Africa-Press – Cape verde. The MpD bench of the Municipal Assembly of Santa Cruz denounced today, in Praia, “ illegalities and lack of transparency” on the part of the municipality, including the failure to schedule sessions and hiring of staff in an “ illegal ” manner.
The accusations were made by the leader of the Santa Cruz MpD bench, Ivanilda Vaz, at a press conference.
He claimed that the ordinary sessions that should take place quarterly during the year 2023, “recorded only once, in the month of April”, for the discussion and approval of management accounts and activity plans for 2022.
Ivanilda Vaz considers that there have been illegalities in the Santa Cruz City Council, situations that, according to her, should have been deliberated by the Municipal Assembly.
“Last September, this year, a road accident occurred, involving the mayor’s car, in the middle of the night, on a Sunday, driven by his personal driver, with considerable damage, without anyone knowing the contours of this accident”, he reported.
The official also stated that the president of the Santa Cruz City Council, Carlos Silva, (…), “the very next day he was seen driving around in a luxurious, top-of-the-range vehicle, a Land Cruiser TXL Toyota, whose license plate ST-63 -YM, valued at 9,000,000$00 (nine thousand contos) which, recently, on their own initiative, they discovered had been acquired by mortgage, through the BCA, without knowledge and due deliberation on the part of the Municipal Assembly”.
According to Ivanilda Vaz, this amount could be made available for requalification of the city of Pedra Badejo, which “remains one of the worst cities in the Santiago Norte Region”.
The bench also accused the municipality of entering into a partnership with a private company, involving the project, called Vitoria Santiago, aimed at infrastructure and sale of plots of land, in the area called Redonda, mentioned the leader of the MpD bench Ivanilda Vaz.
According to the same source, the Santa Cruz City Council has carried out personnel contracts in an “illegal” manner, without a public competition and without scrutiny from the Municipal Assembly.
He said that he does not know the total number of staff who work at the municipal council, “there are some who only show up on payday”, adding that there are employees who earn wages lower than the minimum wage, practiced in Public Administration and who are not “ enrolled in social security,” he said.
“The Santa Cruz council is one of the few that has not yet updated employee salaries, with the 3.5% increase, granted by the Public Administration, in January 2023”, he added.
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