Gerdina Didalelwa requested the support during the presentation of a report on the situation in the province, at the meeting with a government delegation headed by the head of state, João Lourenço, who arrived this Friday to that southern region of the country for a two-day working visit.
According to the governor, the statue was executed in Spain and will have cost at the time 50.000 dollars, being until now in that European country due to difficulties in its transport, which she did not specify.
The responsibility of the statue's transportation lies with the Angolan Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment, even though the project is local, Gerdina Didalelwa stressed.
"It's spending money there. Where it is you have to pay every month and the price is going up as long as we don't go there to pick it up," said the governor, adding that the bill has only increased.
"When we go there, we will find, maybe, a million dollars, while it was costing 50 thousand euros, at the time of its construction and its finishing," ironized the governor.
The problem had already been raised in February this year by the vice-governor, Apolo Ndinoulenga.
At the time, he pointed out the cost of transportation as the main problem, stressing that the provincial authorities did not have the financial capacity to do so, making it impossible to implant the statue in its base, which has been built for six years in Ondjiva square, capital of Cunene.
Born in 1892, in the locality of Embulunganga, municipality of Cuanhama, and son of Ndemufayo and Ndapona, Mandume was the 18th sovereign of the Kwanhama tribe and ascended the throne at age 19, reigning between 1911 and 1917.
