Despite the Constitutional Council (CC) having declared unconstitutional the debt contracted by EMATUM (Empresa Moçambicana de Tuna) in 2013, in the amount of 850 million Meticais, for having been made to the margin of the Constitution of the Republic, the Government continues to assume the burden of this loan. According to the 2021 General State Account Report and Opinion, approved this week by the Assembly of the Republic, the Government paid, until December 31, 2021, USD 137,989,300, corresponding to 9,310,898 thousand Meticais. The amount paid so far is equivalent to 8.45 percent of the total illegal loan made by EMATUM. According to the Administrative Court, the amount paid until 2021 refers to the interest resulting from the debt, and the principal will be paid from 2027. In total, the country will have to pay USD 1,633,750,000 until 2031, after the Government has managed to restructure the loan, which was fixed at USD 1,069,806,590. Data provided by the Administrative Court indicate that, in 2021, the Government paid, in two installments, more than USD 44.9 million, after having paid USD 52.4 million in 2020 and USD 40.7 million in 2019, the first year payment of that hidden debt. The Government claims that it pays EMATUM’s debt in compliance with the country’s financial obligations to its creditors. “We are a State, we have to find the best options so that the State is not classified as a failed State, which has no rules. We have to do everything so that the State is not harmed”, justified Adriano Maleiane, then Minister of Economy and Finance. , after the payment of the first installment of the debt, in 2019. Remember that the debt of EMATUM is part of the list of “hidden debts”, contracted between 2013 and 2014, by the Government of Armando Guebuza, in an amount exceeding 2.2 billion USD The case was on trial between August 2021 and February 2022, and the sentence will be read on the 30th of November. (A.M.) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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