The Bissau Guinean leader has appointed Lawyer Michel Saad Amin as Attorney General to replace Luis Manuel Cabral, disclosed a decree published on Wednesday in the capital Bissau.
Amine Saad Michel has already held this position in 2000 during the transition period after the 1998civil war.
The appointment of Amine Saad Michel will also re-open the case of the double murder of President Nino Vieira and Army Chief of Staff of Batista Tagme Na Wai in March 2009.
President Malam Bacai Sanha said at his inauguration on 8 September that the investigating these two cases was among his priorities.
He had also pledged to fight corruption, drug trafficking and impunity.
The appointment of Michael Saad Amine translates a move by the head of state to achieve his aforementioned objectives, as Luis Manuel Cabral, former Attorney General of the Republic reported on several occasions, death threats against him by anonymous phone calls.
This appointment comes shortly before the publication on 5 November of a report on the situation in Guinea-Bissau, which will be presented to the UN Security Council by Joseph Mutaboba, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General.
Ban Ki Moon availed himself of this opportunity to say that he is happy for the move by the new president and his team “to conduct investigations into the political assassinations in March and June 2009”.
The conclusion of the investigation will help to combat impunity and promote justice and national reconciliation, Ban was cited by the report as saying.
Source African Press Agency
