Tombel CPDM prioritize community
development, shuns demagogy
- A
trail-blazing joint section conference of CPDM KupeMuaneguba III, Tombel
section was held on Saturday 23 July 2016, at the Tombel council hall.
By Johnson Batuo in Tombel
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Tombel CPDM political Joker, H.E. Elung Paul, being welcomed
to the Tombel Council Hall by the local CPDM section executive
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Militants of KupeMuanenguba III, Tombel
section of the CPDM party have resolved to use politics as a means towards
bringing much-needed development to their community, and not for fostering and
promoting individual agendas. This was the major resolution arrived at during
the “Joint Section Conference of KupeMuanenguba III section Tombel, on Saturday
23rd July 2016, at the Tombel council hall.
In
what can be interpreted as breaking with the past and aligning with French
philosopher, Moliere, who said: “Je vis de bon soupe et non de bon language”,
translated in English as “it is good food and not fine words that keeps me
alive”, militants of Tombel CPDM are unanimous that now is the time for
politics of development and poverty alleviation, and no longer politics for
self-aggrandizement, demagogy and cheap and empty rhetoric.
That
was perhaps why Saturday’s Joint Section Conference was literally transformed
into a training workshop to educate, sensitize and build the capacities of
party militants on such development-oriented subjects like 2nd generation
agriculture; politics and sustainable development; and the nature, end and
purpose of education as a veritable tool for personal development of the
citizen.
Thus,
presenting a paper on the theme “Maintaining sustainable development in the
political landscape of Tombel sub-division”, Mr. Nkwelle Jacob, a community
development expert, schooled militants and especially political leaders on the
need for them to use their political awareness and power to bring development
to their community, and not to foster their self-seeking and individual agendas.
Comrade
Nkwelle Jacob reminded political office holders that they have a social
contract with their communities and that is why they must serve and render
account to their communities and not themselves.
Another
resource person Enang James, an agronomist, ruminated on the theme:
“potentials, challenges and the way forward for 2nd generation agriculture in
KupeMuanenguba division.” He sensitized militants on the need for them to
federate their energies, pull their resources together and create small-holders
schemes this so that they can produce in large quantities and also give
value-added to their market-destined products.
But
Mr. Enang at once reminded KupeMuanenguba political leaders that for 2nd
generation agriculture to be possible in the division, they must lobby
government to provide an enabling environment for the local farmers. He said there can be no meaningful
agriculture without farm-to-market roads, transformation facilities and loan
facilities for farmers.
Yet,
the capacity-building seminar did not end at that! Militants were also schooled
on the virtues of education and the role of the educated man to his community.
Thus, espousing on the theme: “The Educated man in our Society,” comrade Mesue
Lucas, an educationist, described the educated man as he who is not only imbued
with sterling knowledge but he who becomes humble, forgiving, kind-hearted,
altruist and benevolent as he result of his education.
He
urged CPDM militants, and especially CPDM leaders some of whom miss no
opportunity to publicly vaunt their attainments in the academia, to portray and
demonstrate true qualities of ‘the genuine intellectual’, if truly they are men
of sound and sterling education.
But
the rostrum of Tombel council hall was not reserved for development experts
alone; political leaders were also given the pride of place.
That
is why the guest of honour at the occasion, H.E. Elung Paul Che, Minister
Delegate to the Minister of Finance, seized the occasion to muster strong on
the need for militants to shun individual agendas and align with the vision and
agenda defined by the sole and only leader of the CPDM – President Paul Biya.
Elung
Paul reiterated that the era of politics of ego and political wrangling in
Tombel CPDM has passed.
“Now is the time to focus and federate our
energies on the development of our community. What we need in Tombel is roads,
water, schools, health centresetc, and not unnecessary rivalry, witch-hunting
and individuals scheming and struggling to elbow their way to the top,” H.E.
Elung Paul said, noting with satisfaction that the section executive saw the
need to make development the focus of discursions during the conference.
“I
am profoundly elated to note that Tombel CPDM has finally come of age and that
we have seen the need to align with the development vision and agenda of
President Paul Biya. In fact i will return to Yaounde satisfied that we have
had a wonderful and very successful conference,” concluded ministerElung Paul,
who is also fondly refered to here as “the golden boy” and/or “le
meilleurjouer”.
For
his part, the representative of the CPDM Central Committee Secretary General,
Prof. Elvis NgolleNgolle, who doubles as the president of the permanent central
committee delegation for KupeMuanenguba, lectured militants on the need for
them to read, comprehend and apply the basic text of the party and to always
respect and apply the decisions of the national chairman – comrade Paul Biya.
He exhorted the militants to demonstrate a sense of exemplary militancy which
encumbers them to be humble, honest and respectful to party hierarchy.
Other
speakers including the section president of Tombel, comrade Mesape, the WCPDM
section president, Ngube Florence and the YCPDM president all preached unity
and reconciliation, noting that the enemy of the CPDM party should be outside
and not within the party.
The
section president used the occasion to remind government of the bad state of
roads in Tombel in particular, and KupeMuanenguba as a whole. He cited notably
the Tombel-Bangem-Nguti road and the Loum-Tombel-Kumba stretch, apart from
farm-to-market roads.
For
her part, Njumbe Florence preached against indecent dressing among young girls
and child abuse, calling on government to encourage training in ICTs as a way
of reducing joblessness and idleness among young girls.
Heavy
feasting concluded the activities of the day. But this was not before a motion
of support was issued to President Paul Biya, thanking him for empowering more
and more Tombel sons and daughters and hailing his sustained fight against
poverty and the insecurity invited by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North.
Reactions
A very educative conference
- NzikiehHedeMesape
(Militant)
Honestly,
it was arguably the most successful section conference since the creation of
the KupeMuanenguba III section. The success was not only in terms of
mobilization but more so, in terms of the content of the papers presented. The
presentations were very educative and edifying. Even the lay man went home with
something. For once the actors shunned demagogy and focused more on
development. I think if we continue with this spirit then Tombel CPDM is headed
for the skies.
A trail-blazer in Tombel
- Bide Cletus (parliament hopeful)
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