“I thought that my book would be about the personality of Aziz Akhannouch, whom I met in 2006, and try to give a picture of him from the perspective of a young collective from Morocco who dealt with him at various stations and discovered in him high qualities that are difficult to combine in one person,” Hassan Akhwad told us about his book. Entitled “Aziz Akhannouch.. Testimony from the Deep Morocco.”
The pages of this book include testimonies of the author about Aziz Akhannouch in separate periods in which he assumed responsibility for the membership of the Tafraout group, the presidency of the Souss-Massa region and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
The writer touched on the various services, interventions and initiatives supervised by the current prime minister in his hometown of Tiznit and in the Souss region, in the civil, social, cultural, educational, political, solidarity and agricultural fields, we will suffice to mention some of them.
A cultural and educational actor
Hassan Akhwad began his author by talking about the great role that Akhannouch played from his position as president of the Souss-Massa region in establishing the “Timitar” festival, as one of the artistic stations concerned with the Amazigh color, in addition to launching the annual artistic date on “tolerance” immediately after the terrorist events in Casablanca in the year 2003, and his attendance and constant encouragement of various artistic and cultural events in the region.
In addition to the cultural aspect, the writer indicated that the current head of government has been and has been, since 2003, an educational actor with distinction, through the “Ready Governor” initiative for the benefit of primary school students in the Tafraout district groups, in addition to his constant support for school transport in the Tafraout region and his supervision of many educational initiatives aimed at supporting Education in the rural world.
Local and civic entrepreneur
As a local actor, the head of the National Rally of Independents was able to contribute to changing the features of the city of Tafraout through his capacity as an advisor to its collective council through rehabilitation plans and new public facilities, as well as decorating its spaces, which enabled the transformation of the area into an attractive urban center that attracts Moroccan and foreign visitors.
Aziz Akhannouch also supervised the inauguration of the media treasury of Tafraout after it was fully funded by his economic institution, in addition to the inauguration of a project for agricultural argan in the Ersmoken area on an area of 25 hectares within the framework of the program of the second international conference of argan, in addition to giving the start of works to prepare a roadway to break the isolation of a group of people Dowers of my group and Jan and Wednesday Rasmuka.
The Almond and Tifawin Festival are among the occasions that witness various civil initiatives supervised by Aziz Akhannouch, such as distributing bicycles to students to facilitate enrollment in educational institutions and give a start to afforestation operations, and other activities and projects.
Social and solidarity activist
In conjunction with the strong floods that occurred in cities in the Souss region, including Tiznit, in 2014, the star of Aziz Akhannouch rose as a solidarity actor who enabled the affected areas of the various communities of the region to deliver shipments of supplies and social assistance to families, student and student homes, and old schools. on anonymity.
As another social step in the process of downloading, Akhannouch proposed to contribute to completing the remaining amount of the financial envelope allocated for the completion of a hospital center in the city of Tafraout with all the specifications and specializations sufficient to provide services at the required level for the local population.
In the agricultural field
Aziz Akhannouch has held the agricultural portfolio since 2007, which had a significant impact, according to the author of “A Testimony from the Deep Morocco,” in downloading a number of agricultural projects in the province of Tiznit and pleading with other files, especially those related to forest identification.
The afforestation of important areas of argans and fruitful trees and the encouragement of subsistence agriculture and the solidarity economy through the support of farmers and agricultural cooperatives, especially women’s ones, and other services, were the most prominent features of Akhannouch’s initiatives for years.
