Africa-Press – Angola. Civil society in the province of Moxico hopes that the country’s new Political-Administrative Division (DPA) will allow closer relations between rulers and ruled in identifying the main problems plaguing communities.
University professor Estanislau Piedade said that the DPA will be able to streamline administrative processes, causing problems and the respective solutions to be resolved locally.
The Business and Public Management professor added that this measure could also provide for the emergence of more schools, hospitals, housing projects, and other infrastructures that will contribute to the improvement of the living conditions of the inhabitants of the new administrative regions.
To this end, it understands that the measure will entail several challenges, forcing the realization of several investments and greater inspection of the resources to be implemented, so that the municipalities function, according to the government’s purposes.
In this sense, he defended the need for the DPA proposal to be accompanied by a staff training plan, to allow the available resources to be implemented with maximum rigor.
On the proposal of the provincial government of Moxico to raise the Alto Luena neighborhood, located south of the city of Luena, to the category of municipality, he said that “if the proposal is carried out with resources for specific purposes, enormous gains may arise for the local population , despite the economic shortcomings that characterize the region”.
In the same vein, the chief of the said neighbourhood, Chingango António, gave a positive note to the government’s proposal, stressing that in case of approval, it will contribute to the organization of the region, which with more than 14 thousand inhabitants, mainly, in the building of infrastructure. social structures and improvement of basic sanitation.
In turn, citizen António José, resident of the Alto Luena neighbourhood, believes that the application of the measure could improve the image of the area and contribute to its economic growth, judging by the agricultural potential it offers.
The proposal of the Political-Administrative Division foresees the alteration of the State’s model of municipality, approved by the Council of Ministers, with the division of the provinces of Cuando Cubango and Moxico in two, thus making twenty (20) provinces and the increase of 164 for 581 municipalities.
The proposal envisages creating 19 municipalities for the province of Moxico and 11 jurisdictions for Cassai Zambeze, the likely new province.
The country’s New Political-Administrative Division aims to promote the harmonious development of the national territory. It should go to Parliament after approval of its final version by the Council of Ministers.
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