Ondjiva – The provincial governor of Cunene, Gerdina Didalelwa, defended, on Wednesday, the need to create viable technical proposals to make the integrated infrastructure development project in the city of Ondjiva more sustainable.
The government official who was speaking at the ordinary meeting of the Community Auditing Council, reiterated that the project to requalify these infrastructures will be included in the 2025 General State Budget.
She highlighted that the project aims to respond to the problem of flooding that has occurred in that province, due to the lack of a macro-drainage system that allows the evacuation of rainwater.
Gerdina Didalelwa said that, with the completion of this project, it will be possible to create leisure areas, improve road infrastructure, energy quality and water distribution pipes to homes.
She recalled that the integrated infrastructure project in the province of Cunene was created in 2012, and at the time was valued at US$ 260 million, amounts that were not disbursed due to financial matters.
The official mentioned that the project was created due to the floods registered in 2008 and 2009, which required the preparation of a study of structural projects that include the construction of dikes to protect the city and a wastewater micro drainage system.
In turn, the national director of Urban Infrastructures, Simão Tomé, pointed out the complexity of the topographic, hydrographic point of view and the characteristics of the Cunene rivers as one of the difficulties displayed by the project.
According to Simão Tomé, the solution to this problem requires the participation and contribution of the inhabitants, so that technicians have basic elements for a more viable and realistic study, given population growth.
“As technicians, we are concerned about listening and receiving contributions, which will allow us to enrich the creation of a plan of sustainable and resistant technical solutions”, he stated.
The city of Ondjiva, capital of the province of Cunene, has a population of 113,280 inhabitants, living in 26 neighborhoods.
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