Yesterday, Tuesday, January 23, was the launch of work on the processing plant for mining residues such as fine coal, slag, ash and acidic concentrate. This is in order to recover all the metals contained in these residues. After the gold refinery whose construction work was launched on November 23, Burkina Faso is doing everything possible to fully process the gold produced on its soil by its own means. This constitutes a real advance in the general production of gold in Burkina Faso.
But this is not enough because we must put in place a real policy to combat gold trafficking. By controlling the artisanal production of this metal which constitutes our country’s leading export product. Followed by cotton, the other “white gold”. After gold, we must think about building a factory to process our cotton. It will also be a great added value for the thousands of producers and the millions of people who make a living from cotton. Because, it is said, cotton enriches individuals.
In addition, in addition to the gold processing factories, we witnessed the laying of the first stones of other processing factories for various products, including tomatoes. Certainly other stones will be laid for the construction of processing plants for other products such as potatoes, green beans, non-timber forest products such as lianas, grapes, etc.
Major projects such as the Agricultural Offensive for food self-sufficiency have been launched. In Bobo-Dioulasso, around a hundred young people were trained in above-ground fish production. This is so that we no longer import fish for our consumption. In almost all sectors, actions are being taken to transform our industrial fabric. Which constitutes an important element in the development of a nation. Also, all these major projects must be well monitored and directed by skills who have in mind the best interests of the nation and the well-being of the Burkinabè.
This is the place to congratulate and encourage the transitional authorities who have courageously made this commitment to work to ensure that we transform what we produce on site. Other rulers before them could have done it. No doubt they did what they could with the means at their disposal and the context in which they governed. This is how a nation is built: everyone comes, does what they can and leaves, passing the baton to others who will come and do what they can.
Unfortunately, most often in Burkina Faso, very few new leaders recognize the merit of those who preceded them. They hardly think and say that those who preceded them did nothing. As if the country was only created when they came to power.
Dabaoué Audrianne KANI
