Corrupção na função publica : um estudo de caso sobre a relação utente e funcionarios aduaneiros na fronteira de Ressano garcia

Abstract

The present work seeks to reflect corruption/bribery between users and officials. customs, which, repeatedly by academics, media, agencies of the national and international development report corruption in the customs sector in Mozambique, as responsible for the country's economic backwardness, since these are the civil servants whose mission is to collect revenue to finance investments public. Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, we carried out a field study at the Fronteira de Ressano Garcia, in order to understand what goes on in the relationship between users and employees that these actors perpetuate practices and strategies for the maintenance of bribery, even aware that this act is illegal, however, discouraged at the level political in Mozambique. Furthermore, bribery harms most of the population. In the field, guided by the specific sample, we interviewed 20 informants, practitioners of these acts, half of which comprise the customs officials and the other part, the users and we also interviewed the three presidents of the sector associations at their headquarters. informal, namely, Amukhero, AMIMO and ASSOTSI, on the recommendation of the Tax Authority. In the 23 testimonies, it was possible to ascertain that what is really passes in this relationship between actors, is the sharing of meanings about bribery and languages actors' own actions on their actions. Therefore, we also found that, as we argued, corruption between users and customs officials is a social reality the product of two deliberately actors. active in what they do and pursue, as both users and employees have also left convey the same testimonies. In this work, we defend against the authors the argument that the phenomenon of corruption in the civil service depends on the active awareness of the actors and not only the discretion of employees not by the bureaucracy of the public service and, much less, by the low salaries paid in the civil service in Mozambique, as we found in the literature review