In this text, the Public Integrity Centre (CIP) makes a critical analysis of the Attorney General’s (AG) Annual Report to Parliament, presented this Wednesday (19). The document focuses on the areas of anticorruption, public finance, extractive industry, public procurement, fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado, gender based violence, human rights violation and the case of hidden debts. These are CIP’s areas of research and advocacy.
It is argued that the report of Attorney General Beatriz Buchili, addresses important issues of legality and criminality in the country, but it omits other situations of equal relevance that trouble the society. The omitted issues include the violation of human rights by the Defence and Security Forces in Cabo Delgado, gender-based violence against internally displaced people from the conflict in Cabo Delgado, environmental crimes and human rights violations committed by mining companies against host communities throughout the country. The report does not give due prominence to the financial and tax crimes which, in the meantime, harm the State in millions of meticais. Likewise, the AG has shown a lack of transparency by not revealing how much is spent on the legal proceedings of hidden debts in South African and in English courts. The report also shows the softening of justice in the fight against terrorism and its financing.
