National Assembly : the leadership of NHPC received Cameroon - France Parliamenry Friendship Group

The leadership of the Nachtigal Hydro power plant project and it's entire work force of 3700 persons received august visitors today 28 July 2022. This high profiled delegation was the Cameroon - France Parliamenry Friendship Group that was led by Hon. Zam Jean Jacques, Vice President of the Friendship Group. The delegation arrived the project site at exactly 11:00am and they were received by Mr. Pierre Edimo, the assistant Director General of the Nachtigal Hydro Power Company (NHPC) which is the company executing the project. Before leaving for the project site proper, the assistant director general held a short briefing session with the MPs together with his close collaborators. 

The first stage of the inspection visit was at the level of the construction section that will host the reservoirs. The second phase took the MPs to the Dam which is also under construction. The third phase was at the way channel that is responsible of taking water from up stream down to the production center. The last part of the guided visit was to the production and exportation zones. In each of the stops, one of the engineers and the assistant Director General explained to the MPs the technical functionalities of the going construction. They also answered all the preoccupations of the visiting MPs. In one of the stops the engineer told the MPs that the project is already at a 64% realization progress rate. 

It is worthy to make mention that this giant project will go a long way to boost the energy capacity of the South interconnected network of national energy supply line with the production of 420mega watt upon completion in two years time as it was further revealed by the assistant Director General. It was also made mentioned that this will contribute to 30% of the national electricity consumption. 

Other interesting revelations in this fact finding mission include the fact that 95% of workers of this project are nationals and just 5% are expatriates. Among the 95% locals, 30% are people within the area and the rest are from far off locations around the Country. The second revelation is that the project is worth 800 billion Franc Cfa and it is a public - private sponsorship. This holds that international development institutions like the French Electricity Company (EDF, Électricité de France), the Cameroon Government as well as local commercial banks are involved in the financing of the project. 

It is also very important to note that NHPC has duly compensated the families whose Houses were destroyed due to the construction of this project by building them new Houses. Get full details of this field mission with the audios, videos and pictures attached to this publication.

By Ekema Emmanuel Likine, Celcor / Christian Zam, CEA.