The National Jurisdiction Council of the UNITA party suspended three of its leaders, among them the former president of the parliamentary bench and candidate defeated in the 13th canceled congress Estevão José Pedro Katchiungo, deputy and former provincial secretary of Luanda José Eduardo and Altino Jamba Kapango, for two years, as stated in the document dated December 1, 2021, made public this Tuesday, 11.
According to the document that Correio da Kianda had access to, former leaders and members of the management of the party founded by Jonas Savimbi were expelled from the ranks of Galo Negro, for opposing the decisions of the current leadership led by Adalberto Costa Júnior, and, by the way, signatories of a letter that is in the Constitutional Court, which seeks to challenge the meeting that gave the convening of the congress that re-elected Adalberto Costa Júnior to the presidency of UNITA.
According to the document we have been quoting, Ilidio Chissanga Eurico, Amaro Sebastião Caimama, Sócrates Kabela, Elisbei Bemba Satapi, Manuela dos Prazeres de Cazoto, Ana Filomena J. da cruz Domingos and Filipe Mendonça, all members of the UNITA politician.
However, Correio da Kianda contacted those concerned to confirm the veracity of the facts, by the way they confirmed, but they minimize such a decision saying that it will not result in anything, saying that, while a process is taking place in the TC, the decision of the members of the National Council of jurisdiction have legal support.
Reactions were not long in coming. Several UNITA figures reacted negatively to the decision to expel and suspend their companions. The person in charge of electoral matters for the youth arm of UNITA, JURA, Roberto Gamba, criticized the decision, saying that it was not strategic.
“The expulsion of cadres in a flat electoral phase was not strategic, and whoever did so attacked UNITA itself”, he said.
As well as the leader of JURA, there are several other members and militants of UNITA, who are against the decision to suspend José Pedro Katchiungo, claiming that the decision only aims to prevent him from running for the presidential election of Galo Negro, in the near future. .
Another element that drew attention in the leaked document from the chicken coop is the expulsion of the former presidential candidate, the female arm of UNITA, LIMA Manuela dos Prazeres dos Cazoto, and her campaign representative Ana Filomena Domingos, the latter, in conversation with the Correio from Kianda, said the decision will result in nothing.
“Cassoma, don’t worry about it. This is not going to come to anything,” he said.