Muyuka council area:

Electricity comes to Mpundu-Balong at last

By Eta Chris in Muyuka

Muyuka mayor Nkeng and Mpundu populations

celebrate coming of electricit

For close to a century the Mpundu Balong community in Muyuka Sub-division, Fako division of the South West Region has been in darkness. They had often felt rejected and abandoned.

                It took the entire Mpundu Balong population to be eye witnesses when they converged on a nearby street light pool alongside Mayor Nkeng Michael to watch the first ever electricity light in the village’s history.

                History has been made and villagers jubilated Mpundu Balong has been brought to fame as they can now see well at nightfall and live life like a civilized community. The dexterity manifested by the villagers through dance and songs during the provisionary handing over ceremony was eloquent testimony of a visibly transformed community.

Tears of joy shed during the provisionary handing over ceremony was more than just enough to rate the action as what thought was never of to be fruited in any future being. They went on their knees, clapped, shouted and cried out loud.

                The villagers say they have known little or no bit of modernism. For nearly 100 desperate years in darkness the Mpundu Balong village at long last can now boost of sufficient electricity power supply in the community of over 1000 inhabitants.

                Not even could the silly rain drops disrupt the success though brief but very significant crowd puller ceremony rich, rare, imposing and above all realistic in nature. It was revealed to be one in no history books measure in line with giant realizations and development agenda of the MpunduBalong community.

                The Mpundu Balong rural electrification project is in fulfillment of a promise made by Mayor Nkeng Michael during the Muyuka CPDM campaign mission in the 2013 municipal polls which has cost the council nearly FCFA 40million.

                The rural electrification project is a medium size voltage; the appropriate power is volume at 100kva (kilo volt arms) transformer designed to produce 220 to 380 voltage appropriate for domestic consumption by close to 500 households. 2.2kms of the medium voltage line have already been covered. The low voltage is calculated at 0.8kms approximately 800ms. Technicians disclosed plans to extend electricity to the hinterlands are underway.

                “We have never seen lights in Mpundu Balong but today Mayor Nkeng Michael has come to our rescue. We are therefore wishing him a longer stay at the helm of the council,” Nchongi Napoleon said.

                “We came in the night for campaigns and we had to use the lights of our vehicles to do the campaigns, and I made a very strong promise that if it takes heaven and earth light will come to Mpundu Balong during my term of office,” Mayor Nkeng recounted.

                To him it was the sawn of meaning development in the Mpundu Balong Village and urged the population to use the electricity with some degree of responsibility. In the offing are the constructions of the Mpundu Balong market, road, and a water scheme in the nearest possible time, mayor Nkeng announced.

                The man of few words who at the time was just a little boy now Mayor of Muyuka Mr. Nkeng Michael, visited Mpundu Balong in that same darkness said “I never knew I would be the one to bring electricity in Mpundu”.

                Mr. Paul Mbasi Mukete chairmain of the Mpundu Balong traditional council disclosed that the history surrounding the electrification of the village is a long one. Before the coming of Mayor Nkeng he said “many promises were made but none respected.” He described Mayor Nkeng Michael as an astute developer to the marrow.

                A Muyuka Council sponsored rural electrification project is currently going on in Munyenge and Bafia and would extend to Ekata.