The Seniour Divisional Officer for Bui Division Simon Emile Mooh, has
hinted that just when the sociopolitical climate in that part of the country
seemed to be calming down, bad signals of banditry in some parts of the
Division particularly in the Oku and Noni Sub Divisions were beginning to rear
their heads once again. This declaration was made during the Council Session
dedicated to the examination and adoption of the Administrative, Management and
Stores Account of the Nkum Council on Tuesday April 3, at the Council Hall in
Tatum.
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| Suila Aruna Kidze delivers keynote speech |
In the same
vein the Commissioner of Police in Kumbo Nkainbi Philemon also confirmed that
heavy gun shots actually took place at night as Kumbo crept out of the Easter
weekend. The Seniour Superintendant of Police corroborated his account with
shells of live bullets collected from the scenes of action.
The Seniour Divisional Officer equally called on the
councilors of Nkum Council to carry out their roles as councilors and sensitize
their populations on the need to pay their taxes. Hear him; “I call on all the councilors
of Nkum Council to play their role to go and sensitize the entire population so
the population should pay their taxes. Now the Nkum Council has just placed
their hope on the Public Investment Budget. What about their local revenue? In
the past people were promoting ghost town, civil disobedience and now we are
facing the circumstances and we are asking therefore that through this sensitization
the population should know that there is no development without peace. On
Sunday some people came to Ngemsiba I in Oku Sub Division and tried to disturb
public order. Yesterday night some few bandits also came to Djottin in Noni
trying to disturb public order. We are giving them a severe warning to stop. I
went to Mbokevu and to Djottin and tried to explain to everybody that we should
preserve peace and order in Bui Division. I was received by the Fons and I
cautioned that there should be harmony in those villages. Unfortunately some people
have started at it again and this is the last warning for we need peace. We
need development in Bui Division and we count on the media to help us in sensitizing
the population because ghost towns cannot bring development. There is poverty
everywhere here in the rural areas and not in the big towns. I don’t see how a
council can function without revenue.”
Suila Aruna Kidze, Lord Mayor of the Nkum Council
summed up the situation in the following manner; “we have seen that the
accounts have really gone down as compared to that of 2016 and we know that as
a result of the socio-political atmosphere, people are not willing to pay their
taxes. You heard me telling the councilors and all the stakeholders that we
should work hand in glove to sensitize our people so that they can pay their
taxes. We should pay our taxes and maintain peace for development to follow.”
The Lord Mayor said the joint session had to adopt
the administrative section of the Council Development Plan (CDP) adding that they
had a methodology that they followed. He said in the villages they came out
with village diagnoses which have been followed by a series of meetings for harmonization.
“Now the only thing left is the need of
some technical services to really give their inputs but all along we have been
working with the various stake holders. When it will finally be adopted holistically,
it will become a developmental tool.”
Suila Aruna Kidze said when they visited each
village to come out with their priorities; they also put in place a Local
Solution Committee LSC. This he said was meant to handle minor issues before waiting
for the government, council or any donor depending on how the case may be. “For
instance, if a bridge is broken, resources can be mobilized at their own local
level to handle it before reporting to the authorities concerned. In each
village they were selected according to their various ministries. That’s why when
you go into a village you will notice that there is a delegate of public works
simply meaning that such a person is a member of the local solutions committee
in issues related to public works. Some have started working and in the
community of Buh yesterday there was community work organised to take care of a
bad segment of the road.”
Among other thorny issues that were discussed was that
of introducing the depreciation of council property. Some councilors noted that
it was incorrect to evaluate council property at hundreds of millions FCFA when
in reality the council could not make any possible use of the property in
question.
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