By Doh James Sonkey
The Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Celestine Ketcha Courtes has signed town conventions with the Mayors of Belel, Foumban and Mouanko councils last April 18, 2023 at Emergence Ministerial Building in Yaounde. This was during a workshop in Yaounde and the Minister reminded them that these funds fall within the triennial 2023-2026 period.
The MINHDU boss urged them to use the money for the intended purpose for a triennial period of great opportunities.
For the Foumban Council represented by its Mayor, Patricia Tomaino Ndam Njoya, the convention signed of FCFA 1,597 billion of which FCFA 1,453 billion will be mobilized by MINHDU for infrastructure works while accompaniment and maintenance works will be funded by the council to the tune of FCFA 143,677 million.
According to the convention signed by Mayor Pierre Honore Abwea of the Mouanko Council in the Littoral region, it will have an envelope of FCFA 1,393 billion of which MINHDU will provide FCFA 1, 299 billion for infrastructure works. The council will contribute FCFA 93,577 million for accompaniment and maintenance works realized.
The Belel Council in the Vina Division of the Adamawa region for it’s part, the Mayor Aboubakar Abbo Wakili signed a convention of FCFA 1,572 billion of which FCFA 1,445 billion will be mobilized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to cover infrastructure works. The council for its part is expected to mobilize FCFA 126, 843 million for accompaniment and maintenance works realized.
Talking to reporters, Minister Celestine Ketcha Courtes said, “These funds are no doubt insufficient and imparative in their content with regards to the need of the population and our ambition but it constitutes an important step in contributing to the process of consolidating decentralization. The adhesion and active partication of each of us will permit us to enrich and perfect to the level of projects repertoire in their respective Urban Planning Documents so that these documents will not be simple ideas and simple visions but we want to transform the ideas into actions.”