During the forum guest interview session, Cao Mo finally took the stage.
With his status, if he sits in the audience and listens indifferently, which guest can sit on the stage and talk without any distractions?
When Cao Mo sat on the stage, he did not target anyone with harsh words, but he did not hesitate to raise the issues of building the Mamba-Cotonou railway and developing the Gulf of Guinea Coastal Economic Corridor.
This issue itself does not conflict with today's topic, or even with the Bosso-Catro Steel Industrial Complex project.
Han Shaorong and the others didn't want to hear it, but there was nothing they could do to stop Cao Mo from raising it and leading a group of people to discuss it.
In the mid-1970s, when the Economic Community of West African States was established, it proposed a long-term vision for the development of West African industry and economy. The Mamba-Cotonou railway is part of the construction of the Gulf of Guinea coastal channel; and the Bosso-Katero railway
It is a branch of the Great Coastal Channel extending from Draculamo along the Ogun River to the eastern hinterland of Canem.
Countries have long thought about building in sections first and then connecting them to connect the entire Gulf of Guinea coastal area more closely and better promote economic development.
However, after the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States, coups and unrest occurred frequently in various countries. It was not until the mid-to-late 1990s that the political situation gradually stabilized. In addition, the economic development of various countries was uneven and their priorities were different. The construction plans for the Coastal Economic Corridor have been inconsistent.
After procrastinating and procrastinating, it still hasn’t come out of paper and implemented in practice.
Since the theme of today's forum is to talk about the economic and industrial development of West Africa, we cannot avoid the core issue of the Gulf of Guinea coastal channel and economic corridor.
Kanem, which occupies nearly 40% of the entire West African region and has more than 40% of the population, has always regarded itself as the leader of the Economic Community of West African States. Not only was the Economic Community of West African States the first to be established by Kanem, it was used to quell regional unrest and safeguard Guinea in its early years.
The stable West African peacekeeping intervention force in the Gulf region is also promoted by Kanem.
As the economic capital of Canem, Dracula Moor is also the Gulf of Guinea coastal channel, the most important link in the economic corridor. Truly opening up the Guinea coastal channel will inevitably greatly increase Dracula Moor’s radiating influence on surrounding areas.
force.
No matter from which aspect, Kanem should have the will and motivation to discuss and promote the development of the Coastal Economic Corridor.
However, the development and structure of Kanem's domestic economy were full of problems. In the early years, they put forward some concepts too hard, but in the end they were unable to implement them. Naturally, they died down in the later period.
Even though there are officials and members of the Kanem federal government constantly mentioning this matter, the media and the public are too shy to take up this topic, and even more shy to amplify it.
In addition to the urgent need to promote the construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway, Cornero Energy has also begun to promote the construction of the coastal cross-border transmission network in the Gulf of Guinea in sections.
Its purpose and function are to open up the coastal power transmission channels along the Gulf of Guinea and connect scattered and small-scale regional power grids.
Cao Mo naturally had a position and was qualified to raise this important issue again in such a public place.
Of course, Cao Mo
Today is just an introduction to the topic. Can Kanem soon regain his will as a leader to promote the development of the Gulf of Guinea Coastal Economic Corridor? This is the political arena of Blake, Ojosan, Bertich, Abacha and others.
Things that old and new people have to work hard to promote.
He is also not on the list of President Buhari to meet tomorrow.
Today's forum activity is not too formal. He intervened temporarily. People like Liang Yuan and Chen Ruhao are really not qualified to disperse him.
However, President Buhari will attend the event tomorrow, and the list of personnel has been submitted for review in advance. If they want to be added temporarily, they need to be reviewed and approved by the President's Office in advance.
If political figures from all parties, led by President Buhari, actively promote it and the Benin authorities are willing to bear all the costs of the construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway, this railway will also greatly open the bottleneck of resource export in central and northern Akwa.
The Akwa authorities, as well as Mamba, Kroono, Drake and other places are all troubled by this bottleneck. Even if the Saiwei family holds a grudge against Tianyue, they must carefully consider the political risks of insisting on going their own way.
After the interview session, Cao Mo sat back in the audience and discussed the details of the planning and construction of the Mamba-Cotonou railway with Peng Wensheng, the ambassador to Benin, and Ji Mingdong, deputy general manager of China Railway Construction.
This railway is not long. To abandon the cheaper narrow-gauge solution with severely limited capacity and build a dedicated freight line based on standard rails, a total investment of US$600 million is required.
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Benin's national strength is weak and it is difficult to squeeze out this construction fund.
The most ideal solution is for China Railway Construction to undertake the construction, with the endorsement of the Benin authorities, and to apply for a special loan from the National Export-Import Bank; if there are difficulties with this, Cao Mo will try his best to raise the corresponding construction funds in the name of Atlantic Union Bank.
The key to the problem is that the Sevi authorities must no longer resist the construction of this railway.
Whether China Railway Construction can play a greater role depends on whether the domestic economic and political strategy for Africa places West Africa in a more important position.
Apart from spending most of his time in Africa, Cao Mo also had very little contact with the government when he returned home.
Not to mention Cao Mo, Peng Wensheng, as the ambassador to Benin, is actually a marginalized official. His vision of the global economic and political strategies of domestic high-level officials is not as good as that of senior managers of central enterprises such as Ji Mingdong.
"We are now vigorously promoting industrial development abroad, and central enterprises are the vanguard. China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, China Railway Construction, China National Mining Corporation, etc. are now actively exploring markets in Africa, but when it comes to the specific issue of whether the Mamba-Cotonou railway can gain foreign policy support,
I can’t say for sure about key support. I can only say that when I return to China, I will first submit this matter to the high-level meeting of China Railway Construction for discussion to see if there is any need to further report to the higher authorities for instructions..." China Railway Construction is naturally willing.
He won many projects in Africa, but when it came to higher-level foreign policy issues, Ji Mingdong definitely couldn't give Cao Mo any guarantee.
Seeing Cao Mo, Ji Mingdong and Peng Wensheng whispering to each other, Han Shaorong, Yu Jinjie and others certainly felt uncomfortable.
Tianyue's Cotonou refinery, steel plant, copper smelting plant and other projects in Benin are under construction at the same time. The fundamental purpose of the Mangba-Cotonou railway is to connect Akwa's crude oil, iron ore and copper mining areas.
Connect with Cotonou.
If the railway is built and Tianyue further expands the scale of its steel plant in Cotonou, it will actually create a replica of the Bosso-Catro steel industrial complex between Mamba and Cotonou, which will pose a direct threat to them.
And how can they feel the fierce competition in their hearts?
"Hey, let's go?!" Dong Chengpeng whispered to Liang Yuan for a while, then turned to look at Cao Mo's side and saw that the seats there were empty, and Zhang Chaoyang, who was sitting in the back row, had also left. He was convinced that they
Have left the scene.
"It's good that the plague god is gone!" Han Shaorong had to admit that he felt relieved after Cao Mo left.
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Although the security measures at the venue today are not as severe as when President Buhari arrives tomorrow, the entry and exit of armed bodyguards and vehicles are still subject to great restrictions.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhou Han, Stali and their staff stayed in another large hotel nearby and did not rush to the scene with Cao Mo.
In addition to Zhang Chaoyang being in charge of the steel plant project, the Mamba-Cotonou railway was mainly focused on transporting iron ore in the early stage. He was also responsible for the specific planning and design of the project as well as various transportation tasks.
Representative Yue participated.
So he and Cao Mo rushed to the scene.
After returning from the venue to the hotel where they stayed, Cao Mo talked for a while with Abacha and Ochosan who were waiting here.
Abacha, Ojosan and others will not attend tomorrow's groundbreaking ceremony, but after President Buhari arrives in Oyo State, he will arrange a dinner to meet with local celebrities and dignitaries, and they have come to Catero specifically for this event.
Zhang Chaoyang will also stay with them when the time comes.
If President Buhari becomes interested in the Mamba-Cotonou railway project after Blake and Ochosan mentioned it to President Buhari, Zhang Chaoyang can be responsible for giving a more detailed introduction to the project planning.
After making these arrangements, Cao Mo left Catero by car and returned to Longta before dark.
Sitting in the car, Cao Mo took a stack of photos and documents from Zhou Han, found out the two assistants next to Oseph Feijem, and said, "Look out from these two people!"
The information collected before clearly pointed to Oseph Feijem as the key figure in the Evans Foundation's security force and external contact with the riots and pirate forces. However, attention was focused on him and they wanted to collect information from Evans.
It is very difficult to prove that the Foundation secretly supports pirate rebel forces and plans various murderous attacks.
Oseph Feijem is the core executive of the Evans Foundation. His food, clothing, housing, transportation, and personal safety are all under strict care. It is difficult for outsiders to get close to him, and it is also difficult to arrange monitoring and surveillance measures.
However, with so many staff around Oseph Feijem, there must be someone dedicated to assist Feijem in handling related matters.
What Cao Mo is doing now is to identify these key personnel who have come into contact with or have been exposed to the core secrets of the Evans Foundation, and have Tubman Security Consulting arrange manpower to either monitor them or approach them.
, maybe it will be easier to find a breakthrough...