Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. (Cameroon News) – Cameroon Jobs – Over 3,500 Cameroonian will be recruited to carry out different tasks during the construction phase of the Lom Pangar Dam project in the East Region of Cameroon, the Director General of Cameroon’s National Employment Fund, Camille Moute a Bidias has said.

The National Employment Fund and the Chinese company, International Water Electric Corporation (CWE) that will build the dam, on December 30, 2011 in Yaounde, signed a construction agreement.

Camille Moute a Bidias signed for the National Employment Fund and the Director of Projects at CWE, Ding Wang Long signed for his company.

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The agreement specified that the National Employment Fund will help the International Water Electric Corporation in recruiting Cameroonians to work in the project, in accordance with the construction contract signed in August 2011.

Talking to the press during the ceremony, Camille Moute a Bidias said, “To be recruited in the project, one needs to register with the National Employment Fund,” and added that only qualified applicants will be retained.

The over 3,500 workers will be recruited whenever work is their areas of specialization is programmed.

The International Water Electric Corporation (CWE) launched construction work in the Lom Pangar Dam project in November 2011 with temporary crossing over the Lom River, as well as the construction of a bridge over the same river.

The representative of the Chinese company, Jiang Hiwuen and the Director General of the Electricity Development Corporation, Dr Theodore Nsangou, signed a FCFA 75 billion agreement in Yaounde, Cameroon on August 12, 2011.

The China International Water Electric Corporation has 38 months to carry out the construction and the dam is expected to be operational in July 2014.

The Electricity Development Corporation, Cameroon State company overseeing the dam construction project agreed with CWE that Cameroonian companies will provide material, necessary products and services of all sorts for the project, aimed at improving the living conditions of workers on the field.

“The project will provide over 800 direct jobs in technical domains”, the Director General of Electricity Development Corporation, Theodore Nsangou said during the agreement signing ceremony.

The Chinese company has to produce a recruitment plan both at the local and the national levels.

Practically everything is set for the construction phase of the Lom Pangar dam to effectively start.

The construction of the residential area for workers is complete, as well as the access road to the dam.

The FCFA 44 billion environmental and social management plan of the project was presented during a ceremony in Yaounde in June 2011.

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