Luzia Sebastião, who spoke to Lusa on the sidelines of a round table about the importance of the 25th of April for the emancipation of Angolan women, in which she was honored as a "freedom fighter", recounted an episode in which she reported that there are people detained, with warrants already issued, which they are obliged to pay to remain free.
"Unfortunately, there are many episodes that come to our attention and lead citizens to have distrust (of justice bodies). Ending up in a justice body today is seriously problematic, because justice, unfortunately, does not currently present itself as a appeal", stated the professor of Law.
"Someone who feels harmed, wronged by any situation does not go to justice (...) on the contrary, people are running away. People are afraid of justice", reinforced the retired judge, pointing out the national context and the problems that the country is going through, in which "a certain discouragement, disbelief" has set in as reasons for the justice crisis.
"Man is at the center of all this, people who are working have to effectively gain a sense of responsibility, know that their role has to have merit and their conduct has to be in the sense of giving credit to institutions", she defended, considering that this is a problem of "some people" and not of institutions.
"It's a great sadness that hurts the soul, my heart is heavy", said the retired judge from the TC, addressing the young people who were attending the lecture, regretting not having managed to "ensure them to have a country in which justice works".
"The motto now is to be afraid of justice, not to take help from justice. If you fall into the hands of justice, you are lost", said the former director of the National Institute of Judicial Studies and lawyer, who fought in the ranks of the MPLA for the independence of Angola.
In the lecture, organized by the Angolan Women's Club of Legal Careers, Luzia Sebastião told how her personal life experience and her father's arrest by PIDE led her to the nationalist struggle, becoming known as Commander Gi.
Pulquéria Van Dunem, jurist and deputy attorney general, recently retired, was another speaker at the meeting, highlighting that Angolan women suffered double discrimination based on the color of their skin and economic and social conditions.
"Women were 'objectified' by society and by law", she highlighted, noting that "women from the Portuguese colonies in Africa were the main victims", and discrimination based on sex was part of the constitutional text in force at the time.
The 25th of April, she noted, was "a new beginning that created the necessary environment for the emergence of Angola as an independent country".
