In a round carried out in various areas of the city, Lusa found that taxis, private collective transport that take up to 15 passengers, also known as "blue and white" or "candongueiros", are circulating and transporting people and at the stops they do not check the Monday floods.
At FTU, Golf II (Kilamba Kiaxi), BCA (Viana), Gamek and Rocha Pinto (Maianga), Aeroporto and Largo da Independência, some of the points with the highest traffic intensity and passenger accumulation, the situation was normal since 6:00 am .
The leaders of the taxi drivers' associations called for a press conference this Tuesday to talk about the dispute they have with the authorities, re-demarcating themselves and stressing, in a statement, that the stoppage has "merely social objectives, not political ones". ".
They reject any connection with the acts of vandalism that took place in the urban district of Benfica (outskirts of Luanda), during which a building of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) was set on fire, and urge the police to investigate and hold civil and criminally involved in order to find "the real culprits".
They also stress that the stoppage has "merely social, and not political, objectives, as the ultimate end is embodied in valuing and respecting taxi activity", and reaffirm their openness to dialogue with State institutions to put an end to the dispute.
On Monday, the provincial secretary of the MPLA in Luanda, Bento Bento, suggested that elements of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) were linked to vandalism, which UNITA denied, recommending that the government "solve the people's problems".
Both parties, which will contest general elections this year, strongly condemned the incidents.
Roads cut, a bus of the Ministry of Health burned and its employees attacked, an attempt to lynch journalists were other acts of violence that occurred on the day of the taxi drivers' stoppage.
Taxi drivers want to find the “true culprits” of incidents in Luanda. City returns to normal
Luanda slowly returned to normality this morning, a day after the incidents during a stoppage of taxi drivers, who reject political intentions and ask the authorities to find the “real culprits” of Monday's acts of vandalism in the capital.
