In Côte d'Ivoire, the concern of residents of the future Abidjan metro
Workers work on the Abidjan metro site, September 17, 2019. AFP - SIA KAMBOU
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Earlier this month, the government announced that the metro line's right-of-way would be widened to finally form a strip of 200m instead of 50m.
Since then, those of the residents of the future metro who had escaped the bulldozers for the first time, fear to see their house destroyed in their turn.
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With our correspondent in Abidjan,
Pierre Pinto
In Anyama, the inhabitants of the Belleville Ran 4th Extension district feel a bit like they are cursed by the project.
In 2014, a large part of this district had to be razed to accommodate the depot for the future metro.
But in the end, the site was moved and the inhabitants were able to get on with their lives again.
Except those who were near the route.
They saw their house destroyed last August.
“
They razed everything you see there.
We are roughly 25, 30, 40 meters away, I would say
", confides Daniel Dan Zon, the head of the district, noting that"
the concern is growing
".
“
In the neighborhood, people have been compensated.
But the fact remains that the land was not taken into account, that is to say the land on which they built.
To be compensated, you need the ACD, the final concession order.
We don't have that because the neighborhood isn't approved, so we can't get that document.
"
"We know that we will be chased away, I don't know when"
For almost six months, the inhabitants of the houses located on the route of the future metro have been expropriated. "
Get out of the way
", as they say in Côte d'Ivoire, with compensation often deemed insufficient by those concerned. Earlier this month, the government announced that the metro line's right-of-way would be widened to finally form a strip of 200m instead of 50m. The experience of the first evicted fuels the fears of the following probable ones.
Thus, Touré Siaka's house is in the 100 m zone.
“
In my house, there is the luggage of the neighbors who had their house broken down.
I am impacted because we still have to widen the track to 100 m.
We are worried, sad and helpless.
Because we know that we will be chased away, I don't know when.
Before lining up to get something.
Because unfortunately that's how it goes.
"
In Anyama, as in all the municipalities crossed, residents of the future metro are waiting to know more about their fate.
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