Mozambique: Inspectors urged to act vigorously against corruption

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Mozambique: Inspectors urged to act vigorously against corruption

6:34 CAT | 25 Apr 2022

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The Mozambican government on Thursday challenged its inspectors to act vigorously and implacably against corruption among public servants in the institutions of the state administration.

Speaking in Maputo at the opening session of a meeting of the Consultative Council of her Ministry, the Minister of State Administration, Ana Comoana, added that the inspectors must also redouble their efforts to boost the image of public institutions, and to establish mechanisms of coordination with other, outside bodies of control.

The meeting is taking place under the motto “For the Consolidation of the Internal Bodies in the Process of Decentralized Governance and in the Fight against Corruption”.

“Never vacillate in your activity”, Comoana told the inspectors. “Act energetically and implacably against all deviant behaviour in our institutions. You need courage to be an inspector. Don’t expect your job to be easy, and don’t expect people to be nice to you”

“You also need to feel bad every time someone speaks ill of the public administration – but above all you should feel challenged to do more and better”, she declared.

The fight against corruption and the creation of an environment that inhibits deviant behaviour should constitute the day-to-day agenda of the inspectors and the bodies of internal control.

The great challenges facing the public administration. Comoana added, concern the consolidation of decentralisation, which she described as “a complex, but irreversible process”.

“The prevalence in the bodies of the administration of justice of deviant behavior such as lethargy in attending to the public, and in dealing with correspondence”, she said, “requires energetic action by those who have the mission of ensuring compliance with the norms governing the organization of he public administration”.

The General Inspector of the Public Administration, Augusto Mangove, told the meeting that his inspectorate will continue to make every effort to fight against corruption in public institutions.

“Our work is to prevent, in the first instance”, he declared. “We must bank on prevention, we must be both reactive and proactive. So inspection will continue implacably to monitor everything which constitutes deviant behaviour”.

Over the past year Mangove added, nine cases of corruption in the public administration were remitted to the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption (GCCC) and are currently being processed.

Source: AIM