Road Construction/Maintenance In East Region: Contractors Urged To Ensure All- year Circulation

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Road Construction/Maintenance In East Region: Contractors Urged To Ensure All- year Circulation

26 nov. 2018 07:28

Public Works Minister on November 20, held a working session with enterprises to access the progress of execution of road construction and maintenance projects ongoing in the region.
The Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi has exhorted contracting enterprises carrying out road construction or maintenance works in the East Region to tackle critical areas of the road in order to ensure roads are passable all seasons. The Public Works boss flanked by his close collaborators stated during a meeting with road construction companies executing projects in the East Region that the essential thing is to render the roads passable so as to attenuate the suffering of the population. Minister Djoumessi insisted that rain gates must be installed on earthed roads and scrupulously respected by heavy duty vehicles. Defaulters, the Public Works boss stressed, shall be severely penalised. He used the meeting to exhort the enterprises to be efficient in executing projects entrusted to them by the government. In responding to the general cry by the contracting enterprises on the non-payment of bills, the Minister said, the government takes measures for road maintenance and construction and assumes its responsibilities of payment. “There might be delays but the government will eventually pay your bills,” he stated while urging the enterprises to prove their technical and financial capability they demonstrated while bidding for the projects. The government, he said, is rationalising its resources especially with the current Economic and Financial programme with financial partners. According to the Director General of...