Africa-Press – Angola. The state of degradation of the main access road to the Kapa Kuito sector, Cacoma commune, Ucuma municipality, Huambo province, has conditioned the locality’s socio-economic development.
According to the mayor of the town, Abril Chilala, who expressed concern to press, the road, more than 30 kilometers long, between the Kapa Kuito sector and the communal headquarters of Cacoma, is in an advanced state of degradation, endangering the movement of people and goods.
He added that it is conditioning the circulation of people and commercial transactions with other parts of the municipality, to boost the socio-economic growth of the locality, where more than two thousand inhabitants live, distributed in 12 villages.
He made it known that the sector has great agricultural potential, especially for maize, soy beans, reindeer potatoes, sweets and other products from the countryside, however the condition of the access road has prevented flow to the commercial areas.
Because of this, he continued, the population feels abandoned and asks the administrative authorities of the municipality to improve the access road, as the main factor of growth of the locality.
In addition to the bad access road, Abril Chilala made it known that the population’s other problem is the lack of drinking water supply systems.
It should be noted that the access road to the municipality of Cacoma, one of three in the municipality of Ucuma, recently underwent earthworks, with a physical execution in the order of 80 percent, of the more than 30 kilometers of distance, within the scope of of the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM).
Still within the scope of the PIIM, the commune recently gained the first school with seven classrooms, built in the Kapa Kuito sector, in an investment of over 103 million kwanzas.
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