International Jobs on the Menchum Hydropower Project (UPDATE/MORE INFO) REPLY

Hey guys,

lets take a look at the company Mr Tumasang says will construct the Menchum hydro electric dam if there is such a thing in the first place. First ry by accesing the website of this company which is
http://www.nkohtekencorp.com/OilGas_and_Chemicals.html

(By Divine)

Dear Mr Divine,

I never said the above is building the dam. The minister states that it is to be built by Chinese. The sponsors and owners of the project are in greater part Americans. Above statement does not represent the situation.

The bunch of South Africa's you mentioned above claim to be involved in some design work inone shape or another in the dam and needs workers. I am not sure of them. Might be a front for a Bamenda feyman looking for money or they might be genuine. I do not know and I do not care. I have no business with them and do not intend to have any business with them. If anyone wants to deal with them, he should do his own due diligence. I said this before and I am saying it again. Do not be conned by South Africans or South African based outfits and blame Dr Tumasang. I am not linked to them in anyway watsoever. Buyer beware.

In the UK, I have seen a guy who used to work for a large recruitment agency branch off and starting from his basement, and without even a website yet, was placing people in top jobs using his experience and former contacts. Website is an indication but not the ultimate test of the viability of a company. Do your due diligence properly including but not limited to a website.

On the issue of priority of projects. I am at a loss candidly and will not even want to be engaged in it. Funding for ring road and hydro electric dam are from difference sources hence the issue of priority is moot. The nexus between the two is at most teneous. The sequential ordering of the projects in some form of heirarchical order of value is an exercise in futility. Private independent power projects by investors are being carried out in Nigeria and various countries without linking the projects to some ring road or roads.

The sponsors of the project have some international reputation in such projects in other climes. The information about the office in Bamenda and the guys in SA has been given. Anyone can use it as they deem fit or ignore it. I recommend that you can send your CV to any outfit whether in Bamenda or South Africa but please NEVER SEND MONEY

Regards

Tumasang

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:16:15 -0700
Subject: Re: [camnetwork] International Jobs on the Menchum Hydropower Project (UPDATE/MORE INFO)

Hey guys,

lets take a look at the company Mr Tumasang says will construct the Menchum hydro electric dam if there is such a thing in the first place. First ry by accesing the website of this company which is
http://www.nkohtekencorp.com/OilGas_and_Chemicals.html

I cannot boast of having any experience in constructing websites but this one is very amateurish. Apart from disclosing no trace of geographical location of the company there is hardly any telephone number through which any contact could be made. I am sure there are programs on the net that can allow anybody interested to generate varieties of website designs with the touch of a button.

But even if there is such a heavy project in the pipeline in Cameroon, why would it be so disconnected from the so called ring road project? Does it sound realistic that such heavy projects in one area could be so distant from one another - and which would logic allow to take precedence over the other in construction? Of course, the Ring Road or at least that portion of it leading to the supposed proposed dam construction site. Will the dam serve as a bridge on the ring road which to me should be the case? And if so why should priority not be given to the stretch of road from Bamenda to Befang?
This seems to be a poorly constructed falsehood whose purpose is yet to be determined. And above all where in Cameroon has any such gigantic project been left in the hands of a mere minister?
Finally on the site of this Nkotehken Company they mentioned something as being part of the six companies involved in the Construction of the Hoover Dam in Colorado - also called Boulder Dam - in the 1930s. Well, Wikipedia seem not to support that as the article below shows.
So those Cameroon engineers who are in a hurry to apply for jobs in this company remember the old saying "Look before you leap"
FEN

So please Cameroonians kindly acquaint yourself with this about the Hoover Dam

Design, preparation and contracting

Hoover Dam architectural plans

Even before Congress approved the Boulder Canyon Project, the Bureau of Reclamation was considering what kind of dam should be used. Officials eventually decided on a massive concrete arch-gravity dam, the design of which was overseen by the Bureau's chief design engineer John L. Savage. The monolithic dam would be thick at the bottom and thin near the top, and would present a convex face towards the water above the dam. The curving arch of the dam would transmit the water's force into the abutments, in this case the rock walls of the canyon. The wedge-shaped dam would be 660 ft (200 m) thick at the bottom, narrowing to 45 ft (14 m) at the top, leaving room for a highway connecting Nevada and Arizona.^[21]
On January 10, 1931, the Bureau made the bid documents available to interested parties, at five dollars a copy. The government was to provide the materials; but the contractor was to prepare the site and build the dam. The dam was described in minute detail, covering 100 pages of text and 76 drawings. A $2 million bid bond was to accompany each bid; the winner would have to post a $5 million performance bond. The contractor had seven years to build the dam, or penalties would ensue.^[22]
The Wattis Brothers, heads of the Utah Construction Company, were interested in bidding on the project, but lacked the money for the performance bond. They lacked sufficient resources even in combination with their longtime partners, Morrison-Knudsen, which employed the nation's leading dam builder, Frank Crowe. They formed a joint venture to bid for the project with Pacific Bridge Company of Portland, Oregon; Henry J. Kaiser & W. A. Bechtel Company of San Francisco; MacDonald & Kahn Ltd. of Los Angeles; and the J.F. Shea Company of Portland, Oregon.^[23] The joint venture was called Six Companies, Inc.—Bechtel and Kaiser were considered one company for purposes of the name. The name was descriptive and was an inside joke among the San Franciscans in the bid—"Six Companies" was a Chinese benevolent association in the city.^[24] There were three valid bids, and Six Companies' bid of $48,890,955 was the lowest, within $24,000 of the confidential government estimate of what the dam would cost to build, and five million dollars less than the next lowest bid.
^{(From Wikipedia)[25]}

--- On Thu, 8/30/12, ASONGANYI WALTER <asonganyi@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: ASONGANYI WALTER <asonganyi@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [camnetwork] International Jobs on the Menchum Hydropower Project (UPDATE/MORE INFO)
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Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 6:45 AM

Tumasang,

Thanks for bringing the Menchum project profile power point presentation. I did had assess to something similar, when funding was being sort after. As to some of the explanations on the two companies incorporated with head offices in Bamenda can you lift the veil as to ownership and members of those two companies? Are they registered in Cameroon or of foreign origins?
Ndi Nkem
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tumasang Martin <tumasangm@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:40:08
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Subject: [camnetwork] International Jobs on the Menchum Hydropower Project
(UPDATE/MORE INFO) [1 Attachment]

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Dear All,

This Project is for real. Attached is a presentation by My Bambili Classmate who is an Engineer/Banker with the African Development Bank. He has done on the project the type of work Susungi et al did on the Bamenda Abakiliki road. Our boys are deeply embedded and making sure the projects come to light and the funding is available so that before the investors come to Cameroon, the funding is already there and Cameroon finds it difficult to refuse or cancel some of the projects.

Below is the link to the jobs on Menchum Power Project. They are based in SA. I have NOT done any due diligence on them so please check them out before dealing with them.

http://www.nkohtekencorp.com/Hot_Jobs.html

There is a Bamenda Company incorporated in Bamenda (our boys again are working hard) who are partners or representatives or agents of the americans building the dam. The Chinese are just Contractors who have offered the cheapest price for the Construction. Not all jobs will be with the Contractor. Below are their details and information about them. PLEASE contact them in BAMENDA on more details about the project and on any job openings. Thanks to our embedded boys, various roads are leading to Bamenda at the moment.

http://mppcam.com/about.htm

About Us
Menchum Power Project Limited is one of Cameroon?s promising power generation independent Power Producer. MPP plans to build, operate and own a diverse portfolio of independent power plants across West Africa. These power plants will encompass a broad range of technologies and fuel types, ranging from hydropower plants and renewable forms of energy such as biomass, and solar. MPP?s Headquarters is located in Bamenda, Cameroon

History
Incorporated in late 2009, MPP is the product of years of thought provoking and brainstorming sessions between the two main promoters, Stake Capital Ltd and Agreenergy Ltd respectively. This idea translated into a full working relationship that saw the 2 partners decide to come together, bound by a joint development agreement and latter an MOU from the Republic of Cameroon to develop and operate Electricity generation facilities and to become a flagship company in Africa.

Future Goals
MPP intends to complete the Menchum Power project and go forward to build and run other hydropower projects in Africa.

Contact us for more info <http://mppcam.com/contact.htm>

REgards

Tumasang

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