On Monday, May 18, President Daniel Chapo appointed the first State Inspector General and two Deputy State Inspectors General, in a move aimed at strengthening mechanisms for oversight and promoting integrity and good governance in the public administration.
According to a statement from the Office of the President, cited by Lusa, the head of state appointed, via a presidential decree, Carmelita Namashulua—who previously served, among other roles, as Minister of Education and Human Development (2020–25)—to the position of State Inspector General.
Emanuel Mabumo and Laura Nhancale were also appointed, through separate presidential decrees, as deputy inspectors general. “The appointments are part of the process of establishing and operationalizing the State Inspectorate General, a body created to strengthen mechanisms for control, oversight, auditing, and the promotion of integrity and good governance in the public administration,” the document states.
Last December, Parliament definitively approved the bills establishing the State Inspectorate General and the Inspectorate General for Food and Economic Security, with the aim of strengthening the fight against corruption and ensuring a more favorable economic environment in the country.
The two bills were approved in committee by consensus among the four parliamentary groups: the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), the Optimistic People for the Development of Mozambique (Podemos), the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), and the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM).
The bills were submitted to the Assembly of the Republic on an urgent basis by the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, as part of efforts to strengthen measures to prevent and combat corruption in the public administration.
In defending the proposals in Parliament, the Minister of State Administration and Public Service, Inocêncio Impissa, stated that the approval of these instruments provides the country with a more modern institutional framework, adapted to the current challenges in the fight against corruption.
“The isolated actions of various oversight institutions have highlighted several challenges in preventing and combating corruption, as well as in determining accountability,” stated Inocêncio Impissa, pointing to the duplication of efforts and the waste of resources as the main problems.
According to the minister, these scenarios created conditions for the “incubation of environments conducive to corruption” and had little real impact on the oversight of governance, which contributed to a loss of public trust in government institutions.
“We are referring to the Inspectorate as an independent entity—that is, one that cannot be muzzled and that will report only to the Government and the Assembly of the Republic,” he explained, also highlighting the recommendation to publish the reports of the General Inspectorate of the State, an entity resulting from the merger of the General Inspectorates of Finance and Public Administration.
