The National Unit for Disaster Risk Management committed to demolish around 240 apartments in the Torres project of Silencio and that are part of a white elephant in Yopal, Casanare. According to director Carlos Carrillo, the entity will provide rental subsidies, for a period of six months, to the affected families.
“Those people who are on the registry of victims can be offered the rental subsidy. I understand that this is a problem that will not be solved in six months, but it is what the Law allows us and we cannot do more than that,” said the director of the UNGRD, Carlos Carrillo.
It is worth remembering that the Torres del Silencio residential complex began its construction in January 2011. and, to date, remains unfinished. In fact, in 2021, the Comptroller General of the Republic opened a fiscal responsibility process for more than $12,000 million pesos and described the project as a “mammoth of corruption.”
Faced with this, the UNGRD stated that, despite not being within the entity’s jurisdiction, it was committed to support the authorities to unblock the demolition and reconstruction project, which has not been able to move forward because there are still 240 occupied apartments.
“I don’t want my government to say that I wasn’t able to solve housing for families either.”. We have to find a solution, because these families ended up being victims of poor planning and corruption,” said the governor of Casanare, César Ortiz Zorro.
Ultimately, The governor stated that he is fully willing to work with the State to provide a solution definitively to these people affected by the project.
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