Bamenda- Enugu Road Project in Cameroon and Nigeria to be Completed this Year

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The African Development Bank (AfDB) through President Akinwunmi Adesina recently announced that the Bamenda- Enugu Road Project, which is being implemented partly in Cameroon and Nigeria to connect the Central and the West African countries, will be completed before the end of the current year.

Adesina made the disclosure in a speech he made at the 59th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government in Ghana.

The project, which is a part of the Trans-African Highway that was conceived over 30 years ago as a transcontinental link from Lagos to Mombasa, entails the construction of the Cameroonian Bamenda-Mamfe-Ekok road sections on the RN 6 with a total of 203 km, the Nigerian road sections (240 km), the bridge over the Munaya River in Cameroon (100 m) and the border bridge over the Cross River (230 m).

The project is financed by the AfDB alongside the World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Government of Nigeria, the Government of Cameroon, and the ECOWAS.

The objective of the project

Overall, the Bamenda- Enugu Road Project is expected to help increase trade and strengthen cooperation between countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and those of the ECOWAS in general, and between Cameroon and Nigeria, in particular.

More specifically, it seeks to improve the efficiency of the logistic chain of transport along the Bamenda-Enugu corridor, as well as the living environment of the populations of the project area.

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Its benefits have already been felt by the population within the project area even before its completion. The project has contributed to job creation and private sector expansion by facilitating the marketing of agricultural produce in the zone with improved access via the highway and rural feeder roads.

It has also improved social and rural infrastructure, including access to schools, markets, drying beds for agricultural produce, cassava, and oil processing mills among others.

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