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| Lighted Bamali Integrated Health Center |
According to the Friday July 21, 2017Regional
Follow-up Committee meeting in Bamenda, the physical execution rate of projects
in the North West Region stands at 41.02 percent. Sitting in for the regional
committee president was the vice Regina Mundi who will express satisfaction
with the percentage realization rate just three months after the execution
phase of the projects. From the
presentations, Ngoketunjia Division emerged first in the divisional
classification table with 66.9percent while Momo will tail the table with 17.5
per cent.
Electrifying
Bamali; lighting sight and hearts
The electrification of Bamali at 100per cent is
one of the many projects either ongoing or completed that has given the
division a leadership position on the regional classification table. While in Bamali Monday 7, 2017 this reporter
could deduce an unprecedented level of happiness within the inhabitants. “I am
Formenkwin Matias a Councilor for Ndop Council from Bamali. Before electricity
came we use to go to Bamuka paying at least FCFA 500 to recharge our phones….
We thank the government for this powerful help. Now we have bought TV sets and
we can now watch what is happening in the country.” Mbegham John another
resident of Bamali will not hid his feelings. “Before electricity came there
were many problems. We could not store food and now we can do so. Even our
health center now is active! We use to take our vaccines to Ndop to be stored
now we can keep them here. Many of us and the health center used lamps before
now and injections to be administered in the night could not be done on time.
This is a great relief to us.”Leh Mirable Meshit an assistant nurse will
express similar concerns while expressing happiness with the electricity
project.
Clarifying
on the project Tedonnkeng Jeutsop Rodrique Divisional Chief for energy
Ngoketunjia indicated that the entire electrification of Bamali is expected to
cost FCFA 80M.
The first
phase which is complete and received he added took FCFA40M of the global sum
covering being for 7KM in both high and low tension electricity supply. The
second phase he concluded will be launched next year.
A stopover
in Government Nursery School Teloh will present a completed block of two
standard classrooms. The PK40 bridge and road rehabilitation is also visibly on
course.
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| Government Nursery School Teloh Ndop |
In rank, after Ngoketunjia comes Boyo with
53.7 per cent physical execution rate of public investment projects for the
first semester of 2017. Though Fundong, Bum and Belo Council areas will not
present projects with 100 percent realization, several projects from the
central administration, Belo and Njinikom councils have been fully completed
with a majority being schools related.
With 48.5 per cent, Bui division falls third
in ranking. Like Menchum with 47.2
coming fourth, there is need for work to be intensified; the regional follow up
committee recommended.
Mezam Division is ranked fifth though with
some of the giant projects in the region. Amongst the many projects in the
division is the access way Awing tourist site, the Bamenda Referral hospital, low
cost houses, the residence of the regional governor, some buildings hosting
regional delegations.
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| Access way Awing tourist site |
The 500m access road into the Awing tourist
site sponsored by PIB 2017 according to Simeon Chi regional Director of roads
and project engineer is already at 75per cent execution rate. The FCFA150M
project is opening the Awing Tourist site to the rest of the country and the world.
On the hills
of Nkwen in Bamenda III subdivision lays the site of the FCFA2bn worth Bamenda
referral hospital. With a life span of
18 months starting 28th May, 2017, Rawad Roustom Chief of the project
explains that work has been centered on excavation and foundation construction
for the blocks with a capacity of 100 beds. The control engineer Pauline
Tchikapa will access the work at 3.14 per cent. According to Yusuf Amadou and
Bashiru Amadou all locally employed workers at the site many of them now have
jobs because of the construction works. They are also training in the operation
of some heavy duty equipment and this them is a life time opportunity.
Community women could also be seen selling food an act Yusuf Amadou sees as of
great economic impact to the community.
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| Bamenda Referral hospital-Ntabang-Nkwen |
A short
distance away from the Referral hospital is the site for the construction of
100 low cost houses. Though we stopped there on a day the project engineer Jad
El Gemayel will describe as the first sunny day in four weeks, excavation was
the work seen to have been done with the control engineer rating it at
5.7percent though the project engineer will talk of 10 taking other details
into consideration.
At the Governor’s residence slightly above
42 percent, it could be considered that all hope is not lost in the quest for
100 percent in the realization of projects in the region by the end of the year.
After an evaluation visit to these project
sites recently, North West Regional Delegate for Economy Planning and Regional
Development while expressing hope on the possibility of achieving 100per cent
by the end of the year noted “it is very easy to attend 100percent. If you look
well effective execution for the first semester has taken only three to four
months because at the start of the year was dedicated to the award of
contract……. So the hope is that for the second semester during which execution
will be on we are catch-up a lot.” Eseke Bende Ivo also added that “we cannot
say we are late because 41.02 percent is not bad as execution rate in our
region. We are seriously handicapped by the raining season because a lot of
localities have been cutoff due to the state of roads which prevent the smooth
transportation of construction material and event workers. But we are very
confident that we will attend our objective of 100 percent execution rate at the
end of the year.”
Though facing similar challenges like other
divisions, Donga Mantung with 19.3 percent and Momo 17.5 percent have been
ranked sixth and seventh respectively with a call for all stakeholders in these
divisions to step up their commitment towards improving their rates before the
second semester runs out.
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