Four hundred and 47 criminal cases, of the 453 that were filed during the third quarter of this year, were judged at the Cuanhama District Court, Cunene province, 88 more than in the previous period. Among this number, cases relating to quarrels, transgressions, summary crimes, supervision of applied coercive measures, probation, correctional police and Habeas Corpus stand out.
Speaking yesterday Monday to ANGOP, in Ondjiva, the judge-president of the Cuanhama District Court, Afonso Pinto, explained that at this time they control three thousand and 110 cases, of which two thousand and 657 were transferred in the previous quarter .
He made it known that the cases are distributed across the criminal area with 1,726 cases, family 748, civil and administrative jurisdiction 567, juvenile trials 46 and work with 23 cases. The judge acknowledged that the lack of magistrates in the province of Cunene, where there are only six, has been affecting the speed required in the processing of different processes.
Afonso Pinto highlighted that due to this reality, the available judges have been able to respond to the priority cases that arrive at the court, depending on the case and time.
The Cuanhama District Court, the first of its kind in the province of Cunene, began operating in 2019, with just six judges. With an area of 87 thousand and 342 square kilometers and one million and 491 thousand inhabitants, the province has the municipalities of Cuanhama, Ombadja, Namacunde, Cahama, Cuvelai and Curoca.
