Africa-Press – Angola. MPLA militants in the municipality of Luacano, Moxico province, requested, this Monday, the construction of social infrastructures in that district, with a view to attracting local cadres to remain.
This concern about the lack of running water, electricity, communication routes and functional health services was presented by local activists to the party’s first provincial secretary, Ernesto Muangala, during a consultation meeting on the social life of the municipality.
Elezabed Cacoma, a resident of the municipality for decades, said that such needs, combined with the limited space in the carriages of the Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB) trains, have conditioned the lifestyle of the local population.
“The train has only two carriages to transport people and goods, imagine the deplorable conditions in which we are transported”, he lamented.
José Caiombo, another member of the party that governs the country, called for the implementation of the almost non-existent mobile telephone network, with a view to boosting and facilitating communication between the municipality and the rest of the world.
For his part, the first provincial secretary of the MPLA, Ernesto Muangala, reiterated that the problems affecting the population are already known, hence “the commitment and constant advocacy for resolving them”.
Muangala said that there are programs to build photovoltaic plants in different municipalities that surround the province, to improve the supply of electricity and water to the population, as well as the expansion of the road network underway in many regions of the province.
Data shows that the MPLA controls more than seven thousand militants in Luacano, one of the nine municipalities in the province of Moxico, which has around 19 thousand inhabitants, the majority of whom are peasants and fishermen.
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