The NSDP intends to satisfy the population’s needs
The Prime Minister, on the 3rd September, continued with the third day of consultation about the National Strategic Development Plan, in the Dom Aleixo sub-district, Díli district.
The Head of the Government’s party was welcomed by the community in the Comoro Bridge, following the traditional use and customs of that sub-district, under the sound of the São Pedro School Band, and afterwards heading to the NSDP consultation area, where bétele leaves (preparation to chew on) and lime were delivered.
The Dom Aleixo sub-district Administrator, Luís Maria da Silva, presented this sub-district where 4 Sucos are integrated: Bairro-Pité, Comoro, Fatuhada and Campo Alor. It is located in the capital and faces the Vera-Cruz sub-district to the South and to the East; with the Bazartete sub-district, from Liquiça district, to the West; and North with the Coqueiros beach. The population lives mainly from agriculture, more precisely horticulture and from commerce.
The main issues put forward were related with the population’s illegal occupation of properties and buildings belonging to the State, with the martial arts groups that disturb the population, the necessity of implementing a law about martial arts and lastly, unemployment.
The recommendations presented by the sub-district Administrator were, among others, the creation of employment in the districts, having in mind the decrease of the flux of displaced people looking for jobs in Díli, the preparation, by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, of plants destined for the reforestation within the upcoming year of 2011 and to the Ministry of Infrastructures, through the Directorate of Public Works, the control of roads and bridges with the purpose of keeping the Maloa and Comoro rivers in their appropriate riverbeds.
The Suco Chiefs and the youth representative, in their turn, spoke about the previously existent clinic rehabilitation and the drafting of individual suco maps, the roads that connect the villages, the creation of a public high school, the free school meal, the control system of MTCI rice brand distribution, potable water, the collection of data regarding elders, the garbage collection, the primary and pre-secondary school conditions, the Comoro Market situation; the need to increase the number of community police agents; the revision of the Migration Law; the, construction, by the Government, of retirement homes for widows the enlargement of the airport runway and the consequences for the population in the 4 villages.
The Prime Minister reflected on the independence process, from 1975 until 2002, and on the Popular Consultation results, published by the UN General-Secretary on the 4th September 1999, and the popular confrontations that took lives.
“In 2001 many Nations joined us, funding a State without an administration system, which led to the 2006 crisis, and for that reason I ask all of you to get rid of malicious attitudes from our independence” appealed the Head of Government.
Later on, Xanana Gusmão reprimanded the devastated and opportunistic attitudes in 1999, which demanded a great expense from the State, and reiterated that the time has come to stop with the confrontations and have trust in the future development, that gives incentives for construction of basic infrastructures.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão was accompanied by the Vice-Minister of Finance, Rui Manuel Hanjam, the Secretaries of State of Agriculture and Arboriculture, Marcos da Cruz, for Public Works, Domingos Caeiro, for Electricity, Water and Urbanization, Januário Pereira and civil and military entities from the Díli district.
