The Executive Director of the Aswat Nisaa Association, Sarah Ben Said, accused the government of ignoring the implementation of Law No. 51 of 2019 on the creation of a transport category for agricultural workers and the mobilisation of resources for this type of transport to protect them at a time when tragic accidents continue to claim victims among these workers.
According to Sarah Ben Said, the ministries concerned – the Ministries of Transport, the Interior and Women, Family and Seniors – have failed in their responsibility on this vital issue. In this context, she denounced the overruns suffered by these workers who are constantly threatened with death because of the illegal means of transport they are forced to use.
These statements come in the wake of the death of six agricultural workers in a road accident at Menzel Chaker in the governorate of Sfax. These accidents are frequent and cost the lives of many female agricultural workers. In April 2019, 13 women workers were killed in a road accident at the Sabballa intersection in Sidi Bouzid.
In this context, Sarah Ben Said recalled that law number 51 of 2019 on the creation of a transport category for agricultural workers was promulgated after pressure from civil society representatives following the Sabballa accident. The executive director of the Aswat Nisaa Association denounced the non-implementation of this law, which was issued more than three months ago. She also criticised the rejection, during the plenary session devoted Thursday morning to the vote on the provisions of the 2021 finance law, of the proposal to make agricultural transport benefit from exceptional tax measures granted to tourist transport.
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