Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique’s Attorney-General, Beatriz Buchili, on Tuesday swore into office 18 new public prosecutors, and urged them to combat cases of corruption involving prosecutors and other law officers.
Buchili said the levels of corruption have been growing, throughout the country, and the public prosecutor’s office has not been immune. There had been an increase in acts and attitudes which damage the functions entrusted to prosecutors, and inspectors in the public prosecutor’s office “should prevent this deviant behaviour”.
Among those Buchili swore into office was one inspector in the Attorney-General’s Office, directors of the Tete and Zambezia provincial branches of the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption, and 15 prosecutors allocated to the various provincial anti-corruption offices.
The newly appointed inspector, Cristina Mazive, should face the challenges with “firmness, dedication and commitment”, said Buchili. “We want to see regularly results of this control”.
Inspectors, she added, should be “true agents of change, in the sense of shaping the performance of the professionals of the Public Prosecutor’s Office”.
The new appointments “are part of extending the intervention of public prosecutors in preventing and fighting against corruption, trafficking in influence, illicit enrichment and other crimes”.
Buchili noted that a priority of the strategic plan of the Public Prosecutor’s Office was to set up anti-corruption offices throughout the country. Currently there are six such offices – the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) and five provincial offices. Next month, the offices in Zambezia and Tete are due to open, run by prosecutors Iliadora Nhantumbo and Atija Cassamo, respectively.
Buchili said these two provinces deserve special attention because of their role in such crimes as the illegal exploitation of natural resources, drug trafficking, illegal immigration and money laundering.
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