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Cameroon: Local Materials - The best Choice !
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 8 May 2008
Eldickson Agbortogo
It is not a secret that Cameroonians like drinking. After work and weekends, the different bars in towns and beer parlours are full to capacity. During one of the drinking evenings, a friend of a notorious drinking team who is an inspector general in one of the ministries kept boosting to his friends that all the materials from his new house will be imported.
He said he has already called his builder to place commands for the different types of construction materials that would be needed like wood, bricks and tiles. His friends while sipping one beer after the other tried to convince him that Cameroon is endowed with a lot of local materials for construction and that instead of spending money importing, he should put up something moderate with local materials. After all, the president of the republic has been calling on Cameroonians to consume locally made products But his friends' advice fell on deaf ears.
A few weeks after the imported materials arrived and the construction work started, the builder realised that most of the imported materials are not different from those locally fabricated. Worst still, from the receipt it is clearly seen that the companies from where these materials were bought are great exporters of local materials from the Congo Basin. As if that was not all the builder further realised that some of the materials are not as natural as the locally fabricated
In this melee the inspector general who lost his post before even completing the house, took a decision to never consume imported goods. He secretly confide to one of his drinking colleagues that, had he used locally made materials, his house could have been finish and cost less. His friend revealed to him that, locally fabricated materials when used for construction help in regulating the internal and external temperature of the house. What a discovery hiiiiii
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