Gokoun, one of the districts of the village of Gbétagbo, Akassato Ward, municipality of Abomey-Calavi will soon find a new face. After laying the electric poles in 2022, work resumed in the second quarter of the year 2023. Pickup trucks loaded with rolls of high and low voltage electrical wires are circulating in the neighborhood for laying. Waiting for the arrival of electric power, the populations are delighted with these first achievements.
Located between the Cotonou-Bohicon main road and the Misséssinto-Zinvié road, Gbétagbo is a village whose development has been accelerated by the arrival of several buyers of plots. Ten ago (10) years behind, one could still count the houses built. It is therefore to compensate for this on the eve of the start of the new school year that Minister Véronique Tognifode has deemed it useful to travel to educate parents on the need to strengthen parent-child dialogue., a lot of things have changed. The population has greatly increased. The most important problems of the locality come down to the lack of suitable access roads and electrical power in several places and then the unavailability of a large capacity transformer.. Of all these difficulties, that concerning energy remains the most worrying. A 19h, the peripheral districts of the village of Gbétagbo, like Gokoun are already in the dark. No electric poles, no lamp post, no electric power. Result, many households are in the dark. To avoid this, people prefer cobwebs. For miles, connections are made to other inhabitants against payment per kilowatt hour at 300 FCFA or even 400 FCFA. These many years of suffering are gradually combined with the past. In 2022, des poteaux électriques ont été mis au sol dans plusieurs localités du village de Gbétagbo. This, as part of the electricity extension project in rural areas.
The joy was too great in the ranks of the populations who saw the electric poles posed in front of their houses and in the neighborhoods.. Last April, this joy was still quite different. Indeed, the electrical wires were placed on top of these poles laid. Several districts of Gbétagbo have been connected. Teams from the company in charge of the electrification work in the area have gone through the nooks and crannies, in the alleys to place the electrical energy conduits. In the process, the parties that have not yet received the electric poles in 2022 are served. Immense is the joy that animates the populations of Gbétagbo, village situé dans l’arrondissement d’Akassato.
The other and most important step, that they are watching, this is the connection, streetlights to illuminate the area, the reinforcement of the electrical network for a good supply of energy with the change of the transformer which supplies the area.
Etienne YEMADJE (Coll)