NSDP consultation in Lequidoe
The Prime Minister, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão, organized a consultation, last Friday, on the National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) in the Lequidoe sub-district, in the Aileu district.
In the Lequidoe administrative area, the whole of the prime-minister’s entourage was received by the sub-district administrator and the seven chiefs of suco, concentrated in the Namlesu suco. This suco represented all the remaining from the sub-district and received the Chief of the Executive with traditional and cultural dances from Lequidoe.
Xanana Gusmão was received by the sub-district administrator, who made a presentation of the regions administrative area: seven (7) sucos and twenty-two (22) aldeias, one thousand, two hundred and eighteen (1.218) Heads of Family and a population of six thousand, one hundred and forty two people (6.142) of which three thousand, one hundred and eighty six (3.186) are men and two thousand, nine hundred and fifty six (2.956) area women.
The natural resources identified in this sub-district are prime materials such as sandalwood, marble, honey bees as well as areas with thermal waters and cascades of touristic qualification. The Local Development Program (LDP) I this sub-district was initiated in 2005.
In 2008/2009 the LDP project implementation resulted in the repair of drinkable water pipes in the Bereleio Suco, repairs in the Faterlau Primary School building and the construction of SISKA in the Asubilitoho suco. For 2010, 3 projects have been approved and which will be implemented next August.
The Administrator took the opportunity to, in front of the Chief of the Executive, request his attention to the “preoccupation felt by the Lequidoe sub-district population, in regards to road condition, access to electrical energy, constructing houses for elders and people with deficiences, the documental process of former combatants, lack of access to secondary education and the absence of doctors at the health centre” and to which he requested a solution.
In response, the Prime Minister underlined that “for over ten years, since independence, that our living conditions continue to be inadequate. Now I ask: why did we fight for 24 years? The people contributed to the State, demanding that it maintained as a State. For that reason the Popular Consultation on the needs of the people was done in 2001, right after Timor-Leste opted for freedom. Electricity, drinking water, roads, communication, schools and health are part of the plans for 2020! And I am consulting about the National Development Strategic Plan for the year 2030 “.
