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| Flashes of the maiden Edition of the Tongo Cultural Festival |
Preparation for the second edition of the Tongo
Cultural Festival organised by the Royal House of the Missellele Village within the Tiko Municipality is
picking up steam.This revelation was made recently by His Royal Highness Chief
Mbolo Ndedi Yves Patrice of Missellele who disclosed that the second edition of
this cultural festival will be coming up in the second week of November.
The entire village he said was being mobilised to
ensure that the second edition registers more success than the maiden edition
that took place last year. “Elites of Missellele village have placed all have
put all hands on deck to ensure that this year’s festival is successful In this
light we have already started visiting the various tribal groups resident in
Missellele with an intention of presenting to them things will be expected from
them to enhance the success of the second edition”
The second major thing already being done in the line
of preparation for the Tongo Cultural
Festival is contacting the sponsors. Among these is the Tiko Council which was
the main sponsor last year “ In the days ahead we will be touching orange and
other sponsors who have also shown interest in the Tongo Cultural
Festival.There are equally other sponsors who have shown their interest in the
event such as NEXTEL, MTN Cameroon, the Cameroon Development Corporation CDC
who have promised us that they will push us right to the end. We also have
other illustrious elites who have decided to sponsor specific aspects of the
festival so we are expecting a wonderful festival this year”
With regards to income generating gadgets that could
help sustain the cultural festival, Chief Mbollo Ndedi said the festival has a
budget which he believed would take care of all activities deemed
necessary Cognizant of the fact that
Missellele village alone could not cough out that budget, the chief said
activities will be split out such that sponsors will be able to target
specific areas in the budget.
Chief Mbollo Ndedi Yves Patrice however cautioned that
Missellele should learn not to depend a lot on sponsors “We should be able to
make the festival to be self sustainable. In that light, there are a series of
things that we will present during a working session which will assemble the
elites and the population of the village to see how the festival and other
development initiatives in the village will be sustained.”
According to reactions on the official blog site of
the chiefdom;
miselelechiefdom.wordpress.com,there is need for the cultural tone of thefestival
to be intensified. Reacting to this, Chief Mbollo Ndedi said “the Mongo clan
which Missellele belongs to has shown particular interest in this festival and
in this light, they have visited other details that we left out during the
first festival. This is because the first festival was a baby festival Coming
up with all these other details which our forefathers left for us, I think
this time around, the Tongo Festival is going to present the colours we all
want to see.”
To indegenes in the diaspora, the ruler said they should know that their
chief is available and still young and dynamic to work with them “ I am struggling to set a platform for the
upcoming generation and I am calling on them to join me so that we put our
heads together and brain storm to ensure that development of Missellele Village
is the priority.
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