Africa-Press – Cape verde. In reaction to criticisms of the state of Calamidade, due to the September rains, Augusto Neves, Mayor of São Vicente, says that the decision was taken based on surveys and technical data and denies that it was an extemporaneous decision.
According to Augusto Neves, the volume of September rains in São Vicente was 113 millimeters, which had not happened for 40 years, and caused “heavy damage” on the roads, in houses, roundabouts and in various locations on the island, which the camera alone can’t bear it.
According to the mayor, the council made a budget of “50 thousand contos to cover the expenses” of these repairs, which “will not arrive”, because “the cleaning of the hydrographic basins exceeded six thousand contos”.
“If these deputies had gone to the neighborhoods, during and after the rains, and attended to the dozens of helpless people, as we did and we have the report here from the social services, perhaps they would not have said such nonsense and would have known the seriousness of the situation”, he warned, guaranteeing who, at the time, immediately reported the situation to the Palácio da Várzea.
Joint damage assessment work
The Government, he continued, sent an engineer from the Roads Institute and they began to work together with a technical team made up of engineers from the council and social services to carry out the assessment, organize the documentation and deliver the report.
“The Calhau road is still damaged and it is a work that goes beyond the possibilities of the city council, the Calhau roundabout is in trouble, the wall on the road to Baía das Gatas has fallen and it is a wall that takes a huge cost in its construction, the wall of the Technical School will have to be done”, enumerated the mayor.
Augusto Neves, added that the council also had to rebuild the Chã de Vital bridge and shelter and pay rent for more than 60 families, whose houses were damaged by the rains.
In this sense, the mayor of São Vicente thanked the Government “for having acted in a timely manner” and recalled that governments act based on a technical survey and with data to help their population.
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