The Mareza Canal will, with the engagement of all relevant city services and the state-owned company Zaštita prostora Crne Gore, be freed in its full length of about 8,5 kilometers, from the Mareza water source to the confluence with the Morača in Donja Gorica, in its original bed, without any relocation of the route, said the Mayor of Podgorica, Saša Mujović, and the Director of the Inspection Affairs Directorate of the Capital City, Branko Kovačević.
"Any object found in the canal bed will be removed — without exception," they said.
Portal gradski.me reports that the Podgorica Mayor's Office and the Directorate for Inspection Affairs of the Capital City announced to RTV Podgorica that Mujović and Kovačević, during today's visit to the Mareze canal, noted that the work on cleaning the clogged canal is proceeding according to the planned schedule, and that the machinery is engaged at full capacity.
"On this occasion, we clearly and unequivocally send a message to the public, the media and all persons who are found to have usurped public property, that they will not be protected and that no one will go unpunished, regardless of who they are. All persons who have usurped, damaged or in any way prevented the Mare Canal from being fully functional and serving the purpose for which it was built will be severely sanctioned, and they will be ordered to return the usurped parts to their original condition," Mujović and Kovačević announced.
During the inspection so far, a large number of irregularities have been identified, as they state, and as a result, the entities have been ordered to remove debris, brush, construction waste, auxiliary buildings and other obstacles. All entities whose identities have been established so far have acted in accordance with the measures ordered by the inspectors.
"A particularly serious irregularity was noted in the form of filling up a canal several hundred meters long near the football stadium in Donja Gorica. In order to establish the facts, the inspector, in cooperation with the Capital City Property Directorate, determined that there are objects in the canal bed such as a floodlight stand, a floodlight, a fence, an asphalt road and other objects and materials. The owners of these objects were left with summonses to establish the facts and take further legal measures. Regarding the information that appeared in the media that the Mareški Canal, in the part where the floodlight stand, the floodlight itself and the concrete fence of the stadium are located, will be relocated by the construction of a new canal, we inform the public that such information is incorrect," Mujović and Kovačević said.
They emphasize that the Mareza Canal will be liberated in its entirety and in its original form, as it was before the usurpation.
"The legal entity that constructed the facilities in the canal bed will be ordered to vacate the canal as soon as possible and return it to its previous condition. If it fails to act in accordance with the decision of the Inspection Administration, the removal will be carried out by the Capital City, through the Spatial Protection of Montenegro, with which the Capital City has a contract, and at the expense of the legal entity that committed the usurpation," they said.
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