Africa-Press – Angola. The first 400 social residences of the 1,816 that are being built in the town of Saber Andar, in the city of Sumbe (Cuanza Sul), to accommodate residents living in risk areas, will begin to be delivered in December this year, I learned , this Monday.
The information was provided by the director of the Provincial Infrastructure Office, Jorge Caliata, adding that, in this first phase, housing will benefit residents living on the slopes of the Incomum, Bumba, Kissala I, Assaca and Praia neighbourhoods.
According to the person in charge, the residences will be delivered as part of the project to requalify the city of Sumbe, and the process of registering the beneficiaries went smoothly.
“The registration of the populations that will be resettled has already been done and proceeded normally. Therefore, depending on the progress of the works, we are working, in partnership with the Municipal Administration of Sumbe, in the process of distributing the first residences”, he stressed.
With regard to the remaining works on Sumbe’s integrated infrastructures, the director informed that they were proceeding at a good pace, with the physical execution of the project at around 65 percent.
“In the last few days we have seen significant progress in the works, as a result of some concerted meetings with the company carrying out the work. Some streets in Sumbe are already being paved, as in the cases of Comandante Kassanje, the Second War of National Liberation, the Popular neighborhood and Largo da Liberdade, with the placement of the respective curbs, sidewalks, public lighting, sewage system and drainage,” he stressed.
Budgeted at over US$460 million, the Sumbe Integrated Infrastructure Development Project includes the construction of 1,816 homes (1,260 T2 and 556 T3), the rehabilitation of the city’s technical networks (water, energy, waste treatment facilities and footpaths) and the strengthening of unstable slopes, where hundreds of people currently live.
In charge of the contractor China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC), the program includes drainage works, reconstruction of 13 kilometers of streets, renovation of public lighting and telecommunications networks.
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