Monthly follow-up of State projects requisite —MINEPAT

The South West Regional Delegate of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Ngaima Wadang Patchoua, has disclosed that a recent innovation adopted in order to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of State projects is done accordingly and in due time.

He told Eden recently that the Regional and divisional delegations have been empowered to carry out monthly follow-up away from the traditional quarterly follow-up meetings. That of January 2016, he said, has already taken place.

Apart from the identification and selection of priority projects and subsequent insertion into the projects logbook, the delegates have been given the mandate to accelerate sanction procedures on defaulting contractors. It should be noted that such sanctions are given out by the Ministry of Public Contracts where applicable.

The South West Region last year benefited from 290 projects amounting to 5 billion FCFA and the total execution rate stood at 77%.

This year over 300 projects are expected to transform the region’s development platform as 6 billion FCFA has been reportedly kept aside for the purpose. It should noted that the sum of 1 billion FCFA for over 10 projects have increased the development purse of the Region this year.

Quizzed on why many contracts end up uncompleted and abandoned, Ngaima noted that, inaccessibility of certain areas, heavy rains in the region, its topography and the unbearable fact that some contractors are too unserious and fond of abandoning projects in the field.

Ngaima called on contractors to be judicious and patriotic in the execution of projects and that the monthly follow-up will do well.