Africa-Press – Angola. Around three and a half kilometers of paved streets in the city of Luena, Moxico province, were opened this Friday, which will allow for better mobility.
This is 3.4 kilometers of the section that connects the Vila-luso neighborhoods and part of the social neighborhood, facilitating access to different social infrastructures, especially educational establishments and the Moxico Provincial Maternity, built over a period of seven months, within the scope of the Integrated Municipal Intervention Plan (PIIM).
The aforementioned streets, which were in charge of the companies China Zhongtai Group and China Railway 20 Group Internacional Angola Ida, cost more than one billion, and 596 million Kwanzas from the state coffers, with two lanes, sidewalks and public lighting , as part of the second phase of the requalification of the city of Luena.
On the occasion, the vice-governor for the Political, Economic and Social sector, Víctor da Silva, reiterated that the project aims to expand the city’s asphalt network, with a view to improving the population’s living conditions.
He recalled that construction and inspection companies have the responsibility to carry out permanent maintenance of the roads, to comply with the contract, scheduled within three years.
The requalification project for the city of Luena, which began two years ago, has so far been implemented in three neighborhoods (Tchifuchi, Popular, Santa Rosa) of the four planned within the framework of the implementation of the Integrated Intervention Plan in the Municipality, benefiting over 20 kilometers of asphalt, sidewalks and public lighting, allowing the expansion of the urban area.
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