According to the presidential decree signed by João Lourenço, Arnaldo Carlos becomes the new Secretary of State for the Interior of the Ministry of the Interior.
Cristino Mário Ndeitunga, until now vice-governor of Luanda for technical services and infrastructure, was also appointed to the position of Secretary of State for Technical Assurance of the Ministry of the Interior and Francisco Monteiro Ribas da Silva, until now provincial delegate of the Ministry of the Interior, who will now be General Commander of the National Police.
Last week, João Lourenço dismissed the Minister of the Interior, Eugénio Laborinho, appointing in his place the previously governor of Luanda and former minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, Manuel Homem.
Eugénio Laborinho's leadership in the Interior department was marked by several controversies, but he remained one of the most lasting ministers in João Lourenço's executive, who appointed him in 2019 and maintained him in his second term, won in the 2022 general elections.
Last month, João Lourenço also dismissed the national directors of the Migration and Foreigners Service and the Criminal Investigation Service, shortly after, in his State of the Nation speech on October 15, he accused politicians and parliamentarians of being linked to crimes of smuggling and vandalization of public property.
On the occasion, João Lourenço stated that "the increase in fuel smuggling, the environmental damage resulting from the illegal exploitation of strategic minerals and wood", and the necessary public reinvestment due to the vandalization of public assets, forces us to join forces in a "crusade national campaign against these types of crime".
"Its authors, the buyers of the robbery proceeds, but above all the instigators and promoters, must be exemplarily punished", highlighted the President, stressing that "regrettably, some of them are politicians and parliamentarians".
