By António Capalandanda:
UNITA is accusing the Provincial Electoral Commssion (CPE) in Bié of
falsifying the consolidated results lists from polling stations and is
contesting provisional electoral results that give the MPLA a victory in the
province, with 69.79 percent of votes. According to the provisional results,
UNITA has 36.2 percent of the votes and CASA-CE 0.98 percent.
The UNITA spokesman in Bié, Kanjomba Leite, told Maka Angola that
five false results’ statments had been found at polling station 029 (Helena de
Almeida neighbourhood) and 11 (Boa Vista neighbourhood) and in one of the
polling stations in Kunje in the Kuito municipality.
In a letter to the Bié CPE, UNITA’s provincial secretary, Elioty
Ekolelo, said that the statements of results from polling stations in Liwema,
Njimba Silili, Ekovongo, Kamundongo and Tchikala, in the Kuito municipality,
where UNITA has strong support, were not handed to the Municipal Electoral
Commission. Copies of the original statements were, however, given to UNITA
delegates.
Maka Angola has been
trying unsuccessfully to obtain a comment from the chairman of the Bié CPE,
Manuel Chimbinga Chanande.
Ekolelo is accusing the municipal administrator and first secretary of
the MPLA in Kuito, Moisés Américo Kaciako, of taking eight boxes full of marked
ballots from his party headquarters to voting stations during the evening of
August 31, 2012.
Attempts to obtain comment from Kaciako on the allegations were also
unsuccessful.
Ekolelo alleges that about 2,500 UNITA activists in the villages of
Embala Etalala, Kalele, Kanata, Kaneketela, Tchifeka, Kamela and Musungu, in
Kambândua commune, Kuito municipality, did not vote. Information gathered there
confirms that the names were not on the voters’ roll, and in a few cases the
names had been transferred to other voting stations.
Ekolelo also alleges that in Catabola municipality, UNITA voters were
left off the electoral roll in the villages of Avila, Embala Etunda, Etunda
loja, Nganjela and Saningi, despite having up-to-date voters’ cards.
Kanjomba Leite added that in the communes of Cutato and Cangote in
Chinguar municipality, people voted without electoral rolls and each voter
confirmed his or her name on a hand-written list posted at the polling station.
He also said that his party had in its possession seven unused voters’ rolls,
three of which had been found in the home of the chief of Sandjavite village in
Cutato, Félix Venâncio Aspirante. The unused rolls contain the names of 3,000
voters.
Detentions
Leite revealed that the National Police detained three UNITA activists
in Cutato commune on September 3 while they were doing a survey of UNITA
activists who had voted and enquiring into the problems with the electoral
rolls. Those detained are António Kacope, the Cutato communal secretary, Paulo
Josias, the organising secretary, and activist Constantino Seca.
Leite said the men were detained because “they were collecting copies of
the voters’ cards of UNITA activists who were unable to vote, so as to be able
to file a complaint later”.
He added that the three were later transferred from the local police
station to the cells at the municipal police command, in the presence of the
commander of the National Police in Chinguar municipality, João Batista
Samandele.
The vice-governor of Bié for Political Affairs, Carlos Ulombe, stated he
had no knowledge of the men’s detention or the fraud accusations. He referred
these questions to the provincial command of the National Police.
The spokesman for the provincial police command, António Hossi, is
travelling and promised to make a statement on September 5. CPE spokeswoman
Maria Madalena promised an official statement would be issued the following
day.
With Bié
correspondent Edú Wãngo
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