Ring Road Evaluation of properties to be damage began Tuesday March 20, 2018
Ring Road Evaluation of properties to be damage began Tuesday March 20, 2018
Participants during the meeting in Nkambe |
After the meeting to assess the
environmental and social impact of the tarring of the National Road Number
11(Ring Road) Kumbo-Ndu-Nkambe-Misaje section that took place Monday March 19/3
in the Nkambe community hall, organized by Ngwaimbi Paul Ayeah, the Divisional
Delegate Public Works Donga Mantung that brought together stakeholders
including beneficiaries whose properties will be destroyed with the eventual
construction of the Ring road. The Divisional Delegate of Public Works Donga
Mantung and team are already on the field for the Evaluation, identification
and eventual compensation of the damage that will be done by the passage of the
60km stretch in Donga Mantung. On a Phone Chart with this reporter, the
Delegate said, it may take him and the team up till a week to complete the identification
and evaluation procedure on the stretch within Donga Mantung. He continued
that, the amount as compensation of properties to be destroyed from the various
Divisions involved with the ring road will be added to the ring road budget
before the tender will be launch.
DD Public Works Donga Mantung |
It should be recalled that on
Tuesday, May 16, 2017, Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi made
the announcement in Santa, while launching reconstruction works on the 35km
Babadjou-Bamenda road.
During the occasion, Minister
Nganou Djoumessi said; “while promising that the remaining portions of the Ring
Road will continue progressively, I want to assure the population of this
Region that the African Development Bank (ABD) has already declared it
willingness to finance the tarring of the Ring Road from Kumbo to Nkambe.”
Cameroon’s roads are poorly managed. Much is unpaved and
little money goes to maintain the ones that are. Just 56 percent of Cameroon’s
most important corridors are considered to be in good condition. However, a lack of funds and
resources to maintain them is not the only inhibition to adequate roadways in
Cameroon. Road safety laws are rarely enforced, and speed limit and hazard
signs are scarce. While more money can make a difference to the infrastructure
regarding Cameroon’s road system, it is of equal importance to regulate them
appropriately. This is also contributing to the more than Half of the over 25 million population who are poor. by Abanda Marcel
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