Ouagadougou: The Minister of State, Minister of Communication, Culture, Arts and Tourism, Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo, accompanied by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Foresight, Aboubacar Nacanabo and the delegate minister responsible for the budget , Fatoumata Bako/Traoré, visited this Tuesday, March 26, 2024, in Ouagadougou, the construction site of the new headquarters of Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB), located in Gounghin.
The Minister of Communication on the site to see the progress of the work
Six (6) months after his visit to the construction site of the new RTB headquarters, the Minister in charge of Communication is back on the site again, a sign of the interest he gives to this gem. It is therefore with great attention that Minister Jean Emmanuel OUÉDRAOGO, followed the explanations provided by the various companies but especially the Faso Baara Agency, relating to this project which carries the hopes for the future of RTB.
According to the Head of the department in charge of Communic
ation, The objective of this field visit is to see first-hand the progress of the work. ‘This allows us to think about finding mechanisms that will give a boost to the project so that it can go straight to completion,’ said the Minister.
In his opinion, there is a problem with the efficiency of the RTB given the dispersion of its services in the city of Ouagadougou, but also a challenge to be in line with current technological developments. For him, ‘with the size of the studios and especially everything that is planned as an investment, this gives us a glimpse of an RTB which will be in line with the challenges and the missions assigned to it’.
Started in 2018, the RTB project which was planned to be carried out over a period of 3 years, experienced suspensions linked to financing problems, to be resumed in 2023, thanks to the declared desire of the Ministry of Communication to allow for the RTB to have its headquarters as soon as possible. The physical execution rate of the site, according to Daouda Zongo
, Director of the Faso Baara Agency, is 40%.
Faced with the financing problem raised and the complexity of the project, the Minister in charge of Finance Aboubacar Nacanabo promised to play his part so that the project can be completed in the right conditions in order to allow the RTB to be more efficient.
The construction of the RTB headquarters is an ambitious project which mobilized the companies Kanazoé et Frères and Nakingtaoré. The infrastructures being built cover an area of approximately 1 hectare. It is a main building of type R+5 and a multifunction workshop.
Source: Burkina Information Agency