Mozambique will soon have a strategy to fight corruption in the public sector, which should be discussed this Friday by the Council of Inspectors of Public Administration meeting in Maputo.

In 2020 alone, Mozambique lost nearly one billion meticais from the State Budget to public managers' own benefits, according to the Central Office for Combating Corruption, cited by RM.

Between 2020 and 2021, 200 state officials were criminally prosecuted for acts of corruption, including embezzlement, illicit collections and irregularities in the awarding of public works contracts. Read more...

This strategy intends to agglutinate and reflect every existing anti-corruption plan in public administration institutions, according to the spokesperson for the Inspectorate General of the Public Administration, Célio Goca.

"There was no specific instrument that could look for all these elements. There was a need for us to have that instrument. This strategy is to make the connection of energies [of the public administration sectors] for the institutions to use [it] in relation to the areas in which each one is inserted," explained Goca, quoted on Thursday by RM.

Among the priority issues in this council is the theft and detour of medicines from the National Health System, due to its upsurge.

"There are other situations that the health sector itself faces that are also the object of reflection and position-taking by the General Health Inspectorate," he said, clarifying that there are other health issues that could come under debate because they are of concern to citizens and professionals in the area.

"But this was the topic they chose, to see if the mechanisms [to combat evil] that they are using are having an effect and what can be done to improve with regard to enforcement in that particular component," he explained.

The 17th Council of Inspectors of Public Administration will also assess the level of internal control to combat absenteeism in the education sector.