China International Water Electric Corporation (CWE) will launch construction work in the Lom Pangar Dam project in the East Region of Cameroon in November 2011.
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 in the presence of Cameroon’s Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Michael Ngako Tomdio.
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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.
China International Water Electric Corporation has been working on major projects in Cameroon such as the construction of the Lagdo Dam in the North Region, ongoing work in the channeling of River Mfoundi in the capital city, Yaounde and road construction. “We are carrying out 16 other giant projects the world over for a total cost of FCFA 500 billion”, Jiang Hiwuen disclosed in Yaounde.
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.
Government will in September 2011, conclude discussions with the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) on displacing pipes of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project transporting crude oil from Chad to Kribi in Cameroon, that pass through the area to be covered by the dam.
Are there any recruiting abroad, particulary in Europe?
i wish to know where the CWE office is situated in Yaounde.Whan will the recruitment process start?and how do we deposit the documents?thanks