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| Portuguese’s Irmaos Mota Trans Africa |
A partnership agreement has been
signed between the government of Cameroon and the Portuguese bus
construction company, Irmaos Mota Trans Africa for the provision of
urban buses to Cameroon. The agreement was signed Tuesday, August 30, in
Yaoundé.
Following the
public-private partnership agreement, the Portuguese company will
provide Cameroon with 150 ultramodern air-conditioned buses to be used
for urban transportation in the cities of Limbe and Yaoundé only. While
endorsing the agreement, Transport Minister, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o
went further to disclose that the total cost of the project stands at 17
billion FRS and will run for 10 years. The government of Cameroon, as
per the agreement will own 10% of the shares and will subsidies
transportation fares for Cameroonians amounting to some 1.7 billion FRS
CFA, the Minister revealed.
Other
aspects of the contract include the construction of 26 bus terminals in
Yaoundé, 579 bus computerized bus stops, video surveillance and radio
communication. Each bus will have 39 seats while 52 other persons would
be able to stand during the journey.
Mebe
Ngo’o stressed that Paul Biya wants to go beyond the Nations Cup, which
is why the buses will not stop running after 2019. It was a happy
Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council, Andrew Motanga who spoke
over the national radio, and as usual thanked Paul Biya and promised to
judiciously use the buses.
These
buses will serve as a booster to the transport subsector of the African
Women’s and Men’s Nations cup to be hosted by Cameroon in 2016 and 2019
respectively, as 140 of them will be used for urban transportation
while 10 VIP will be reserved for the transportation of football
officials between Yaoundé and Limbe during the events.
This
is not the first time urban transport companies are being installed in
Cameroon. However, they never last for long. By the mid-1990s the
National Transport Company popularly known as SOTUC created in 1973 was
privatized.
SOURCE: The Cameroon Daily Journal
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