Africa-Press – Angola. The construction of a community market to facilitate commercial transactions was, on Tuesday, defended by the inhabitants of the border commune of Buela, in the municipality of Cuimba, province of Zaire.
Some inhabitants were unanimous in stating that the lack of commercial space in the communal headquarters has created many difficulties for local inhabitants in purchasing basic food products.
They added that to stock up on basic necessities, many inhabitants travel more than 30 kilometers to the municipal headquarters of Cuimba where there are markets and other commercial establishments.
The governor of the main commune, José Toko Lutaladio, expressed concern about the situation and asked local authorities to build a market in the locality.
“To purchase products such as salt, soap, fish, cooking oil, rice, among others, the population of Buela is forced to travel to the municipal headquarters of Cuimba”, he said.
In turn, Alexandre Gomes, resident, considered the social and economic condition of the inhabitants of Buela to be pitiful, for whom there are times when even with money people are unable to acquire goods for consumption.
He recalled that, in the past, there were traders who passed through the villages selling industrial and basic necessities, a practice that no longer existed due to the state of degradation of the Cuimba/Buela road.
Meanwhile, the communal administrator of Buela, Manuel Júnior, said there is a rural market in the locality with just 40 stalls, but local inhabitants avoid selling their products in that space.
He informed that the residents’ committee is undertaking actions to raise awareness among the population interested in taking up space in the aforementioned market.
He regretted the behavior of many inhabitants of Buela, who, despite calls from the Communal Administration, insist on selling their products outside their homes.
The administrator also referred to the inoperability of the Malele border market, which is four km from the communal headquarters, due to a lack of traders capable of placing goods in that space.
“It is a democratic market that brought together hundreds of Angolan and Congolese traders. When it was fully functioning, the Buela commune had no problems in terms of industrial goods and basic necessities”, explained the administrator, defending its reactivation.
The Buela commune, bordering the DRC, occupies an area of 585 km2 and has an estimated population of more than five thousand inhabitants, spread across three districts: Ngombe ya Ngombe, Mpangala and Sede.
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