The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, expressed his concern this Wednesday, 22nd, with the troubled moment that the Angolan justice system is experiencing.
The Head of State, who was speaking while speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of new Supreme Court judges, demanded uprightness from magistrates in favor of the good name of Angolan justice, and made it known that investigations of the public denunciations once morest the management of the presidents of the Audit Courts and the Supreme Court.
Before those in office, the Head of Executive Power considered the events that culminated in the resignation of President of the Court of Auditors by the magistrate Exalgina Gamboa to be regrettable. According to the Head of State, the allegations once morest Exalgina Gamboa point to an attempt to extort, on the part of the magistrate, the Ministers of Energy and Water and Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas.
According to the President of the Republic, the magistrate summoned the Minister of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas to her office to ask him for one percent of the share capital of the Lobito refinery, in Benguela province.
