Angola Urging Miners to Flush Out Endiama Corruption
June 12, 07
Angola’s government, responding to complaints by diamond explorers and miners, is asking them to step forward with any evidence they have about corruption in state mining company Endiama. By law, all foreign diamond companies must partner with Endiama in order to operate in the country.
According to Mining Journal, Deputy mining and geology minister Mankenda Ambroise would sack any corrupt Endiama official, if provided with “tangible information”.
Ambroise is apparently aware of some of the issues, adding, “We have to change the mentality of civil servants; they are not there to be served, but to serve.”
“We need to know who is corrupt – all of them or some of them. If it is all of them, we have to kick them out and change the board of directors… we want to cancel this mentality,” Ambroise told Mining Journal.