João Kussumua

João Baptista Kussumua (born June 16, 1956 in Tchiuia, Embala , Huambo Province ) is an Angolan politician of the liberation movement and party Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA).

Life

Reserve officer, lecturer and deputy minister

João Baptista Kussumua, son of Jundo Kussumua and his wife Chokaliye, attended the Escola de Kaputo e Missão Católica da Gandavira in Huambo between 1965 and 1971 and the Seminário Católico do Quipeio in Caála from 1972 to 1974 and then the Seminário Católico between 1975 and 1976 do N'jaú in Lubango . After graduating from Liceu Diogo Cão in Lubango in 1977, he completed his military service in the armed forces for the liberation of Angola FAPLA (Forças Armadas Populares de Libertação de Angola)and between 1978 and 1981 was Deputy Head of Department and Head of Section for Control and Completion of Military Units of the 5th Military Region. At the same time he was section head in the Center for Recruitment and Mobilization of the 5th Military Region. At the same time, after completing his preliminary studies in Lubango in 1989, he began studying at the Scientific Institute for Educational Sciences of the Universidade Agostinho Neto (UAN), which he obtained in 1985 with a licentiate in geography with the work Ensaio sobre apresentação da Fitogeografia de algumas plantas Úteis no vale de Ongolo / Lubango (1 km away ) . In it he dealt with the vegetation geography of crops in the Ongolo Valley near Lubango. During his studies he was a reserve officer between 1981 and 1985 as head of the mobilization section of the 5th Military Region. Furthermore, between 1981 and 1985 he was deputy head of the natural sciences department of the Scientific and Pedagogical Council.

After completing his studies, João Kussumua worked from 1986 to 1988 as a research assistant and lecturer in economic geography and biogeography at the Scientific Institute for Educational Sciences at the Universidade Agostinho Neto. In personal union he was also head of the department for natural sciences as well as the documentation and information center of this institute. He then served as Vice-Governor of the Province of Huíla between 1988 and 1991 and then from 1991 to 1992 Vice-ministro da Administração do Território in the cabinet of Prime Minister Fernando José de França Dias Van Dúnem . In the subsequent cabinet of Prime Minister Marcolino Moco, he held the post of Vice-Minister for Planning and Economic Coordination (Vice-ministro do Planeamento e da Coordenação Económica) between 1992 and 1994 . Then he was in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Fernando José de França Dias Van Dúnem (1997 to 1999) and in the presidential government of President José Eduardo dos Santos (1999 to 2002) again Deputy Minister for Territorial Administration .

minister

In the cabinets of Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos (December 6, 2002 to September 30, 2008) and António Paulo Kassoma (September 30, 2008 to February 5, 2010) and in the presidential government of President dos Santos (February 2010 to August 2012) he held the office of Minister for Social Assistance and Reintegration (Ministro da Assistência e Reinserção Social) . During this time he was also President of the National Council for Children (Conselho Nacional da Criança) between 2009 and June 2016 . In June 2012 he became President of the National Council for People with Disabilities (Conselho Nacional da Pessoa com deficiência) and held this office until June 2016. From June to September 2016 he was President of the National Council for Social Action (Conselho Nacional da Acção Social) and took over a professorship for geography at the Pedagogical Institute "Comandante Liberdade" in Lubango in 2016.

At the VII Congress of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA) from August 17 to 20, 2016, João Baptista Kussumua was elected to the MPLA Central Committee. At the same time he became First Secretary of the MPLA Committee of Huambo Province and on September 28, 2017 also Governor of Huambo Province. In the elections of 23 August 2017 , he was for the constituency of the province of Huambo member of the National Assembly (Assembleia Nacional) and Member of Parliament 2. Commission (Comissão 10.ª: Comissão de Direitos Humanos, Petições, Reclamações e Sugestões dos Cidadãos) , the is responsible for human rights, petitions, complaints and suggestions from citizens. Due to his work as provincial governor, his membership in parliament is suspended due to incompatibility .

Kussumua is married to Ilda Tavita Yurda Tomás Kussumua.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the National Assembly (Assembleia Nacional)
• Entry on the government website (Portal Oficial do Governo da República de Angola)

Individual evidence

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