Rachid Hamouni, head of the Progress and Socialism team in the House of Representatives, said during a plenary session in the Moroccan parliament that many victims of the earthquake that shook Morocco on September 8 report delays and slow progress in the rehabilitation of the affected areas, more than seven months after the disaster. Many of them still lack shelter and live in areas that provide no protection against environmental conditions.
He also spoke about the “exclusion of some supposed beneficiaries, especially widows and people with disabilities, for non-objective reasons.”
Hamouni warned about “weakness in the verification of the technical files of the damaged houses for the purpose of determining and distributing compensations, in addition to the lack of sufficient attention given to the complaints of the affected.”
He inquired about the measures that Morocco’s Interior Ministry would take to verify the validity and magnitude of these inconsistencies.
