Africa-Press – Cape verde. The parliamentarian of the Independent and Democratic Cabo Verdean Union (UCID, opposition) Zilda Oliveira said that crime in Cape Verde has a social nature and therefore measures should not focus only on repression. She also argues that the large investments in the Cidade Segura project did not have the desired effect.
Deputy Zilda Oliveira, elected on the lists of the Independent and Democratic Cabo Verdean Union (UCID, opposition) for the constituency of São Vicente, was speaking today at a press conference, in Mindelo, in anticipation of the first plenary session of 2023, which begins in Wednesday the 11th, and which has on the agenda a debate with the Minister of Internal Administration, Paulo Rocha, at the request of the parliamentary group of the PAICV (opposition).
Criminality conditioning the right “to come and go”
The debate with the Minister of Internal Administration is considered by the deputy as the highlight of the session.
A debate that will focus on the situation of “criminality and insecurity” that is experienced in the country, “mainly in Praia City”, which, continued the same source, is “conditioning” freedom in the exercise of the right to go and come and, “more serious”, he summed up, loss of human life.
Zilda Oliveira says that in addition to the quantitative and qualitative investment in the police structure, the actions “must also be preventive”.
“Cases of homicide have been a constant, alongside reports of robberies and robberies” says the deputy, emphasizing that it is for these reasons that the UCID continues to ask for more resources for the Judiciary Police and for the National Police because, she warned, crimes “increase from year to year” and “without response, plan and strategy” by the Government to put an end to the situation.
Safe City no results
Zilda also recalled that the “heavy investments” made in the Cidade Segura Project, in the city of Praia, do not show “results” in the fight against crime.
The Christian Democrat deputies will vote in favor in the final global vote of the two bills for the final global vote, one that proceeds with the first amendment to the legal regime relating to weapons and their ammunition, and the second that establishes the legal regime of public employment, defines the fundamental principles of public service, as well as the legal regime for the constitution, modification and termination of the legal relationship of public employment.
Regarding the topics to be voted on, Zilda points out that more important than approval is their effective implementation.
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