Yaoundé and Douala to get 8 emergency police posts

The precarious security threats which Cameroon is currently witnessing has pushed the state to collect 492.5 million FCfa from the Special Fund for an emergency plan to build eight police posts in the two largest metropolitan areas of the country.

In 12 months, Yaoundé and Douala will be equipped with new police posts. Through a restricted tender published on July 21, the Minister of Public Procurement, Abba Sadou, introduced a bid for nine BTP establishments to submit proposals for geotechnical investigation, monitoring and control to build five police posts in Yaoundé and three others in Douala. The security setting in Cameroon, with terrorist attacks by the Boko Haram sect, explains these emergency constructions.

Real estate project cost: 492.5 billion FCfa; an amount which was taken from the special funds for the emergency plan in December 2014. In detail, a Commissariat at Tsinga (53 million FCfa); Ekounou (53 million FCfa); Mokolo and Odza (65.5 million FCfa each); the same cost for a station in the peripheral zone of Mbalmayo, all in Yaoundé.

This makes a total of 303 million FCfa. At Douala, the government will incur twice the amount of 65.5 million FCfa for a police post, which will be erected at the Camp Pondi and Bonanjo. Another, with a value of 58 million FCfa will be built at Manoka. The building will have four offices for heads of unit, eight for deputy heads and 10 for judicial police officers.

“The opening of administrative and technical bids will be on August 28 by the Prime Minister of the Special Commission of procurement in respect to the three-year emergency plan, in the presence of the bidders or their representatives. The financial offers will be stripped in the same conditions at a later date. Only a single lot can be assigned to a bidder in respect to this solicitation,” indicated the Minister of markets.

Before the emergency plan adopted on December 31, 2013, President Paul Biya had earlier required a new three-year plan covering diverse areas like social housing, the development of small infrastructure, livestock, among others between 2015-2017. Five banks, including four national and an international, part of the plan implementation had a funding which amounted to 925 billion FCfa.

They include the Standard Chartererd Bank Cameroon with 300 billion; Deutsche Bank Madrid for 300 billion, with a first installment of 8,528 billion; the Atlantic Bank Cameroon with 190 billion; the BGFI Bank Cameroon for 100 billion and Ecobank Cameroun for 35 billion.