Luanda – Angolan President, João Lourenço, highlighted Friday the military qualities of the deputy chief of general staff for Operational and Development Area, Abreu Muhengo Ukwachitembo ‘Kamorteiro’, who died Monday due to illness.
At the wake, held at the Army Headquarters, the Head of State, who was accompanied by the First Lady, Ana Dias Lourenço, laid a wreath and bowed before the urn containing the remains of General Kamorteiro.
The name of General Kamorteiro “remains indelibly linked to the definitive end of the military conflict in Angola, for having been, on behalf of UNITA, one of the signatories of the Peace Accords for Angola, on April 4, 2002”, the president wrote in the condolence book.
From that time on, according to the President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), under the leadership of the FAA, General Kamorteiro “developed a meritorious action in favor of the pacification and development of the country.
“It was with a deep sadness that I learned of the premature death, due to illness, of General Abreu Muhengo Ukwachitembo ‘Kamorteiro’, who held the post of deputy chief of general staff of the Angolan Armed Forces,” reads the book.
In this hour of sorrow, the President of the Republic expresses to the bereaved family his deepest condolences, extensive to all friends and comrades in arms.
The Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, the National Assembly speaker, Carolina Cerqueira, the presiding judges of the superior courts, the attorney-general of the Republic and for the military, deputies, ministers, ecclesiastical entities, high military officers, both active and retired, were also present at the wake.
General Kamorteiro was one of the co-signatories of the Peace Accords for Angola, signed on April 4, 2002 between the government and UNITA, alongside General Armando da Cruz Neto, then Chief of Staff of the FAA.
He held important positions in the hierarchy of the FAA, including Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Infrastructure, and lastly Deputy Chief of General Staff for the Operational and Development Area.
After the signing of the Complementary Memorandum of Understanding to the Lusaka Protocol, in Luanda, he was already part of the FAA, with a leading position, and dedicated himself to finishing his academic degree in History.
The atmosphere at the Army Headquarters was marked by deep commotion for the death of the general, who was considered” a military professional of high and exemplary quality, who started his trajectory in the ranks of UNITA”.
Born in 1959, in the central Bié Pprovince, Abreu Muhengo Ukwachitembo ‘Kamorteiro’ will be buried Friday at Luanda ‘s Alto das Cruzes Cemetery.
Source: Angola Press News Agency