Councillors to sue SDO over vote-of-no-confidence on mayor

The tussle between the Mayor of the Tombel Council, Rose Ngassa Menone and her Councillors, over a vote-of-no-confidence passed on her, may finally be decided by the law courts.

The revelation was made to reporters in Kumba recently by the Vice Section President of the Kupe Muanenguba III, Tombel Section of the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, Ernest Sube.

Sube, who is equally a Councillor at the Tombel Council said plans were underway for the matter to be heard in the administrative court.

He told reporters that if the Councillors discovered that the Senior Divisional Officer for Kupe Muanenguba, Anderson Ketong, is blocking their actions, they could sue him at the administrative court.

Sube told reporters that Councillors still believe that, the 2016 budget of the Tombel Council has not been adopted. He explained that, except the supervisory authority would exploit certain administrative powers for the Council to keep on functioning on one-tenth of the total budget, any other action could meet stiff resistance from the Councillors.

Sube explained that, if the right things are not done through the corrections of the shortcomings raised, then, there may be problems during the March administrative and Management Accounts session.

On December 30, 2015, during a session for the 2016 budget, a vote-of-no-confidence proposed by a majority of the Councillors against Mayor Ngassa failed to sail through.

Most of the Councillors walked out of the session expressing misgivings over the management style of the Mayor. They had faulted Ngassa for being able to consume only five percent of the previous investment budget.

In a crisis meeting with the SDO before the session on that December 30, the Councillors demanded the holding of an extra-ordinary Council session to examine the Mayor's management of the Council.

Among the demands, the Mayor, at the end of that December session, only succumbed to the payment of allowances owed the Councillors for four sessions.

The authority had sued for peace at the close of the session and asked the protesting Councillors to join their folks for the sake of development.

Despite the happenings, the Mayor has insisted on several occasions that the storm against her office is politically motivated. Going by her, most of the protesting Councillors feel they should occupy the position of Mayor. She has, however, asked them to wait for their own time.