(Business in Cameroon) - Authorized sources at Cameroon’s ministry of water and energy (MINEE) indicates that negotiations are ongoing between the government and Bouygues, for the construction of a power transmission line between Edea, Logbessou and Bekoko, going through Douala. There is also a project for the reinforcement and consolidation of the electrical network in Douala, the economic capital.

The MINEE added that, the technical aspect of the project, whose cost is yet to be determined, is well advanced. All the detailed pre-project studies on environmental and social impacts are completed.  The setting of a technical department is ongoing, pending the conclusion of negotiations for a financing agreement.

Moreover, procurements have already been transmitted to the ministry in charge of procurement contracts. "This project has been approved by the National Public Debt Committee (CNDP) but, the ministry of finance is yet to fund the accounts created, at the autonomous amortization fund for the project, to allow the assessment committee to start working", our sources disclosed.

If the negotiations are successful, Bouygues’s part of the deal will be to build the transmission lines between production centers and main consumption centers and relieve the overloaded transformers, along Edea-Logbessou-Bekoko line notably.

Sylvain Andzongo