Implementation rate of PIB in 2015 remains slow in the West

The finding was made on Friday at Bangou during the security meeting chaired by the governor Augustine Awa Fonka.

Despite the December 2011 reform with the creation of the Department of Procurement, the rate of implementation of the Public Investment Budget (PIB) has not achieved the desired results.

At the end of April, this rate has stagnated at less than 5% in the Western region. To try to see more clearly and especially how to improve this rate, the governor Augustine Awa Fonka has placed this issue at the center of the security meeting in the first half of the region which was held last Friday in Bangou, in the Hauts-plateaux.

For a little more than three hours, the various heads of departments of Public Works, Economy, Public Procurement, PNDP, the Feicom, mayors and deputies exchanged their opinions.

The reasons given to justify the low implementation rate are, among others, the lack of competent personnel in the public, non-professional contractors who are mostly businessmen, the lack of synergy in the controls, abnormally low tenders leading to the abandonment of projects ...

But the end of the story is the lack of real authority according to the prefect Bamboutos. To believe Pierre René Songa, the contracting authority has the authority to impose itself in the system today. It also advocates to strike the right balance between respecting the rules of procedure and the need for the site to improve the living conditions of populations.

Augustine Awa Fonka, finds it unacceptable the low implementation rate in a region like the West that is accessible unlike others like the Far North and East that have many areas landlocked. This is why he has asked each actor in the system of public markets to do their job at the next safety meeting because things have changed.

For the second theme of the day, Augustine Awa Fonka recalled that the fight against insecurity, hygiene, safety and ethics must be a collective responsibility. The governor challenged the actors of the transport sector to be more vigilant and responsible in order to end the multiple accidents recorded on the roads in the region which since the beginning of the year have claimed many lives.