Africa-Press – Angola. The approximately 80 residents of the Vida Pacifica Urbanization, in Zango 0, in the municipality of Calumbo, in the province of Icolo e Bengo, who last June received an order from the Viana District Court to vacate the apartments in building I, zone II, in block 10 of that urbanization, are resisting the court order and do not want to abandon the property, as they understand that they are not “invaders”, as the sentence states, and say they will fight in court to have the decision reversed, Novo Jornal learned.
The Viana District Court assures that it will, next month, move forward with removing the occupants from the apartments classified by the court as belonging to the State, “which never ceded them at any time.”
Residents say they are not invaders, as Novo Jornal reported in June.
Meanwhile, residents say that some people linked to the State apparatus are taking advantage of the situation by using the court to evict them and they assure that they did not invade the apartments, although they have not been able to prove in court, with documents, the transfer and ownership of the apartments.
Residents claim that they did not acquire the apartments through resolvable income from Sonangol Imobiliária e Propriedade (SONIP), but rather through requests made to various public institutions.
According to the defendants, they have lived in this development for 14 years and “the court was unfair in lumping all the residents together in the same situation.”
Novo Jornal learned from the court that the residents illegally occupied a building in that urbanization, arguing that they came from the former Cuca building, in Kinaxixi, and that they were rehoused.
According to the court, in the State list provided by SONIP, which distributed the apartments, these 80 residents are not included.
Due to the resistance of those targeted, after being warned to leave the apartments, court sources assure that they have already notified the National Police (PN), to proceed with the compulsory eviction of the “invaders”, although they assure that they will continue to fight in court to prevent the eviction from being carried out.
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