Africa-Press – Angola. Politicians and traditional authorities in Lunda Norte consider that the implementation of the country’s new Political-Administrative Division (DPA) will boost the fight against regional asymmetries and social inequality.
Speaking today, Thursday, on the proposal of the new administrative division, the king of the Lunda Tchokwe people, Mwene Muatchissengue Watembo, considers that this measure will bring services closer to the citizens and accelerate the development of the localities to be elevated to the category of municipality.
For sovereign Tchokwe, the current political-administrative division “does not help to develop the communes, because the communal administrators do not have financial autonomy to implement a given project”.
“The proposal is good, we hope that after its implementation, there will be commitment on the part of the staff that will be in the management of the new municipalities, so that there is in fact development”, he stressed.
In turn, the mayor Alberto Cacala “Nachiri”, said that the implementation of this project will combat the rural exodus and attract cadres to the interior.
It suggests that when this project is carried out, policies be created to attract investors to the new municipalities, so that it is not just the State that employs and develops the localities.
For his part, the second secretary of the MPLA in Lunda Norte, Fernando Terça, said that this measure constitutes an important step in the process of administrative and financial decentralization, whose objective is to satisfy, in fact, the aspirations of the population.
He added that its materialization will improve the system of coordination, control and execution of social projects, allowing the expansion of the number of civil servants, with the recruitment of new staff for the Civil Service.
The provincial secretary of the FNLA, Carlos Mulamba, suggested that the creation of administrative infrastructure conditions be started in the localities that will be elevated to the category of municipality, so that in 2024, the year foreseen for the project to materialize, “the staff will have conditions worthy of work”.
The PRS secretary, Lotes Domingos, calls for consensus on the part of politicians, especially in the phase of discussion of the project in the National Assembly, in order to find a solution that allows the improvement of the living conditions of Angolans.
The proposed Law for the New Political-Administrative Division of the country, which should go to Parliament after the approval of its final version by the Council of Ministers, aims to promote the harmonious development of the national territory.
The project proposes to change the State’s model of municipality, approved by the Council of Ministers, with the division of the provinces of Cuando Cubango and Moxico into two, thus making twenty (20) provinces and an increase from 164 to 581 municipalities.
The proposal envisages raising the number of municipalities in Lunda Norte province from 10 to 29.
The province of Lunda Norte, with almost one million inhabitants, results from the division of the former province of Lunda, on July 4, 1978. It is located in the northeast of the country and comprises the municipalities of Chitato (political and economic capital), Cambulo , Caungula, Cuilo, Cuango, Capenda Camulemba, Lucapa, Lubalo, Lóvua and Xá-Muteba.
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