Development has no political party – Nkor Noni Mayor

The Mayor of Nkor Noni, Francis Wache, has reiterated that the Noni people should take back all developmental strategies and experiences garnered from their stay out of Noni.

The Mayor said when the Noni diaspora would ultimately return home to spend their last days, they can always look back with satisfaction at what they did for their homeland.

Wache was addressing his kinsmen in Buea recently, during which he urged them to remember their roots and to put the development of Noni above party politics.

He said he laid partisan politics to rest after the 2013 election and since then, he has been working for the good and development of Noni as a whole.

“I have created my party,the NDP (Noni Development Party)”, said the Mayor, citing some of the projects carried out by Noni Council like the electrification of Djottin with funding to be provided by the World Bank, the Lassin electrification project to be funded by the African Development Bank, and a community radio station, alongside many road projects to enhance movement in the municipality.

For their part, the Noni community in Buea pledged their full support to the Mayor’s projects.

They exhorted their kinsmen to put aside party politicking and instead use their energies to develop their homeland.

It was suggested that the Mayor in his road projects should agree to work with other councils on a win-win basis that will open up the area.

These projects notwithstanding, the Noni people regretted that government has created schools without classrooms, forcing the burden on parents and the local community.

On the electrification projects that the Noni Council has engaged in, the Noni people suggested that the Mayor and the council should look for its own electricity source like making use of its waterfall, biomass energy and other energy sources in order to curb dependency on the national grid that has become very unreliable.

To ensure sustainable development in Noni, Wache was called upon to do everything within his power to unite the people back at home. This, the Noni people explained, is because the people have since been seeing themselves as belonging to one particular village or the other, which is bad for the development of Noni as a whole.

Similar to the unity problem back in Noni, was that faced by the Noni community in Buea.

The case of Buea was quickly interrupted and solved by the Mayor in what he called a ‘municipal decree’ appointing the leaders of his people in Buea with Frederick Mbongkuat the head.

Francis Wache, who has lived in Buea for over three decades as a local government trainer and media practitioner, was in Buea on a conclusive tour that he has been making to Noni communities living in the diaspora.

Wache’s tribesmen maintained that they are ready to celebrate hisachievements, noting that under his leadership, Noni has achieved a lot in terms of developmental projects more than what other regimes have had to offer the people.

“As a journalist, the Noni people celebrated your writings and frankness...we are still ready to celebrate you as a father of development and we want your name to be engraved in the Noni hall of fame,” said the representative of the Noni people in Buea.