Africa-Press – Cape verde. The relatives of the three fishermen who disappeared at sea since the 13th, when they left the island of Boa Vista for the island of Sal, complain of “lack of information” and the authorities’ response time in the searches.
The brother of one of the missing fishermen, Gersílio Lima, who arrived in Boa Vista on Tuesday, 15th, to find out about the searches, said that he contacted the authorities and learned that they had issued a statement so that the vessels at sea to be on alert in case of sighting an object or even the boat at sea.
However, he said that on Wednesday, 16, with a plane on the island, involved in the searches, he raised funds with friends and family to try to rent the device for more days of searches, but it had to return.
“O avião esteve cá alugado por um privado, e nunca ninguém nos contactou para ver se era possível fazer mais qualquer coisa, para dar continuidade às buscas”, lamentou, informando que os familiares mobilizaram buscas com ajuda de uma organização não governamental ambiental, que os apoiou com três carros, binóculos e ‘drone’.
“Searches were carried out in the air, on land, but in the sea where they are, they are not looking”, he asserted, indicating that they make daily calls to the authorities in order to try to find out about the procedures in the searches.
no procedures However, Gersílio Lima claimed that they have the perception that the authorities in charge of the case “do not have procedures”, and that almost everything is beyond their reach, due to the lack of means.
Segundo disse, acabam por ficar reféns de um telefone a tentar dar alguma satisfação aos familiares, quando a seu ver, as coisas poderiam ser resolvidas de outra forma.
O familiar questiona também o tempo de resposta das buscas para salvar vidas, neste caso de três pescadores, que saíram da ilha da Boa Vista há uma semana à procura do sustento da família e não chegaram ao destino que seria Palmeira, ilha do Sal.
Missing on the job, not on land
The sister of another fisherman, Luís Miguel “Titan”, Zenaida Gomes, also mentioned that there is a lack of concrete information about the searches and that, in her opinion, they should be carried out at sea and not on land, taking into account that the fishermen disappeared in the work.
“They went looking for support for their children and disappeared. I think they have the right to be searched at the moment, at the time, because the family asked for help right when it happened”, he said, showing his dissatisfaction with the procedure of the searches carried out.
Zenaida Gomes said that the family is desperate, because if they had known that the search was being carried out, they would have had some hope that at any moment the fishermen could be found.
“My brother is not lost on the coast, but at sea. I want them to tell me that they’re looking at sea, because if it’s looking at the coastlines, on land, we’ve been doing that every day,” he pontificated.
So that it doesn’t happen again
Nelvino Lima, also the brother of one of the fishermen, appealed that the journey of Zé Luís and “Col” not remain anonymous, highlighting, for this, the role of the media in telling these stories, and of civil society in reflecting and seeking solutions. and means so that no more human lives are lost at sea.
“In less than a year, nine lives have disappeared, and we run the risk of trivializing human losses in what is our greatest wealth, our sea”, he concluded, recalling that in addition to the fishermen being adrift, family members are if “in a sea of uncertainty and pain”.
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