Construction of the national road 14: Youth of the Mouhoun Loop supports EBOMAF

The vast majority of young people in the Mouhoun region stand out from the defamation suffered by the successful contractor of the RN 14 (Koudougou-Dédougou) yard. Through a peaceful march on Saturday 15 December in the arteries of Dédougou, they supported EBOMAF and its P-DG, Mahamadou Bonkoungou. A statement to this effect was sent to the Prime Minister to refute the various allegations orchestrated for unconvinced purposes to impede the proper conduct of the work of RN 14.

This weekend, a real human tide took hold of the Mélon-Governorat train station section in Dédougou. Youth in the lead supported by women, men and elders. His message of support for EBOMAF is addressed to Prime Minister Luc Adolphe Tiao. It was handed over to the Secretary General of the region for transmission to the Prime Minister, whose content was ambiguous:"PDG EBOMAF: the youth of the Mouhoun League supports you".

In this part of the country, almost all the population in general and young people in particular refuse to be assimilated to the sneaky run against EBOMAF and its first leader by a handful of young people claiming to be members of the Organisation démocratique de la jeunesse (OJD)). "Silence is not an imminent proof of inability to translate his ideas but a good pedagogy whose diplomacy we have to observe"The statement to the Prime Minister states:

The support collective congratulates the CEO of EBOMAF on his efforts to contribute to the development of the Mouhoun Loop region and the country. "Let the Prime Minister be our spokesperson for the Government and President of Faso, Blaise Compaoré, to express our satisfaction and support to the EBOMAF Group and its CEO",called for its leaders. The actions of the ODJ section of the Mouhoun are based on an ignorance without common measure in civil engineering. It persists in the confusion between the model of construction of the national road 14 which is in bilayer and those of the section Dédougou-Bobo Dioulasso (trilayer), of Ouagadougou-Sakoinssé (coated)."Terraining, impregnation, hanging layer, graveling", this is the process of bitumening the Koudougou-Dédougou road.

From dishonesty to confusion and ignorance

"It is not EBOMAF that has chosen to build the Koudougou-Dédougou road in this way. It merely performs the work in accordance with the specifications submitted by the Government. On RN 14, the Km of tar is estimated at 200 million CFA francs while on RN 1, it is about one billion CFA francs per Km. Although EBOMAF has every means to build any kind of road, it insists on what was asked of it on the Koudougou-Dédougou road. And the government and donors have set up oversight offices to ensure the quality of the work. So far no party has complained. It's good that the population of Dédougou knows that! »stresses, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, P-DG of EBOMAF.

Contrary to the misunderstanding of some young people, the successful undertaking merely followed contractual terms by making premises and facilities available to the monitoring mission. Between 600 and 700 young people from the Boucle du Mouhoun region are currently employed at the RN 14 site. There are even those who have been assigned to other works in the sub-region. Despite this ever-changing wink, unconvinced designs manipulate a tiny fringe of young people to sometimes accuse the company of not employing them enough, sometimes even questioning the quality of the road infrastructure under construction.

In the face of what appeared to be a hard work during the last release, on November 17, the conscious youth of the Mouhoun Loop expresses their ras-le-bol to shout:"Too much is too much.""We have seen the hard work of some organizations that are resisting dialogue and positive change against the EBOMAF Group and its CEO. Their actions are a defamation against him in the name of the youth of the Mouhoun League",indicated the walkers.

The conscious youth of the Boucle du Mouhoun restored EBOMAF in his honour. Gathered within a collective of movements and associations chaired by Malachie Dakuyo, it came from the six provinces of the region (Balé, Banwa, Kossi, Mouhoun, Nayala, Sourou) to survey, Saturday 15 December, the streets of Dédougou and say no to the series of slanders and defamations constantly developed to undermine the morale of the workers of the construction site of the national road 14 (Koudougou-Dédougou) and especially that of the CEO of the company in charge of the works, Mahamadou Bonkoungou of EBOMAF.

And the truth triumphed of lies

"We are witnessing the availability of the CEO of the EBOMAF Group to listen to young people in the Region and the population, his support and support for young people and youth organisations in the region, his sensitivity to social peace issues leading to a press conference with young people and people in Dédougou", they call back.

According to the walkers, there is more bad faith and lies in the action of the OJD than a willingness to respond to the concerns of its members. They have meant that their action is an invitation to reflection so that young people do not sink into ignorance, morosity, demagogue analysis and defamatory statements.

The collective of movements and associations of support stress that the denigrating and defamatory statements made against the CEO of the EBOMAF Group in the statement of the Mouhoun section of the ODJ on 17 November and published in the Paalga Observer are far from reflecting a consensual, concerted and democratic position of all youth organizations in the region."The conscious and democratic youth organisations gathered within the EBOMAF Support Collective cannot be held accountable for the actions of the Mouhoun section of the ODD to tarnish the image of the EBOMAF Group and its CEO",Have they warned.

"The CEO of EBOMAF has always provided invaluable support to the youth of this region. Today, more than 30 million CFA francs have been granted to various associations. When a problem is raised, it has always been open to dialogue. He asked the youth to identify the stumbling blocks for concerted solutions. Since then, no one has come forward to indicate any grievance. When we approach those who give voice individually, they do not really have any reproach to make. If this is not manipulation, we do not understand the motives of such a cavalry",Malachie Dakuyo, President of the Collective of Youth Movements and Associations supporting EBOMAF. The CEO's representative, Yacouba So, urged the members of the Collective to adopt responsible behaviour based on discipline and the culture of peace.

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