Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Regional Political Commission (CPR) of PAICV – Santiago Norte today accused the president of the São Miguel City Council, Herménio Fernandes, of wanting to unduly appropriate land, especially from poor families.“The Municipal Council of São Miguel, through its president Herménio Fernandes, is promoting the taking of land from private individuals, especially from poor families”, denounced the president of the CPR of the African Independence Party of Cape Verde (PAICV), Carla Carvalho.
According to the national deputy, who was speaking at a press conference in Calheta de São Miguel, these are lands in Principal, the city of Calheta, Monte Pousada, seafront and Bacio, the latter being the city council compensated people for 41 escudos meters squares and is now selling for 5,000 escudos.
Carla Carvalho, who considered this “ misappropriation” and “illegal sale” of private land by the Mayor of São Paulo to be “ very serious ”, in partnership with the Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Olavo Correia, said that they are running Court several cases over this alleged case of “ misappropriation ” and “illegal sale ” of land.
As noted, the municipality, which previously had zero land, is using the “ power of the State ” to “ misappropriate ” land from residents, today becoming the “largest owner ” of land and real estate developer/agent for sales. of land in this rural municipality.
“ This procedure by the Municipal Council of São Miguel, through its president and the Minister of Finance, promotes poverty, because it is land on which people, in the rainy season, can have some income ”, observed Carla Carvalho, who was flanked by the press conference by other party leaders at local, municipal and regional level.
On the occasion, the regional director of PAICV stated that the city council’s youth housing program “ is nothing more than speeches ” and is “ only for English to see ”. The Week with Inforpress
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