Speaking to Lusa news agency, CFL spokesman Augusto Osório said that the drivers were from 7 am to 9 am, with shovels and hoes, removing the garbage from the line to continue their journey.
Augusto Osório said that the situation is recurrent, with a tendency to worsen, because the garbage is accumulating and the answers are becoming less and less effective.
"The risk of this happening again is very great. This has happened every two weeks, we notice these huddles, so big, that they really prevent [the passage] and the crew has to go down to collect ", he stressed.
The official appealed to the entities that have the responsibility to collect the garbage to pay more attention to the CFL, "because if not, this scenario will repeat itself again and it is a loss for the company, for the passengers, for the society and for the passengers. crew ".
"Their function [train drivers] is to drive the train and not have to go down with a shovel, with a hoe to remove the garbage, hours and hours to remove the garbage, so that you can pass with the locomotive and the entire composition" he lamented.
The CFLP spokesman pointed out the Luanda / Viana / Icolo and Bengo corridor as the most critical points, stressing that the areas from Sambizanga to Capalanca, in Viana, are endemic.
"We found many, many outbreaks of garbage, there are places where the first line is completely buried, it is not possible to pass without going down to remove the garbage," he said.
According to Augusto Osório, the situation is known to the government of the province of Luanda, not only in the person of the administrators of the corridor, which covers the municipalities of Luanda, Cazenga, Viana and Icolo and Bengo, but also of the highest structure at the level of the provincial government. the capital.
"We have had periodic meetings with the administrators and with the police bodies at the level of these municipalities and, unfortunately, the responses that we would like to see implemented, the reality tells us that no", said Augusto Osório.
The spokesman reiterated that "the situation tends to worsen and the degradation of the CFL, due to this deposition of garbage, is increasing."
