(Business in Cameroon) - Following the numerous cracking of the Yaoundé-Douala Douala road (Nationale n°3), the ministry of public works (Mintp) explained that around 409 nozzles must be replaced by gutters in on this highway connecting the two major cities of Cameroon. This will cost CFA200 billion.

“We have investigated and we know exactly the number of nozzles that were built between 1982 and 1986. A specific action plan has been set and, we classified the nozzles we need to replace into 3 categories”, Guy Daniel Abouna Zoa, coordinator of infrastructure projects at Mintp explained.

He further indicates that there are 134 nozzles to be urgently replaced. Those to be replaced in a very short term are 143 and there are 132 to be replaced in the future. This makes it a total of 409 nozzles to be replaced. “We need around CFA47 billion this year [2017], and, we were able to raise CFA10 billion”, Guy Daniel Abouna Zoa explained.

The Yaoundé-Douala axis which is part of the Douala-Ndjamena and Douala-Bangui corridors, is disrupted most of the time. After the crumbling of 3 metal nozzles on September 1st and 2nd there, the technical segment of a nozzle that fell on September 16 at Ebomè, in the Sanaga maritime department.

Nearly a year ago, crumbling of a road in Manyaï on October 21, 2016 caused many to rush to the only railway company in Cameroun; Camrail. This was the main reason of the derailment that followed causing the death of 79 people and 600 injured.  

Sylvain Andzongo