The special delegation of the municipality of Bobo-Dioulasso launched the gutters cleaning operation in the city on Thursday, May 16, 2024. Scheduled to last three days, this operation will clear 40 kilometers (km) of stream of debris in order to avoid flooding and the proliferation of mosquitoes.
The gutters cleaning operation in the town of Sya was launched in front of the Bobo-Dioulasso one-stop shop, an area which experiences frequent flooding during rainy seasons.
Trainees from gendarmerie schools, municipal officials, and water and forestry officials have mobilized to combat the garbage that is blocking the gutters preventing the water from flowing properly.
The cleaning will continue for three days (from May 16 to 18, 2024) and will make it possible to clean 40 kilometers (km) of these water evacuation channels.
It was the President of the special delegation (PDS) of the commune of Bobo-Dioulasso, Laurent Koutougou Kontogom, who broke the ground for this operation.
For him, this action falls withi
n the framework of the Presidential Initiative for Community Development and is an instruction from the three ministries, namely Health, Environment, and Decentralization.
The objective, continued Mr. Kontogom, is to clean the gutters to avoid flooding and epidemics of malaria or dengue fever.
‘Technically, it involves removing debris from the gutter and transporting it out of the city through logistical means,’ he explained the process of the operation.
The PDS invited the Bobolese population to join this campaign in order to clean up the city.
‘We appeal to the Bobolais that the work to which we are devoting ourselves this morning is a work which aims to protect them from diseases. We urge them to massively launch the operation to clean out the gutters and pile up garbage. The municipality will have the duty to collect them to take them out of the city,’ said M Kontogom.
He invited the Bobolais not to transform the gutters into a dump in order to allow them to play their role of evacuating water.
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rce: Burkina Information Agency