Some dwellers of Addis, who are compensated for they are to be relocated from their abodes due to the fact that the sites are needed for re-development purposes, are complaining of lack of timely relocation though they are paid with the compensation.
More than 200 households are to be relocated to new areas from areas commonly known as teklehaimanot, kazainchis, African Union area, aroge kera areas but the compensated households are waiting the relocation long after the schedule period.
The delay has caused challenges in the use the compensated amount and their planned life issues to be undertaken in the new areas.
Re-development and boundary demarcation section deputy head with the Addis Ababa city administration told WMC the relocation is delayed till the completion the infrastructure development in the new areas where the households are to be relocated.
The city administration is consulting to finish the infrastructure work in collaboration with other stakeholders, he remarked.
The government has planned to re-develop more than a thousand hectares of land in the city during the first growth and transformation period. It has so paid about 700 million birr to more than 4 thousand households to be related to new areas as per the project.