Huancayo would be left without drinking water TODAY because protesters took station

Huancayo reports that this Saturday drinking water service would be restricted throughout the city due to reprisals caused by the stoppage of carriers. This is how the company Sedam Huancayo warned in an urgent statement.

According to the company, a group of Protestants have taken the “Catchment 24″, located in the Chamicería annex, blocking the entry of raw water for the purification process in two treatment plants in Vilcacoto.

“We regret to report that this situation will generate a shortage of drinking water in the districts of Huancayo, El Tambo and Chilca, starting tomorrow, Saturday, April 2, 2022,” the statement reads.

“Our company urges the appropriate authorities and protesters to take into account that water is a valuable and necessary resource to ensure people's health, even more so in this context of a latent pandemic,” he continues.

This is the same feeling of the head of the Junín Ombudsman's Office, Teddy Panitz, who urged citizens to refrain from doing acts that harm all districts and seek settle the conflict on the basis of the dialogue they will have with the authorities in the next few hours.

As he explained, the population is eager to meet with the heads of the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nicolás Bustamante and Oscar Zea, respectively, who are the portfolios directly involved in their demands.

“There are already some demonstrations by the State, the presence of two ministers, Culture and Foreign Affairs at the moment in Jauja. In addition, there is the offer tomorrow that more staff from the Executive will be arriving,” he told Latina tonight.

WORD OF THE CASTLE

The president of the republic, Pedro Castillo, spoke tonight about the protests in Huancayo that, on the fifth day of the national strike, they got out of control. This caused Huancaínos and members of the Peruvian National Police to clash in the center of the city, causing destruction and looting of homes and shops.

In his brief message, he called on the transport unions to dialogue and jointly find solutions to the problems faced by this sector of workers. He also indicated that there are urgent demands to be addressed, but that “it will be difficult to resolve them without the will for dialogue and purpose of amendment”.

“Brothers transporters, I pledge to seek solutions together for the benefit of all,” the president posted on social networks.

It is striking that the president has not elaborated on his message regarding the stoppage of carriers. According to the Peruvian Libre congressman, Waldemar Cerrón, this afternoon, the head of state would give some statements on the matter. Above all, because he had to give explanations about a phrase he said the day before, in which Castillo calls the demonstrators “paid leaders”. This generated the indignation of several striking carriers.

GOVERNMENT CREATES TECHNICAL TABLE

The Government created a temporary working group called “High-level Technical Table to Contribute to Solving the Problem of Freight Transport in the Country”, which will report to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM).

This provision was established by Ministerial Resolution 113-2022-PCM, published in the extraordinary bulletin of Legal Norms of the Official Gazette El Peruano.

The purpose of this technical round table is to analyze and propose solutions to the problem of freight transport in the country; it is composed of the head of Transport who will chair it, and composed of the Ministers of Commerce, Economy, Justice, Culture, Energy, and the Interior.

It will also have the functions of drawing up a work plan that contains a definition of objectives, a schedule of activities, the identification of responsible actors and deadlines for their implementation; and to identify, analyze and propose concrete solutions in the short and long term in relation to the problem of cargo transport in the country.

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