Green belt of Ouagadougou Strongly an eviction of illegal occupants

2023-05-04 09:45:00

The rehabilitation of the green belt can contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change.

Human action due to demographic pressure has contributed to the degradation of the Ouagadougou Green Belt (CVO). This northern arc with an area of ​​more than 2000 hectares created in the 1970s has almost half of its area occupied by residential houses, garages, maquis…

It takes an eviction operation like the cattle market in the Toyibin district to rid the CVO of these illegally established parking lots, garages, etc.

Writings on the Ouagadougou Green Belt (CVO) in terms of memoirs or press articles, there are a slew of them. All of which denotes the importance of this plant cover, the policy of which had been devised at the beginning of the 1970s. dry harmattan winds, to protect the three dams of the city of Ouagadougou once morest siltation and silting, to provide households with non-timber forest products and firewood. Today, it is clear that the face presented by the CVO is very far from the objectives set at the start. The action of man due to demographic pressure has encroached on nearly half (1,050 hectares) of the entire northern arc of 21 kilometers spread over an area of ​​2,100 hectares. The degraded part is occupied by residential houses, religious buildings, kiosks, maquis, garages, parking lots for broken down cars and trucks, places for dumping aggregates, burials and trade. We must salute the initiative of the town hall of Ouagadougou which in its restoration policy, launched in 2018, a rehabilitation project for this green belt. In this sense, more than 1,000 hectares will be reforested with the involvement of several companies as part of a long-term project in the form of a public-private partnership.

A response to climate change

Thanks to the town hall’s project, the involvement of companies will make it possible to restore the vegetation cover.

Alongside the rehabilitation, this project will create jobs (market gardening-culture) for the benefit of the people who operate it. With regard to the impact of climate change on the environment, the contribution of the CVO should be a response to mitigate its effects. While waiting for the project of the town hall of Ouagadougou to take shape, the illegal occupants of the site must be cleared out. In this matter, the authority has the means. Article 2 of Law No. 055-2004/AN on the General Code of Local Authorities in Burkina Faso of December 21, 2004 stipulates that “decentralization enshrines the right of local authorities to administer themselves freely and to manage their own affairs with a view to promote grassroots development and strengthen local governance”. This transfer of competences from the State to its dismemberments must allow the governors of the cities to act in complete peace of mind. On Saturday April 15, the municipal police of Ouagadougou in collaboration with other security and civil protection forces, in particular the national police, the gendarmerie and the firefighters, carried out an eviction operation at the cattle market in the neighborhood Toyibin to allow the new Ouaga-inter station, located nearby, to operate normally. The CVO needs this type of operation to rehabilitate itself and therefore have a status similar to the heritage of the local authority or the State. The handling of the carrot must often be accompanied by the stick to make it understood that the general interest must prevail for the well-being of all.

Patenema Oumar OUEDRAOGO

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