Angolan cabinet member Waldemar Pires Alexandre has just been quoted by news agency Angop as saying that “more than 12 000 kilometres” of roads have been built or rebuilt.
But, if you read previous statements made to the media, the figures just don’t really add up.
In October, 2011, Molares d’Abril of the Angolan Roads Institute (INEA) told Angolan public television, TPA, that since 2002 6 500kms of the 25 000kms of the country’s secondary and tertiary roads destroyed during the civil war had been rebuilt. And, he added, by 2013 the target of 14 000-16 000kms of rebuilt roads would be achieved.
In January 2014, Alexandre, said that 7 900kms of roads and 311 bridges would be repaired as part of the road reconstruction programme.
Then in May 2014 he said that “so far over 11 000kms” had been rebuilt across the country. And, in the same article he added that over 4 500kms of road were due to be rebuilt that year.
It’s a real mix-up of figures and dates. But you can add and subtract to your heart’s content, and you won’t get them to match up.
Sources: Angop, TPA and macauhub.com
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