“The Government is committed to preventing and fighting corruption”
On February 27th, the Prime Minister, Rui Maria de Araújo, held a visit to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), with the aim of acknowledging the service conditions and proceedings supporting that institution in pursuance of its objectives.
The Government is committed to supporting that institution on prevention and fight against corruption in Timor-Leste. The Prime Minister referred that it is not only up to the ACC to fight corruption and that the Government also has ways of preventing this illegal practice, therefore ACC and the Government must have mechanisms of cooperation.
The Prime Minister outlined that the Government also intends to work together in order to stop those illegal practices, by following the ACC motto: “Together we fight corruption”.
The ACC took the opportunity to inform the Prime Minister of the difficulties being faced by that institution, namely concerning the budget, cooperation by Public Administration towards investigation and provision of personal security.
Rui Maria de Araújo suggested that a revision to the ACC law should be made, in order to be submitted to the evaluation and approval by the Council of Ministers and then sent to National Parliament, in order to be discussed and approved as law.
On his visit to the ACC, the Prime Minister, accompanied by the Minister of State, Coordinator of State Administration and Justice Affairs and Minister of State Administration, Dionísio Babo Soares, was received by Commissioner Adérito Tilman.
