Kédougou, Nov 4 (APS) – The head of the national list of the Pastef (power) party for the early legislative elections on November 17, Ousmane Sonko, announced on Sunday the relaunch of work on the Sambangalou hydroelectric dam, the second component of the energy component of the Organization for the Development of the Gambia River (OMVG).
“We are going to relaunch the Sambangalou dam program, and it is a hydraulic dam which will provide electricity at very low cost,” he declared during a caravan he was leading to Kédougou (south). ), as part of the campaign for these legislative elections.
The Minister of Hydraulics and Sanitation, Cheikh Tidiane Dièye, “was (recently) in a meeting in Gambia with the OMVG”, in connection with this project to revive the Sambangalou dam program, he said. noted.
As part of this recovery, the Kédougou region will “benefit from a vast hydroelectric program”, assured Ousmane Sonko, also Prime Minister.
This program “will consist of relaunching the interconnection line between the region of Kédougou, that of Tambacounda and Bakel, and you already have an electrical substation which has been installed by the State of Senegal,” he explained.
He returned to the issue of the drinking water treatment plant installed as part of the Sambangalou project.
“It is a structure intended to then be handed over to the local populations of Kédougou and maneuvers are being made to restore all of this in order to find lasting solutions,” he announced.
Referring to the problem of opening up certain municipalities in the Kédougou region, Ousmane Sonko promised the construction of the Kédougou-Fongolimbi road, which, he said, blocks the economic and social development of this area.
“It is a debt that I owe to Fongolimbi, because Fongolimbi is one of the communes that voted for me during the presidential election in 2019,” he declared.
He called the populations of Kédougou to “vote massively” for the PASTEF list.
To do this, he invited the population, particularly young people and women, to collect their voting cards. “We have to go and collect the cards [d’électeur] so that we can have an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly,” he told his supporters and activists.
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