ANNUAL PUBLIC SERVICE CONFERENCES: JULIEN PALUKU KAHONGYA SHARE HIS EXPERIENCE ON THE MODERNIZATION OF THE ROADS OF THE CITIES OF GOMA-BUTEMBO-BENI BY DEVELOPING THE THEME “MODEL FOR FINANCING PROVINCIAL INFRASTRUCTURES THROUGH THE PROVINCES-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIP: CASE OF NORTH KIVU”
Developing this Wednesday, December 17, 2025 in Kinshasa the theme "Provincial infrastructure financing model through the provinces-private sector partnership: case of North Kivu", at the Annual Public Service Conferences organized by the Ministry of Civil Service; Julien Paluku Kahongya shared his methods which led to the modernization of the roads of the city of Goma, today the best in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the cities of Butembo and Beni coated with asphalt roads, but also the maintenance of agricultural service roads in the province of North Kivu, and this, thanks to a public-private partnership through two modes notably the creation of the conventional tax on petroleum products and the affection of allottees for road maintenance.
The opening of an escrow account managed by the Congo-FEC Business Federation and the encouragement of economic operators to create construction companies to carry out this work, under the control of the Provincial Government, constituted the success of this public-private partnership, said the Former Governor of North Kivu for 12 years and Minister of Foreign Trade.
On this occasion, he called on other provinces including Kinshasa to draw inspiration from this model which has boosted the development of North Kivu, victim of recurring wars, by putting in place concrete and realistic strategies on the tax on rental income, the property tax and the tax on motor vehicles known as vignette with the contribution of digitalization and which must have a positive impact on the ground to thus encourage the population to pay, insisted Julien Paluku Kahongya
Also the Honorary Governor of North Kivu and Minister of Foreign Trade insisted on the continuity of public services in the DRC
