Community and Collective Reparations / Unifying and Conciliatory Infrastructures for Bocco and Djéréhouyé

This Wednesday, August 26, 2020, the High Commission for Reconciliation and the Strengthening of National Unity (HCRRUN) received three (3) lots of rehabilitation and construction works for school buildings in Djéréhouyé and Bocco in the Ogou prefecture. These works are part of the implementation of community and collective reparations advocated by Recommendation N° 54 of the CVJR. Comprising three (3) different lots, these works involved the construction, extension, and rehabilitation of five (5) school buildings in Djéréhouyé and Bocco, and the completion and rehabilitation of three (3) residential buildings in Djéréhouyé.

Lot N°1:

• completion and rehabilitation works of a permanent building at Mr. Apedo Kokou’s residence, representative of the Woudou community;
• construction works of a semi-permanent two (2)-room building at the residence of the representative of the Kabyè-Losso Bawilibaya community;
• construction works of a three (3)-room building at Mr. Apedo’s residence, representative of the Woudou community

Lot N° 2:

• extension and rehabilitation works of a school building with two (2) classrooms in Djéréhouyé;
• extension and rehabilitation works of a school building with three (3) classrooms in Djéréhouyé;
• construction works of a school building with one classroom and an administration office in Djéréhouyé.

Lot N° 3:

• construction works of a school building with two (2) classrooms in Bocco
• extension and rehabilitation works of a school building with one classroom in Bocco.

Amounting to a total of thirty million (30,000,000) CFA francs, these works were carried out by the company Entreprise de Construction Appliquée (ECA) with workers and laborers recruited from within the local communities.

The first stone of these unifying infrastructures was laid on March 13, 2020, in Djéréhouyé, following the official launch of the community and collective reparations component on November 16, 2019, in the same locality.

The inter-community conflicts in Djéréhouyé in 2015 do not directly fall within the mandate of HCRRUN but were specifically entrusted to HCRRUN by the Head of State. The Institution therefore made it a pilot project within the framework of implementing community and collective reparations.