Following the government’s announcement to pay water bills in Mayotte, opposition MP from LIOT, Estelle Youssouffa recalls that Mayotte households are in debt and hopes that the measure will be “retroactive for at least one year”.
The government’s decision to pay from September to December 2023 the water bills of Mahorais facing a serious water crisis, “It is a very good thing”, estimates this Thursday, October 5 on franceinfo Estelle Youssouffa, LIOT deputy for the 1st constituency of Mayotte. The State “will continue in January” to cover water bills “if the water has not returned regularly”added the Minister Delegate for Overseas Territories, Philippe Vigier, this Thursday, October 5 on franceinfo.
MP LIOT from Mayotte “hopes that the measure will be retroactive because Mahorais households have a large debt for water, which is not drinkable and which is not distributed”. This payment of invoices by the State must be done with retroactivity “at least one year”she says.
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“There is less and less water and bills are piling up, households are no longer able to pay, there are millions of euros in debt”. Estelle Youssouffa “believes that we do not have to pay the bills because there is a breach of contract since the water distributed to us is not drinkable. She adds that there should be no billing at all. “That’s the nature of the opposition, we are never happy, but fundamentally”it’s a “good measure”she still admitted.
The Minister Delegate for Overseas Territories also indicates “that in mid-November all residents will have bottles of water distributed free of charge”. In the meantime, the measure has been extended to at least “110,000 people”. For Estelle Youssouffa, the question of the distribution of free bottles of water “to the entire population, I’ve been asking for this for months, it’s good news but it should have happened the day before yesterday”she laments.
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“There is an emergency right away and by the time the state services deploy and organize themselves, we are very late, the MP is alarmed. The water shortage is daily, there is water every two to three days and now it will only be once a week and the distribution schedules are never respected, so the situation is really urgent.”insists Estelle Youssouffa.
“What Guadeloupeans have been experiencing for decades and what we have been experiencing for 20 years in Mayotte is unthinkable in France, this is what is deeply unacceptable and which revolts us, even if we have not no more strength to revolt”.
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