Nguéle Nguéle Felix, SDO for Mezam division in the North West Region has suspended a Tubah council commission of inquiry that was set up to investigate the mismanagement of circa 26M FCFA by the council’s Former Mayor, Stanislaus Sofa. Nguéle annulled the commission last Friday during a stormy evaluation meeting of the SDF-run council.
The Senior Divisional Officer claims the inquiry was suspended because it was not well constituted.
However, most Tubah councilors have received the suspension with shock and disappointment, suspecting that some kick-backs might have transpired between the supervisory authority and the former mayor.
According to the first deputy mayor of Tubah, Wechui Barnabas, the erstwhile mayor in an attempt to render his stewardship account while at the helm of the council, surprised the councilors when he disclosed that he spent a colossal sum of 26MFCFA to transfer council property from the temporary council chambers to the newly constructed structure less than1000 meters apart.
“Only some files and few items were transferred because the cupboards and most furniture we have in the new chambers were constructed in here,” the deputy mayor emphasized. He wondered how 26MFCFA could have been spent to transfer the items which could well cost less than 5000FCFA.
On other issues which preoccupied the local representatives, councilors frowned at the deviant dressing which is growing in the Tubah municipality which they said is a result of the setting up of a University and other higher education institutes in the sub-division. The councilors then pleaded with the Mezam administration to ensure decency among youths which the ministers of Social Affairs, Women Empowerment and Communication emphasized a year ago.
They equally called on the administration to work in collaboration with traditional authorities to institute vigilante groups in all the four villages of Tubah, given that the approaching Christmas period is coming along with a rise in banditry in the sub-division.
The councilors also expressed concerns that some tourists from Czechoslovakia Republic residing at Big Babanki village in Tubah sub-division were operating illegally. A forester disclosed that he accosted them in collaboration with the commissioner of special branch and the tourist said they were following up some endemic birds in the area.
“Later when we visited the area, we discovered that they had set up a nursery for reforestation and were running a basic education institution in the area.”
An official of basic education for Tubah immediately confirmed they were not aware of such a school and it is illegal.
Reacting to this worry, the SDO simply said the tourists at Big Babanki had their required documents to be where they are and so were in order.
