Africa-Press – Angola. The communal administrator of Hoque, in Lubango, Paulo Bungululo, highlighted today, Thursday, that by becoming a municipality, with the new Political-Administrative Division (DPA), the locality will have an easier time solving problems timely.
The commune of Hoque is 58 kilometers from the city of Lubango, bordered to the north by the municipality of Quilengues, to the south by the commune of Arimba (Lubango), to the east by the municipality of Quipungo, to the west by the commune of Quilemba ( Lubango) and to the Northeast with the municipality of Cacula.
It is a locality elevated to the category of commune in 1912 and composed of 83 villages, distributed in seven settlements, namely Tchicala, Toco, Mucuio, Huma, Chegue, Chem-Chem, Tchacala-Chanja.
It has a territorial extension of 1,650 square kilometers, an altitude of 1,588 meters and has an estimated population of 119,268 inhabitants, whose predominant activity is agriculture and are mostly from the Nyaneka group.
The administrator said that with the autonomous commune, converted into a municipality, it will have its own budget to solve the population’s problems and leverage the rehabilitation of the locality, providing more services.
He added that it is a measure that may also enable the construction of more schools and health centers, as well as the improvement of access roads, especially secondary and tertiary ones, which play an essential role in the flow of production to the large centers of commercialization.
For the administration, Paulo Bungululo stressed that it will be able to count on more staff, making it possible to better serve the population in various social aspects, contributing to the development of the locality and attracting investors.
He reinforced that the commune is experiencing difficulties due to lack of budget, so that any need, however small, is obliged to ask the Lubango administration and wait, which makes problem solving time consuming, depending on the priorities of the municipality itself. management.
“A simple breakdown of a water pump we cannot repair, nor the placement of a lamp that broke in a light fixture or the repair of a bridge, we always have to wait for authorization from the municipality”, he lamented.
Lubango currently has five communes (sede, Arimba, Hoque, Quilemba and Huíla). In addition to Hoque, the new DPA plans to raise Arimba and Huíla to municipalities. The province of Huíla has 14 municipalities and with the new DPA it will have 39.
The proposed Law for the New Political-Administrative Division of the country 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.
The project proposes to change the State’s model of municipality, approved by the Council of Ministers, with the division of the provinces of Cuando Cubango and Moxico into two, thus making twenty (20) provinces and an increase from 164 to 581 municipalities.
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