Africa-Press – Angola. The director of the Institutional Communication and Press office of the Delegation of the Interior in Huambo province, Martinho Kavita Satito, called this Friday for greater observance and application of the rules of the Road Code.
The chief superintendent of the National Police, who was speaking at a lecture on “The fight against road accidents: causes and consequences of road accidents”, said that it is essential that citizens have greater responsibility, bramanism and love for their neighbor, above all, on public roads .
With the fulfillment of these assumptions, he said, it will be possible to safeguard this evil that, daily, causes several human victims and high material damage.
The official highlighted the disrespect for the rules of the Highway Code, with emphasis on excessive speed, lack of precaution, disobedience to the signaling system, driving under the influence of alcoholic beverages, irregular overtaking, dangerous maneuvers and poor school learning, such as main causes of road accidents in the region.
He also pointed out the lack of maintenance of the means of transport, due to negligence, excessive speed, failure to grant priority for passage, traffic jams, poor technical condition of the vehicles and uneven pavement, lack of signage, as the main causes of road accidents .
For this reason, Martinho Kavita Satito advised parents and guardians to develop a culture of care for means of transport and responsible use of public roads, from an early age, to avoid cases of road accidents, which have as their main focus the factor human.
During the lecture, in an OMA initiative, he recalled that during the second quarter of this year, the National Police Command in Huambo province recorded 256 road accidents, which resulted in 45 deaths, 313 injuries and material damage to be assessed.
On her turn, the second secretary of the OMA in the province of Huambo, Maria da Conceição Catuvala, informed that the lecture served to alert the militants and others about the precautions to be taken on public roads, with a view to safeguarding road accidents .
In this regard, he appealed to participants to help promote actions aimed at the well-being of communities, with a focus on combating accidents on the roads.
The person in charge of the motorcycle taxi drivers’ association in Huambo, Armindo Capanda Catchiyaya, praised the OMA initiative, which, in his view, appears to awaken the culture of good use of public roads.
The province of Huambo, with a territorial extension of 35,771 square kilometres, has an estimated population of two million 700 thousand inhabitants, distributed in 11 municipalities.
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