According to Alfredo Elavoco Pinto, the institution he directs moves at two speeds, whose "great concern" falls on the approximately 85 employees who have been without wages for more than 24 months, regretting the lack of responses from the Ministry of Finance.
"We have already met with the Ministry of Finance, particularly with the Secretary of State for Finance and the Treasury, in October last year, where we saw the feasibility of settling salaries, the meeting was excellent, but so far we have no feedback 'on the subject," said the official in statements to Lusa this Friday.
The lack of salaries at the CVA, an Angolan public utility institution that celebrates its 44th anniversary on March 16, was also presented to the deputies and did not deserve any follow-up.
Hence, he stressed, "we ask, earnestly, the Angolan Head of State to intervene in this case and we ask as citizens, in the exercise of citizenship, to intervene in this so caricatured matter".
"We have repeatedly asked the President of the Republic to intervene at his discretion in this process, because we think that ministerial departments take a long time to respond, so seeing people working without wages is painful", he stressed.
The Red Cross of Angola needs about 16 million kwanzas to pay monthly salaries and "casually" receives from the Ministry of Health between 316,000 and 800,000 kwanzas.
"This money [from the Ministry of Health] comes randomly and we can't do anything because it is divided between the 18 provinces of the country", noted Alfredo Elavoco Pinto.
With the resolution of wages "we will already be able to retire many workers, who have already done their best since the war, and are without reform, because we have not been paying wages for lack of money".
An international seminar on International Humanitarian Law and Blood Donation is planned for 16 March, as part of the festivities of the institution's 44th anniversary.
The revision of the statutes, adapting them to the Volunteering Law, and the organization's strategic plan are part of the actions of the CVA, which, "despite the difficulties", has a delegation of experts working on emergency intervention projects in the provinces from Cunene, Huila and Namibe.
"These experts must finalize an administrative model and then travel again to Cunene, a southern province of Angola plagued by drought and hunger, to distribute food to 500 families", said the official.
Alfredo Elavoco Pinto also complained of "interference" allegedly by "senior officials of the Angolan State" in the actions of the CVA that aim to "obstruct its mantado and the good name of the organization by creating parallel meetings".
"We know that our organization lives on its image, any failure this image disappears, and now that we are trying to raise this image, adverse forces still appear to try to destroy the image, which is being built with a lot of sacrifice", he pointed out.
Without specifying, he also stated that the above-mentioned obstructors "want to rob" the CVA "to do business": "That is why we continue to send money and this is costing us dearly, including our dignity at national and provincial level".
