The Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, MINMIDT, Prof. Fuh Calistus Gentry, has begun week-long working activities to implement Cameroon’s industrialization master plan to be effective come 2026.
According to MINMIDT Boss, Prof. Fuh Calistus Gentry, “our visit here seeks to touch the base and to ensure Cameroonians that the State is doing very well to improve the future of it citizens. I want to assure all the youths that Cameroon is under construction. We are building mines in Kribi and from next year we shall start the Adamawa project and the whole country will be under construction. As you saw today we were at BOCOM which is doing very best in the import substitution scenario,” he told reporters in Douala yesterday.
“We shall also be in the South West to see the tire factory that we are trying to develop and also the place where gas bottles are manufactured. That is why the director general Arnold is here to see thatrods, whiskey and everything that is to be produced follow the norms”, he said.
“We will be in the South West to assure the people that, they should get down to work and take their rightful place because we want to produce tire from CDC rubber, we want to inaugurate the industry that will produce agro elementary products and we want to assure the South West that they have one of the greatest project in their back yard which is the trans-frontier gas project between Equatorial Guinea and the South West region which will be one of the largest concerns in Africa. So I’ve come to assure Cameroonians that the government is working very hard to better their lives,” Prof. Fuh Calistus reiterated.
In order to implement the industrialization master plan, the government has mapped out a number of strategies to increase the density of Cameroon’s industrial fabric.
According to public Cameroonian authorities, PDI is meant to increase the contribution of the industrial sector in the creation of GDP in the country. Indeed, this contribution is officially at 13% currently. The PDI should help bring it to 24% at least by 2035, a deadline that Cameroon set itself to become an emerging country.
Going by the reaction of Prof. Fuh Calistus Gentry, from the percentage of alcohol found in a sachet of whisky, “if one is allowed to consume a bottle of whiskey of 60 percent, to be honest with you, such a person can never be fine”. Sachet whiskey is dangerous and as the government has said, you’ll not have any additional one minute to the stipulated time.
Sachet whisky and the fight against counterfeiting:
An analysis of the alcohol content and the presence of sucrose in marketed drinks will make it possible to guarantee the quality of products placed on the market.
In order to curb plastic pollution which has become a serious environmental hazard, waywardness of the youths, MINMIDT is calling on the different companies in production of whisky to package their products via glass bottles and not plastic-made bottles.
Emphasis on Strategy to Better Lives of its citizens:
The strategy highlights the import-substitution policy introduced by the government and implemented by MINMIDT to make life better for citizens. For instance tiles production units at KEDA in the Southern region and SOUZA in the Littoral region.
With the development of industry in Cameroon, taking the tangible case of Bauxite, Cameroon is becoming the first country in Africa to have a complete Bauxite-Alumina-Aluminium processing industry. A job niche for many young people.
Talks with GDC
Aware that industry will close if GAS is not supplied, this mission aims to reiterate the government’s position, which is working to densify Cameroon’s industrial fabric. Discussions with Gaz du Cameroun (GDC) officials are aimed at renewing the MATANDA and BOMONO licenses.
SW lap
The visit to the South-West region is to promote a return to peace and stability. MINMIDT is working in this direction for the recovery of the industrial sector in the said region. The visit will include a visit to the GREENFIELD company, a gas cylinder manufacturer, a visit to a tiles and building materials production unit in SOUZA.
Cement price
Government is bent on reducing the price of cement with the emergence of several cement factories. These efforts revolve around several points. Among others:
– Negotiations are also ongoing to considerably reduce the price of clinker, the main input used in cement production.
– The introduction of new measures to replace clinker with less expensive materials such as clay in cement production.
– Finally, boosting local clinker production to reduce imports.
