The problems faced by the inhabitants of the settlement Jaka in the Municipality of Ilinden, which for almost ten years instead of an elite settlement, as it was announced to be, persists in semi-darkness, without sewerage and muddy streets, have recently become public again.

With a request to provide a decent living infrastructure and revolted by, as they say, the continuous and long-standing ignorant attitude of the local government headed by the mayor Zika Stojanovski, citizens living in Jaka, held a protest in front of the municipal building.

- It is a settlement, which is part of the Municipality of Ilinden, in which after almost a decade of pompous announcement that it will be elite, we still live with conditions as in the Middle Ages - unpaved streets, no sewerage (with septic tanks), partly street lighting… in the dark, in mud, without public transport, without the possibility of unimpeded access to the ambulance or fire truck, 9 years after the start of the project! Our basic human rights to decent housing have been violated, in a municipality only 15 km from Skopje, which constantly declares itself as an open and responsible local self-government with a high quality of life of its inhabitants. - say from the Initiative Board of the settlement Jaka, explaining the reasons for the protest.

They added that the protests will continue in the future through civil actions appropriate to the situation and the attitude of the local government towards the residents of Jaka.

The previous state government, headed by Nikola Gruevski, nine years ago announced that in Marino in the Municipality of Ilinden, family houses will be built and a new elite settlement will be created that will meet all standards of comfortable living. The idea was, by selling cheap construction land at a price of one euro per square meter, to make it easier to get your own home. The interest of the citizens was great, especially since the new settlement Jaka was promoted by the state and municipal government as a project with the highest European standards, and in addition to family houses on 500 plots, it was supposed to have a shopping center, hotel, amusement park, sports fields. From all these announced contents, there is nothing today, except the houses that have been built so far and whose inhabitants are facing serious infrastructural problems.

The Municipality of Ilinden informs that the construction of a collector system in the length of 5000 meters is underway, which passes through the central part of Ilinden and Marino which will capture and lead the wastewater to a treatment plant and that they are focused on construction of treatment plants and sewage system in several settlements. With the realization of these projects, as they claim, over 60 percent of the households in Ilinden will be connected to the sewage system with wastewater treatment.

-The municipality provided funds from other sources of funding, from the central government and other financial institutions, such as the project for construction of a fecal sewerage network in the locality Jaka for which by government decision are provided 19.808.111 denars, funds from TAV Macedonia with conversion for the construction of the cargo airport in Stip, which should be realized by the end of the year - they say from Ilinden.

The asphalting of the streets in the settlement is planned only after the fecal sewage is installed, but there is no information when that will happen.

The Municipality of Ilinden reminds that works in the settlement of Jaka's obligation of the local government in the total investment for infrastructure is 10 percent, while the other is an obligation of the central government. So far, as claimed by Ilinden, the municipality has invested 30 percent.