Nyusi calls for alternative conflict solution methods

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Nyusi calls for alternative conflict solution methods

6:53 CAT | 02 Jul 2018

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Photo: Ministério da Justiça, Assuntos Constitucionais e Religiosos

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday challenged the country’s justice authorities to develop alternative conflict resolution mechanisms, through closer collaboration with the community courts, resort to arbitration, and other methods that are appropriate for local realities.

Nyusi launched this challenge during the inauguration ceremony for the “Palace of Justice” in the northern city of Nampula. Similar “palaces” are being set up across the country, as complexes that bring together, in the same place, courts, offices of the prosecution services, the Legal Aid Institute (IPAJ), the Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC), and other components of the administration of justice.

Alternative conflict solution methods, Nyusi said, could produce immediate impacts by reducing overcrowding in the prisons, and speeding up legal procedures.

He stressed that the new Palace of Justice bears witness to the government’s effort to secure a speedier justice system, of better quality and ever closer to the citizens.

The President also called for an end to the widespread feeling in Mozambican society that certain people can break the law with impunity. He demanded “greater observance of professional ethics, greater respect for the rights of citizens, greater capacity for criminal prevention, and observance of the law by citizens and by public and private institutions”.

There should be “a guarantee that sentences and other court decisions are complied with”, he stressed. “This is essential for reversing the feeling that lawbreakers enjoy impunity”.

Nyusi added that it is the work of professionals in the legal system which ensures that Mozambique remains a state ruled by law. “Respect for rights, fundamental freedoms and their guarantees is an essential condition for raising the dignity of the people”, he said. “This is what always underlay our struggle for national liberation and is today the central goal of the democratic state under the rule of law”.

“Let us all, shoulder to shoulder in the common cause, put our talents, our energies, our dedication and our professionalism at the service of the administration of justice to satisfy the aspirations of our people”, he urged.

Budgeted at 120 million meticais (about two million US dollars at current exchange rates), the Nampula Palace of Justice was financed by the Danish government.

Source: AIM