In 2017, the project to build the communal city of Korsimoro was undertaken by the former mayor, Salamata Sawadogo. The inhabitants of Raguitenga, one of the 5 villages concerned by the project, are not ready to give up their land. After a year of calm due to the suspension of subdivision activities, the problem has resurfaced. This time, it is a decision by the new authorities supporting the relaunch of the project that drives the point home. Raguitenga cries out for the maneuver on the part of the former mayor of the commune of Korsimoro, Jacques Ousséni Ouédraogo. The special delegation of the municipality is challenged on the issue. The indexed former mayor and the PDS are breaking the silence and tongues are loosening.
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On Tuesday March 21, 2023 in Ouagadougou, a handful of inhabitants of the village of Raguitenga held a press briefing to inform them of the latest developments in the construction project of the communal city of Korsimoro.
The said project was initiated in 2017 by Salamata Ouédraogo, former Mayor of the said commune. The city covers four hundred and twenty (420) hectares with a budget of more than 15 billion FCFA. The clauses of the proposed compensation do not seem brilliant for some landowners. The villages of Sabouri, Poécin, Ouidin, and Raguitenga Village are also affected by the project.
The case had many twists and turns. Cringings of teeth often opposed villages, sometimes populations of the same village, sometimes populations and administrative and communal authorities.
Raguitenga, a village in the commune of Korsimoro affected by the project, “never intended to sell its land”, according to Moumouni Sawadogo at the head of a delegation from Korsimoro to give voice, this Tuesday March 21 in Ouagadougou.
For 5 years, the case continues to make hot throats in Raguitenga. For good reason, the compensation clauses are not to their taste. On each hectare, two parcels plus the sum of a million, a million returned to the landowner. The anger of the people and their chief pushed the chief of Raguitenga to curse the land, according to Moumouni Sawadogo.
After a year of calm following the stoppage of work, the MPRS2 government seems to be getting things back on track. And it is the thunderclap for the revolted population which cries with the scandal and manipulation. Following a meeting held on March 16, 2023 with the special delegation of the municipality of Korsimoro, the authorities notified the populations of the favorable opinion of the government to relaunch the project.
“So far we have not found a consensus »
If the communal authority says it is in the normal process, Moumouni and his comrades retort that ” the former mayor, (Jacques Ouédraogo, editor’s note) in complicity with the technician of the real estate developers, CASIF succeeded in mobilizing almost all of all the local valets in this suicidal project with inexplicable promises, just to achieve its objectives “, did he declare.
The special delegation is also challenged on the issue. « We call it a land scam. In Korsimoro, the land crisis is not a ticking time bomb but rather an explosive one if we do not stop the intervention of the real estate companies »souligne Moumouni Sawadogo.
The population is also indignant at the information given by the delegation that the government has given its favorable opinion to launch the project. ” We were also surprised to hear that the government of the current transition, through its minister concerned, after several meetings with promoters and local authorities, gave its agreement and even decided to support the project; even if this project is suicidal”, decried Moumouni Sawadogo.
Besides, he and his comrades do not believe this information. They say they have a lot of reverse information. They are convinced that the president of the special delegation of the commune of Korsimoro Ilboudo Abdoulaye acts under the influence of the former mayor, Jacques Ouédraogo.
« We have had meetings with certain ministers concerned, they have said that they are not aware. But if the special delegation and the property owners have had meetings with ministers and they have given their agreement to accompany the project, it is up to the government to carry out investigations to find out with which minister they had trades. So far we have not found a consensus », explains Moumouni Sawadogo.
They go further by crying scandal and manipulation on the part of former municipal authorities under the guise of politics. Spokespersons for Raguitenga say they have information “likely to make heads roll”.
For the speakers on March 21, the project is floundering and the attempt to relaunch against winds and tides has no other objective than to sell developed plots in order to compensate the population and settle their debts.
And yet, the former Mayor Jacques Ousséni Ouédraogo does not blame himself!
Following the conference held on Tuesday March 21, 2023 by the spokespersons of the Raguitenga population, in Ouagadougou, we wanted to cross-check the information with the version of the people concerned.
The administration is a continuity, it is said, the former mayor Jacques Ouédraogo, inherited the project with the initiator Salamata Sawadogo, following his admission to the hemicycle in 2018 in place of Ismaël Bachir Ouédraogo who integrated the government.
Jacques Ousséni Ouédraogo is outraged by the attitude of the populations who, he says, had applauded the project at the start. Again, should we see manipulation? Why is one village out of 5 affected villages so agitated? These are questions that torment the mind of the former mayor.
Jacques Ouédraogo says he was won over by the project, which he described as a development and future project for the commune of Korsimoro. And even the populations found the conditions of compensation in his time attractive. These gestures, words and looks better express his version in the video that follows.
« 1 million per hectare plus two plots and 1 million for the operator and to rebuild the courses of those who live there. Going so far as to say “a round hut is compensated by 10 built sheets fenced with permanent materials. But I think in its time it was applauded. If there are gnashing of teeth today, I ask myself questions.
I fear very much that this is the real aspiration of the inhabitants of this village. There is a dead leaf in the water. Water will never be able to, a foreign body must enter it. I believe in an influence. I’m afraid, I know Burkina. At one point I asked myself the question, who told me to go to the town hall? “says Jacques Ouédraogo.
It is a backpedaling of the populations who consented and signed the documents before, according to the former mayor. Is he therefore maneuvering to manipulate the special delegation for political ends? Jacques Ouédraogo responds in the following video element.
The man who is nevertheless satisfied with a duty accomplished at the head of the municipal executive of Korsimoro feels offended by what he describes as selfish interest. The business of the city is close to his heart. “It’s a life-saving project for the municipality of Korsimoro,” he said.
Threats, curses, spells, the former mayor says he suffered. Also ultimatums and predictions about his life, the man keeps bad memories. But the man says he always looks to the Almighty.
Jacques Ouédraogo challenges the conscience of the population. ” If the project sees the light of day today, it is congratulations for all the children of Korsimoro, because it is their project. If they kill this project today, that’s also their business! I wouldn’t have too much to blame myself for », term-t-il.
The special delegation of the municipality of Korsimoro says to be in the legality
The president of the special delegation of the commune of Korsimoro, Ilboudo Abdoulaye, it is a lack of sincerity on the part of Moumouni Sawadogo and his comrades. To listen to him, as part of such a project, the ministry in charge of territorial administration, and the ministry in charge of the economy should sign a joint decree.
« But there was a change compared to the decree at the end of 2021. The minister in charge of territorial administration gave his agreement for the creation at the local level by discharge of the deliberative body and by the creation by municipal decree.
The idea will be submitted to the special delegation and consultations will be undertaken with the localities concerned. We reassure the population that we are on the right track. The delegation is not a device that will be remotely controlled “, clarified Abdoulaye Ilboudo who says he is an apolitical administrator who acts according to the texts in force in Burkina Faso.
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Akim KY
Burkina 24
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