Started 3 weeks ago, the rehabilitation works of the roadways in Mama Mobutu city within the Mont Ngafula commune are progressing to the great satisfaction of the residents of this part of the capital. However, these individuals lament the working methods of the civil engineering company performing the work.
It proceeded to simultaneously destroy the asphalt on several avenues instead of doing it in stages. Similarly, it has dumped mountains of dirt on these avenues, thereby preventing the movement of people, cars, and motorcycles. This has led to the doubling of travel routes. In light of this situation, motorcyclists are threatening to raise the price of fares, and some vehicle owners are obliged to leave their cars far from their homes.
The affected avenues are INSS, Logec, du Centre. Another matter of concern for the residents of this prestigious neighborhood is that the concerned enterprise has poured several tons of sand, recovered from excavation, onto a bamboo field and other plants intended for soil retention. Planted by a Chinese company as part of anti-erosion efforts following the construction of infrastructure during the erosions that threatened this city in the years 2007 and 2008, this situation raises fears of potential landslides on the site concerned. According to observers, the task required to remedy the situation involves replacing the destroyed plants with new ones. However, they maintain that this will not be easy given the slope's height of several tens of meters.
This sand, they believe, could have been used on other erosive sites among the many in Mama Mobutu, built since 1989. The rehabilitation works of the roadways in Mama Mobutu city were officially launched by the Governor of the Kinshasa city-province, Gentiny Ngobila. According to the information, these works focus on expanding the rainwater drainage channels and changing the asphalt layer. They also involve building roads for the surrounding neighborhoods like Matsotsho with its avenues (Masumu) and de la Paix, not to mention, the avenue named Boulevard Kalwele.
The workers labor day and night and sometimes even on Sundays.
The wish of everyone is that these works continue to completion.
Boni Tsala
Cité Mama Mobutu: the road rehabilitation work is progressing, but residents bemoan the work methods.
InternetKinshasaSociety - The residents of Cité Mama Mobutu are satisfied with the progress of the road rehabilitation works in their neighborhood, but they note some flaws in the way they are being carried out.