Emmanuel Kendemeh
17 March 2008
Prime Minister, Head of Government Ephraim Inoni on Saturday, 15 March received in audience the leaders of the engineering team of the South African company, SIZATECH Consulting Engineers currently carrying out feasibility studies on the construction of the Express way linking Cameroon's political capital, Yaounde to the economic capital, Douala. The engineers who had already worked on the road for a week before audience, briefed the Prime Minister on the progress so far made.
The consultant and Attorney of SIZATECH Consulting Engineers who is also the link between the Cameroon government and the investors on the road project, Dr Philip R .du Toit led the delegation to the Star Building. During the first audience on 26 February 2008, he promised the Head of Government that he was going to bring a team of engineers to carry out feasibility studies on the road.
After the audience, he told journalists, "We have spent the past one week in Cameroon. We have done all the work required to complete the feasibility studies on the Yaounde-Douala Express way; soil sampling, recorded data concerning bridges, railway lines, power lines, etc". All these, he said, had been done with the assistance of the Department of Public Works at Cameroon's Ministry of Public Works.
Dr Philip du Toit further announced that a team from the Prime Minister's Office and another from the Department of Public Works in the Ministry of Public Works, "will be visiting South Africa within the next two weeks in order to adjudicate the product that is going to be used on this road, its durability, etc". The teams, he said, "will help us in the finalisation of the feasibility studies to be submitted to the Prime Minister on 26 March 2008". When the feasibility studies must have been submitted, "the tender documents will be read and complete for publication after seven days", the consultant disclosed. Dr Philip du Toit said they will be updating the Prime Minister on a regular basis on the progress of the work.
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