“We must organize ourselves so that the earth does not become a source of bloodshed”
“We will no longer be able to chase people from the Ivory Coast”
“Land management has become a real challenge in the Ivory Coast”
“This problem can undermine the social fabric and disintegrate the Ivory Coast”
5002 villages delimited and delimited out of a total of 8576 villages
On the sidelines of the solemn return ceremony of the University of the Lagune, which took place on Monday 03 October 2022 in Cocody riviéra Bonoumin, Minister Bamba Cheick Daniel, Director General of the Agency for Rural Land (Afor), meeting with the press made important revelations on the sensitivity of the question of rural land in the Ivory Coast. “We have regularly had to deal with tensions, inter-community wars in the West. The blood has passed to the West and today the issue is national as the front is moving north with the cashew nut, the oil palm. We have discovered everything that grows in the west, we recently discovered that the soil is also favorable in the north. So we have the gallery forests. Forests are sent north. And you realize that if we don’t manage the land issue in Côte d’Ivoire, we are burning embers that could explode at any moment.
The Head of State has created the Rural Territory Agency (Afor) so that a flexible structure can react quickly and address this problem “, he stated before drawing up a partial assessment of the results obtained from his institution’s efforts and human resources needs. in this fight “” But we need weapons, we need brains. We need to train people, raise awareness and information so that our populations take responsibility for the problem. And that there is an ease of moral compromise between the populations so that “living together” becomes a reality. We will no longer be able to expel people from the Ivory Coast. And with the issue of jihadism raging in neighboring countries, the surge towards the Ivory Coast It will increase. We must organize ourselves so that the earth does not become a source of bloodshed. We have gone very quickly. In two years, of the 8,576 villages to be demarcated, both mo to 5,002. While the land law was passed in 1998. When we arrived in Afor, there were only 300 demarcated and demarcated villages. We were at 3,000 land certificates, now we are at 24,000 land certificates. So it is proceeding. “Later, Minister Bamba Cheick Daniel, very comfortable on the subject, returned to one of his recent actions.” We left the Senate where we went to accompany the Minister of State, Minister of Agriculture. and Rural Development, Adjoumani Kobenan, to update parliamentarians on the progress of the land situation in the Ivory Coast. You all know that the pediment of our national anthem here in the Ivory Coast is written in gold letters, “country of hospitality”. The Ivory Coast did not want it to be an oasis of wealth and opulence, it was a convergence of migratory flows from some neighboring countries. But in the interior itself we have sixty tribes that leave the East to go to the West, from north to south. And our surface doesn’t stretch at will. The frontier for tuna, coffee-cocoa and other income crops has widened between foreigners and natives. Land management has become a real challenge in Côte d’Ivoire “, affirmed l’enarque before wanting to strengthen the capacity of the administration and the police and sound the alarm.” The populations are more receptive to the issue, but we must to form schools. The next sub-prefects, magistrates, gendarmes, even the administration must be aware of this problem which can undermine the social fabric and disintegrate the Ivory Coast if we are not careful. Because when there is a land war, the port is blocked, the Café-cacao no longer goes out. There are regions where the citizens of other regions are the most numerous, but there are natives who are the most helped, the richest. They need to be reassured that they are not dying tribes. We have seen the United States of America become a melting pot, a mixture of peoples to make it a great nation. We have seen it elsewhere. We must organize it so that the Ivory Coast can continue its development ”, concluded the former Minister of Territorial Administration.
SERGE AMANI
