– (Business in Cameroon) - Inhabitants of Ngousso-Soa road axis in the Centre Region of Cameroon will in no distant future migrate from darkness into solar light. Water and Energy Resources Minister, Basile Atangana Kouna, laid the foundation stone for a 1.5 billion CFA francs project to install 409 solar lamps to light the streets along the road on Thursday September 26 on the campus of the University of Yaounde 11 in Soa.

The project’s fact sheet shows that the Chinese contractor, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, will deliver in November 2013. The Director General of Huawei Cameroun, Ni Zheng, is quoted by Cameroon Tribune as saying that they will do everything possible to respect the deadline. 75 of the solar lamps have been installed on the campus of the University of Yaounde II.

The project is expected to completely light the rest of Soa that is already 80 per cent electrified. Statistics show that only eight of the 39 villages that make up the Soa council were yet to be electrified.

Speakers during the ceremony lauded the move to diversify the sources of energy supply in the country. The Ministry of Water and Energy Resources said his ministry will in the days ahead hold discussions with the government delegate to the Yaounde City Council to seek other sources of financing projects of that nature. The Minister said such investments could offer additional sources of revenue to the concerned council areas.

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