Maputo prepares 250 plots to rehouse flood victims
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on O País
Maputo city council is preparing 250 plots in Jocane, in Matutuíne district, to rehouse families still housed in accommodation centres after the floods. According to the mayor, Rasaque Manhique, 100 families have already been rehoused in KaTembe, which has street lighting, public transport and access to water, according to O País.
Maputo city council is preparing 250 plots in Jocane, in Matutuíne district, to rehouse families still housed in accommodation centres after the floods, according to Maputo mayor Rasaque Manhique. Clearing, preparation and land-division work has begun, he said during the celebration of City Day.
One hundred families have already been rehoused in KaTembe, where they benefit from public lighting, public transport, health brigades, reinforced security, and access to water through a borehole, whose connection to the distribution network is under construction. The municipality plans to build houses for the victims, with the centres to serve only as transit sites. The matter has already drawn criticism, such as that from Carta de Moçambique on the municipal abandonment of Ka-Tembe.
As humanitarian aid, the city council has distributed food, hygiene products, clothing, shoes, shelter materials and mosquito nets to families in the centres, and eight families affected by fires in Kalhamankulo district were helped. During the current mandate, around 504,000 tonnes of solid waste have been collected, and a municipal sanitation company, the Empresa Municipal de Salubridade, has been created with night-time collection operations.
