Tenkodogo: The President of the Transition, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, affirmed on Friday his desire to set up a center to 're-educate' entrepreneurs who do not keep their commitments, in particular those who sabotage public markets linked to food sovereignty.The Burkinabè head of state, Ibrahim Traoré, suggested on Friday March 8, 2024 in Tenkodogo, that it is necessary to re-educate certain entrepreneurs, who have obtained public contracts, and who do not respect their commitment.'We were very disappointed by the contractors who took on projects, who were happy to take the start-up advances, and who did not want to work. Recently, we had to arrest someone to re-educate them. It is inconceivable that farmers' land is being requisitioned to allow them to produce and in March, the entrepreneur has not even reached 10% of execution even though he took more than 5 billion CFA francs,' explained President Traoré, during the meeting with the Forces vives du Centre-est, on the sidelines of March 8.As a reminder, on February 19, 2024, the Minister of Agriculture, Commander Ismaël Sombié, visiting Sindou, showed black anger at a company that was stalling in the development of the Pics de Sindou valley. .'Additional deadlines were given (to latecomers). Anyone who cannot achieve the rate (of completion) that we want at the end of this period will be obliged to terminate the work. But not only; These types of businesses will have to be re-educated. We will create a center for this,' insists the head of state.He made it known that we must leave the fold of certain texts. 'People know the texts and do anything. They always have lawyers who will defend them. But we have another way of re-educating people and we are going to apply it.'According to him, entrepreneurs do what they want. 'If you didn't take the money, we can understand. But when an entrepreneur has a market worth 15 billion and he has already taken the 5 billion and we find that he has done nothing, it is pure and simple sabotage.'The President of the T ransition deplored the attitude of certain local servants who have no interest in Burkina Faso achieving food self-sufficiency.'Here, we are warning these entrepreneurs one last time to urgently get to work day and night to achieve our objective otherwise, after a certain time, they will be re-educated in our way,' he insisted.The president of the transition spoke thus after noting the attitude of certain entrepreneurs within the framework of the agro-silvo-pastoral and fisheries offensive, carried by the ministry in charge of Agriculture.Indeed, he said that certain companies which had the land development market 'sabotaged' the work entrusted to them.Source: Burkina Information Agency
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