Mozambique: Strategy against corruption in public administration to be completed this year

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Mozambique: Strategy against corruption in public administration to be completed this year

2:28 CAT | 10 Oct 2022

Image: Amigos de Mety Gondola / Facebook

The Mozambican government expects to complete by the end of December the Strategy for Prevention and Fight Corruption in the Public Administration (EPCCAP).

Currently, there is underway across the country a consultation process to collect contributions from all stakeholders including the civil society private sector, professional associations, among others.

According to the director of Central Services for Inspection and Supervision of Public Administration at the Ministry of State Administration and Public Service (MAEFP), Jorge Muanahumo, the consultation process will end on the 14th of this month, but contributions may still be sent to the relevant authorities until the end of November

“The aim of this consultation is to produce an integrated base document which will allow institutions, including civil society, to design their own executive plans to combat corruption,” explained Muanahumo during a provincial auscultation seminar held on Thursday in the city of Nampula, in the northern region of Mozambique.

“The strategy has targets and indicators for the next ten years, which will be monitored annually. Right now, the government has sectoral strategies to fight corruption”, he added..

He explained that the Nampula seminar intended to listen, above all, to the local context. This will allow a more comprehensive document containing aspects and actions that will boost prevention and fight against corruption,” he noted.

On Thursday, the Secretary of State for Nampula, Mety Gondola, publicly stated that the wave of corruption in the province has reached “terrible and unashamed” proportions in all sectors.

Earlier this year, Attorney-General Beatriz Buchili announced that corruption cost the Mozambican state about 300 million meticais (4.7 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate).

Buchili said that the police force (PRM) topped the list of most corrupt state institutions.

She expressed her concern with the growing number of judges, prosecutors and other law officers involved in acts of corruption, since these are officials who are granted powers by the law that supposedly guarantee integrity.

Source: AIM