- Goat Ranch Goes Operational Soon
The midway evaluation session of
the Bamenda III council held on September 11, 2012 with several executed and
envisaged projects for 2012/2013 of the council heralded by the councillors and
the Supervisory Authority (SDO).
Presenting a
comprehensive financial report of the council activities between January 1,
2012 and August 2012, the Finance Committee observed that of the 320.101.664
FCFA budgeted for this year, the sum of FCFA 133.571.359 has been realized
scoring a realization rate of 41.73%, meanwhile FCFA 106.547.640 has been spent
recording 33.29%.
According to
the Finance committee, the total revenue realization of 41.73% during the first
six months of the year is encouraging.
Harping on the
indecent dressing of boys and girls in the Bamenda III municipality, the
councillors resolved that those indecently dressed, would never be attended to
by the council authorities if they need the services of the council or severely
punished by the forces of law and order of the municipality.
In a bid to
raise enough revenue for the council, it was resolved that the council would
construct rental houses in strategic areas of the municipality. In the same
vein, Mayor Fongu Cletus Tanwie presented a team from a German based NGO which
came in to work on feasibility studies of setting up potable water in the Bamenda
III council area.
One of the team
members told the councillors that the NGO dubbed “Drinking Water- Cameroon”
has as vice president, Akongha Lambert who hails from Bamenda III, reason why
they started with Bamenda III. He said the project will start in January 2013
with the construction of a 10 meters high and 3 meters wide water tank in
Bamenda III which would be able to purify 30.000 liters of water per hour.
In addition to
the water project, Mayor Fongu Cletus announced that a goat ranch would be constructed
in Bamenda III by 2013 and regretted that some corrupt staff of his council
will be investigated and if found guilty of corrupt practices, they would be
severely punished.
Unlike Bamenda
II councillors who in their council session on Tuesday September 10, 2012,
disclosed that Bamenda II sub division has a population of over 350.000 as per
the 2005 population census and should ipso facto have 61 councillors not the
present 29 councillors, their colleagues of Bamenda III said there’s no
population statistics of the Bamenda III. They however regretted that if they
do not get the statistics before the municipal elections next year, their
councillors will remain the same.
On why National
Polytechnic Bambui was carrying ‘Bambui’ instead of Nkwen or Bamenda, one of
the councillors corrected that he accosted the Proprietor of NPB, Yong Francis
on the matter and he was told that as from this September 2012, the school’s
name will be “National Polytechnic Bamenda”
not Bambui. He said he saw how the concrete signpost which was carrying
the inscription “National Polytechnic Bambui” being destroyed, apparently for
the new one to be constructed and to read “National Polytechnic Bamenda”.
On the poor
sanitation of the Bamenda III municipality, councillors noted that heaps of
dirts are visible everywhere in town because the Bamenda city council has
continued to drag its feet on disposing of the dirts. They commissioned the
grand councillors to raise the matter during the Bamenda city council session
and plead with the Government Delegate to hands off the cleaning of the town
and the garbage disposal for Bamenda III to properly take care of the
sanitation of the town.
Deputizing for
the SDO, the First Assistant SDO for Mezam enjoined the revenue collectors of
Bamenda III to intensify the collection to improve on the revenue collected “so
that next year, it should be 100% not 41% like what obtains this year”. He
opined that economic development can’t be successful if the town is not in
peace and called on the council to work with the forces of law and order.
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