Goma, July 4th, 2021 (CPA).– The military governor, Lieutenant General Constant Ndima Kongba, carried out, on Saturday, on the site of the Kiguri village, Nyiragongo territory, an inspection visit of 1,000 houses under construction, for three households each, intended for compatriots who lost everything during the last eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano.
These are the houses with two bedrooms and a living room, which will be supported, to allow their occupants to live in healthy conditions, by six large sheds to serve as a kitchen.
The Chief of the Provincial Executive, under the guided tour of Brigadier General Jules Kuzangana Kubela, Second in Command of the Corps of Military Engineers, appreciated the degree
of execution of the construction works of these relief houses carried out by the elements of this body, with the consequent support of a local workforce.
According to this senior FARDC officer, July 20 is set as the deadline for the delivery of these temporary shelters to their occupants.
Six thousand (6,000) homeless households are waiting for these temporary houses to be built on five sites in the Nyiragongo territory and in the outlying districts of the north and north-west of the city of Goma.
These residences were erected on the instruction of the Head of State during his recent compassionate stay in Goma following the eruption, on the evening of May 22, 2021, of the Nyiragongo volcano and the material damage recorded, it is recalled. .
A reference urban plan for the city of Goma
In addition, the city of Goma now has a Reference Urban Plan, as well as three specific development plans, the documents of which were validated at the end of a two-day workshop which brought together 100 provincial stakeholders. , in particular, the members of the Provincial Executive, the provincial deputies and the delegates of the private and associative sectors, learned the CPA the same day.
This reference urban plan was concluded by the Higher Institute of Architecture and Urbanism (ISAU) of Kinshasa, within the framework of the Urban Development Project (PDU) under the Ministry of Urban Planning and Housing, with funding from the World Bank.
For the provincial deputy Prince Kihangi, this plan constitutes a
Very important document for the city of Goma which is undergoing a population explosion, when it is doubly threatened by the volcano and the methane gas buried in the waters of Lake Kivu.
Its implementation for the city of Goma is expected to cost more than US $ 600 million, ISAU experts estimate. ACP/
