The committee in charge of coordinating and following up projects’ implementation in Bakassi met in Yaounde yesterday to plan for 2011.
Cameroon government has made much progress in the communication sector in the Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria handed back to Cameroon following the International Court of Justice ruling in favour of Cameroon in the Bakassi boundary dispute between the two countries. “The relay stations of CRTV in Ekondo Titi and Mundemba have been completed and all the equipment have been purchased and transported to the sites pending installation by experts”, the President of the Coordination and Follow-up Committee for the Implementation of Priority Projects to be realised in the Bakassi zone, Lekunze Jacob Ketuma said in Yaoundé yesterday, December 21.
The Committee members met at the Prime Minister’s Office to evaluate the implementation of projects for 2010 and plan for 2011. Fifteen government ministries, State institutions such as the General Delegation for National Security and the Special Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance (FEICOM) and the development partner, European Union, budgeted FCFA 5,831,200,000 to carry out priority projects in Bakassi Peninsula in 2010. The projects are carried out specifically in Idabato, Kombo Itindi, Kombo Abedimo and Bamusso Subdivisions that make up Bakassi peninsula. The projects are in the areas of construction and furnishing of classrooms, offices, health centres, residences of workers, markets, water and energy supply, social centres, women’s empowerment centres, support to farmers’ organisations, communication, security and defence, fishing and roads. Most projects in 2010 have been the continuation of those started in 2009. The Committee in its progress report published in Yaoundé last March 11 indicated that FCFA 12, 037,101,398 was spent in implementing priority projects between 2007 and 2009.
The Committee President, Mr Lekunze in an opening speech in yesterday’s session, said all the projects carried out in Bakassi now are short term, stating they will end in 2011. He announced that progress on getting funds for construction of roads was advancing steadily. In the meeting that continued behind close doors, the representative of each ministry had to present their level of projects execution. The committee members also had to discuss a report on feasibility studies for the construction of embankments at Ngosso in Kombo Itindi Subdivision and Idabato in Idabato Subdivision to check extensive erosion on the remaining patches of hard land in these areas. The Senior Divisional Officer for Ndian Division, Peter Tieh Nde presented the report.
