Kouekong stadium: Asset or liability?

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Kouekong stadium: Asset or liability?

14 mars 2022 14:36

The infrastructure if properly managed can become an income generating asset.

Kouekong Omnisport stadium that just played host to pool B of Africa’s greatest sporting event, AFCON 21, can be considered a durable renewable asset to the Cameroon Government. Its sustainability implies regular maintenance or improving it for future generations. It is no doubt that the government spent billion of FCFA to realize that infrastructure, but more has to be done as a policy or reform to make this state asset an income generating property. According to the General Coordinator of the Kouekong stadium, Kinkeu Koumbo Max Mirabeau, it is clear that new thinking and practice are needed to develop particularly form of socio-economic activities that can structurally help maintain the stadium. He said out of the playing ground that can contain 20.000 spectators, the structure has two conference halls of 1000 places each, three senior VIP halls, 2080 parking space, international TV reporting boot and other infrastructures that cannot all be enumerated. He stressed that the structures need regular maintenance, regretting that after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, all competitions went on without spectators, with little or no funds coming in. Kinkeu Koumbo noted that for some time now, maintenance remain the sole responsibility of the Ministry of Sports and Physical education. He further suggested that the Kouekong stadium, just lik...