In Guinea, the authorities destroyed residences in the ministerial city, in Conakry. They include these demolitions in their operation to recover state domains launched in 2021. According to the authorities, these buildings were no longer up to standard. The opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo indicates that his house was demolished.
These are images of rubble, ruins, collapsed walls which come from the Ministerial City, in Conakry, where several opulent residences have been demolished. A witness even claims to have seen people leaving the premises with their personal items.
The opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo declares that his residence is part of the targeted accommodation. The politician had contested the expropriation project of the authorities and specifies that these demolitions take place while “ the file is still under investigation “.
It is a way of marking and perhaps expressing a hatred vis-à-vis the favorite candidate for the presidential election that I am.
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According to him, the operation began with the arrival of dozens of pick-ups of gendarmes and police, followed by technicians from Electricité de Guinée who disconnected the power. Then, earth-moving machines landed, entered the concession with police and gendarmes, and demolished the house and its annexes. “ It’s just piles of rubble “, says Cellou Dalein Diallo. His UFDG party has also released photos of the destroyed residence.
While the file is still under investigation at the level of Justice, the authorities have demolished my…
Posted by UFDG on Saturday March 26, 2022
Houses destroyed because they no longer correspond to standards, according to the junta
Saturday evening, the transitional authorities had confirmed the destruction of part of the housing in the Ministerial City. The official reason given is that they no longer met housing standards.
The power indicates that the occupants had vacated the premises before Friday, but that some had damaged most of the property and that consequently these dwellings had become uninhabitable. The transitional authorities cite damaged doors, ceilings and windows and specify that new infrastructure in accordance with the laws will be built instead.