Yaounde, Cameroon Africa. December 2010. (Cameroon News) - Cameroon Radio Television plans to start up in the controversial Bakassi peninsula.
Cameroon Radion Television CRTV
The committee that is responsible for setting up and reviewing the deployment of projects’ in Bakassi had convened a meeting in Yaounde yesterday to ensure that the plan is set into action for 2011.
The government of Cameroon has done a lot for boosting the communication networks of the country and this is especially true with respect to the Bakassi Peninsula.
The region had been under dispute and a region with a lot of unrest owing to the dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon following which the International Court of Justice had given a verdict in favor of Cameroon following which Nigeria had to hand the Peninsula back to Cameroon.
“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 set up in the Bakassi zone, Lekunze Jacob Ketuma said in Yaoundé yesterday, December 21.
The Committee members had got together at the Prime Minister’s Office to assess setting up of projects for 2010 and plan for 201.
Fifteen government ministries, State organizations like the
- General Delegation for National Security and the
- Special Council Support Fund for Mutual Assistance (FEICOM) and the
- development partner,
- European Union,
have together set aside FCFA 5,831,200,000 to implement projects on a priority basis in Bakassi Peninsula in 2010.
The projects would undertaken with special emphasis for areas like Idabato, Kombo Itindi, Kombo Abedimo and Bamusso Subdivisions that the Bakassi peninsula is comprised of.
Cameroon Radion Television CRTV
The projects would be essentially related to the areas of building and setting up facilities in classrooms, offices, medical centres, homes of workers, markets, water and energy supply, social centres, women’s empowerment centres, support to farmers’ organizations, communication, security and defence, fishing and roads. Most projects that are currently happening in 2010 are a sequel to whatever had been set up the previous year.
The Committee in its report of progress of project published in Yaoundé last March 11 had stated that FCFA 12, 037,101,398 had been used up so far in deploying priority projects in the region between 2007 and 2009.
The Committee President, Mr Lekunze while addressing the delegates present at the meeting convened yesterday in an opening note, said all the projects carried out in Bakassi now are slated to be completed within shorter terms, and that most of them would end by 2011.
He revealed that the process of securing investment for the various projects especially for the building of proper roads had also relatively gained more speed.
The meeting had then gone forward to be taken as a private discussion and the delegate representing each ministry was supposed to individually present the progress that the projects they were supposed to undertake had gained.
Cameroon Radion Television CRTV
The committee members were also supposed to study in details a report on feasibility studies for the building of embankments at Ngosso in Kombo Itindi Subdivision and Idabato in Idabato Subdivision to keep a tab on massive erosion that is happening there so that the remaining areas of hard land in these regions remain intact.
The Senior Divisional Officer for Ndian Division, Peter Tieh Nde presented the report.
The work undertaken at the Bakassi Peninsula would give the residents who have been plagued by unrest and were the pawns in a political game having to suffer a lot of trauma owing to their homeland being a constant source of fights between the neighbors Nigeria and Cameroon a new lease of life.
