"We open a challenge here for our INEJ, in order to reflect on how to add practical modules to the training of auditors for the management of legally recovered assets", appealed Joel Leonardo when speaking this Monday at the opening ceremony of the 2022/2023 training year of the INEJ for the training of 370 new judicial magistrates and the Public Ministry.
Since 2017, Angola has been carrying out a process of recovering assets from private investments allegedly constituted with public money, with processes estimated at around 50 billion dollars being under investigation, of which 13 billion dollars have already been seized and 5.3 billion dollars recovered in favor of the State.
Joel Leonardo suggested adding tactical classes to the training of auditors to master the magistrate's own self-defense techniques, as well as specific topics related to environmental protection and even matters to consolidate the magistrate's more practical skills related to the digitalized management of judicial proceedings.
The also president of the Superior Council for the Judiciary expressed his wishes of great commitment and dedication to the trainees, auguring that the training constitutes a relevant milestone for the history of the country's judiciary.
In turn, the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), Hélder Pitta Grós, said that the levels of scrutiny in Angolan society "have never been so high", demanding, above all, from justice makers, "a posture to all exemplary levels, of true guardians of the highest social morality".
According to Hélder Pitta Grós, the PGR has been guided by the increase in the technical quality of its magistrates, with strong investment in their continuous training, always in collaboration with the INEJ, "which wants to be increasingly specialized and for the rigor in its posture".
"The challenges facing Angolan justice are immeasurable, so that only through the union and synchronized action of the two magistrates, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Judiciary, will the judicial power be materialized in its fullness", he stressed.
To the trainees, Hélder Pitta Grós stressed that "becoming a magistrate is not just getting a job, it's not just occupying a job, it's integrating a body, it's becoming part of a cause, it's swearing the realization of justice as your life purpose."
The Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Angola, Francisco Queiroz, informed in his speech that between September 2018 and February of this year, the INEJ carried out a total of 482 actions, which resulted in the training of 347 magistrates, of which 198 for the judiciary and 147 for the Public Ministry, in addition to the training of 209 magistrates to perform the functions of guarantee judge, 128 of which are judicial magistrates and 81 of the Public Ministry.
"The balance that can be made of the work of the INEJ in this legislature is quite positive", said Francisco Queiroz.
