Africa-Press – Angola. The chief Afonso Vity Wambembe was elected yesterday, in the city of Cuito, with 134 votes in favour, president of the Provincial Council of the Traditional Authority of Bié.
During the ceremony of the first constituent assembly, the first vice-president, Rufino Nete, the second vice-president, Vasco Jamba, the secretary, António Jamba, secretary of Finance, Esperança Essenje, as well as the members Fernando Ngongo and Antonio Bento.
This Council also includes, for a five-year term, four advisers, namely Adelino Mateus, Mário Muto, António Samba and Bernardo Nicolau, all sworn in by the National President of Traditional Sovereignty of Angola (ANSTA), Miguel Matias Filipe.
On the occasion, the newly elected Afonso Vity, who previously exercised the functions of municipal mayor of Cuito, underlined that, in a first phase, he should commit himself to the urgent creation of Municipal Councils, with a view to complying with the statutes of the Council National.
In turn, the president of ANSTA, Miguel Matias Filipe, appealed to the local chiefs to remain united in the preservation of traditional power, to be non-partisan and to have a fruitful interpersonal relationship between the members of the court.
He also exhorted traditional authorities to help conserve the environment, discouraging the population from burning and illegal hunting.
Miguel Matias Filipe, on the other hand, advised this court to encourage the rural community to improve basic sanitation, build latrines and combat open-air defecation.
Meanwhile, this assembly also approved the enthronement of the soba Afonso Vity Wambembe, as King, in November of the current year.
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