Africa-Press – Angola. Work on the future installations of the supply market in Ondjiva, southern Cunene province, paralyzed in 2016, will resume this year, said Wednesday the director of the Office for Integrated Economic Development, Orlando Kamaty.
In a statement on the use of the infrastructure that is currently vandalized, he stressed that the project was included in the General State Budget (OGE) for the year 2023, through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
According to the official, this is a central project. 2023, through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
belonging to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, financed through the Spanish credit line, but, for financial reasons, there was no follow-up.
For the use of the property, he said that they are waiting, in the next few days, for a technical consultancy team to carry out a survey of the damage caused by vandalism, the budget necessary for the conclusion of the contract, as well as its reformulation.
He said that the intention is to reformulate the property to make better use of the space, creating multiple valences so that the infrastructure generates the necessary income, through specialized private management.
Current state of the property
Press found that the development is in a state of disrepair, without the tent dividers or roof and transformed into a bathroom.
“Erected in the area adjacent to the Oshamukuio informal market, the building smells of urine and feces, the walls are scratched and painted as if it were a space for various advertisements. The doors have been broken in and their upper plywood has fallen off,” the source said.
The construction of the property, whose works began in 2014 with an execution period of 18 months, was paralyzed in 2016 due to financial problems.
The abandonment of the work by the contractor and inspectors, seven years ago, is associated with the lack of security and this is pointed out as the cause of vandalism, which culminated in the theft of some equipment.
The project was designed to improve the logistics and distribution system for products, particularly food, within the framework of the Program for Restructuring the Logistics and Distribution System for Essential Products to the Population (PRESILD).
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