-Tell our brothers in Diaspora to come, OBB replies
Nkeng Michael Akamin, Mayor of Muyuka Council has presented a litany of needs and problems he says his municipality needs to the Governor of the South West Region, Okalia Bilai Bernard.(OBB)
Nkeng was addressing OBB on Tuesday, January 6, at the grand stand of government school Muyuka on the first day of the Governor’s Socio-economic sensitisation tour in the subdivision.
The mayor said Muyuka being the breadbasket of the South West Region has grown into a cosmopolitan municipality, with a rise in criminality, banditry, rape, alcohol abuse and with its roads in a sorry state.
According to the mayor, insecurity is on the rise in the villages of Bafia, Ikata and the cocoa hub of Munyenge.
As such, he told the governor to see to it that a police and gendarmerie post are set up in Munyenge so that the cocoa rich village does not develop into a hub for thieves and hoodlums.
“Munyenge is big and rich, but the efforts of honest and hardworking citizens are threatened by insecurity,” Nkeng said.
He went on to say that “the farm-to-market roads are in a sorry state. Moving from Muyuka to Muyenge is a bumpy ride, dangerous to persons with fragile health.”
Flashing back on the cholera outbreak in Muyuka in the 1980s, the mayor said the people of Muyuka living in Ikata, bafia and Munyenge have a right to portable water.
In summarising his plea to government, the mayor said the Muyuka man needs only three pressing things from government: roads, water and electricity.
In a swift response to the worries of the people of Muyuka as presented by their mayor, Governor OBB acknowledged that the dynamic and resourceful people of Muyuka deserve more and government will stop at nothing to meet their needs.
“I have come to exchange views with you and find solutions to your immediate worries,” Okalia said.
He congratulated Mayor Nkeng for coming back home to proffer solutions to the worries of his people, enjoining him to advise other Cameroonians in the Diaspora to come back home and do same.
“Tell our brothers in the Diaspora to come and join us. The country needs them now. They should forget about others who say nonsense on the media and come home so we can develop Cameroon together,” Okalia said.
The governor said development is only possible through participatory approach. He promised that before long, security will be beefed up in Munyenge to protect hardworking and honest Cameroonians. He, however, advised the people of Munyenge to shun practises that hinder development.
“…People of Munyenge should stop misusing the fruits of their labour. Stop heavy drinking, womanising and wasteful spending… be development focused, “the governor advised.
OBB advised the people to join government in the fight against terrorism, criminality and health disasters like Ebola, HIV/AIDS among others. The governor paid visits to SOGEA SATOM, IRAD Ekona, Source du Pays, VIMA Company and the Muyuka Council before communing with the population.
