Attorney General’s Office Warns of Risks in Running Community Pathways for Total Peace Program

In a statement, the prosecution urged the National Highways Institute (Invias) to make adjustments to the technical formulation of the program Community paths for total peacebecause many inconsistencies persist which cause great concern within the prosecution service.

The objective of the program is to carry out activities of maintenance, improvement, construction of road works and ancestral paths in the tertiary road network from the country.

However, and after a meeting with the director of InviasJuan Alfonso Latorre Uriza, Deputy Prosecutor for the Preventive Surveillance of the Public Service, informed of the multiple concerns of the program and that they have to do with shortcomings in the formulation and technical scope.

He also raised the problem of inconsistencies in budget management, as “it is not known where the resources will come from or how much money each program project will require”, reported the Attorney General.

Another aspect that worries the Public Ministry is the lack of experience and adequacy of community organizations, which will be the executors of the project and the management of resources, estimated at almost 600,000 million pesos, according to what has been reported by the Invias.

Moreover, we note that the Invias does not have the delineation of areas or regions to focus on in the road project, there is also no clarity on the inventory or current status of tertiary roads to intervene, “which will only be done through dialogues with the communities and visits to the territory”, reads the public declaration.

According to the data presented in the various socialization workshops of the project Community paths for total peace, 90% of the country’s tertiary roads, considered the basic communication routes between communities, are in poor condition.

Therefore, the intention of the national government is to optimize them to improve the activity of agricultural and agricultural production, the recovery, in addition to being necessary, is quite costly due to the advanced deterioration.

In interview with snail radiothe Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, María Constanza García Alicastro, explained that they will be used 8 billion pesos, during the government of Gustavo Petro, to intervene 33 thousand kilometers of these roads:

“The investment that can be made in this road network is a very important challenge, because this network is the one that allows and facilitates connectivity and accessibility to all the territories of the country; It also becomes very important for the objectives of the President and the Ministry, which is to generate greater connectivity to these remote sectors of the country, and that these tertiary roads become an opportunity to improve the well-being and socio-economic indicators of these territories.

Given the facts, for the Office of the Attorney General, the program Community paths for total peace could put “at risk investments that cause heritage damage, by not having a solid planning and an adequate follow-up of the execution which guarantee the development of the works”.

At another point in the press release, it can be noted that for the Public Ministry there is not “full support from the insurance sector for the issuance of guarantees of compliance with the solidarity agreements, generating even more concern for the attorney general’s office.

The goal of national government is that the third part of the tertiary road network of the country is in good condition, with practicable corridors to improve connectivity and accessibility of the territories, with emphasis on the Pacific, Orinoco and Amazon regions. According to data from the Ministry of Transport, in Colombia there are 142,000 kilometers of tertiary network inventoried.