In a note to the media, the CFL called for "a categorical intervention by the authorities and a definitive citizen awareness of the railway users".
The CFL states that acts of vandalism and aggression, affecting the exterior and interior of carriages and locomotives, which daily transport an average of 3000 passengers between the city center and the various locations along the Viana rail corridor, have intensified. especially since the month of August.
"An undeniable and valuable public service, socially relevant, is jeopardized by this growing vandalization of circulating media, in incomprehensible and irresponsible ways, such as the stoning of moving trains, which has resulted in countless broken windows, and which has consequences the immobilization of carriages and locomotives for several days, with material losses for the company and personal losses for users", refers in the note.
According to the CFL, the 12 GE-C30-ACI locomotives have already been the target of these acts of banditry, with an countless number of broken windows, leading to their stoppage.
The localities of Boavista, Sambizanga, Cazenga and Viana are the areas of greatest risk, with regard to the incidence of these acts, the note emphasizes, calling on the authorities to urgently take a "more forceful intervention by the competent authorities of the State".
"In this context and in view of the growing wave of vandalisation, the CFL expresses its apprehension with the entry into circulation of new trains, called DMU [Multiple Diesel Units], for the transport of passengers, a lighter and less robust material, which runs the risk of being quickly out of service if there is no categorical intervention by the authorities and a definitive citizen awareness of the railway users, because those who are out today may need to be inside tomorrow, to be transported by the Railroads of Luanda", the document emphasizes.
This week, the commander-general of the National Police, Paulo de Almeida, said that behaviors involving vandalism to public goods, national symbols, that violate the authority of the State, will not be tolerated, and the police must mobilize all human and technical resources to face up to that.
On Wednesday, Catholic bishops expressed concern about the growing and frightening level of crime in the country, which in addition to people also affects public goods, with the vandalization of schools, social and housing facilities under construction, electricity and sanitation and channeling, not escaping religious institutions.
