Africa-Press – Angola. The poor condition of the access roads to the municipality of Cacolo, Lunda-Sul province, has contributed to the delay in the completion of works on the Integrated Program for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM).
In addition to the degradation of the roads, the constant rain in the region also influences the progress of works in the municipality, which is 141 kilometers from the headquarters of Saurimo and has a territorial extension of 15 thousand and 402 square kilometers.
The constraints were expressed, on Friday, by the contractors who provide services in the region, during a meeting with the municipal administrator of Cacolo, Luís Domingos, aimed at verifying the level of execution of the works.
According to the contractors, the main difficulties relate to acquiring the material and transporting it, mainly on the Alto Chicapa and Xassengue commune roads.
Elizer Mucende, one of the contractors who is building a school in the Cucumbi commune, said that despite the access roads and the rain, efforts are being made to ensure a positive progress in the works.
For his part, the municipal administrator of Cacolo, Luís Domingos, called on company representatives to be more responsible and faster, to deliver the works to the beneficiaries within the stipulated time.
He recalled that many of the works are 100 percent paid for.
Within the framework of PIIM, Cacolo benefited from 11 projects, six of which have already been placed at the service of citizens, with four projects remaining to be completed, with a cost of one billion 96 million 766 thousand 859 Kwanzas, which created 202 direct jobs.
Missing are a seven-classroom school in the Alto-Chicapa commune, a municipal hospital, a nurses’ residence (Cucumbi commune) and the 115 kilometers of road connecting Cacolo/Alto-Chicapa, the latter of which is paralyzed.
Launched in June 2019, PIIM is an initiative of the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, and aims to materialize public investment actions (PIP), Development Support Expenses and Basic Activities.
This plan also aims to increase the autonomy of the country’s 164 municipalities, within the scope of the policy of deconcentration and decentralization of administrative powers and, in this way, increase the quality of life of the populations throughout the national territory.
The total value of PIIM is two billion dollars, coming from the Sovereign Fund.
The municipality of Cacolo has more than 36 thousand 185 inhabitants who are essentially dedicated to agriculture and informal commerce.
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