The exorbitant costs recorded since last September for certain products, particularly imported ones, could be explained by the bureaucratic and nit-picking nature of customs at the port of Dakhla, according to a local importer who requested anonymity. "Since last September, the date the new head of the customs district in Dakhla took office," he explained to Libé, "we have been forced to use the ports of Laâyoune and Agadir for our imports, due to the obstacles imposed on us by this new boss, not only at the port level, but also at the other offices under this district. Despite importers complying with all the provisions and laws governing imports, the head of the district finds ways to block them or impose conditions that they find very difficult to overcome. To realise this, you only have to go to what should be a booming port, due to its proximity to the Canary Islands and especially because many Africans prefer to disembark their vehicles there on their way to sub-Saharan Africa, rather than making the journey across long and expensive motorways. But the customs measures they were faced with forced them to avoid this stopover." The importer in question continues on this subject: "Do you know that the extension of the port of Dakhla had made it one of the leading ports on the continental level? It had experienced extraordinary traffic of goods and passengers coming from Europe and heading to sub-Saharan Africa. This effort was suddenly slowed down from mid-August or early September 2013." While users of the port of Dakhla have the possibility of using the ports of Laâyoune and Agadir to be better served by customs services, users passing through the Guergarate border point do not have this possibility and are subject to the moods of the head of the district, who sometimes blocks trucks for several days, even though their owners have acted in accordance with the texts in force. According to a customs declarant present at the border, this same official is said to be behind the detention at the border of a truck carrying herbs and cosmetic products whose only crime was to have made a proper declaration to pay customs duties and continue on its way. To his great surprise, it was blocked for several days at the border with no other solution than to wait for the person in charge to authorise, from the depths of his comfortable office in Dakhla, the lifting of the customs clearance ban that had been imposed on it." After the recovery of its Saharan provinces, the Kingdom of Morocco invested enormous capital to develop infrastructure and bring these provinces to the level of development experienced by the other regions of the country. But the important thing is not only to create infrastructure and invest capital. The Kingdom's desire to develop its provinces must be shared by the men appointed to make this desire a reality.