Ahmetaj's promise to rebuild takes over the river

2022-05-06 20:29:17Fokus SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Ahmetaj's promise to rebuild takes over the river
Ahmetaj inaugurates the start of the work of an object within the framework of reconstruction

In April last year, when the country was at the height of the election campaign, Ahmetaj, at that time only Minister Reconstruction and not deputy prime minister declared that a year later, so in April this year there would be no trace of the November 26, 2019 earthquake.

Ahmetaj insisted that this promise based on concrete processes, the performance of the construction process and other positive figures, according to him. More than real, The Ahmetaj's promise was electoral and the more the promised deadlines were violated, the more he continued to insist that the government was within deadlines.

"Apart from some public institutions and the Combinati area, most of the reconstruction, mainly of individual dwellings and palaces and schools, ends in autumn this year. We will continue beyond autumn with the combine that is under way, but also because of pandemics and expropriations there has also been a very intense momentary priority, but it has not yet kept pace with other sites," Ahmetaj said after the government meeting on 20 April.

But what happened to the promise of closing reconstruction within April of this year? According to this pledge, despite the drag of the re-establishment of new dwellings, the expectations were at least that the spring of this year there would be no earthquake-damaged lifts, which depending on the damage should either have collapsed or been reconstructed.

A verification of The Oblast in Durres has revealed that there are still palaces with great damage, but which are neither surrounded to collapse nor have any signs that will be reconstructed. Some of the palaces, although they seem abandoned by the inhabitants because of the damage they have suffered, are likely to have the announcement 'Apartments sold'.

After verification carried out in the beach area in Durres, Finakoje moved to the Combinati area in the capital, for which Reconstruction Minister Debar Ahmetaj confirmed the extension of the reconstruction deadline beyond autumn this year.

Residents of the area told Finadoje that 2 1/2 years after the earthquake, still some of the damaged palaces at DS5 level have not collapsed.

Transparency and accounting was one of the points of the reconstruction programme from the aftermath of the November 26, 2019 earthquake. The unique government portal rindertimi.gov.al, was created precisely to unify information and to convey it with transparency to the public.

Factoje noted that the portal lacks publications of periodic reports on work performance in relation to the implementation of reconstruction programs, while the lack of transparency of the reconstruction process has also confirmed the State High Control in a report on reconstruction.


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