EBOMAF-BF: Started for Ouagadougou bypass work

The President of Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, proceeded on Tuesday, 30 October 2018 in Gampèla in the rural commune of Saaba, with his counterpart in Liberia, to launch the construction and bitumening of the bypass highway of the city of Ouagadougou. With a length of 125 Km, this ambitious work will be built according to a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for funding of CFAF 181 billion.

The process of bypassing the city of Ouagadougou North and South is in progress. Construction and bitumening of the related motorway will start shortly. Work will cost over CFAF 181 billion. They are being undertaken as part of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP). Scheduled to last 36 months, they were launched on Tuesday 30 October 2018 in Gampèla by the President of Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, along with Liberian President George Weah.

According to the Minister of Infrastructure, Eric Bougouma, the motorway is a succession of circular routes designed to secure the users and residents of the city of Ouagadougou. It extends over a 125-kilometre linear route across three regions of our country: Central, Central-South, Central Plateau. "The bypass also includes nine municipalities, including Pabré, Komsilga, Koubri, Saaba, Saponé and the districts Nos. 4 and 8 of Ouagadougou. The intersections of this new boulevard and the national roads will be arranged as a circular plan. », he added.

The President and CEO of the EBOMAF Group, Mahamoudou Bonkoungou, said at the outset that his company is supporting policy makers.in their ambitions for socio-economic progress." This work thus marks our commitment and participation in the new era of national development in Burkina Faso",He supported it. Mr. Bonkoungou provided the master of his human, material and technical capabilities to meet the challenge of one of the country's largest road infrastructure." We stand ready to reissue in Faso, all the good you have heard of us, in the subregion so that this highway demonstrates the will of the state to equip this country with works that defy the time.", he stressed.

The bypass consists of an extensible circular boulevard consisting of two times two lanes, 3.5 metres, a central ground of 10 metres wide and a 1.5 metre cycle path in the countryside." This is the solution to road insecurity, a source of fatal accidents that mourn our familiesArmand Béouindé, mayor of Ouagadougou, said.

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