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10:04 CAT | 22 Jul 2019
In addition to deciding who is to take charge of the PGR and Administrative Tribunal, Filipe Nyusi is also expected to announce the new president of the Constitutional Council, following the resignation of Hermenegildo Gamito on 5 June.
The terms of office of both the Attorney General and the President of the Administrative Tribunal have now ended.
Beatriz Buchili has been at the head of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PGR) since July 21, 2014. The term of office of the President of Mozambique’s Supreme Audit Institution, the Administrative Tribunal, also ended yesterday.
It was July 2014, when Armando Guebuza was six months away from finishing his second and last term as President of the Republic, that he made changes to the organs of administration of justice, control of legality and public accounts.
Guebuza appointed Beatriz Buchili to the post of Attorney General, Adelino Muchanga as President of the Supreme Court and Machatine Munguambe as President of the Administrative Tribunal.
This Sunday, the heads of the three central organs of the state would all have come to the end their respective five-year terms, had Filipe Nyusi not already re-appointed Adelino Muchanga to the position of chairman of the highest judicial body in late May, the 45-year-old lawyer seeing his appointment validated by the Assembly of the Republic last Tuesday.
The President of the Republic has not yet decided whether or not Beatriz Buchili and Machatine Munguambe are to continue in their respective posts, their magistracies having been marked by the so-called hidden debts scandal.
In fact, the performance of the current Attorney General of the Republic will always be evaluated in the light of work done in the fight against corruption, especially in the case of hidden debts, the country’s biggest financial scandal discovered during her mandate.
Buchili has reached the end of her five-year term with a lawsuit on hidden debts in court involving 20 indicted defendants, ten of them currently in custody. Among these are Gregorio Leão, the former director general of the secret services (SISE), SISE official António do Rosário, who served as director of economic intelligence, Inês Moiane, who was private secretary of the former President of the Republic, and Armando Ndambi Guebuza, son of former president Armando Guebuza.
Buchili’s mandate was also marked by other corruption cases involving senior leaders. Examples include the Embraer case, related to the purchase of aircraft for the flagship carrier LAM, and the Odebrecht case, linked to the construction of Nacala International Airport and the Port of Beira coal terminal.
Machatine Munguambe ends his term at the head of the Administrative Tribunal before deciding on the hidden debts process sent by the Attorney General’s Office. In January 2018, the Public Prosecution Service submitted a case to the Administrative Court requesting that the public managers involved in the design and execution of ProIndicus, MAM and Ematum projects be held financially responsible for their actions.
In addition to deciding who is to take charge of the PGR and Administrative Tribunal, Filipe Nyusi is also expected to announce the new president of the Constitutional Council, following the resignation of Hermenegildo Gamito on 5 June.
By Emídio Beúla
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Source: O País
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