Sale of military housing: Disappointment for Ouezzane retirees

The expert commission tasked with setting the market value of military housing located in Ouezzane has just finished its work.Former soldiers and widows of martyrs residing in the Laâdir district have just learned this officially with, according to a statement of which they sent us a copy signed by thirteen of them, "a feeling of bitterness and ingratitude." And with good reason, they say, "the prices of the housing occupied for more than 35 years" by some of them "are exorbitant." The sums demanded for the transfer range from 100 to 220 million centimes, the statement indicates, specifying that "the wealthiest of their occupants receives a pension not exceeding 1000 dirhams."The widows of martyrs and the retirees have been in shock since they heard the news. They feel "all the more aggrieved since some housing falling under the same estate in other cities where real estate is more high…