Africa-Press – Angola. The coordinator of the Southern Judiciary Region, deputy attorney general of the Republic Hernâni Beira Grande, defended, this Thursday, in Menongue, the need to increase the number of public prosecutors for procedural speed in the region.
At the moment, the province of Cuando Cubango has only 11 judges and eight prosecutors, insufficient to respond to the demand of more than 700 thousand inhabitants.
Speaking to the press at the end of a visit to the Penitentiary Services of Menongue, Hernani Beira Grande said that, given the reduced number of magistrates, more than 150 cases of convicts sent to the Supreme Court for appeal have not yet had an answer.
Hernani Beira Grande said that the PGR already has the processes and will send them to the Public Prosecutor so that the Supreme Court can see the best solution.
For his part, prison commissioner Joaquim Moreira Canbanje, director of Prison Services in Menongue, reported that Cuando Cubango controls 790 prisoners, 345 of whom are in pre-trial detention, 447 are convicted and there is an overcrowding of 219 inmates.
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