“We have more than enough reasons for the lack of trust in our Public Prosecutor’s Office” – Armando Guebuza

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“We have more than enough reasons for the lack of trust in our Public Prosecutor’s Office” – Armando Guebuza

3:20 CAT | 18 Sep 2020

File photo: O País

Former president of Mozambique Armando Guebuza said during a meeting of the Council of State this Wednesday that there were more than enough reasons for the lack of trust in the country’s Public Prosecutor’s Office [PGR].

The Council of State meeting was called at the request of the Attorney General’s Office to seek authorisation to question Guebuza on the matter of the country’s ‘hidden debts’, ‘O País’ reports.

The former president said he would provide clarification. “We will provide the requested clarifications, notwithstanding our distrust in relation to the constant and uncompliant actions of the Attorney General’s Office. And we have more than enough reasons for the lack of trust in our Public Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.

In support of his contention, Guebuza noted that “in 2020, we learned – through the press, once again – that the Attorney General’s Office had named us in a commercial court in London, in a case related to ‘hidden debts’. While we are in the same country and city as is the Honourable Attorney General, it is strange that our Attorney General’s Office preferred to cross sub-Saharan Africa, the Sahara Desert, the Mediterranean Sea, continental Europe and the English Channel to request clarification from a national citizen and a resident here”.

“We are, therefore, aware that this request from the Attorney General’s Office is not the result of its interest in complying with the law, nor discover the material truth and concurrently do justice, but the continuation of a campaign of attempted political assassination, using the judiciary. [A campaign] which gained a tonic tone after we gave a lecture – at the invitation of Eduardo Mondlane University – about the Role of Youth in the Preservation and Valorisation of the Ideals of Eduardo Mondlane, our chief, leader and immortal guide during the national liberation struggle, within the scope of the celebration of its 100th anniversary, launched by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Mozambique on February 3rd of the current year. The Attorney General’s Office intends to silence Armando Emílio Guebuza, a citizen of this homeland of heroes, and its former President,” Armando Guebuza said.

The Attorney General’s Office is asking the Council of State for authorisation so that former President Armando Guebuza, a member of the Council of State, can be heard by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. PGR is in search of clarification on matters relating to the country’s ‘hidden debts’.

Former President Guebza was speaking at the Council of State’s virtual meeting, attended by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, members Alberto Chipande, Graça Machel, Alberto Vaquina, Daviz Simango, Ossfo Momade and others holders of sovereign office.

“When we joined the Mozambique Liberation Front, in hiding,” Guebuza continued, “we had the noblest aspiration to see our homeland, the homeland of heroes, freed from the colonial yoke, guaranteeing the reaffirmation of our Mozambicanity, respect for the rights and freedoms and the well-being of all Mozambicans. And this aspiration remains intact.”

According to this Friday printed edition of weekly newspaper ‘Savana’, the Council of State reportedly gave the “green light” to the Attorney General’s Office..

Source: Sala da Paz / O País / Savana