Editor TLN
Oct. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Angolan Police have arrested a teacher who organized a mobilization of some 300 students to demand improvements in the materials and infrastructure of his school in the municipality of Viana, in the northwest of the country.
The spokesman for the Luanda provincial command of the National Police, Nestor Goubel, said this Friday that the teacher led the march in order to reach the Viana Education Department headquarters “to protest the lack of desks” and demand better amenities for students.
“In principle it seems that the teacher showed resistance. He took kids between twelve and fifteen years old for that demonstration with all the consequences, who blocked roads, it seemed that he was fulfilling another agenda,” the police spokesman speculated in statements to the Lusa agency.
Goubel explained that the police action came after a call from the director of the school, João Paulo de Oliveira, who denounced that before leaving school, “instigated by the teacher himself”, the students damaged around fifty desks.
Thus, the detainee, who had barely been in his job for two weeks, is accused of organizing an unauthorized march and a crime of material damage valued at 1.7 million kwanzas (about 4,000 euros). “Each desk has a value of 35,000 kwanzas (82 euros)”, he has detailed.
The Police spokesman has also made reference to the information that has been read on social networks in which it is stated that the agents used live fire to dissolve the demonstration. “Responsibilities will be purged,” he said.
