Rehabilitation Togo National Road 1: Here we go for the new skin of the Cinkansé-Lomé way!

Over the past few weeks, EBOMAF Group trucks and vehicles have been operating on Togo's national road 1 to rescue this axis, which is now undergoing a very severe deterioration. In view of its expertise and technical and material resources, the P-DG company Mahamadou Bonkoungou was asked to rebuild the Cinkansé-Tandjoari section in accordance with Community and international road standards.

Under the excavators of the bulldozers of EBOMAF, the border axis of Burkina Faso-Cinkansé-Lomé began its moult. The work, undertaken only a few days ago, aims to save this door from the hinterland and main access road of the Togolese port from a risk of impracticability. For years now, the roadway built in the wake of independence has been subject to unprecedented degradation. Not only did the bitumen shrink considerably, but the way is dotted with large chicken nests.

The degradation of the Cinkansé-Lomé track is more severe over the first hundred kilometres from the border with Burkina Faso. It hinders traffic due to accidents and also delays in trade. "There is not this carrier that does not fear this section. Before the concerns were related to the faults of Aledjo in particular. Now, the risk of overturning extends over a long distance over which large holes on the tar make it impossible to overrun and better traffic especially when a heavy load is being carried," says a truck driver who has been on the Lomé road for some 20 years.

Togo is committed to being an ideal maritime outlet for landlocked countries. The country is considering modern road infrastructure and putting existing ones in line with current development challenges. President Faure Gnassingbé and his Government have taken stock of this development challenge and committed themselves to rehabilitating the country's national road 1. They rely effectively on the successful partnership with the EBOMAF Group. The Burkinabè giant of the BTP, proudly displaying his slogan "EBOMAF, excellence on African roads", has again embarked on this challenge with all the human, material and technical capabilities due to his leadership in the field of public works in the West African sub-region. At the foot of the juxtaposed post between Burkina Faso and Togo, the construction site, which is in full swing with the incessant ballet of workers and heavy machinery, forces admiration after only a few days of its opening.

From its base in Cinkansé, Togo's first border town, all civil engineering activities are carried out eloquently to upgrade one of the busiest roads in UEMOA and ECOWAS. The rehabilitation of the road takes account of a working methodology developed by engineers and technicians to ensure that traffic is kept to a minimum. In an endless back and forth, dump trucks succeed each other to supply the site with all kinds of materials. Teams stationed on site and sometimes benefiting from Dapaong reinforcements, some 40 kilometres away, took turns holding the bet of Cinkansé-Tandjoari.

In other words, the process of rehabilitation of the Togolese National Road 1 will lead to the widening of the roadway with ramps. The work is already seen by the users as a real help. Even more so than in September 2011, EBOMAF had already taken on it, before the start of the construction site, to close the holes on the road. The company had then committed a dozen tasks to accomplish this task day and night in order to relieve the carriers. The momentum to give a new skin to the Cinkansé-Lomé axis is launched with a nice drive. The leader of civil engineering will be faithful to his reputation as well as on the Dapaong-Ponio section, the boulevards of 13-Janvier and Agoè-BKS-Limousine-Adidogomè or on the Koudougou-Dédougou road in Burkina Faso.

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