By Etienne Mainimo Mengnjo,

The Piccini Group, constructing Paul Biya Stadium, have been urged to increase productivity in order to comply with delivery times.

The call was made on September 13 by Naseri Paul Bea, chairman of the Yaoundé City Site Committee of Total 2019 African Cup of Nations, AFCON, during his contact tour of evaluation.

While investigating the state of the superstructure of 60,000 seats, the chairman who doubles as the Governor of the Center Region appreciated the level of work so far covered.

“A lot of developments has been made but there are still more efforts to provide. I urged you to increase your productivity in order to comply with delivery times,” Naseri Paul Bea said.

Since the recent visit to the Confederation of African Football, CAF, last month, a lot has improved in the construction of the stadium as an outer ring of the stadium is been arranged by the 600-ton mobile crane. Currently, the official forum is covered with graphs except the first and second level.

In the part of ward robes, compartment work has advanced. The same applies to the installation of the current technology in all parts of the stadium. The latter concerns the pipeline, connecting and cable system for plumbing, electricity, ventilation and wireless Internet.

in the different gradings work is going on as the prerequisites for next seating installation will be done once the cover work is completed. Outside the main enclosure the first lawn of the grass nursery as the paspalum vaginatum species will be transplanted into annexes A and B stadium.

In the second segment dedicated to the main stage, the plants planted 15 days ago already have positive results. Identity for both training courses, which the courts and the vestiaries are finishing. On the playground, it will take up to three weeks to complete the work of covering the drainage materials and the planting of the grass.

Given that the next CAF inspection scheduled to begin in November 2018 will be a decisive step in the process of organizing Total AFCON by Cameroon, the Minister of Sport and physical Education has intensified inspections visit to the various sites in accordance with the contractual deadlines and recommendations of the third CAF inspection mission.