Francis Tim Mbom
16 March 2008
FCFA 244.3 million has been budgeted to finance two water projects in Mukunda and Mukundange villages within the Limbe Shipyard Municipality, Limbe II, in November, this year.
While the Mukunda village project will cost FCFA 122.3 million, the other will consume FCFA 121.98 million.These figures were disclosed on Monday, March 10, by technicians of a Yaounde-based consultancy firm, the Institute of Territorial Collectivities, INCOLL, after concluding feasibility studies for the projects.
The technicians were speaking to some beneficiaries of the project at the Limbe Council Hall, among them the Mayor of the Limbe Council II, Andrew Motanga, councillors, Chief Motande Maole of Mukunda and others.
The provision of water to the Limbe II area was top on the agenda of projects voted in December 2007 by the Councillors of Mukundange Council. "It is abnormal that in this 21st Century that we have a village with more than 3,000 inhabitants and they have no water to drink. The nearest water point for the people is about four kilometres from their village," Motanga said.
Motanga said the Council would lobby for the National Council Support Fund, FEICOM, to provide money for the projects.
Worries
INCOLL experts disclosed that the water projects were to last for 20 years. By this token, the experts said after this period, the project can be reviewed and refurbished to meet existing needs at the time.
On why the period could not be extended to 50 years, the experts said it would demand more money, which the major financer, FEICOM, would not agree to fund.The water project would become the second to be carried up to the village of Mukunda in almost one year.
On March 20, 2007, the Government Delegate to the Limbe Council, Samuel Ebiama Lifanda, launched a borehole water project in Mukunda. But Chief Maole told The Post on Monday, March 10, that the Delegate's borehole project was a failure, although he said he could not tell what happened to it.
Commenting on the new water project, Chief Maole said, "We are only hopeful that this time around the project should come to fruition." The project, The Post learned, shall source water from some far off stream, build a catchment and treatment station before distribution to the local inhabitants who now depend, largely, on rain water and from some distant areas for their water.
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