New Council Hall for Limbe I in the offing

Mbua Ro-Danny, Lord Mayor, Limbe I Council

.The lord Mayor of the Limbe I Council Mbua Ro-Danny Mokako has declared that the project for the building of a new chambers for the council is in the offing. He was speaking recently on the occasion of the first ordinary session of the Limbe I Council for 2015 dedicated to the examination of the Administrative and Management Account and Store Keeper's Report of the 2014 Financial year.

The mayor said concerning the council chambers "we are first of all struggling to sort out the problem of land. After this we will talk to FEICOM and I think it will gladly give us some money to build a council hall. Though we've had the land, there are still some administrative bottle necks that we need ti iron out. The board of directors already gave us Half a hectare of land. But if you don't have ownership of the land, it is very difficult for FEICOM ttto give you funds." 

Quizzed on difficulties encountered during preparation of the accounts considering the fact that this was his first time the mayor said "I used to be a First Deputy Mayor and in that capacity I learnt quite a lot. So accomplishing this task was not an uphill task. I want to thank my councilors for the collaboration."

Hinting on the activities of  FEICOM, the mayor said the problems of councils with regards to this institution is peculiar to the Limbe I council. He said it was a general problem that touched on the whole country. Every council he said has this problem. "You never really know when they are paying and sometimes when you visit your accounts you notice that FEICOM had already paid without even notifying you. First quarter payments should be done latest on the fifteenth of April since the first quarter is from January to March. The first quarter was paid last week and we are already in June. I don't however think it is a big problem. We are just reminding them of what they are supposed to do."

On the financial commitments of the City Council, Mayor Mbua Ro-Danny said financially it had not only been difficult for the Limbe I Council, but that it had been difficult for the Limbe City Council and that if the city council could meet up with 95% of its commitments to the Limbe I Council, then  its  wonderful.

Concerning projects so far realised, the mayor said development was a continuous process. "If we had money then it would normally be better to tar a road than to grade it. When we run a council on 400.000.000 FCFA, you can't expect us to tar roads. So we keep moving forward and backward. When you grade this year and the rains eventually come, you will have to grade again next year. We just hope the city council can help us there. If you go to Mao now you will notice that we built two bridges.

On the council being over staffed and under exploiting its revenue avenues, Mayor Mbua Rodanny said " Our council is not over staffed.I am however aware of the fact that we should improve on our revenue collection which is the dream of any council. We will continue building stores. The 12 stores we built at Middle Farms have all been taken and this shows that there is improvement in revenue." 

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