Three government agencies in the region have started serious and accelerated steps to implement the royal order directing the payment of compensation to the owners of agricultural lands that the road crosses, thus ending the suffering of the owners that lasted 11 years since the start of the project, as a result of its implementation before compensating the owners and determining the share of each of them.

An official source in the Ministry of Finance branch in Najran said in a statement to “Al-Watan” yesterday. An official source at the Najran branch of the Ministry of Finance explained in a statement to Al-Watan yesterday that a total of 30 million riyals worth of compensation has been disbursed for about 25 transactions, and that the committee formed to end the case is still studying the remaining transactions of the applicants for compensation to apply the rules and regulations to them after host studies and completion of official documents and documents required to approve the compensation.

The authorities concerned to end this issue. The source explained that the authorities concerned with ending this case, represented by the branch of the Ministry of Transportation, the branch of the Ministry of Finance and the Najran Notary Public, continue in full swing the tasks of compensating the owners, after overcoming some obstacles, including the obstacle of obtaining the title deeds that entitle the right to compensation.