Africa-Press – Angola. The provincial governor of Luanda, Manuel Homem, demanded Friday, from municipal administrators, greater rigor and dynamism in the management of basic sanitation, with a view to keeping municipalities clean and safeguarding public health.
The government official, who was speaking at the “Meeting on maintenance of basic sanitation infrastructure in Luanda”, addressed to these public managers, said that it was intended to create a plan to mitigate the effects of the rains, to avoid major embarrassments in the next floods.
“It is also fundamental the responsibility of the citizens to guarantee the maintenance of the infrastructures and to make a combined work of verification of the gutters, reprofiling of the drainage ditches and cleanings to facilitate the draining of the waters”, appealed.
He underlined that if monitoring maintenance is not carried out carefully on the retention basins that the province has, the same problems will persist when the rainy season returns.
According to the governor, after that meeting, the municipalities and the departments responsible for ensuring the task of sanitation maintenance should start to carry out concrete actions to make these infrastructures clean.
Likewise, said Manuel Homem, the Luanda Sanitation Management Technical Unit (UTGSL) should inform what measures and actions should be taken to overcome the floods caused by the rains.
On the occasion, the provincial governor of Luanda informed that preventive work was carried out over eight months of the current year, essentially focused on macro drainage.
Manuel Homem stressed that the situation of citizens who built houses in watercourse areas should also be assessed in order to take measures afterwards.
“The macro drainage ditch is an infrastructure under the competence and responsibility of the Government of Luanda, however, the government will continue to work to keep it clean” – he assured, during the meeting, held at the UTGSL premises.
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