Africa-Press – Senegal. Securing the land of regional airports is “crucial” for the progress of the “air hub” project at Blaise-Diagne International Airport (AIBD), its director general underlined , Abdoulaye Dieye.
« There have been recurrent assaults on airport areas through irregular occupations and inclinations to divide up and sell land included in these perimeters, » Mr. Dièye pointed out in an interview given to the newspaper Le Sun.
“This situation is encouraged by the galloping urbanization around the airports, the lack of precise delimitation of the said airport perimeters, the absence, in certain places, of fence walls”, he explained.
Abdoulaye Dièye believes that the « attacks » carried out on the land belonging to the regional airports also stem from the « lack of collaboration between the actors concerned, which are the manager of the AIBD SA, the decentralized authorities and the regional services of the domains and the cadastre ».
Due to the encroachments that airport lands may be subject to, their “securing […] is a key issue for the successful implementation of Senegal’s air hub strategy.
« The legal security of the land should be done through the generation of real property rights for the benefit of AIBD SA, like the emphyteutic lease that the State granted to it on the Diass airport area », said he said.
Measures like this allow regional airports to “have the right to take legal action against land predators” and to “deploy engineering designed to attract and reassure investors interested in carrying out priority projects. of the air hub’s strategic plan 2021-2025″.
The development of non-aeronautical revenue-generating activities also depends on the protection of airport land, according to Mr. Dièye.
In 2021, the State dissolved the Senegal Airports Agency and entrusted the regional airports to the AIBD, he recalled.
This measure lets « appear new problems relating to the physical security of airport areas », on the one hand, and « the legal security of these land bases », on the other hand, noted Abdoulaye Dièye.
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