The occupation of public roads and other places by beggars, most of them foreigners, from countries in the sub-region, leaves no citizen indifferent. Their complaints have not fallen on deaf ears. In a press release received by Pressafrik, the Minister of the Interior and Public Security, General Jean-Baptiste Tine, said he noted “a proliferation of precarious and irregular housing in several districts of the capital.”
To put an end to this anarchy, the Minister of the Interior is asking the administrative authorities concerned to organise eviction operations and to take the necessary measures to prevent any reoccupation of the vacated areas.
According to the minister, “these illegal occupations represent a source of insecurity and public unsanitary conditions, degrade the living environment and compromise the implementation of urban development projects, especially at a time when our country is preparing to host the first Olympic event organized on the African continent.”
However, he invites them to “identify minors and people in situations of extreme vulnerability in order to contact the competent organizations to provide them with social support.”
The Minister did not fail to inform the illegal occupants that “vagrancy and begging are punishable by criminal sanctions and that the competent courts will not fail to apply them if necessary.”
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