Koudougou-Dédougou Road:The bitumen has started to flow

The Koudougou-Dédougou construction site is progressing considerably. This is the unanimous observation, on Tuesday 20 December, of the inhabitants of the city of Bankuy and of the participants at the launch ceremony and the laying of the first stone of the Polytechnic University Centre in Dédougou. The long-awaited bitumen is now spreading over the stretch.

The development and construction of the Koudougou-Dédougou road have really entered their decisive phase. The first bitumen drops started spreading over the stretch. In less than a year after its launch, the tar on the track began, on Tuesday 20 December, to the general surprise of all Dédougou. The CEO of EBOMAF, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, had long announced:"The bitumen will be spread before the end of the year".This is, today, an irrefutable reality. These first bitumen drops will leave room for the very next laying of the bilayer on a very important length of the Koudougou-Dédougou axis. After successfully crossing the erection of the art works of Tenado, Mouhoun and Karuka, through this crucial stage of the bitumen, EBOMAF confirms the progress of the work. Tar application is a wonderful moment for the city of Bankuy."This act comes as a relief for the entire population divided between the reality she sees as work on this path and all gossip to discourage the entrepreneur", entrusts a highly admired official to the bituminous in action.

From 4.30 p.m. on the morning of Saturday, 20 December, the continuous crashes of the equipment announced a special day at the construction site. Two hours later, the entire city of Dédougou woke up with a smile to notice that efforts are being made to reach the capital in a few months' time. The spreaders stormed the road towards Koudougou, their point of fall at the end of the project. Although a few years ago, the Bobo-Dioulasso-Dédougou axis was modernized, it is the Koudougou-Dédougou axis that carries the torch of the genuine de-enclavement of this part of Burkina Faso. In the sense that this national road 14 is the real outlet for Ouagadougou. This bet, entrusted to EBOMAF, is regularly and continuously held, to the great satisfaction of the Burkina Faso government, its development partners and all the beneficiaries.

Prime Minister Luc Adolphe Tiao even welcomed this spectacular development during his visit to the site:"What I have seen and found convinces me that the development and construction of this road has been entrusted to a good company".This challenge is being brilliantly won on the ground by EBOMAF engineers and technicians. The train with which they drive the site reassures the residents and users of this section and gives them hope in the next few days without hindrance in their traffic.

Already, hydro-agricultural and sanitation works are being installed throughout the axis. More than one hundred and fifty-three (153) of these achievements improve the environment and living conditions in several locations crossed. "There is not a single person, in the region of the Mouhoun Loop and even in the region of the West Centre, who does not wait impatiently for the completion of this ambitious road project. It will be a real springboard for individual and general progress in the area",indicates Zacharie Dakuo, a teacher about ten kilometres from Dédougou.

In a few days, the city of Dédougou and the entire national road 14 will change their faces. The CEO of the EBOMAF Group, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, is very personally involved in the work and intends to spread the bitumen as quickly as possible over a distance of sixty (60) kilometres before the end of the year. Used to meet these kinds of challenges on its construction sites in Burkina Faso and Togo, the first manager of the successful company was determined to give all its workers the guarantees of an optimal and efficient acceleration of the work according to international standards and rules.

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