Education minister urges inspectors to fight corruption

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Education minister urges inspectors to fight corruption

7:41 CAT | 23 Oct 2017

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Mozambican Education Minister Conceita Sortane on Thursday urged the inspectorate of her ministry to set an example in the struggle against corruption.

Speaking at the opening of a national meeting of the education inspectorate, in the southern city of Matola, Sortane recalled that last week President Filipe Nyusi had demanded an implacable fight against corruption in all sectors of the public administration.

The President “had called on all of us to take a dignified stance, a position of responsibility in the battle against corruption”, she said.

Sortane also noted that the meeting coincided with the 31st anniversary of the death of the country’s first President, Samora Machel in a plane crash at Mbuzini, just inside South Africa.

“We cannot let this date pass without recalling celebrated phrases of President Samora, such as: ‘Let us make the school a base for the people to take power’, and ‘The children are the flowers that never wither’”, the Minister declared.

“I want these phrases to accompany us in the exercise of our duties, and to serve as a source of inspiration for our activities in the schools”, the Minister added.

The meeting, Sortane said, “is an opportunity for us to reflect on the performance of our inspectorate, so that it can become more pro-active, effective and efficient in carrying out its mission, thus contributing to the sector meetings the goals of the government’s five year programme for 2015-2019”.

The great expectation, she continued, “is that the inspectorate, as a body of internal control, will look deeply at critical matters in the education sector, such as the control of attendance and punctuality, the distribution of teaching work, and the decline of moral and ethical values”.

“We hope that at this meeting we shall go into these and other matters in depth, identifying the constraints, and revisiting the paths and strategies to reverse the current scenario in the sector”, Sortane said.

Source: AIM