Once again, a house has just collapsed. This time, it is in the Medina of Marrakech that a dwelling has crumbled. It is the umpteenth house to suffer the same fate. Fortunately, this incident did not cause any casualties. In reality, it must be said that we are facing a real problem that carries risks for the population. Unfortunately, the phenomenon which is growing is worrying because the number of houses threatening to ruin across the country is staggering and alarming.

Statistics dating from 2004 put forward the figure of 130,000 dwellings threatening to ruin or unsanitary across the country, including 66,000 for Casablanca alone. A figure to be revised upwards with the unbridled anarchic constructions that all the cities of the country have known and the ageing and dilapidation of a good number of dwellings.

If in Marrakech there were no victims, other collapses have caused deaths and injuries as in Casablanca in the old Medina or even in the mosque of Meknes. If houses collapse in the middle of summer, what will it be like during rainy years and when bad weather will cause more victims? We will witness catastrophes. And all we will do, as usual, is to set up a commission that will draw up a report and make the same observation as its predecessors.

Admittedly, there are responsibilities to be determined, but it is certainly not the constitution of these commissions that will solve the problem and even less with the studies, colloquia, and round tables that never end. While we are "studying", lives are in danger, citizens run the risk of dying under the rubble of a house threatening to ruin.

One of the priorities of the Benkirane cabinet should be the resolution of this problem. The various departments concerned must develop a global strategy and an action plan instead of formulating populist speeches. Instead of presenting condolences every time to the families of the victims, act gentlemen! The resolution of the problem of houses threatening to ruin requires a governmental and local political will that makes it a priority. It is necessary to release for this the adequate financing and the necessary human means.