Buea Regional University Hospital : MPs Want Work Resumed

The FCFA 11 Billion Regional University Hospital project whose construction works began in Buea in May, 2017 but halted in 2018 due to the current socio-political crisis  in Anglophone Cameroon has received a Parliamentary inspection team. Honourable Etombi Gladys Ikome led her peers to visit the mammoth project on 17 February, 2021. The purpose was to seek ways of resuming work on the halted project to satisfy the anxiety of the South West population. She was accompanied by Honourable Findi Stanley of Fako East constituency for Tiko and Muyuka. 
The reason for suspending the works has been linked to the current insecurity with the socio-political uprising in the North West and South West Regions since 2016. The Alliances Company carrying out the works claimed that their workers were constantly under attack at the work site prompting them to pack their tools in 2018 after a 14 per cent job realization.
Adjacent to the Teaching Hospital project is the over FCFA 4 billion Low Cost Housing project which was equally halted due to social instability. “The housing project needed just three months of effective work to be completed”, the Control Mission head, Engineer Liombe Endeley, explained to this reporter.  Accompanying the Parliamentary delegation was the South West Governor’s representative who is also Head of Division for Social, Economic and cultural Affairs at the Governor’s Office, Makwe Theophile Ndumbe. After a working session held in the Governor’s conference room, the delegation went down to the projects’ sites where grass has overgrown the area. Construction material like building blocks, wood, wheelbarrows, spades, plywood and iron lay beneath the tall grass. Both projects were, each, employing daily some 250 workers. The social economy of the area was booming with food and basic needs being sold around the project.
After observing the state of the projec...