CPDM Bui 5 Joint Section Conference

Section President decries drop in Nkor Council Public Investment Budget

By F. Ekongang Nzante Lenjo

 

Nformi Alfred Forgwei Mbeng, General Manager of Chantier Naval et Industries and Section President of CPDM Bui 5 has decried the drop in the Public Investment Budget of the Nkor Council in the Noni Sub Division from about FCFA 500 Million to less than 100 Million under the present SDF team that is running the affairs of the council. This drop in the amount of money from the public treasury towards projects in the Noni Sub Division was one of the worse things in the history of the council. He was speaking on Sunday November 5 during the CPDM Bui 5 Joint Section Conference at the Community Hall in Nkor, Noni.

Nformi Alfred Forgwei Mbeng

The Section President among other things said following the recent assessment of councils by PNDP, the Nkor Council occupied the 31^st position out of 34 Councils that make up the North West Region. Council roads he said had deteriorated and holiday jobs hitherto given to youths had been scrapped. He further said it was time for the management of the council to be taken away from the SDF by the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM.

He said when CPDM took over the reins of the council in 2007 the Public Investment budget was less than FCFA 20 million at the time but was raised to FCFA 500 millions. These efforts he emphasised have been rendered useless by the present team in the council which has brought the Public Investment Budget down to less than a hundred Millions FCFA.

The Joint Section Conference which brought together all the 17 Sub sections that make up Bui 5 Section was focused on preparing the party for the various elective exercises that are supposed to take place in 2018. Nformi Alfred Forgwei reminded the throngs of people who gathered for the event that 2018 was possibly going to have four elections with the CPDM participating in all of them.

Considering the urgency of the situation, the Sub Section President said “it is imperative to have strategic preparation especially at the base. We should draw inspiration from political mutations like the case in France.” He prescribed a plan of action structured in the following manner;

Ndyun Doris Berri, WCPDM Section President

The proposal includes mobilisation and registration of voters since with the absence of registered voters the party would be completely handicapped. This would be followed by the identification and selection of candidates and the compilation of candidates’ preparation files. The third step in his plan of action is the setting up of electoral infrastructure and fourthly the coordination and creation of liaison contacts between the various organs of the party from the cells, branches, sub-sections and the section.
 The success of all these he said would be guaranteed by regular physical presence, lots of personal sacrifices, more personal contacts than rallies and very little time in the office.

The WCPDM Section President for Bui 5, Ndyun Doris Berri presented a paper titled “The CPDM yesterday, today and tomorrow”. The aim of the presentation was to mobilize the base in view of upcoming events. The quintessence of this paper was the fact that the base constitutes the bed rock of the party. She called on militants during her presentation to “preserve the wins of the party and gain more grounds.” She also called on militants not to rely only on elites and the Section President for fund raising and emphasised on the need to develop fund raising plans.  

Executing the National Anthem

Nfinyo Mabu on his part read the circular from the Secretary General of the Central Committee to the heads of Central Committee Regional and Divisional Permanent Delegations, CPDM, YCPDM and WCPDM Section Presidents and militants. The theme of this paper was “Together let us contribute towards strengthening the “Cameroonian spirit” for the consolidation of National Unity and integrity and peace.”

The Divisional Officer for Noni Sub Division, Martin Ngwa Manjong who breezed in during the session from an occasion at the Oku Palace patronized by P.M. Philemon Yang called on militants not to be confused by events presently going on in the two English Speaking Regions but to stay focused and move on believing in their party. He however acknowledged that he was D.O. for everybody and not for a particular political party. “I speak politics today just like I can speak anywhere else that I am invited. I say CPDM is doing things correctly though I am not declaring that I am a militant.”     

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