Tshikapa, May 9th, 2025 (CPA) – Drinking water and electricity have been connected at a ceremony on Thursday at the Tshikunga Institute in the municipality of Dibumba 2, in Tshikapa, a town known for its diamond deposits, in Kasai, in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
‘We have now electricity and drinking water in our school thanks to the involvement of Governor Crispin Mukendi. During his visit, the pupils had presented their grievances to the provincial authority, which in his turn had promised to get involved in the connection of water and electricity », has declared Andre Kanku, prefect of this school. ‘Today, we would like to express our gratitude to the provincial executive for this commendable gesture and, above all, for its manifest willingness’, has said Andre Kanku, the school’s prefect. ‘Today, we would like to express our gratitude to the provincial executive for this highly commendable gesture and, above all, for its manifest willingness,’ he has added. With electricity now connected, a teacher at the school has said that pupils will now be able to use computers ‘without any hassle’. The Tshikunga Institute, built as part of the 100 schools of the former regime project, has not been connected to electricity or drinking water.