The National Society for the Development of Urban Land (SONATUR) carried out this 1is September 2023 in Bobo-Dioulasso, at the launch of the construction work for social educational infrastructure in the reception area of its Dogona site in sector 13. It is the Managing Director of the company, Boureima Ouattara, in the company of Haut – Commissioner of Houet Adama Bidiga, who laid the first stone of these jewels.
A health and social promotion center (CSPS) and a primary school with six equipped classes, latrines, hydraulic structures and roads. It is a set of infrastructures that the National Company for the Development of Urban Land (SONATUR) intends to carry out with its own funds for its Dogona reception area within three months. These facilities aim to provide a comfortable living environment for the populations of the unplanned area who have been identified to be resettled on this 150-hectare site. About 1,000 households will be relocated there. The launch of construction work on the jewels materialized with the laying of the first stone of the CSPS.
On this occasion, the beneficiaries did not hide their satisfaction towards SONATUR, but also towards the municipal authorities. According to their spokesperson, Drissa Toé, the relocation project dates from 2017. “If today we were able to obtain residential plots to settle permanently, it is because you were attentive to our concerns”, he addressed in substance to the officials. And the president of the special delegation of district 3, Fousséni Traoré, to recall that the realization of this project is the fruit of a frank collaboration between the commune of Bobo-Dioulasso and the SONATUR within the framework of its work of layout.
He took this platform to reiterate his thanks to the landowners of Dogona who were kind enough to give up their land for the occasion. His remarks were corroborated by the High Commissioner of Houet, Adama Bidiga, for whom, through his action, SONATUR once again demonstrates its commitment to the well-being of the populations. Above all, he invited the beneficiaries not to sell their plots. “You must not do as people do elsewhere, at the risk of finally finding yourself without a residential plot”, insisted the first person in charge of the province with the future residents of the reception area.
“SONATUR will always be in solidarity with the people”
The non-divided area of Dogona is owned by SONATUR. It is in its perspective of developing the site that the company has made the commitment to resettle its occupants. According to its Managing Director, Boureima Ouattara, the construction of infrastructures on this reception area comes within the framework of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to which the company has adhered for more than 20 years.
It is with this in mind that in 2020 it built school infrastructure worth more than thirty million CFA francs in the village of Passakongo in the Boucle du Mouhoun. “The development of the Dogona site will be carried out in accordance with the development master plan enacted by the new law on real estate development”, reassures the boss of SONATUR. Also, he asserted that “ the company will always be in solidarity with the populations of its development sites through the construction of infrastructures in all the regions that house its development projects and the servicing of plots for residential, commercial and associative use”.
In its vision for 2025, SONATUR wants to position itself as the national leader in terms of planning and development catalyst within the framework of its strategic development plan.
Ousmane TRAORE
