Commonwealth parliamentarians visit Lobe Fall

October 7th, 2014 has been inscribed in the minds of inhabitants of the South region in general and Ocean city dwellers in particular as a day that a 158 member delegation belonging to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visited the region.

The delegation led by the Vice President of Cameroon’s Senate, Paul Tchatchouang, was so dynamic with delegates from the 53 Commonwealth countries sipping and appreciating tea made in Cameroon considered to have a unique flavour on the first stop at Marée Hotel situated at the Kribi II municipality.

Accompanied by the Senior Divisional Officer for the Ocean Division, Antoine Bissaga, the delegation number was guided to the famous Lobe fall which is one of Cameroon’s tourism destinations.

Delegates were marvelled to see a fall of that magnitude that empties its waters in the sea. With applauses of joy and appreciation, pupils of Government Primary School Bwambe flanked the delegation comprising Parliament Speakers of Malta, Hon. Angelo Farrugia, and that of Bangladesh, Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury into a Pygmy settlement. The delegation was astonished to see the indigenous people live, took snapshots with the pygmy community who in harmony sang and danced to the melody of the forest dwellers.

To many delegates, the first ever hosting of CPA in Cameroon, since admission into the ‘gentlemen club’ in 1995, is worthwhile. The delegates drawn from nine Commonwealth Regions including Africa, Assia, Caribbean, India and the Pacific and South East Asia watch a highly contested swimming race, guided by a National Marine Boat.