Angola Holder of Executive Power (TPE) authorised, in December 2021, the addendum to the contract for the supply of 1,500 buses, equipment and technical assistance services for the design and implementation of the School Mobility Programme in the amount of $ 136.6 m.
Order 215/21 signed by the President of the Republic in December, 2021, makes the Ministry for Transport responsible, which has already started to implement the contract, which previously had the signatories the Angolan government and Asperbras.
The initiative, TPE said in the document, aims to cover the need to increase the fleet of buses for all provinces of the country to support some public institutions, in order to provide access to non-discriminatory technical and economic conditions regarding mobility (…)
According to Novo Jornal newspaper , the State General Budget (OGE2021) provided a sum equivalent to just over $15 m for the programme “Acquisition of 1,500 buses for school transport” under the budget appropriation for the Ministry of Transport (MINTRANS), which in the meantime spent, in the first two quarters of that year, about $112 m to buy those same 1,500 buses, an amount already paid for, according to the preliminary reports on implementation of the OGE for the first two quarters of 2021.
This same contract was signed between the Ministry of Transport and Asperbras, Lda, a company registered in Luanda but whose majority shareholder is Asperbras Development LLP, a company based in the British Virgin Islands, a known tax haven, and whose majority shareholders are Brazilians José Roberto and Francisco Carlos Colnaghi.
Also according to the newspaper, Asperbras Veículos Comerciais Lda, a company founded in 2007 in Luanda with Kwanzas 1 m, in May 2021 boosted its share capital to Kwanzas 6.6 b.
08/11/2022
