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The village of Bishan is located on the edge of the Fier-Vlora highway, but for its residents, the Fier-Vlora highway has become a major obstacle.
Since its construction in 2009, around 100 families no longer have any road to get to their agricultural lands.
The show "Fiks Fare" went to take a closer look at the situation, where it discovered a scene that no one can imagine. To get to the fields, you have to enter a narrow, dark drainage pipe, bending over like "Filipinos in the jungle," as the residents themselves say.
" We have called you because we have no way to our lands. The highway separates us. We only pass through that cesspool, with our arms full of burdens ," says one of the residents.
Another adds: " My wife fell in there and broke her hand. There are 200 hectares of land that we are forced to plant with olives, because the machines can't get in. But I want to plant wheat, not just olives ."
In Bishan, donkeys cannot enter with loads, tractors have nowhere to pass, and harvested corn is taken out by handcart. To reach their fields, some residents are forced to walk kilometers to Novosela or Levan, to enter from the old village road.
They say they have been protesting since 2009, when the highway was built, demanding compensation for the land and a connecting road. " We met with former mayor Leli, then Dredha... everyone told us 'it will be resolved'. But the road was never opened, compensation was not given, and today we are in the same place ," they express with despair.
The Administrator of the Novosela Administrative Unit, Kanan Shakaj, admits that the complaint is repeated and real, but the problem is complicated by the lack of documentation.
"We have received their complaint several times. The problem is that some have been expropriated, some have not. Bishan village has not updated the land since 1991, so they do not have ownership certificates. So it is not known where private land ends and state land begins," he explains.
So, not only do the residents have no road, but it is not even known who owns the land they want to go to!
The residents are only asking for one thing, an underpass or connecting road to allow them access to their lands. They are not asking for favors, but the right to work the land that belongs to them with sweat and documents.
"The highway divided us in two. Now we just want a road that connects us to our daily lives," says an elderly man who walks through the tube every day with a bag on his arm.
In the Albania of 2025, the residents of Bishan still pass under the highway to get to their fields. And while institutions shift responsibility from one side to the other, the village remains hostage to a drainage pipe. /Top Channel
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