The president of Mozambique's Tax Authority (AT), Amélia Muendane, agreed with civil society, which argues that corruption in the country is part of the system and can only be fought holistically and not in isolation as has been happening.

Quoted by VOA, Muendane said that, at the level of his institution, the fight is close, giving as an example, the expulsion, last year, of 14 corrupt officials, in addition to many others who have suffered various penalties.

Muendane assumed, however, that this is not enough, because in each sector of activity there needs to be a strategy to fight this evil.

"Corruption is a "systemic" problem that cannot be fought in isolation, it has to be fought in an integrated manner, and the Tax Authority is already doing its job, but it is necessary that all of us, as Mozambicans, wake up to the close combat against this evil," he emphasized.

Meanwhile, several civil society organizations, including the Center for Public Integrity (CIP), which believes that in Mozambique, neither the government, nor the parliament, nor the judiciary, nor civil society have concrete means to fight corruption.

According to CIP researcher Baltazar Faela, each of these sectors does what it can do at the level of its area, with the problems that area has, "but in concrete terms, none of these institutions has a synchronized strategy, and no country fights corruption with this kind of situation."