Yaounde City Council boosts road works with seven new heavy-duty machinery

The Yaounde City Council has upgraded its road construction equipment with seven new machinery. These include one excavator, a grader, one shovel loader, one backhoe loader and three dump trucks. 

The items were received by the City Mayor, Luc Messi Atangana March 05, 2024 at the esplanade of the City Council, in the presence of staff, traditional rulers and senior councilors, members of the Infrastructural Committee of the Council. 

“This equipment, which consists of civil engineering machinery, was ordered by the City Council to enable it to carry out its duties and meet the needs of the town’s residents, particularly with regards to road maintenance,” the City Mayor explained.

The devices, it should be worth noting, were purchased by the City Council from its own funds, with a view to increase its road maintenance autonomy which in most cases, is placed in the hands of contractors. The equipment were purchased and delivered within three weeks, as against the stipulated two-month period. 

Mayor Luc Messi Atangana added: “the equipment will be supplemented in the coming weeks by two other very, very important pieces of equipment. The asphalt production machine and the paver, the machine used to lay the asphalt, which will enable us to work more quickly.”

The recent road construction machines add to those purchased last year for a similar purpose. They included four medium-sized compactors, a mobile electric generator to facilitate road works at night. 

With these, ongoing rehabilitations across multiple stretches of the city are expected to speed up.

“I would ask our people to have a little patience and understanding, and to know that the City Council is doing all this with its own resources, which are very inadequate compared to the town’s many needs. But we believe that by October 2024 at the latest, the face of the city will change substantially in terms of its roads and public spaces,” the City Mayor remarked.