The leader of the parliamentary group UNITA, Angolan’s largest opposition party, called it “a country without a government” this Wednesday, citing the deployment of security guards and cleaning assistants in schools to oversee tests as an example.
“There is no government in the country, how can you send school guards, cleaners, administrative staff to control the tests?” asked Liberty Chiaka, who spoke at a press conference about the balance of test visits of deputies from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in 18 provinces of the country.
The deputy also asked in this situation, “who prepared the tests, who will correct the tests, who will give grades, who will make methodological recommendations and who will be in the evaluation council?”
“So we will say that we have a government? No! There is no government in Angola,” he stressed.
Angolan teachers are in the second phase of their strike, which began on the 6th of this month and ends on Friday, demanding higher wages and better work.
According to the National Union of Teachers of Angola (Sinprof), no meeting has been held with the Ministry of Education since the shutdown, and preparations are underway for the third phase of the strike, which will take place from 3 to 31 January. , since 2023.
The second phase of the strike coincided with the first term exams, when the union denounced that the Ministry of Education was allegedly directing schools to administer exams and that it was using security guards, cleaning assistants, administrative staff and their families to administer them.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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