"Luanda has no solution, it was designed for 350,000 inhabitants, and in it live 7 to 8 million who jostle for space," the activist said in a video posted on Twitter following the floods that have victimized dozens of people in the capital.
"The infrastructures are overloaded, Luanda is now an NTS city, It Has No Solution," the activist stressed in the video.
In Luaty Beirão's opinion, "it is necessary to leave a lot to rebuild as it should be, but leaving implies compensating or implies expropriating by force and throwing entire families to rough areas as it has been done until now".
Commenting on the images of vehicles stranded in the rivers that some of Luanda's streets have become, the activist concludes the video by warning: "to compensate the city with the most expensive square meters in the world in a decapitalized country, which lives only on a 'commodity' [oil], dependent on the whims of the market is, let's say, unwise.
The torrential rains that caused chaos in Luanda this week left 14 dead and more than 8,000 people homeless, according to data transmitted Monday night by the spokesman for the civil protection and fire department.
Faustino Miguéns, who was speaking to Angolan channel TV Zimbo after an emergency meeting of the provincial civil protection commission, coordinated by the governor of Luanda, Joana Lina, said that 14 people died due to the rains and more than 1,600 houses were flooded.
In the municipality of Luanda, five deaths were registered, while in the municipalities of Cazenga three people died, in Cacuaco another two and the same number in Viana and Kilamba Kiaxi, who died as a result of electrocution and collapsed walls, while a one year old child and his mother were swept away by the waters.
There are also two people injured and 1617 houses flooded, for a total of 8165 people affected.
The same official added that 16 houses collapsed, 15 trees fell, a streetlamp collapsed on a vehicle and there was a fire in an electrical cabin, as well as the destruction of a bridge and a "substantial increase" in the volume of water in the retention basins of rainwater, which overflowed onto the public road and adjacent houses.
In addition to the victims and the material damage yet to be calculated, the rain hampered the circulation and prevented public transport to transit in some areas.
Faustino Miguéns said that the affected people will receive support from the municipal administrations, stressing that the priority is to help these people.
Until Wednesday, the meteorological services continue to forecast heavy rain and thunderstorms.
