The Ministry of the Interior (MINT) and South Korea's Hyundai-Samsung Consortium yesterday initialed the contract for the implementation in the country of the Ministry of the Interior's Public Security Management Information System (SIGESP-MINT).

This is a four-year project focused on the construction of joint Operations Rooms for the Police of the Republic of Mozambique and the National Public Salvation Service in Nampula Province, which will cover the city of Nampula, plus the districts of Angoche, Eráti, Ilha de Moçambique, Malema, Monapo, Morrupula and Nacala-Porto.

The same project, according to information posted on the MINT Facebook page, includes the construction of an Integrated Communications Center in the city of Maputo, as well as Operations Rooms in the city of Matola and in the districts of Boane and Marracuene, and the design and implementation of the Automatic Fingerprint Processing System (AFIS) for SERNIC in Nampula Province.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, Victor Domingos Canhemba Júnior, who initialed the contract with the South Korean counterpart, explained that the project is the result of the Government of the Republic of Mozambique's determination to increasingly strengthen the mechanisms for guaranteeing Public Order, Security and Tranquillity, as recommended in the Government's Five-Year Program 2020-2024.

According to the Permanent Secretary of MINT, in order to achieve this goal and given the need to complement domestic resources, the Government of Mozambique established a partnership with the Government of the Republic of South Korea, through EximBank, and to this end signed a Credit Agreement for the financing of the SIGESP-MINT Project, in Maputo, on May 25, 2021, under which eighty million, eight hundred and six thousand US dollars (80. 806,000.00 USD) were made available by South Korea, with the Government of Mozambique's participation totaling eighty-eight million, eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand US dollars (7,899,00.00 USD).806,000.00 US), with the Government of Mozambique contributing seven million, eight hundred and ninety-nine thousand US dollars (7,899,00.00 USD), for a total of eighty-eight million, seven hundred and five thousand US dollars (88,705,000.00 USD).

For his part, Bong Gu Park, Executive Director and Head of the Digital Solutions Business Group of the Hyundai Autoever Company, representing the South Korean consortium, promised that everything will be done to make the project a success.