"This is a specific matter for the PGR and I don't talk about it," Mota Liz replied to Lusa, without going into details, when asked about an investigation into the president of the Court of Auditors, Exalgina Gamboa.
The expenses of the president of the Court of Auditors, Exalgina Gamboa, who is said to have spent four million dollars on furniture at the State's expense, remain unexplained by the institution or the PGR.
The case was denounced by journalist and activist Rafael Marques e Morais, on the Maka Angola portal, under the title "Court of Auditors is the piggy bank of Exalgina Gamboa" and gives an account of the judge's expenses, borne by the public purse and which amount to several million of dollars.
He reveals that the Government acquired, in 2020, a house worth 3.5 million dollars for Exalgina Gamboa in a luxury condominium, while the judge later spent half a million dollars on its rehabilitation.
The Court of Auditors' Private Vault then paid around 4 million dollars for the furnishing of the residence, with furniture acquired from two companies.
Mota Liz, who was speaking this Tuesday on the sidelines of the opening of the National Conference on the Reform of Justice, Penitentiary System and Human Rights, defended the actions of the PGR in the process of combating corruption, considering that this is a challenge for the whole of society.
"As an institution, the PGR seeks to do its job, the fight against corruption is not the work of a single institution, it is a challenge for the whole of society, including the media, how to defend that we should not focus solely on the repressive dimension", said.
For the magistrate, the country needs to "structure the preventive and pedagogical dimension, which begins with the education system, with the adoption of mechanisms of transparency in the management of public affairs, in civic moral education for the honesty of citizens and to prevent crimes from occur".
In Angola, corruption "has become a kind of cultural issue, a practice commonly accepted as if it were a value, as long as we have this awareness there are no chains that can be resolved", stressed the deputy PGR.
"You have to inculcate in people's minds that corruption is rottenness, it's sin, if we want to use religious language, and society has to change it, at the same time that you have a judicial machine fine-tuned to hold accountable those who still embark on corruption", he stressed.
But, he observed, "a machine that has to have strong, effective values, with specialists capable of resisting the temptation to be corrupted and I think that in this dimension the PGR has been doing its job", he shot.
The National Conference on the Reform of Justice, Penitentiary System and Rights, in which Mota Liz participates, is promoted by the Center for Human Rights and Citizenship of the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Angola, which takes place in Luanda.
