João Lourenço unveiled the sign of the new headquarters of the PGR, precisely at 10:00 am local time and after cutting the ribbon, he toured several of the institution's premises, on a guided tour by the Attorney General of the Republic, Hélder Pitta Gróz.
Located on Rua Moisés Cardoso, also known as Rua da SINFO, in the center of the capital, the building built in an area of 21,000 square meters, has 16 floors, namely 11 floors above ground and five below ground (basement).
Each floor contains meeting and training rooms and the infrastructure, whose costs were not revealed, also has technical areas, water and fuel tanks, a data center, elevators with cutting-edge technology and an underground parking lot with 120 spaces.
The inauguration of the headquarters is part of the celebrations of the 44 years of the PGR, which this Thursday marks.
For Hélder Pitta Gróz, sworn in on Wednesday for another five-year term, the new headquarters of the body he oversees brings greater comfort to judges and prosecutors.
"Now we are going to have the possibility of concentrating the services here, it facilitates the coordination of the services and having people properly accommodated too, I think, the performance will be better", he told journalists.
"In the old building, coordination was more difficult and this forced the PGR to often move out of its office, out of the building to go to other places and you lose time, you lose direction", he argued.
The fight against corruption and criminality in general, he stressed, guide the challenges of the PGR, and with new facilities, he explained, the way to approach them will be with "more tranquility, serenity, properly accommodated".
"We are going to think better and also do better", said Pitta Gróz, believing that the accommodation conditions of PGR employees in the interior of Angola should also improve.
The creation of conditions, to respond to requests from the interior of the country, "does not end here with this building", he maintained.
"We asked the executive to take that into account as well", he pointed out.
He also assured that the body did not slow down the fight against corruption, especially media cases, referring that processes of the kind "should not be discussed at public auction".
"The processes, when they are under investigation, are in secrecy of justice and we have to wait for them to pass to the public phase when they are sent to court, on our side nothing has stopped", stressed the PGR, also considering that the citizen has regained confidence in the organ.
