The Minister of Public Works (Mintp), Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, has terminated the contract of the company Bofas Sarl, as part of the rehabilitation work on the Babadjou-Bamenda road between the West and the North West region.
The company specializing in road construction is accused of abandoning work and non-compliance with contractual clauses. The decision to pathways with Bofas Sarl is contained in a release made public this week by the Ministry of Public Works.
According to MINTP, the company was expected to complete the road stretch on October 17, 2023. But in July 2023, during the last site visit carried out by Minister Djoumessi, there was a risk of postponement of the delivery date of work on the road.
This is the second deal that the Bofas company is reported to have lost in the space of three months. Last November 2023, its contract for the construction of the 49KM Esse-Soa road was terminated for the same reason with the project valued at about CFA 29 billion.
However, the project to rehabilit
ate the Babadjou-Bamenda axis (nearly 52 km) on the Yaoundé-Enugu corridor is financed by the World Bank to the tune of CFA 110 billion. In its configuration, the Babadjou-Bamenda road axis has four sections: section 1 Babadjou-Matazem (with a distance of 17km), section 2 Matazem and Welcome to Bamenda (18KM), section 3 Bamenda up to Hill station bypass (near of 5 KM) and the last batch consists of the construction of the urban crossing of the city of Bamenda (nearly 12 km). Only the works along the first section of the road have been completed to over 92%.
Source: Cameroon News Agency
The Ministry of Health will roll out vaccination of the Human papillomavirus (HPV) in all 47 counties to curb increasing cases of cervical cancer in the country.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) National Cancer Institute Dr. Elias Melly said that the government will meet the cost of the vaccine and he called for an end to the myths associated with the vaccine while assuring the country that the vaccine was safe.
He pointed out that statistics in the country indicate that every year 44,000 people are diagnosed with cancer out of which 28,000 were women, most of whom are diagnosed with cervical cancer.
Dr. Melly who was speaking to Community Health Promoters (CHP) in Bungoma said that according to World Health Organization (WHO) requirements, the vaccine is administered to girls at the age of 15 years, while all women in the age bracket between 35and 45 would be screened and those found infected will receive treatment.
He said that cervical cancer can be prevented if detected early through screening and ev
entually treatment and asked women to take the vaccination exercise seriously.
Dr. Melly pointed out that every year 3,600 women in the country are diagnosed with cervical cancer out of which 67 percent die every year, a situation he said can be averted if the women are sensitized on the importance of screening and vaccination.
He said that the Ministry of Health will train Community Health Promoters (CHP) on Cancer to enable them impart the same education to the community at the grass root level.
HPV is a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI).
Source: Kenya News Agency
