By Francis Ekongang Nzante
Dr. Taiga, the Minister of Livestock, Fishery and Animal Industry has inaugurated the newly constructed Main Office of CDENO, the Northwest Livestock Development Fund in Bamenda. This inauguration exercise took place on Thursday December 18th.
The Minister during this brief working visit to Bamenda also visited some projects presently being carried out by the Regional Services of the Ministry of Livestock, Fishery and Animal Industry in the North West Region. The main project visited was the Hatchery which according to the Director of CDENO Mbah Shuppong Michael was going to greatly boost the production of Day-old-chicks in the North West Region.
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Speaking during the Inaugural Ceremony, the Minister said the structure was meant to boost the image of CDENO and also called on the staff and stakeholders to make good use of the structure. He said enhancing the activities of Livestock Breeders was a sure way to alleviate poverty and recalled that a large number of animals had been vaccinated in the Region in the year that was just rounding up.
Meantime, Ndoh David, the Deputy City Mayor in his welcome address said the giant structure was going to give a facelift to the city adding that the Hatchery in Bamenda was a welcome facility for people involved in poultry.
Mbah Shuppong Michael, the Director of CDENO said the capacity of the new building could host the facility for the next 40 years. “We took into consideration the expectations of the Northwest Livestock Development Fund, since this structure will be reorganised very soon and will extend to other areas because it is already classified among the fifth category of Parastatals in this country. When a place is growing, you have prospects that you have to meet up with as you are growing.”
Mr Mbah Shuppong Michael further said that there was now an innovation which was rare in the Region referring to the production of Day-old-chicks. These he said were formerly brought in from the West and Littoral Regions. “The North West will have an opportunity of producing them on the spot and a building like this will boost the moral of the staff and certainly the quantity and quality of the services of the Livestock Breeders.”
Meantime, Nchunka Stephen Nchang, the General Manager of the “Urban and Rural Development Foundation” (URUDEF Construction), the company that executed the construction of the new CDENO main office in Bamenda said the structure was executed in two faces. Phase one he said was in 2019 while the Second Phase was in November 2020.
“What is happening here today is an Administrative procedure. The technical handing over was already done and I am here today because the project owner is happy with what I did and called me to be here.”
The new L shaped building is a one floor story building with 18 office rooms equipped with air conditions, 10 equipped modern toilets, one strong room built with reinforced concrete, one canteen, one conference hall and a double car park. The structure is equally equipped with both internal and external security cameras and a high speed internet facility as well as an intelcom connection in most of the offices, Nchunka Stephen Nchang intimated.
URUDEV Construction Company Mr Nchunka Stephen Nchang said was an old company that had been involved in major construction projects. He mentioned the Faculty of Health Sciences in the University of Bamenda as one of the projects so far realised by URUDEV Construction Company. He said it was an old construction Company that had partnered with structures like HELVETAS Cameroon covering their projects in the Northwest, Southwest and West Regions.
Recounting challenges encountered during the execution of the project, he mentioned difficulties in payment when bills were presented coupled with pressure from project owners which he said were regular problems that contractors encountered in Cameroon.
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