Bobo-Dioulasso: The Minister of Infrastructure and Opening Up, Adama Luc Sorgho, was on the Banakélédaga bridge site on Friday April 26, 2024, to ensure the progress of the work. By August 2024, the old Banakélédaga bridge, in the Houet province, built since 1960, will be a bad memory.
At the request of the Government of the Transition, the World Bank financed to the tune of one billion 500 million CFA francs the construction of a new bridge to facilitate the mobility of people and goods in this locality with strong agricultural potential.
To ensure the progress of the work carried out by the Malian company BECM-CG, the Minister of Infrastructure and Opening Up, Adama Luc Sorgho, visited the site.
When it passed, the company, according to the general director of the Burkina Infrastructure Works Agency (AGETIB) responsible for project management, Mathieu Lompo, had already consumed 58% of the eight-month deadline allocated for a physical performance of 56%.
Nevertheless, the company, he said, promises to h
and over the work in August 2024.
‘In view of what is happening on the ground, I can say that the company is on schedule. Also looking at the execution rate and the time consumed data, we believe that they are not late. But we asked them to speed up to be able to hand over the work in August 2024,’ the minister said at the end of the site visit.
In the policy of opening up, the Transition government, explained Adama Luc Sorgho on the reasons for the request to the World Bank, emphasizes the accessibility of villages.
‘A village producing fruit and market garden products, Desso is having difficulty reaching Banakélédaga to transit to Bobo-Dioulasso in order to sell its products. To definitively resolve this problem of accessibility in this locality, we requested and obtained financing for this bridge from the World Bank,’ explained Minister Sorgho.
Reinforced concrete girder bridge with three spans of 15 meters (m) consisting of two abutments with a height of 7.10 m, two piers of 6.10 m, headers of one met
er height and 1.60 m wide, beams 1.40 m high and 40 centimeters ( cm) wide, and a deck 20 cm thick, this work will ultimately contribute to the economic and social development of the villages served in addition to facilitating the mobility of people and goods.
Also, this bridge will reduce the cost of transporting production, improve the safety and comfort of users as well as the living environment of the populations in this area of great agricultural, fruit and pastoral potential with the town of Sya.
Minister Sorghum values the quality of this crossing of the Houet watercourse.
He informed this to the BECOTEX-Sarl office responsible for the control mission.
‘We would like the work to be of quality and for us to take the time to properly size the works. We must not rush. The company must respect the qualities of the work,’ informed the Minister of Infrastructure and Accessibility to the representative of the control office, Eustache Maurice Yaguibo.
Source: Burkina Information Agency