The Al Massira Neighbourhood Association and the Annasr Association for the disabled decided, on Monday, November 5, 2012, to make their voices heard in front of the headquarters of the Safi province.

Their demands were different, but the fed-up feeling was the same among all the protesters scandalised by the silence of local authorities and elected officials who are still slow to react.

The inhabitants of the Al Massira neighbourhood, massively present at the sit-in, chanted slogans against "Hogra" (injustice/humiliation) and exclusion.

"We always perform the five prayers in the street, our neighbourhood excluded from the city's development project agenda is devoid of basic infrastructure and services despite our countless demands and the endless lying promises of the city councillors who can no longer convince anyone," an inhabitant told us, not without bitterness.

The Al Massira Neighbourhood Association, through a press release, says it is determined to make its voice heard by decision-makers at the central level in order to assert their rights recognised by the new Constitution.

Alongside, the Annasr Association for the disabled organised a sit-in as a sign of protest against the indecent and undignified conditions that people with specific needs endure in Safi because of the negligence and silence of local authorities and elected officials on the one hand, and the stranglehold of the rentier economy lobby, the "licence mafia" and mixed transport authorisations, on the other.

The said Association, via a press release distributed on the occasion, demanded the implementation of the projects planned within the framework of the provincial INDH programme in Safi, the financing of projects and partnerships for the benefit of people with specific needs within the framework of the self-employment programme, the execution of the minutes of March 7 and May 6, 2011, the access of the disabled to the budgetary positions announced by the General Directorate of Local Authorities according to the promised quota, and the opening of an investigation into budgetary positions managed according to a clientelist spirit.