Angolan public prosecutors and judicial officers have opened 101 inquiries on combating corruption in 2018 despite working in poor and demeaning conditions, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) said.
Deputy attorney general of the Republic of Angola, Pascoal António Joaquim, who spoke on Thursday in Luanda, in the year-end greetings’ ceremony of the office, said the body needs “more attention” from the government.
“It focuses fundamentally on the lack of real working conditions, sometimes ‘sub-human’,” he said. “Prosecutors and their officers are in poor and demeaning working conditions in many parts of their work and after all, we are in the 21st century.”
Joaquim spoke on behalf of his colleagues and called for greater attention from the government, because “when it happens it will bring added value and strengthen its intervention, he said.
Joaquim presented actions taken by the public prosecutors in 2018 and said that out of the 101 inquires “86 are undergoing appraisal and 15 were completed.”
