Africa-Press – Cape verde. The leader of the municipal bench of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV, opposition), questioned this Thursday about the “existence and credibility” of the environmental impact study of the port of Maio.
Speaking to Inforpress, Jovino Gomes assured that the silting situation at the port was predictable, since the movement of sand on that beach is something that happens practically every year.
Therefore, he said it was surprising that such a situation had not been taken into account in the “supposed environmental impact study”, stressing that like him, the majority of Mayans are unaware of this document.
According to the same source, the island has been accumulating “losses and distrust” on the part of emigrants and tourists who visit the island, as they have no guarantee of when to return, with implications of “various types”.
Furthermore, he stressed, people who are in the business of commerce, especially the “angry women”, have been “accumulating losses successively”, and with this situation they are “even more distressed”, taking into account that their goods, Among vegetables and frozen foods, they are deteriorating in the Inter-island company warehouse.
“As one rabidante claimed, to tell this situation she had to rent a vessel to transport her merchandise, otherwise she would lose all her product and this was another cost for her and in the end it is the consumers who pay for all this, while that the rulers remain undaunted and serene”, he emphasized.
Jovino Gomes also considered that the island needs a boat with better conditions to make daily connections with the city of Praia, if investments are made in the primary sector, such as agriculture and fishing, investing in new technologies and thus bringing more income to those who are dedicated to these areas.
“We are facing constant shortages of goods”, noted the same source, for whom, with the approach of summer, when many people visit the island, if the situation is not resolved, this could jeopardize the dynamics and development of the island, defending that the current Government and the Mayan chamber “are not concerned with this situation”.
As he said, there are private individuals interested in purchasing a vessel to make the connection between the country’s capital and the island of Maio, but the authorities “are not facilitating this process”, all to “keep the people suffering and dependent on the political power”, remembering that there are several projects that are “shelved”.
He cited as an example the project to produce desalinated water for agriculture, which had a deadline for entry into operation last April.
On the other hand, he accuses, young people “are without a solution” and are leaving the island to look for jobs elsewhere.
The livestock sector, for that representative of the opposition bench, also “continues to be forgotten”, despite the island having “a lot of potential”, however he warned that it is also necessary to produce water to make available to livestock farmers, which could help in the supplying and enriching the island’s gastronomy.
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