Kribi, Cameroon Africa. December 2010 (Cameroon News) - The project for the deep seaport at Kribi has started as the project kicks off at the Mboro site.
The construction project for the deep seaport at Kribi has been flagged off officially with the 8th session of the projects official committee in Kribi this Monday.
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Mboro which is the site where the ports of this dream project of the Kribi Deep Seaport will slowly rise up is slowly coming into form as the thick and vast stretches of lush greenery is slowly being replaced by large stretches of cleared land all ready for the construction to commence.
The contracting firm Razel is already fully active what with having to initially take up the hectic activity of clearing the land of the forest and making it spic and span for the next level of operations.
The contractor has committed that the work on the land that spans an area of 90- 100 hectares will be finished to the full extent within the course of the next year.
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The first stage will comprise of clearing the thick forests in the area, clearing out the debris, removing the top soil and filling the area with more soil.
Addressing journalists on the site, the Director of Works of Razel, Francis Gendet, said the first stage is slated to finish within 12 months following which the government will make a decisions as to what the next move should be.
The official go- ahead for the project was given on Monday December 27 in Mboro, some 35 kilometers off Kribi and it apparently was the same day that 8th meeting of the project steering committee was convened at the Conference Hall of the Palm Beach Hotel.
It was headed by the Committee’s President, Louis Paul Motaze, Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development under the auspices of the committee’s Vice President, Bello Bouba Maigari, Minister of State, Minister of Transport.
The session was essentially intended to review the areas that the project had completed to date and also go through the administrative accounts for the year 2010 while allocating the budget for 2011 setting aside adequate funds for priority areas which would finally culminate at the completion of this highly ambitious project.
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The meeting did not throw up any surprises and went on just as planned and the members of the steering committee who later had been on a tour to the site were very confident about the way things were shaping up at the Mboro site and stated that the going was great so far.
The steering committee also aimed at setting up the master plan for the Kribi Industrial port complex, develop a general plan for the project management, get the final call on the economic and financial research on the project, and compensate the people who will be adversely affected by the construction activities.
They have also set up concrete plans for clearing the debris off the Mboro site so that the infrastructure development activities may be also started off as soon as possible.
Mondays meeting on Kribi were essentially for two purposes. The steering committee decision to provide adequate compensation to every member of the population who would be adversely affected by a project of such a scale and displaced of their homes and property is being taken with a lot of appreciation and relief.
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A sum close to FCFA 4.4 billion will be distributed among the 100 out of the 300 people who have had homes or land in the property where the port is assigned to be built.
The announcement came within a few days after Louis Paul Motaze took a whole lot of cabinet ministers to the village to make the final call on compensation and payment modes.
Together with the Ministers of Social Affairs and that of Housing and Urban Development, the bevy of ministers also asked the affected population to direct the money provided to them towards more such activities which would be capable of generating them a steady income and could provide them with a source of living which in turn would provide them with better standards of living as well as work towards improving the regional economy as a whole.
