"We are making here an atypical passage of folders, anyway the most important was the opening of this act. We intend to materialize the decisions of the extraordinary general meeting held on October 17, 2020, Dr. Elisa Gaspar was warned in advance and even so was absent," said this Wednesday the coordinator of the management committee of Ormed, Arlete Nangassole.
For her, the absence of the staff, which was dismissed at an extraordinary general meeting, is a "delaying manoeuvre to prevent the interests of the class she claims to defend from prevailing.
On 17 October 2020, Ormed's northern regional council approved the removal of Elisa Gaspar from office, and new elections are to be held in 90 days.
According to the resolution approved at the end of the extraordinary general assembly, in addition to the removal from office it was also decided to create a commission of inquiry to analyze the irregularities and promote an independent audit.
Elisa Gaspar, for more than a year in the position of Ormed's staff, is accused of "misappropriation of funds and harmful management" of the institution, including an alleged embezzlement of 19 million kwanzas, and "other unjustified expenditures.
Doctor Elisa Gaspar denies all charges.
This Wednesday, the coordinator of the management committee of Ormed said in a ceremony that took place in the amphitheater of that body, in Luanda, that the about 20 doctors attended the ceremony after they were initially denied access to the room and only entered "after a certain discussion.
"We had a lot of difficulty since the entrance because there was not even protocol for the reception of this delegation," he regretted.
Arlete Nangassole said on that occasion that the management committee will begin work at Ormed starting this Thursday, December 3, to deal with current affairs and prepare for elections within 90 days.
"In the presence of the Honourable Elisa Pedro Gaspar, if she were here, we would have said that we are here to fulfill the deliberations of the extraordinary general meeting held on October 17, 2020, which has already been covered by the legitimacy and legality of the legal counsel of two law firms," she stressed.
He recalled that the "breach of trust" between doctors and the staff justifies that the "medical class of Cabinda ao Cunene" ended up dismissing the staff.
"He stressed that the assembly also elected a commission of inquiry, in which Elisa Gaspar will have the right to defend herself and be able to run again if necessary," she said.
A "commission of good offices" leaving the extraordinary Ormed assembly was "prevented" by the Angolan police on November 18 from meeting with the deposed staff in the agency's premises.
Arlete Nangassole recalled and repudiated the episode on Wednesday, stating that her colleagues were "destroyed by the heavily armed national police" during their "diplomatic exercise of persuasion.
"We are not a group of four, as we have been connoted, as you can see we are a collective of doctors, representing the doctors of Cabinda to Cunene, who want to restore prestige to our Order," he noted.
"With today's act, we will now know what step to take, and we need to know about the heritage, about human resources, about the Order's accounts, about all administrative aspects," he noted.
For her part, Doctor Filomena Amaral, coordinator of the commission of inquiry mandated by the extraordinary general assembly, stated that this Wednesday's act is a step by a conscious class to restore legality.
"At no time do we feel illegal, and because we don't feel illegal and think that the work that is being done is fair, we are here to support it," she assured.
Police officers stationed at Ormed headquarters prevented some journalists from entering the room where the act was taking place and, in the end, questioned the doctors about the presence of other professionals in the amphitheater, claiming "they were not authorized" to cover the event.
The situation generated an exchange of words between the police and the doctors, who were "indignant" at the attitude of the corporation's staff.
