Making of a Seaside Resort City:

Gov’t Endorses Limbe’s Down-Beach Project

The Minister Delegate to the MINEPAT, Paul Njukang Tasong last week travelled to Limbe and launched the start of feasibility studies for the Limbe Left Bank Development Project. The project had been lying fallow in the drawers for almost a decade.

By Ticha Melanis in Limbe

H.E Paul Tasong & L’be beach project stakeholders

The minister delegate at the ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development Paul Tasong has assured the people of Limbe that the “Limbe Left Bank Maritime Development project” which is at its concession and pre-feasibility level will enable the seaside resort city to move a huge mile in terms of its growth and improvement of the livelihood of the Limbe people. The project which has been lying fallow in the drawers of the City Council since eight years is estimated to cost 60 billion CFA and it is to be executed within 10 years. And MINDEL MINEPAT promised to assist in all it facets to realize the project.

                He made the assurance during a workshop to present and appropriate the project to the different actors and stakeholders. The workshop took place on Tuesday December 11 at the Limbe city council conference hall.

                Minister Paul Tasong said that as part of the vision 2035, the government is committed to strengthening local councils and to promote local development for the wellbeing of the population.

                The project which will be one of the first of its kind to be realized in a maritime zone in Cameroon will spread over an area of about 40 hectares of which 10 is habitable. It will constitute a conference center with a 4000 seat capacity, a history museum, a hotel complex consisting of 200 rooms and suits, a restaurant that can hoist 400 persons, multipurpose buildings amongst other facilities.

                With all the key actors of the project present at the workshop, Minister Tasong presented some of the possible challenges that the project might face. These include structural transformation of the town to a modern city; ensure that the project is technically and financially mature; evacuate all the technical challenges that may face the project amongst others. 

                He urged the actors in the project to make sure they know their roles and be ready and able to work to achieve the realization of the project even though a great number of fishermen have refused to relocate to the new site at Mondoni.

                Considering the strategic importance of the project whose operational phase is imminent, the government through MINEPAT will carry out a sensitization and mobilization campaign in view to inform the people about the project. 

                In his welcome address, the Government Delegate to the Limbe city council Andrew Motanga Monjimba thanked MINEPAT for throwing its weight behind the council. He said Limbe has been a tourist destination since 1961 and the project will add to its reputation as an art and culture hub.

                Present at the workshop was the Governor of the Southwest region, Senior Divisional office of Fako, Elected representatives in the southwest region, Experts from consulting firms and a whole host of other dignitaries.