President Nyusi on the public debt: We never opposed the forensic audit

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President Nyusi on the public debt: We never opposed the forensic audit

1:24 CAT | 12 Sep 2016

Folha de Maputo (File photo) / President Filipe Nyusi

President Nyusi says that the Mozambican government has never objected to conducting a forensic audit of the public debt, but has always encouraged the involvement of national institutions in the investigations.

At a press conference that marked the end of his working visit to Gaza province on Saturday, the president clarified that what the government has been saying is that the processes are already underway.

“There is no ruler who at any time said that we were not going to do a forensic audit”, Nyusi said.

On his visit to Gaza province, the last stage of a tour that since the beginning of the year has seen him visit 51 districts, 11 administrative posts and four municipalities across the country, the head of state said he was impressed with the determination to overcome adversity and achieve the goals set out in the government program he had observed.

Nyusi said he had noted with satisfaction in Gaza how the province was setting about improving revenue collection, and how local authorities had become involved in combating corruption, as evidenced by the increasing number of cases that were reaching the courts.

The head of state also referred to the opening in Mabalane district of a museum memorializing former political prisoners, saying that, as well as safeguarding the history of Mozambique, it should also become a tourism destination.

Nyusi said he believed that Gaza, which was growing rice, corn, vegetables and beans and other crops for markets across the southern region of the country, could also strengthen its capacity in livestock and milk, whose potential is said to be huge.

Regarding current progress towards peace in the country, the president told reporters that the aim was to reach a firm agreement similar to that reached on September 7, 1974 in Lusaka, where the Portuguese government and Frelimo signed an agreement which remains valid and relevant today.

He stressed, however, that everything must be done with scrupulous respect for the provisions of the Constitution of the Republic, so that, he said, “we do not become a failed or anarchic state”.

Source: Notícias