Africa-Press – Angola. The Committee on Mandates, Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum this Thursday, 29th, hear the six deputies of the UNITA Parliamentary Group who visited the Central Morgue of Luanda, without prior authorization from the president of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira.
The UNITA Parliamentary Group, in defense of the six deputies, said that the deputies’ actions fall within the legitimate exercise of the oversight function enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Angola and in the rules of procedure of the National Assembly.
According to UNITA, the deputies acted in the exercise of their constitutional duty of oversight, especially after complaints about the “undignified treatment” given to the bodies in the Central Morgue of Luanda.
According to the main opposition party, its Parliamentary Group will increase control and inspection activities and carry out new inspection visits to all morgues and other health institutions.
UNITA says that the visit to the Luanda Central Morgue highlighted an alarming situation of degradation of public health institutions, dehumanization of public services and repeated acts of corruption.
“The situation we found at the Luanda Central Morgue is repugnant and is more like an “open-air” market than a morgue in the true sense of the word, in one of the most important phases, which precedes the repose in the holy field”, says a summary report by the six deputies.
The 9th Committee on Mandates, Ethics and Parliamentary Decorum of the National Assembly will hear the vice-president of the UNITA Parliamentary Group, deputy Olívio Quilumbo, and deputies Paulo Faria, Clementina Silva, Irina Diniz Ferreira and Maria Monteiro.
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