Silite sand sampling for Lomé: Aneho and Apesito according to site

The choice of floor for the coating follows a condition of sampling carefully supervised by the monitoring mission and the national building and public works laboratory (LNBTP). If roads in Sahelian areas use lateritis, coastal roads require silitous sand. For the construction of the two boulevards of Lomé, 13-Janvier and Agoè-BKS-Limousine-Adiodigome, the supply of this material is made from two sites. One in Aného, about forty-five (45) kilometers from the Togolese capital to the Beninese border and the other in Apesito about twenty kilometers away.

The dump trucks had to make incessant trips between Lomé and Aneho to satisfy the need for silitous sand on Boulevard du 13-Janvier. In the middle of the cocoteraies, the pokelins dug huge holes on properties acquired by the company. They extract the sand that loaders put in dumpsters of about thirty tons each. This sand is used for the shape layer, for the foundation layer. It intervenes in the cement floor that precedes impregnation, serious bitumen and bitumen concrete. This material plays a more than opportun role in the rapidity of the work. "More than fifteen trucks travelled the round-trip journey of Aneho throughout the construction site with an average of five (5) times a day to transport the sand," says Abdou Djerma, construction manager of Boulevard du 13-Janvier. This dynamism in the transport of this raw material has influenced the further rehabilitation of this important artery.

Immediately on the 13-Janvier very advanced, the heading was set on Agoè-BKS-Limousine-Adiodigomè with the aim of minimizing the distance. The choice was made over the agglomeration of Apesito about fifteen kilometers from the boulevard. At the same time as the dump trucks discharge the rubble removed from the site, at the same time they bring back the silitous sand for the earthworks. This stage, which is undergoing considerable evolution, has even given way to laying the cement floor. A pesito sees only passing vehicles and machines flanked "EBOMAF". As in Aneho, it is huge mounds of sand that come out of the small hills. Every resident of the area would like to enjoy. Each shipment is sold to four thousand (4,000) CFA francs after the company has put the logistical means to assemble the sand it needs. A bulldozer and a loader were sufficient for sampling at Apesito. "Until in the villages, EBOMAF shares wealth. This is a company with social responsibility," says a landowner.

Like the construction sites of the capital, the supply in laterite of those of Dapaong and Nationale 1 is made from a site freely made available to the company by the Togolese state. In addition to its consideration for the amount of work, it is its contribution to the facilitation of the works. Throughout the Cinkansé-Tandjoari and Dapaong-Ponio sections, machinery is used to operate the land made available to EBOMAF to meet its laterity needs. This deployment already has an impact on the socio-economic life of the surrounding communities. Thus, the Burkinabe Group spreads revenues wherever it has markets.

E.P./A.B.