"Angola needs a strong and intervening Court of Auditors that, respecting the separation of powers and without putting the dynamics of government action at risk, is capable of exercising effective external control of public finances in the present and in the future", said this Wednesday the Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President, Adão de Almeida.
In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, he noted, it is essential to continue "working to reinforce its institutional role, always ensure its independence, and provide it with staff increasingly capable of understanding the new dynamics".
Adão de Almeida, who spoke this Wednesday at the opening of the II Technical-Scientific Conferences of the Court of Auditors of Angola 2024, advocated that a "strong and interventionist TdC is essential" to ensure that public resources "are correctly used to achieve the desired good governance".
"And for the consolidation of the democratic State and the rule of law, particularly in a country like ours with the need to realize its aspirations more and more quickly", added the Minister of State.
In 23 years of effective operation, the TdC, said the governor, "has established itself as a reference institution", consolidating its position and fulfilling its main constitutional mandate: to monitor the legality of public finances and judge the accounts.
In his speech, he recalled that, to the traditional mechanisms of preventive inspection and successive inspection, concomitant inspection was added to the judiciary body, praising the opinions on the General State Account (CGE), the first of which was issued in 2013.
The Court of Auditors' annual opinion on the CGE is "today an essential and indispensable instrument that not only assists parliament in its discussion and approval, but also provides the executive branch with essential elements in the permanent search for good governance", he noted.
According to Adão de Almeida, the executive has done continuous work to improve the CGE, considering the TdC's recommendations contained in the annual opinions, highlighting the "tendency towards a substantial and structured reduction in recommendations".
He also guaranteed that the executive has worked to ensure that all public institutions are accountable to the TCU and that all information is available for this court to fulfill its mission.
"Efficient external control of public finances is essential, inevitable and positive, it enhances the institutional dimension of State bodies, promotes better functioning of the State and reinforces the credibility of institutions", concluded the governor.
"Challenges of External Control of Public Finances: The Role of Higher Control Institutions in the Future" is the motto of the TdC conferences, which began this Wednesday and run until Thursday, in Luanda, with representatives from similar courts of the Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP) and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP).
