DAKAR, June 30 (APS) – Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko stated the brand new authorities intend to deal with communication and negotiation with road distributors, in a transfer to buck the so-called “robust” methodology utilized by native authorities to clear and liberate them from public streets. The brand new authorities have been introduced on Sunday.
“The President of the Republic invitations city halls to ease the operations of eviction and liberation of public streets, by giving precedence to communication and dialogue with road distributors,” Mr. Sonko stated on the finish of a go to he was making to the Kolobane market in Dakar.
He reminded that the selection of the Kolobane market to host the go to is simply a pretext, including that the message of the President of the Republic, which he delivered, was “addressed to all of the native authorities, all of the merchants of Dakar and in addition to the areas, since all of the populations are in shut proximity to the markets”.
The municipal authorities of this commune of Dakar had determined to quickly shut this buying space from midnight on Saturday 29 June till 11:59 pm on Monday 1 July 2024, to permit for cleansing and clearing litter on the general public freeway.
“Measures to evict road distributors from markets ought to be adopted with assist measures,” the pinnacle of presidency pressured, reminding, nevertheless, that the administration of markets falls completely inside the competence of native authorities.
“We are going to take a look at working with the city corridor to evaluate the compensation to be given to affected merchants and the best way to present substitute options throughout every of the dislocation operations initiated,” Ousmane Sonko underlined.
In entrance of apron and road distributors who appeared attentive to his speech, the Prime Minister invited them in flip to just accept the assist measures that the State can supply them, particularly associated to resettlement websites, websites to be developed, which ‘they should win’ behind.
Whereas awaiting a definitive answer to those issues attributable to the eviction motion, he “referred to as in town corridor and the native inhabitants to indicate respect to road distributors”.
In keeping with him, the target is “to create jobs and never remove them”.
The Prime Minister additionally stated that chaotic occupation is the results of shared tasks, noting that “if the legislation have been utilized with all its rigour, which is definite, we might have demolished many retailers constructed on the general public freeway with a mechanical shovel”.
“The State’s duty relies on the absence of monitoring and management of the method of chaotic occupation of the general public freeway for a few years, whereas the city corridor is linked to the disorderly distribution of the occupation of the general public space”, he defined.
So far as the inhabitants residing close to the markets is anxious, a part of their duty pertains to the conversion of their properties into locations of sale.
Osman additionally cited “failure of public insurance policies” as the explanation for this chaotic occupation of public roads.
He was notably involved about “the failed agricultural and financial insurance policies of the previous few years” which led to migration of inhabitants from the inside of the nation to city facilities.
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