Corruption: The Regime Biya Wants to Asphalt 100 km of Road With 500 Billion

While the feasibility studies for the construction project of the Edéa-Kribi highway on a linear of nearly 100 km have been completed since 2017, the Cameroonian government is seeking financing for the construction of this infrastructure, the cost of the works is evaluated at 500 billion FCFA.

The construction of this highway is vital for the Port of Kribi according to the Director General Patrice Melom who recalled a few weeks ago in an interview with Cameroon Tribune on March 5, 2018 that the State of the Kribi-Edea road was one of the main obstacle to the productivity of the port, "the state of the Kribi-Edéa road poses indeed problems to facilitate the evacuation of the goods of the port".

Corruption: The Regime Biya Wants to Asphalt 100 km of Road With 500 Billion

The port of Kribi is considering the possibility of a transhipment of Kribi for Douala pending the construction of the highway.

Note that the Edéa-Kribi highway is part of the linear Edéa-Kribi-Lolabe, the Kribi-Lolabe part will be delivered in 2018, the rate of achievement is estimated at 70% .This long highway of 38 km will eventually cost the Cameroonian taxpayer 250 billion FCFA, an investment that according to experts will be profitable only after the start of mining projects, Lolabe being the site that will host the terminal Mineralier. '' Cameroon has no partner for all these big mining projects, you have to wait at least ten years for this highway to be profitable, '' says an economist who is surprised at the choice of this investment when, according to him, it was up to the mining partners to build this road.

38 km to 250 billion for Kribi Lolabe, and 500 billion for 100 km Kribi-Edea, what to react Conaroute (National Committee of Roads) which estimates that the cost of km of paved road in Cameroon is twice the average price in Africa.

This revelation of Conaroute is not one to surprise Cameroonians accustomed to the multiple reports of state institutions CONAC, CONSUPE on the illicit enrichments of Cameroonian functions. A country that has twice been the world champion of corruption by the NGO Transparency International but can not enforce Article 66 on the declaration of property provided for in the country's constitution.