023.
These are 17 vehicles, 12 of which are allocated to the Mandume ya Ndemofayo University and five to the extinct company Mecanização Agrícola (Mecanagro), among which are top of the range Land Cruiser V8, Toyota Prado, Mitsubishi and Hilux model, as well as six properties, of which a farm.
Speaking Wednesday, the IGAE delegate in Huíla, Filomeno Caetano Vunge, said they were five light vehicles, a farm, a truck, a machine carrier, a grader, two backhoes, an equal number of agricultural tractors and six metal containers used for mechanical services in the municipality of Matala and a house, assigned to Mecanagro.
At the Mandume University level, said the inspector, 12 light vehicles were recovered, with another room still to be found. The collection also includes a house and a school with three classrooms, while the process is underway to recover two more apartments.
These assets, according to the source, were in the possession of former civil servants and other entities with positions, but were transferred to new locations, without returning the funds, as is the law.
“Soon the processes will be sent to the PGR”, said the delegate, adding that the assets will be handed over to the entities that are holders, in the case of Universidade Mandume, while those of Mecanagro, the faithful custodian is IGAPE.
On the other hand, he made it known that among the complaints that the body receives most are the misuse of public assets, complaints about poor performance by public entities, especially in hospitals, traffic agents and in education.
“We want there to be quality services and more humanization, so that the population, when accessing these public services, finds prepared managers and administrative staff, who observe rigor and transparency in what the mission requires”, he highlighted.
Filomeno Vunge states that the evaluation is positive, although there are some distortions, as public entities that have not yet internalized the new discourse of the stance of a civil servant, but that, the presence of IGAE, is making itself felt and corrected.
The IGAE is an auxiliary body of the Executive with the mission of carrying out the internal administrative control of the Public Administration, through inspection, inspection, audit, supervision, inquiry and investigations of all bodies.
Inspection control also extends to bodies and services of the direct and indirect administration of the State, as well as autonomous administrations. Its objective is to prevent and detect fraud, acts of corruption and impropriety, irregularities, misconduct on the part of public officials or administrative agents.
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