Cameroon: Public Works Minister to cancel road maintenance contracts awarded to 30 companies

The Cameroonian road network situation is in a sorry state: the companies responsible for road maintenance are simply not visible on the ground.Correspondingly, the Minister of Public Works announced on Monday, January 18, 2016, that he was going to annull road maintenace contracts awarded to some 30 firms. In December 31, 2015, the Ministry of Public Works revealed that it had 406 active road maintenance contracts throughout the national territory. However, upon analysis, it was discovered that 300 have acceptable performance and nearly 100 contracts have really no more reason to exist. Minister Emmanuel Djoumessi Nganou thinks "it is high time to turn off these contracts and boost a new road maintenance policy". 

Cameroon Concord gathered that Monday's meeting was to examine the closing conditions of those contracts whose performance has far exceeded the initial contractual period to allow the Department of Public Works to launch, emergency procedures, appeal for tenders for the recruitment of capable providers to do the work. The Public Works boss also observed that companies that will be retained by his department will be subject to a regular inspection process. Said the minister "There will be no question of simply posting documents to Yaounde." Financed by the resources of the Road Fund, road maintenance work for the 2016 financial year covers a total of 89.5 billion F with a basic programming 47.7 billion F.