Maputo — Adelino Muchanga, president of Mozambique’s Supreme Court, announced on Tuesday that more than 50 law officers have been dismissed from the public administration for involvement in illegal practices over the past five years. “It is not a secret to anyone. We have been confronting cases of professionals with bad behaviour, colleagues whose conduct has deviated from the norms,” Muchanga said in Beira during the opening of a National Meeting of Law Officers and Court Assistants.
Muchanga emphasized the need for a code of conduct to guide law officers in their work. “The number of officers dismissed has reached a total of 57 in the last five years. The servant of justice must give relevance to ethical values, since they are crucial for the construction of the rule of law, which assures individual and social rights, freedom, security, well‑being and equality,” he explained. He added that vacancies in the justice sector should be filled by people who possess humility, empathy, maturity and wisdom. “When a citizen goes to court, it means he has no other options to solve his problems. It means he wants a solution from the court, so we must know how to handle the process from the beginning,” he said.
Teresa Coutinho, president of the Mozambican Association of Law Officers (AMOJ), echoed this sentiment, stating, “The code of conduct is crucial for the sector. We will start to work on creating a code, taking into account issues of professional ethics.”
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