Road Infrastructure: Main Projects for 2017 Presented

The Minister of Public Works Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi gave a press conference in Yaounde on February 14, 2017.

As a concrete implementation of President Paul Biya’s decision to connect the country through the road network, the Ministry of Public Works has embarked on ambitious road infrastructure projects in 2017. The Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi disclosed the projects in Yaounde on February 14, 2017 during a press conference he granted in the presence of the Minister of Communication, government’s spokesman, Issa Tchiroma Bakary.
He said that from the Ministry’s budgetary allocation of FCFA 461.904 billion in 2017, FCFA 100 billion will go to finance projects contained in the Triennial Emergency Plan to accelerate economic growth and FCFA 12 billion devolved to municipal councils to maintain council roads. FCFA 321 million will be used by the ministry for road construction and infrastructure projects, while FCFA 118.857 billion will be used to rehabilitate and maintain roads and other infrastructure. Disclosing that henceforth at least 100 km of road will be tarred every year, he said for 2017 and 2018, a total of 271.4 km will be tarred. In the same period, he said, 1,475 km of tarred road will be rehabilitated and specified that 635 will start in 2017. There will also be pre-emptive road maintenance with 925 km targeted for 2017.
Minister Nganou Djoumessi cited ongoing projects such as the Kumba-Mamfe road  covering 150.8 km costing about FCFA 79 billion, first phase of the Yaounde –Douala express way and the Kribi-Lolabé express way of 433 km whose cost is FCFA 250 billion. He also talked of the ongoing rehabilitat...

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