OIC GAMBIA READY TO START CONSTRUCTION ON 20 NEW URBAN ROADS

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Gambia has announced it’s plans for the construction of 50KM of 20 new urban roads in the country.

The project which is funded from a loan of 50 million dollar from the Saudi Fund for Development is expected to kick-off in the first quarter of 2021.

The announcement was disclosed to the public after the Local Organising Committee of OIC Gambia Secretariat did a tour around the proposed site with Pan Arab Consulting Engineer (PACE) contracted to design as well as supervise the project.

Chief Executive Director for Oranisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Gambia, Yankuba Dibba said they meet with the Local Organising Committee every month to discuss the progress and challenges of the project for advice.

Dibba also noted that the reason for the tour was to visit all the proposed 50KM of 20 new urban roads to asses work done. He assured that by March 2021, work will start and end in 12 months.

Meanwhile, Country Manager for Pan Arab Consulting Engineer (PACE), Imed Gharbi said We are concluding the design of the project and the design has many faces, we completed the first and now we are conducting the plenary design.

Quoting Gharbi, “The design will end at December 2020 and the execution of the work will start by March 2021 and shall be completed by March 2022. We are now compiling all the ground information to perform the designs and the Gambia is a flat country so it is a big challenge to make storm water drainage and the time age for the design is 30 years.” 

The only challenge now is that the electric poles have been erected close to the middle of the road in some areas, but Momodou Senghore, Managing Director of National Road Authority (NRA) said they will work in hand to resolve such problems.

Source: Foroyaa

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