Mozambique | Cabo Delgado, Manica and Sofala: Transgressors, whoever they may be, will be brought to justice – Noticias

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Mozambique | Cabo Delgado, Manica and Sofala: Transgressors, whoever they may be, will be brought to justice – Noticias

5:05 CAT | 02 Feb 2021

Mozambique's Attorney-General, Beatriz Buchili. [Photo: Miramar]

Mozambique’s Public Prosecutor (PGR) will not hesitate, together with its auxiliary body, the National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), to investigate and institute criminal proceedings regarding cases occurring in the Operational Theatres of the North and Centre. Such proceedings will culminate in the subjection of the transgressors, whoever they may be, to criminal justice.

This was the guarantee given yesterday by the Attorney General of the Republic, Beatriz Buchili, at the opening of the judicial year in Maputo yesterday under the motto “For a Judiciary Protector of the Environment”.

She said that the PGR, as a legal instrument of the Collective State assigned the responsibility of ensuring the observance of legality and exercising criminal action, is doing everything to ensure that the profoundly serious crimes committed by the terrorists in Cabo Delgado and by the self-proclaimed Renamo Military Junta in Manica and Sofala are duly prosecuted and the perpetrators held accountable.

“We join the efforts of the Government which has been, through the Defence and Security Forces, doing everything to guarantee the integrity of the country and the lives of the people, so that cases proceed to criminal accountability,” Beatriz Buchili said.

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Judging by the actions of the various institutions which participate in the regulation and functioning of the justice administration system, and looking at the steps, constraints and challenges still to be faced, this goal will be achieved, Buchili said.

Beatriz Buchili recalled that the administration of justice and support of the entire system are responsibilities attributed to different institutions, being, fundamentally, the judiciary, the government and the Assembly of the Republic.

“The Judiciary, with its organisation and operation model, is responsible for procedural initiative and decision. The Public Prosecutor is responsible for prosecuting, within the scope of its powers [and] with the autonomy conferred on it by law, and the judges, in turn, decide independently. It is up to Parliament and the Government to define policies within the framework that the Constitution and the law establish,”she said.

Buchili stressed that the Government had, in addition, “the task of providing the justice administration system with adequate resources for its proper functioning, which means the creation of the normative environment, in conjunction with Parliament, to ensure the financial means, human resources, the physical and the technological infrastructure suited to its purposes”.