The new campus is expected to house 46 buildings and a population of between 1,200 and 1,500 people.
Joseph Beti Assomo, Minister Delegate to the Presidency of the Republic in charge of Defense (Mindef) carried out yesterday, Thursday, October 19, 2023, a visit to the site to house the new campus of the Joint Military School (EMIA) in the locality of Ekoum-Abang, district of Awae department of Mefou-et-Afamba in the Center region.
According to the inventory drawn up by the military engineers in charge of the work, we learn that the earthworks started a month ago. The new campus is expected to house 46 buildings and a population of between 1,200 and 1,500 people. The said work will be carried out in three phases.
According to the information contained in the Cameroon Tribune newspaper of this Friday, October 20, 2023, during the first phase, the development of a multi-sports area, the erection of the security fence, the construction of the probationary year are planned. , the EMIA commander’s post, common infrastructure (fuel and ammunition bunkers, firing range, officers’ mess.
This will allow the reception, initially, of 400 male officer cadets, 80 female officer cadets, 20 officer cadres and 36 non-official officers. The new structure will have two football fields, three multi-sport fields, a hairdressing salon, a semi-Olympic swimming pool, an amphitheater with 500 seats each, a refectory, a foyer, an officers’ hotel, dormitories, a library, a multimedia room, a police station, a hospital with morgue among others.
