Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of Territorial Administration (MAT), Dionísio da Fonseca, assured this Monday that he will work with related bodies to allocate funds, aiming to complete the works on the municipal residential and administrative complexes in Lunda- North.
These are the complexes in the municipalities of Lóvua, Caungula, Lucapa and Cambulo, included in the project portfolio of the Integrated Municipal Intervention Plan (PIIM), whose works began in 2021.
The governor made this promise when he found out about the level of physical and financial execution of the works at the Lóvua municipal complex, 75 kilometers from the city of Dundo, which have been paralyzed since 2023 due to financial constraints.
“ MAT has five projects registered with PIIM and almost all of them are paralyzed, as is the example of this work by Lóvua, the result of some constraints of a financial nature that upon arriving in Luanda we will work at the headquarters of the Commission that accompanies PIIM to ensure the commitment of funds for the normal progress of the projects”, he highlighted.
He made it known that 77 municipal infrastructures are under construction in the country, including residential and administrative complexes and assemblies, of which four have already been completed and the rest with a degree of physical execution above 50 percent.
He recalled that in this first phase, priority was given to type D and C municipalities, which are the most remote and have the lowest supply from the point of view of infrastructure for the functioning of the State’s local administration bodies.
Overall, the province of Lunda-Norte has a portfolio of 108 projects, of which 52 have already been completed.
Steps taken for the implementation of Local Authorities
The first steps towards the implementation of local authorities were taken in August 2019, by the National Assembly, with the unanimous approval of two laws from the Local Legislative Package.
These are the Organic Law on the Organization and Functioning of Local Authorities and the Law on Administrative Guardianship over Local Authorities.
The first defined the way local authorities were organized and operated, with a view to institutionalization as a way of materializing administrative decentralization, while the other aimed to create legal instruments to grant the Executive powers of control over local authorities.
In April this year, the Government sent the draft Organic Law on the Institutionalization of Local Authorities to the National Assembly,
The document, initiated by the Holder of the Executive Branch, currently being discussed in the specialty committees, presents a rationale report, legal framework, elements of procedural formality, as well as a preambular part, six chapters and 67 articles.
The conclusion of the municipal legislative package depends on the approval of three final diplomas, from a set of 13, including the proposed Law that approves the Remuneration Statute for Holders of Bodies and Services of Local Authorities and the Organic Law of the Municipal Guard.
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