A local official: 2.5 million people live in slums in Baghdad

A local official: 2.5 million people live in slums in Baghdad


 Baghdad / Star Gazan

Baghdad Provincial Council, warned of the widening phenomenon of overtaking on public and private property in the capital in the absence of deterrence measures, and in the detection of submitting proposals to eliminate the phenomenon to the Office of the Prime Minister, the chancellery in the province announced that the ratio of slums reached 95%, and is inhabited by two million and 600 thousand citizens.

Among Saadi that "overtaking on agricultural areas and the proportion of state properties and turn them into slums by traders and citizens stood at 95%," adding that "there are more than a thousand 2.0006 million citizens live in the abuses, including agricultural land."
Chairman of the Legal Committee in the Baghdad Provincial Council , Mohammed Amin Shaalan said the "long", " The squatters in slum areas negatively affected the provision of services to the citizen Baghdadi," noting that "from the technical side can not provide services to random areas and exceeded them."
Shaalan added that "it is assumed that there will be a study of strategic areas that exceeded the citizen, but the latter exceeded the Ashoiaat without plans have painted tracks roads, water and sewage."
Shaalan and that "slums in the capital sorted areas not from municipal departments nor urban planning, and between does not consider that there is coordination with the government to conduct a national campaign to eliminate slums and directed by squatters , including through compensation by the federal government and building units
housing for them."
This confirmed the Vice - Chairman of the Investment Committee and a member of the Services Committee in the Baghdad Provincial Council Taghreed Saleh Al Shammari for "term", said that "there is a decision in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers ownership scheme random areas bypassing the exchange for a certain amount of money, but the decision has not been activated and the Council of Ministers does not accept ownership slums to the squatters. "
Shammari pointed out that " the former governor Ali al - Tamimi did not take any punitive action against the slum in Baghdad, but the new conservative Atwan Atwani taken new measures to stop trespassing on agricultural land and fragmentation in coordination with the Baghdad Operations Command."
Shammari showed that "more random areas and exceeded them are areas of eastern Baghdad , " noting that "these areas are considered large areas and densely populated areas."
In turn , head of the advisers in the province of Baghdad Kamel al - Saadi said the "long", " The province is coordinating with the National Council for housing by holding meetings to develop and find alternatives for housing random."
Among Saadi that "overtaking on agricultural areas and the proportion of state properties and turn them into slums by traders and citizens stood at 95%," adding that "there are more than a thousand 2.0006 million citizens live in abuses, including agricultural land."
Saadi pointed out that " the province is considering converting the sex of the land from agricultural to residential in accordance with the terms and controls are placed later between the province will raise the proposal to the Federal Government for the purpose of approval."
For his part , revealed the hands of humanitarian Mercy President Mohamed al - Khafaji , the "scope" through statistics conducted by his organization were registered 500 thousand Iraqi citizens are living in houses made of tin at the Rashid camp in saffron and in Tanak neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. "
Between al - Khafaji , that" slums tarnished the civilized face of the capital , but can not apply the law to the squatters on slums without finding solutions to them by the federal government. "
He pointed out that" most diseases spread in these slums because of the lack of potable water delivery and lack of provision of services such as raising waste from slums, causing diseases serious laceration
in a Going beyond. "

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