GITEGA August 31st (ABP) – The Minister of Infrastructure, Equipment and Social Housing, Mr. Dieudonné Dukundane was, on Tuesday August 29, 2023, the guest in the Upper House of Parliament to answer oral questions with debates .
Minister Dukundane commended the results already achieved in the “zero potholes” project in different national roads in the country. To that end, he took the example of national road number 2 (RN2) which connects the two capitals of the country. He pointed out that currently, passengers use less than two hours to travel this distance while before the potholes were filled, they used about three hours.
The senators wanted that this project be expanded to other national roads such as the RN7 linking the economic capital of the country and the Rutana province, that linking the northern provinces of the country and the city of Bujumbura, etc. They took the opportunity to deplore the fact that certain provincial dirt roads, which connect the communes, are in very poor condition and hoped that they would be rehabilitated in order to facilitate the transport of people and goods. Minister Dukundane told senators that the government is seeing other feasibility of building asphalt roads that last a long time, specifying that the rehabilitation of earth roads is expensive while they last a short time.
In relation to social housing, Minister Dukundane indicated that since this summer, the very ministry has been preparing to implement that project. It is planned to build 33,000 houses each year, he said. He noted that this project will begin in the Socarti sites of Kamenge in the urban commune of Ntahangwa and Kizingwe-Bihara and Nkenga-Busoro of Kanyosha in the urban commune of Muha, where 6,000 houses will be built. The minister did not forget to thank people who have already freed up space in Socarti for the implementation of the project. He called on others to follow suit.
Concerning the project to build the parliamentary palace hemicycle in Nyabututsi in the political capital of Gitega, Minister Dukundane reported that a technical team from India is carrying out analyses to verify the budget of approximately $120 million allocated to that project.