The bill to rebuild Mayotte was adopted unanimously in the Senate on Tuesday, February 4 in the evening and, this Thursday, February 6, a bill is in debate on the law of the soil in Mayotte. A delegation of elected officials, presidents of intercommunalities of Mayotte, moved to Paris this week: their main watchword, to be associated with the reconstruction of their island.
“” Mayotte today is on the ground. Mayotte today cries. We have lost lives. We have lost everything to Mayotte “, Denounces Abassi Archadi, the president of the community of communes of Petite-Terre. The elected official revives the passage of Chido every day, like Assani Saindou Bamcolo, mayor of Koungou. “” I saw a neighborhood – I was in my town hall – of slums, sheets, and in the space of five minutes, it was razed. And on this, you have to provide solutions. But where is the solution? State services have big concerns due to communication problems. There were also flights, looting on site, the boxes that are demolished … It was necessary to rebuild immediately, in an emergency. »»
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Solutions unsuitable for the reality on the ground
They are a dozen presidents of Mahoran intercommunalities to have come to speak to their parliamentary counterparts, in other words, to those who decide from Paris, without always knowing the realities on the ground. The mayor of Bandrélé, Ali Moussa Moussa Ben, gives an example: the government launched an appeal for projects to rebuild Mayotte by bringing in Modulae from the metropolitan area, that is to say prefabricated dwellings in kit. “” It is a solution that is not adapted to reality because these modular, when they arrive with us, where are we going to build them, compared to the problem of land which arises? These modular, this are temporary solutions ”, he deplores.
On the other hand, the elected official sees another use for these modulars which could be useful: “” These modular, I see them in terms of public facilities, becauseWe have lost a lot of schools which are no longer able to operate. It is a real solution. On the other hand, with regard to individual housing, it is not a good solution. Instead of bringing modular, it would be better to ask the question of how to help these people to rebuild their roof. Already, solving emergency problems, in any case in terms of housing. »»
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“” Talking about “submersion” is not what helps us now. »»
And then there is the thorny migration question, omnipresent, which is invited at the time of reconstruction with a bill to reform the law of the soil on the archipelago. “” It’s been a few days since we found a semblance of life with us. It’s a bit of a shame that we insist on subjects that do not help us for the moment, Opine Mikidache Houmadi, mayor of Dzaoudzi-Labattoir. These are subjects that can be treated in the Mayotte law. But in this emergency law, we need something other than talk about “submersion” In terms of illegal immigration or soil law. This is not what helps us today. »»
Monday, February 10, the bill for the reconstruction of Mayotte will go into a joint joint committee.
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