By Francis Ekongang
Nzante
The Divisional
Officer for Bamenda III Sone Clement Ngoe has promised to tackle problems that
were brought to his notice during his maiden Contact Tour organised to meet
with services and institutions in the Sub Division. He declared his intentions
in the heart of the tour which started on Thursday October 26th.
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| Sone Clement Ngoe with Mayor of Bamenda III |
Kick starting the
maiden tour at the Bamenda III Council where he was received by Lord Mayor
Fonguh Cletus, the Divisional Officer cruised through the Inspectorates of
Basic Education, Sports and Physical Education and Social Affairs among many
other services on day one. With a listening ear, he took stock of the problems
that were presented to him.
Feni Peter, Sub
Delegate at the Inspectorate of Basic Education said despite problems that had
marred the beginning of the school year, the number of children in schools were
on the rise. He further said about 8.579 pupils were attending school at the
moment out of the expected 16.509 pupils. His main worry was that children were
not yet in school. Tencha Georges of Sports and Physical Education explained
that it was almost impossible for anything to be done because there was
absolutely no running credit. Even investment credits he said were absent and
as such infrastructure in the office could not be provided for.
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| D.O. Sone Clement and Dr. Iwu David |
Meantime at the Multi
Purpose Empowerment Centre, Sone Clement insisted that children be inculcated
with Republican Values such as peace and respect for republican institutions.
The very high population of youths he said should be targeted and sensitised to
this effect adding that “Cameroon is our nation and we should contribute our
quota in building it. From the Nursery and Primary children should begin to
respect the flags and symbols of the nation.”
At the Bamenda Regional
Handicraft Village the Deputy Coordinator Bih Judith Ndekeh epse Chitoh said “the
institution has been facing some difficulties ranging from the social unrest
affecting the North West Region in general and the bad state of the access road
that hinders the smooth functioning of activities.”
On learning that
officials from the Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development MINADER did not constitute part of the local Land Consultative
Board which was supposed to be the case as prescribed by the texts in force,
the D.O. said it had to be adjusted stating that “we don’t alter any aspect of
the text signed by the highest authourity of the country.” Mbong Mary
Immaculate, MINADER Delegate said drainage problems among many infrastructural
problems were rendering their job impossible adding that the Delegation kept
paying water bills despite the absence of running water in the outfit.
While the D.O. acknowledged
that the environment of the huge slaughter house at Mile Four was great, he
hinted that there was the need for an improved hygiene and drew the attention
of the official from the Bamenda City Council to this fact. Meantime, Anye
George, President of the Bamenda Butchers Union harped on the problem of
uncontrolled slaughter and sale of cow meat in different parts of the
municipality.
Another high point of
the tour was the Nkwen Sub Divisional Medicalized Centre popularly known as PMI
by denizens. Here, the dynamic ambitious young Director Dr. Iwu David took out
time to show the completely transformed hospital with its state of the arts
Dental Department. At the time of publication, the D.O. had visited the Special
Branch Police Station at S Bend Nkwen, the Nkwen Gendarmerie Brigade under Commander
Ewane Peter, ELECAM, ENEO, CamPost amongst many other services in Bamenda III.
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