Mozambique: Almost 800 people expelled from public administration

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Mozambique: Almost 800 people expelled from public administration

10:34 CAT | 09 Aug 2019

Carmelita Namashuulua. [Picture: O País]

Over the last four years, 774 state employees were expelled from the Mozambican public administration, for a variety of offences.

The Minister of State Administration, Carmelita Namashulua, announced this number on Wednesday, at the opening of a meeting of her ministry’s Coordinating Council, in the town of Boane, about 30 kilometres west of Maputo.

She said that, since 2015, 4,051 disciplinary proceedings were instigated against public employees, resulting in 774 expulsions from the state apparatus. 668 people were dismissed (a slightly lesser penalty than expulsion), 342 were demoted, and 1,365 were fined. 640 of those accused were given a public reprimand, and only 264 were acquitted.

The main offences covered in the disciplinary hearings were theft of public money and diversion of public assets, undue use of state property, late arrival at work, falsification of documents and imposing illicit charges on members of the public.

The legality of administrative acts in the public administration was monitored, Namashalua said, with the holding of inspections of 118 public institutions, at central, local and municipal levels. The inspections, she added, made it possible “to note irregularities and recommend corrections”.

After a temporary halt to all promotion and career changes in the public sector, these administrative acts resumed, said the Minister, benefiting 180,605 public employees, considerably more than the 160,000 initially planned. These promotions were “a clear sign of the government’s commitment to value the technical skills of state functionaries”.

Namashulua said that over the past four years, the government had also drawn up and implemented 32 plans to prevent and fight against corruption, 21 of them covering central state bodies, and the remaining 11 implemented at local level.

The meeting of the Coordinating Council will discuss, among other themes, the management of the state’s human resources, and how to make operational the new package of decentralisation, approved by the country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, earlier this year.

Source: AIM