Africa-Press – Angola. The Governor of Luanda, Manuel Homem, denounced, Monday, the existence of businessmen who try to bribe the State authorities, with a view to interrupting the process of reordering trade.
Speaking at a meeting with businessmen and business associations, for clarification on the process of reorganizing trade in Luanda, he said he had recently received a box with money, without, however, revealing the value or those involved in the case.
“Whoever is fine, is legal, organized, with procedures up to date, why does he need to do that?”, questioned the government official, stating that the businessmen in question appear with “heavy sums”.
However, the governor recognized that there are good businessmen, having underlined that some work in precarious conditions and with nonconformities subject to correction.
Manuel Homem also informed that the doors of the Provincial Government of Luanda are open for complaints about the behavior of Government agents who do not facilitate the process or who accept the practice of bribery.
During the meeting, Manuel Homem said that 50 wholesale warehouses, operating in inappropriate areas, were transferred to Kicolo Shopping, in the municipality of Cacuaco, in Luanda.
Other warehouses, in the same condition, will be transferred to existing spaces in the municipalities of Viana and Cacuaco.
Law n.o 1/07 (Law of Commercial Activities) establishes specific places for wholesale sales, which must not be in urban areas”, but has been systematically violated by owners of commercial establishments in Luanda.
For this reason, the Provincial Government of Luanda has been running, since last February, a Trade Reorganization Plan, to discipline sales.
“The intention is to discipline commercial activity, guaranteeing the citizen quality of life, hygiene, cleanliness, better mobility, as well as decent conditions for employees, such as wages and Social Security payments”, asserted Governor Manuel Homem.
Within the scope of the Commercial Reorganization Plan in Luanda, under way along the avenues Cónego Manuel das Neves, the surroundings of the São Paulo area (Urban District of Sambizanga ), and Ngola Kiluanje (Urban District of Hoji Ya Henda) were closed about of 300 stores and warehouses, due to irregular trading practices.
The Trade Reorganization Plan aims, among other objectives, to restore the legality of formal and informal trade along the roads of the province of Luanda.
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