22 April 2008
Huambo — The provincial public prosecuting department chief of Huambo, Arcanjo Custódio, denied Monday the existence in this province, cases of excess of preventive police custody cases, but he admitted the existence of excess of prisoners in jails.
Such overloading of prisoners, he explained, is due to the increase of the penal population confined in the only prison of Huambo City, with 120 people capacity and currently receives about 500 prisoners, among detainees and condemned prisoners of both sexes, due to the increase of the crime rate.
On the other hand, Arcanjo Custódio said that organs of the public prosecuting department have already been installed in the other districts of the province (Caála, Bailundo, Ukuma and Katchiungo), each of them covering the surrounding districts (Ekunha, Mungo, Londuimbali, Tchindjendje, Longonjo and Tchicala-Tcholohanga).
"The district organs of the Prosecuting Counsel only carry out prosecutions for situations that are punished with maximum two years imprisonment. Other cases are taken to the provincial public prosecutor", he said.
He also underlined that the "Legality Week" event in Huambo- which opened on Monday with the holding of the workshop on "electoral code of conduct"- will take place until April 26, and topics like "civil population disarming, the prosecutor in defence of citizens" "rights and freedom and administrative transgressions" will be analysed.
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