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The most serious obstacle to democracy and sustainabe development: “Corruption is a plague” – Mozambican senior judges
8:17 CAT | 29 Sep 2016
O País / Mozambican Association of Judges chairperson Carlos Mondlane
Senior judges have warned that corruption is “a plague” which blocks the country’s development.
At the opening of a seminar in Maputo on Monday, on “the effectiveness of criminal justice in the treatment of corruption”, organised by the Mozambican Association of Judges (AMJ) and by the anti-corruption NGO, the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), the AMJ chairperson Carlos Mondlane noted that people might be corrupt in order to enrich themselves, or because they believed this was the only way to survive.
But, in either case, whether it is petty or large, corruption compromises the development of the country, he argued, It hindered attempts “to provide the public with a better quality of life, and companies with a more stable business environment”.
Mondlane said the country had good laws against corruption – the problem lay in implementing them. “Rather than theorising the fight against corruption, we must apply the laws and promote values of ethics and integrity”, he insisted.
Supreme Court judge Norberto Carrilho described corruption as “the most serious obstacle nowadays to democracy and to sustainable development”
He admitted that eradicating corruption “is difficult, but fighting against it and reducing it can be done, if there is the political will. We believe that the most effective measure is to expose each case, each culprit, so that they receive a serious trial and are punished”.
Source: AIM
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