Honorary award: EBOMAF CEO Mahamadou Bonkoungou, Grand Patron Africain of BTP

At the end of its first conference on the African economy, the African Union of Development NGOs (AUOD) organized, Friday, 16 February 2018, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the night of the "Great African Patrons" during which the CEO of the EBOMAF Group saw a distinction"Grand Patron Africain"in the construction sector. Eight (8) categories of activities were affected by these distinctions.

African civil society is determined to celebrate the continent's bright economic operators. It is in this dynamic that the leadership of the President-Founder of the EBOMAF Group was rewarded by development actors from seventeen (17) countries from all regions of Africa. The African Union of Development NGOs (UAOD) has set itself, among other tasks, to recognize their worth and to welcome the work and action of African girls and sons who contribute to its progress through the creation of jobs and wealth.

Placed under the very high patronage of the President of Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, represented on the occasion by his special advisor in charge of the private sector, Adama Kanazoé, La Nuit des"Great African Patrons"held on Friday 16 February 2018 in the capital city of Burkina Faso, following the first conference on the African economy at the initiative of UAOD. For the president of the Burkinabe section, Martine Yabré, it is a ceremony of distinction of business men and women who are brilliantly illustrated on the continent because it is time to create a healthy emulation, recognize models of success and raise to the face of the world a race of African entrepreneurs who win.

Several economic figures from the continent competed in eight (8) categories of activity. The delegates of the seventeen (17) countries unanimously awarded Mahamadou Bonkoungou the trophy of"Grand Patron Africain"in the category "Building & Public Works" (BTP). This is the culmination of both entrepreneurial engagement and business success. The award of the CEO of the EBOMAF Group was received by, Chief of Accounting, Osséni Tapsoba. "Every Burkinabe and every African feels proud and challenged by the beautiful ascent of EBOMAF in the field of BTP. It's proof that our entrepreneurs can compete and succeed in the court of the greats by working and faith," one of the organizers of the night of the"Great African Patrons".This is one more laurel for the burkinabè magnate of the major works whose business web undertaken since 6 September 1989 continues to grow to the point of giving birth to a large economic and financial group involved in civil engineering, real estate, general commerce, transport, insurance, the bank, hotel and catering.

J.E.