Bamenda I Mayor Brings FCFA 6 Billion worth Project to NW

Mayor Bigha in Brown hat

The Mayor of Bamenda 1 council Bigha Felix has suddenly become the biggest fish from the bottom of the sea. His ability to convince the authorities of SCDP to grant him FCFA 6 billion for the construction of an automated domestic Gas plant in Bamenda portrays him as a good lobbyist and an astute leaders who feels not only for the population of his municipality but the entire region. 

Jens Production representative Chris Logonje

The automated plant with a filling capacity of 500-1000 domestic gas bottles per day is located in Bangshie neighbourhod. 

Mayor Bigha gives details of the project to the visiting delegation.

Thee project has brought smiles on the faces of the population who have hitherto suffered illegal reduction of Kilos of gas and artificial scarcity some time orchestrated by some uncultured economic operators step up prices of cooking gas.

 The representative of the CEO of Jens productions, a limbe base company with international repute, Chris longonje ,told northwest Administration and the population as they visited the site to ensure effective take off of the project that the construction works has a timeline of two years. The Inspector general at the Nortwest governor’s office and and the entire population saluted the initiative of the mayor which will create jobs for idle youths. One of the component of the project which is tarring of close to four kilo meters road leading to the site, is a milestone which will give the Bangshie neighbourhood a new face. 

That mayor na good man” one of the beneficiaries who admired the ongoing road works leading to the site expressed satisfaction.  The project   will bring development to the village and absorb youths, thus reducing juvenile delinquency and other forms of social ills. Pundits have observed. Chris Longonje  intimated  that the automated gas plant  to be constructed in Bamenda is first of its kind in Cameroon as “is very different from those in other regions of Cameroon”. Although the company’s head quarter is in limbe, it operates mostly in Nigeria and other great African countries. He said.   To ensure success of the life transformation project, he enjoined the population of the town to support the mayor and ensure security of the project. On the management of the project, he said it shall be under the auspices of SCDP. 

By chifu Edward      

  

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NGO gives assistance to vulnerable school children in NW

 Grace Charitable and Rehabilitation Organization   (CRACARO) has been tagged “The Good Samaritan” by parents plagued by the  Anglophone crisis in Bamenda.Pa Ntoh Benjamin an IDP with a battalion of children recently hailed  the NGO, CRACARO for assisting his children with exercise  books, school bags etc to enable them go back to school.Pa Ntoh an internally displaced  from Ngoketunjia   in an  exclusive with The Vanguard, said he was worried that  2022-2023 was going to be  a difficult school year for his children, given the his financial hardship orchestrated by his displacement.   “Fortunately for him  an NGO call CRACARO donated a huge consignment of exercise books and school bags to three of  his  children on the eve of  school resumption .    “I shed tears of joy when I saw my children coming home with exercise books in their school bags.  It was a heave of relief. I only pray God to continue to bless the NGO and also touch the hearts of other well to do donor organizations and Cameroonians to come the aid of the IDP’s and other vulnerable people” he said. The material aid to Bamenda 1 school children was timely given the untold hardship most IDP’s are going through in most towns and cities of the country.The coordinator of the NGO   Chaibi  Martin  Sam, told The Vanguard that “the only treasure a parent can give his child, is education. He expressed worries about the future of  Anglophone children who have been deprived of their Rights to Education six year running.  EDUCATION IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT OF EVERY CHILD IN THIS UNIVERSE REGARDLESS OF THE ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND.  The lacuna created by the holdup has fragmented the human resource base of the region. The socio- economic and political life of the region has been annihilated and would take the region decades to recover the material and human looses. This he says explain why he has given priority to education.    He promised to carry out the same executrices next year given the means.     

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   By Chifu Edward