"The People Should Join Me Let's Transform Tubah""

-D.O, Tubah

The Divisional Officer for the Tuba Subdivision in Mezam  Mr. Massango Metuge Narcisse has appealed to the people within the Subdivision to join him in his efforts to bring peace and development to Tuba. The Young and dynamic Administrator took over by Presidential Decree since the 15^th of October 2021 and was installed on  the 9^th of November.

Mr. Massango Metuge Narcisse, D. O, Tuba

Tuba is a Cosmopolitan Subdivision which harbours close to 20.000 inhabitants mostly made up of the University class. The Municipality is made up of four big Fondoms and one Lamidad.  These are the Fondoms of Bambili, Bambui, Babanki Tungo and Big Babanki as well as the Lamidad of Sabga. He begins this interview by evaluating the Security situation in the Tuba Subdivision against a backdrop of the Anglophone Crisis. He was interviewed by Francis Ekongang Nzante and a host of other journalists in his Bambui Office.

The situation I met following my installation as the Divisional Officer for Tuba was actually evolving. We met with some stiff challenges but we've been doing our best to regain the people’s confidence and make them believe once more in the values of the Republic. We met a population which was very skeptical in accepting Government action.

How Successful have you been in convincing the people to Once more believe in Republican Values?

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We have been carrying out lots of field work which involves moving out, meeting and talking to the people. This is very complicated because you can’t know where the danger may come from. But somebody must always lead the way. From my understanding, that person should be the Divisional Officer. I have been meeting the people and making them to know that Government is aware of their problems and is actually putting in place measures to have these problems solved.  A lot is already being done to sort out these challenges. No society can move ahead without challenges. Unfortunately these challenges are taken differently by some people in our society.

In our missions in the field we try to gather the bike riders and the traders. It’s very complicated but we talk to them. We try to give them tips and advise them not to give up. You know that the activities of bikers have been restricted. For security reasons we had to block some streets around the University to prevent them from reaching there. We are aware that the obscure men use that means of transportation. We cannot run the risk of having the University stopped. For their own safety the students will have to move around on foot.  We've been trying to bring back some normal urban normalcy. In a state of law, there are areas where a certain category of activities are supposed to be carried out and other areas where certain activities can’t be carried out. Simply because we are in a state of crisis doesn’t mean there should be lawlessness.

How do you collaborate with the Security Force?

We constantly talk to them. You know that in a household not every child behaves in the same manner. There are challenges coming from that direction. But like a father we keep taking to them and reminding them that we all have the same duty which is to protect the people and their property.

These people have gone through five or six years of torture by their own brothers so the military should remain professional in order not to add to their predicament. I think it’s paying off following feedback that I get from the field. They are doing their best and we count on their professional behaviour for the successful holding of  this year’s 20^th May activities.

How do you envisage the 20^th May activities?

The population has missed this celebration now for three years here and I hope that this year we should celebrate it once more. We should be able to galvanise the population and I am in the field for that. I was at “Three Corners” in Bambili recently and I will continuously go into the field till the 20^th of May to make them to believe again in the Republican Day and trust in the mechanism that the Head of State has put in place! The present stalemate has been caused by youngsters who have decided to be abnormal. My mission here is to bring back these youngsters into the fold. But I can’t do this if I can’t see them.

I can only channel the problems of someone I see and not a ghost. I call upon these youngsters to come to us, drop their guns. They are still children of the Republic. It is true that there’s a lot of skepticism  in the way returnees are being treated but it should also be known that each Administrator has a unique style. Two administrators can handle the same problem differently. So for the benefit of doubt the youngsters should leave the bush and stop kidnapping. It’s such a pity that one of my elites Senator Regina Mundi is still being held captive. She brought in 500 kits which we distributed to pregnant women and four days later she was kidnapped by her own children! An abomination in African Tradition.

Any appeal to people in the Tuba Municipality?

I call upon the people in Tuba to believe in me and to join me let’s move Tuba forward. I am a young man who knows exactly what to do and when to do it. I love community work and this means my approach involves working with the people. We are using this tete a tete approach with the population to create a different picture of Government action.

The Government in Yaounde which we represent has been held back in the realization of projects in the area as a result of the security situation. There are schools pending renovation but can’t be renovated because anytime contractors put their legs there, they are kidnapped. I am having sleepless nights just like the forces of law and order because of the problems in Tuba. I call on the people in Tuba to join ranks with me let’s take the Municipality to where it is supposed to be. Apart from being a transit town and gate way to two divisions, Tuba is host to the University of Bamenda and together we can make use of this to take the town to its rightful place. IRAD has stopped and our children can no longer be trained here as Agronomists or Agro Engineers. The Regional College of Agriculture which is struggling to function is receiving threats every day. I am very open to anyone with a problem. Rather than take the Law into your hands, come and present the problem so that together we can sort it out following well defined channels.

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International Nurse's Day

CNA Celebrates across Cameroon!

 

By Francis Ekongang Nzante.

 

This year’s celebration of the International Nurse’s Day has been celebrated across Cameroon by the Cameroon Nurse’s Association and other Associations of Nurses with an unprecedented degree of engagement. The seriousness of the occasion enveloped nurses in Douala, Bamenda, Buea and a couple of hospitals across the national triangle. This annual celebration which takes place on the 12^th of May was spiced with Workshops, Talks and Symposiums.

In Bamenda in the North West Region of the country, celebrations were organised by the Regional Bureau of the Cameroon Nurse’s Association.  This reporter caught up with the National President of this Association Mr Nkwain Joseph  who summed up the event in the following words; “The International Nurse’s Day is celebrated every year on the 12^th of May and it commemorates the birth of Florence Nightingale who is the founder of Nursing. Every year there’s a theme which is chosen by the International Council of Nurses. This year’s theme is Nurses: A voice to lead.- Invest in Nursing and Respect Rights to Secure Global Health. As far as the Cameroon Nurse’s Association is concerned, the activities are carried out at the level of the branches and at the level of the hospitals. At the Nkwen District Hospital in Bamenda activities were carried out and this included the handing of gifts by the Nurses to all the patients. The Regional Hospital in Bamenda also did so just like the CBC Health Services amongst others.”  

Nurses distributing gifts 

 

He called upon Nurses to work well irrespective of where they found themselves reminding them that Nursing was a vocation. He hammered on the necessity for Nurses to continue building themselves professionally through continuous education. “This year's theme touches on the need for governments to pay more attention to Nursing and to invest much more in the sector. There’s a general shortage of nurses in the world. Actually it is estimated that there’s a shortage of 5.900.000 nurses in the world and that 85% of this gap is in low and medium income countries. So we need more investment in Nursing so that when these nurses graduate they should be gainfully employed” he said.

He appreciated the efforts being put in by the government pointing to the fact that many training Institutions had been established and that the government has been permanently following up training in these Institutions to make sure that nurses are adequately trained.

Meantime the National President of the Cameroon Nursing Association accompanied by the Vice National President Dr Nguini Rose visited some training Institutions like the Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences where talks were dished out to students of Nursing.

This reporter also caught up with the General Supervisor of the Nkwen District Hospital in Bamenda Mrs Abang Theresia Adu who presented the nurse as the main force behind the smooth functioning of the hospital.

GS, Director , Staff rep. at
Nkwen District Hospital

“Today the nurses came in appropriately dressed for the occasion and we bought some gifts which we distributed to the patients of the hospital. We sang and danced through the hospital sharing the gifts. In every unit in the hospital where we stopped, we talked to the patients on what they should expect from the nurses and how they should collaborate with the nurses to make sure that work went on well” Mrs Abang said.

She further called on the patients to forgive them for any wrong thing that any nurse might have committed through the year and reminded them that they were the eyes of nurses in the hospital and that corrections from them could only help the nurse to get better. She thanked the Director of the hospital for providing a very enabling environment for good work.

“No one can fully pay for the services of a nurse but when you tender good services, you receive your pay from God” she said.

The Staff representative of the hospital Mrs  Tela Elizabeth said she spent some time sensitising nurses about the International Nurse’s Day since she realized that many of them didn’t actually Know what the day was all about. She equally explained the deep meaning of the theme of this year’s International Nurse’s Day. “It is a day during which nurses come out to tell the world that they are there to take care of them

and to remind them like the General Supervisor said, that it is the nurse who opens the eyes of the baby in the labour room and closes the person's eyes when he is exiting.”

In the Douala CNA branch, activities which took place at the Alpha Higher Institute of Biomedical and Technical Sciences at Deido included Symposiums, Scientific Presentations, Debates, Awards and Recognitions. These activities were coordinated by the Littoral Branch President Mr Otongno Humphrey.

 

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