Luanda — The Angolan Ombuds Office gets between 20 and 25 complaints a day from citizens, said Monday to ANGOP, in Luanda, the institution's press officer, Manuel Bartolomeu da Costa.

The official gave this interview in the ambit of the country's participation in the meeting of the executive committee of the Association of African Ombudsmen and Mediators (AOMA), scheduled for 22-25 November in Tripoli, Libya.

He said that the mentioned data regarding the search for the services of the Ombuds Office shows the importance of this institution.

He also revealed that although Angola has the status of observer at AOMA, the country will organise the general assembly of that organisation in 2010, whose specific date will be set at Tripoli's meeting.

Manuel Bartolomeu da Costa said the relation between the Angolan Ombuds Office and the similar institutions of African countries is satisfactory.

The country's first Ombudsman, Paulo Tjipilica, was elected on 19 April 2005, to serve a four-year term. Before that he was the Justice minister.