Government approves new anti-corruption plan – Mozambique

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Government approves new anti-corruption plan – Mozambique

11:02 CAT | 24 Nov 2016

Folha de Maputo / Minister of State Administration of Mozambique, Carmelita Namashulua

The Mozambican government on Tuesday approved a Plan of Action, focused on preventing and fighting against corruption, as part of its strategy to reform the public administration.

Speaking to reporters after the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet), the Minister of State Administration, Carmelita Namashulua, said the intention of the plan is to make the public administration free of corruption and to improve the quality of the services it provides to citizens.

The plan, she added, is in alignment with the strategic objective of the government’s five year programme for the 2015-2019 period, with regard to the fight against corruption.

“The objective of this reformulation”, said Namashulua, “is to reinvigorate our government’s commitment to implement concrete measures to make the Mozambican public administration increasingly free of corruption and of its damaging effects”.

“We want the public administration to take more forthright measures to strengthen the fight against corruption, to promote the culture of integrity in the administration and in Mozambican society at large, to endow state functionaries and agents with knowledge so that they can undertake their missions with greater competence, and to equip the administration with skilled staff who are committed to their tasks”, she said.

Activities will be promoted, the Minister added, so that the leading figures in the state apparatus set an example to all other state employees – above all “by guaranteeing that all leaders and managers declare their assets as required by law”.

“This is not because this is not already being done”, she said, “but from now on it will be done with even greater rigour”.

Research will also be undertaken regularly into the perceptions of corruption in the public administration, and into the level of satisfaction of the users with public services.

Implementation of the anti-corruption plan, Namashulua said, is intended “to consolidate the state of the reforms that are under way, and to strengthen their activities with the sole purpose of building a public administration centred on citizens, that promotes development, and provides quality services”.

She claimed there had been “some advances in the fight against corruption”, but recognized there was still a long way to go.

“Our users are not satisfied”, Namashalua stressed. “That is the fundamental point. Our citizens are not satisfied and there are many complaints about the provision of our services”.

Source: AIM