Cooperation Cameroon-Turkey

By LUKONG Pius NYUYLIME, Cameroon Tribune,11-09-2013 

Turkey, the country with one of the largest contemporary construction industries in the World today has agreed to build about 620 administrative houses in Cameroon.

The signing by a consortium of Turkish companies of an agreement with the Cameroon government last Tuesday, September 10 is not only hope rekindling but makes solid new found partnership with something completely different in the building sector. To go by the terms of the agreement, the group of Turkish companies will construct 30 sovereign residences for personalities, 40 houses for members of government, 50 for government authorities and 500 other structures for senior workers. According to the agreement the Turks will equally build three Ministerial complexes.

Things appear to have been programmed to move at a lightning speed with feasibility studies undertaken soonest, followed by the financial evaluation of the project. The construction of the said administrative structures as stated by the Turkish Ambassador, Omer Faruk Dogan, during the signing ceremony organised to immortalise the agreement, will open floodgate of experience-sharing.

In effect, Turkey’s industrialisation was more or less done without extensive external influence and that makes for its uniqueness. That said, it is important to note that the initiative which many Cameroonians are surely appreciative of, is the concrete translation of the diplomatic node President Paul Biya and Turkish President Abdullah Gül tide between Yaounde and Ankara during their exchange of State visits.>>>