In Douala we are used to saying: ”When Mbassa Dine says he does.” The city is launching BRT construction work by December 2023.
This week, the city of Douala released a press release inviting populations living along the BRT project route to register for compensation.
The energy deployed to put an end to the compensation testifies to the seriousness of the project owner, the first step before the start of the work. Estimated at 12 billion FCFA, this amount represents the state’s share of this project.
A project management that gets people talking because it is totally different from road projects which sometimes last an eternity in Cameroon and whose pretext most often put forward is the liberation of rights-of-way by local populations.
Valued at 335.3 billion FCFA, the BRT project benefited from a loan of 260.8 billion FCFA from the World Bank. Public-private partnerships mobilized 62.1 billion FCFA of the remaining envelope and the Cameroonian government contributed 12.4 billion FCFA.
