Liberty Chiaka, who was taking stock of the National Assembly's performance in the first year of the V legislature, which ended on the 15th of this month, considered that in the field of control and inspection "it could have been better".
"On accountability, transparency and good governance, the executive did very badly, as it disregarded the legal deadlines for the National Assembly to receive the General State Account. Contrary to the law, the executive sent the General State Account for 2020 and the General State Account for 2021 with delays”, he said.
According to Liberty Chiaka, the Court of Auditors' opinions on the 2020 and 2021 State Accounts disapproved of the executive's performance.
The leader of the parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) stressed that "only one" joint parliamentary hearing, of the Minister of the Interior, general commander of the police and general director of the SIC (Criminal Investigation Service) "was served".
"This posture demonstrates disrespect to the National Assembly and the sovereign people of Angola", he said.
Liberty Chiaka said that the UNITA parliamentary group will insist, in the next parliamentary year, on the holding of a parliamentary inquiry commission (CPI) into Sonangol, the state-owned oil company, which "has been the main epicenter of corruption".
"Unfortunately, we all know that Sonangol has been the main epicenter of corruption, after Sonangol comes public procurement, through direct adjudication, we have no doubts about that, but we will insist, it has to be carried out the CPI, the audit, Sonangol", he underlined.
The deputy highlighted that the state oil company does not belong "to the Government, to the party in power", but to all Angolans, in that sense, "the management, the administration of Sonangol, owes explanations to the representatives of the people and through them to the Angolan people".
According to the leader of UNITA's parliamentary group, during the first year of the V legislature, "the political conflict that opposes the people, the sovereign, to the holder of executive power, which is the singular entity that exercises executive power, intensified on behalf of the people".
"It became evident that the electoral victory of the holder of executive power and the party that supports him, did not eliminate the political defeat that the people inflicted on him. The Government stopped governing for the people and the people lost confidence in the Government", emphasized Liberty Chiaka.
