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| Jaff Romanus Verkijika |
Against a backdrop of socio-political crises in the
two English speaking regions of Cameroon and the inevitable drop in revenue
collection, the Jakiri Council under the stewardship of Lord Mayor Jaff Romanus
Verkijika has registered impressive records in the domains of Education and
infrastructure. This disclosure was made during the Council Session dedicated
to the examination and adoption of the 2017 Administrative, Management and stores
Accounts on Thursday March 29, 2018.
In the session which took place in the brand new
giant edifice that will hence house the offices of the Jakiri Council, Lord
Mayor Jaff Romanus Verkijika said despite all odds they had succeeded to
complete the long awaited giant project. He said judicious use was made of the
resources put at their disposal under very difficult circumstances due to the
socio political crises in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon.
Considering the acute shortage of educational
infrastructure in most primary schools in the Jakiri Municipality, the council
constructed two classrooms and Head Masters office and provided equipment as
well as benches at GS Kwanso and this took more than 20 million FCFA. The
council was also involved in the rehabilitation of classrooms, recruitment and
payment of local language instructors, the acquisition and distribution of
minimum packages to Government Primary Schools, signing of a convention with
FEICOM for the construction of 14 classrooms, offices and seven toilet blocks
in seven schools within the municipality.
In the domain of infrastructure, the new council
building which hosted the session was a glaring testimony of the councils’
infrastructural achievements. The building Jaff Romanus said had been completed
and technically received. In the domain of transport infrastructure a seven
Kilometer stretch of road was refurbished including culverts and other
transport related infrastructure like drainage facilities. New roads were
equally opened up including those around the new council premises totaling
about three Kilometers. To ensure the sustainability of these roads 35 road maintainers
were employed to work within the municipality for their upkeep.
Apart from education and infrastructure, Lord Mayor
Jaff Romanus said the council also did an impressive job in other domains like
water supply, health services, civil status registry, personnel, social affairs
amongst others.
Commenting on the deliberations that took place, the
mayor said “the deliberations of today were authorisation for our retired
military people to have space where they can carry out their activities. The
other deliberation was concerned with authorizing the mayor to pay its workers through
the credit union that will facilitate their payments and will also help them to
acquire loans. Another issue was also that of authorizing the mayor to take
overdrafts from Banque Atlantique.
Rents for lock up shades at Mbokam Market were also deliberated upon.
Other highlights of the session were the launching
of updates of the Council Development Plan which was presented by the Global
Welfare Association which was selected as the local support organisation to
accompany Jakiri Council in the exercise.
The Lord Mayor thanked Development partners like
FEICOM, PNDP, SEEPD, the Jakiri population among many others who had helped the
council to realise its dreams.
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