Africa-Press – Angola. Commercial activities in the municipality of Buengas are supported exclusively by street vendors, the only ones who dare to face the winding access road to its headquarters, a fact that was mentioned by its administrator as the reason for the difficulties faced by the authorities and the population of this region of the province of Uige.
José Bunga Alberto said that entrepreneurs or large and medium-sized traders refuse to expand their business to the municipality because of the only access route that is “seriously damaged” presenting permanent dangers to road safety.
He maintained that no businessman wants to invest in the municipality, just seeing the road that is dominated by the danger of ravines, which open up in all rainy seasons, as well as the sand that covers the dirt road mat, he said.
The press found that the 90 kilometer secondary road, which separates from the Uíge/Kimbele asphalted road, is characterized by ditches that are dug in the carpet, in the first 60 kilometers and abundant sand, which requires the permanent use of the reinforcement of speed, in a full effort of the engines of the vehicles that travel there.
Several ravines advance dangerously threatening the existence of the road that previously also linked the communes of Kuilo Kambonzo, Kuilo Futa towards Maquela do Zombo, as well as Kuilo Futa and Sankandika towards the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“Today, Kuilo Kambozo is almost impossible to reach”, one of the communes of the Buengas, lamented the administrator José Bunga Alberto, who later considered that the issue of this road was one of the few concerns that the inhabitants of the municipality he directs complain about.
According to statistical data from the authorities of the province of Uíge, the municipality of Buengas is one of the main points of greater production of food and coffee in the district, a position facilitated by the characteristics of the land and the climate.
For José Bunga “there is considerable production throughout the year, especially of ginguba, beans, tubers and others, which are lost due to lack of buyers”.
“These are the only ones resistant to the incessant bumps and the abundance of the area on the road, which are always filled with groceries, which they resell in the cities of Uíge and Luanda”.
As he noted, many coffee farms and other products that were exploited in the colonial era and before the outbreak of the civil war are currently abandoned. “Almost nobody is interested in them”, with the population being the only driver of production in the municipality of Buengas , which also faces serious difficulties in evacuating its products. rural and industrial products. In the village, you can see small markets where mainly agricultural foods are sold, on one side and on the other, clothing, shoes and others. There are also some shops, colonial heritage, and canteens where they are sold cooking oil, soap, sugar and industrialized beverages.
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