EBOMAF-BENIN : A PPP of 161 billion to rehabilitate a 270.5 km section

On Friday, 4 August 2017, the Beninese government launched the rehabilitation of the Dassa-Savalou-Djougou road and the development and bitumening of the Bassila-Manigri, Prekété-Frontière du Togo and Bassila-Frontière du Togo. With a total length of 270.5 km, this work will be carried out over 36 months by the Company Bonkoungou Mahamadou et fils (EBOMAF), in the framework of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) of more than CFAF 161 billion.

Present in Benin since 2014, where it has already built road infrastructure and continues to implement a number of road projects, EBOMAS has once again benefited from the confidence of the Beninese state. A new front opens for her in the departments of the Hills and the Donga where the company founded in 1989 by the Burkinabè businessman, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, was awarded a major market for the rehabilitation of the section Dassa-Savalou-Djougou (255.7km) as well as the development and bitumening of the braces Bassila-Manigri (9.3km), Kpèrèkètè-Frontière du Togo (0.8km) and Bassila-Frontière du Togo (4.7km), a cumulative length of 270.5km.

The implementation of this large-scale road project requires funding of 161 billion including the actual work, the relocation of the electricity, water and telecommunications networks and the monitoring and surveillance mission. Its launch, which took place on 4 August in Savalou, mobilized the highest authorities in the country and the beneficiaries. This top start recorded the deployment of an impressive brand-new company stock of equipment to reassure its ability to build such road infrastructure.

"The government has included these types of work in the flagship projects of its action programme, which contribute to the opening up and integration. PPP remains the innovative way of implementing them, as traditional financing is becoming increasingly scarce. Only PPPs can offer a financing solution to our projectsHervé Héhomey, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, said.

The rehabilitation of the N°3 National Road has long been a thorn at the foot of successive Beninese governments. Many times promised, never realized! Salvation came this time from an innovative financing model based on public-private partnership (PPP). The mobilization of the financial resources necessary to carry out the project led the Beninese Government to conclude a public-private partnership with EBOMAF, a total contract of 161,287,087,621 CFA francs.

" Our mission is to accompany Benin's reconstruction programme and we are here to bring our expertise and know-how. A large part of the work here is simply work on the rehabilitation of the coated layer over a distance of 255 km which does not require the resumption of bridges and other structures which accompany the construction of a new road.Mahamadou Bonkoungou, CEO of the EBOMAF Group, reassured.

According to the Director General of Infrastructure, Jacques Ayadji, the launch of the works of the National Road No. 3 (Dassa-Savalou-Djougou-Natitingou-Porga-Frontière of Burkina Faso) is worth its heavy weight especially since this axis built in the 2000s is in a situation of way "Very degradedThis is to the point of impeding trade both within the country and with the countries of the hinterland. The rehabilitation work will therefore consist, in their technical specifications, of the construction of a 7m carriageway (two 3.5m lanes each), plus a 2m agglomeration rampage and a 7m carriageway and a 1.5m agglomeration ramp.

On the issue of its capacity to finance such works under the PPP, the CEO of the EBOMAF Group has removed all the ambiguity: "Soon you will hear about EBOMAF in Raba, Morocco. We are no longer talking about West Africa, but about the conquest of Central and North Africa. Our company is already established in France. We have more than capacity to drive and carry out such work.

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