(Ecofin Agency) - In Madagascar, in sight of the coming 16th Francophony Summit on November 26 and 27, land owners expropriated by the government in the framework of the Ivato-Tsarasaotra road project which is to be developed as part of the event claim the State has abandoned them.

According to NewsMada, owners of lands concerned by the project still wait for the compensation they were promised two months ago. Authorities indeed promised each home moved $6,080 dollar each totaling $4,256,657 for all the families expropriated, nearly 500.

The plaintiffs’ anger is justified as they claim to have filled the required formalities, knowingly the opening of new accounts which have been left empty. “We were told that the procedure has been completed and that only a few formalities at the level of the financial and liquidation auditor were left,” said Pierre Ramanamahefa, spokesperson of the expropriated.

Infuriated, they started a strike on Monday at the concerned site. As a result, the minister to the President’s office in charge of presidential projects, land development and equipment, Narson Rafidimanana, said he would go to the site.

Souha Touré