“One could not say it enough, to illustrate the importance of the accord signed yesterday between the government of Cameroon and Chad , for the construction of an electrical interconnection and the electrification of cross-border localities in both countries. The act was signed by the State Minister, Chadian Minister of Mines and Energy, Mahamat Ali Abdallah Nassour and the Cameroonian minister fore Energy and Water, Jean Bernard Sindeu.
Beyond the fact of being purely for protocol, according to the two principal actors at the ceremony held yesterday in Yaoundé, it reflects the will by both countries to enter into a concrete phase of positive cooperation. In the area of Energy, there is a matter of regaining the ground lost by the Central-African sub-region. The area of cooperation is one in which there is great need for a boost. This resolve is championed by the Heads of Sate of the sub-region, in the creation of the Central African Power Pool (CAPP/PEAC). The experience undertaken by Cameroon and Chad is pioneering in this regard, which had been to prepare the groundwork for an area, in the eyes of many, would stimulate the rapid economic development of the cross-border communities affected.
In the area of investments, it would involve the construction of a hydroelectric facility at Warack, to compensate for the threats of saturation at the Lagdo dam. Also, two transportation lines will be needed, one of 255km between Maroua and Kousseri an another 5km line between Kousseri and N'Djamena, also a domestic network. Equally, many transformation stations and fittings on the existing network are planned. The total cost of this project is estimated at about 33.6 millions FCFA(USD$73,726), based on estimates from 1998.
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