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| Food Market Victims with North West Governor, Lelel’Afrique |
Victims of the March 14th fire incident at
the Bamenda food market where a total of six lockup stores, 91 open stores
(temporal stores) and 12 trading benches were ravaged by fire have received the
sum of over FCFA 75 million from the President of the Republic, H.E Paul Biya
as compensation.
Handing
over the financial package to the victims recently in Bamenda at a brief
ceremony at the Bamenda Congress Hall, North West Governor, Adolph
LeleL’Afrique challenged them to put the money into effective use so that they
can start their businesses anew and to repay the Head of State's good gesture
by shunning calls for ghost town
A
total of 73,700,000 FRS was distributed to the victims. The six affected lockup
stores shared a total 20 million FRS, 475,000 FRS each to the 91 temporal sheds
and 100,000 FRS each for the 12 trading tables that were razed to the ground in
the fire incident.
The
financial support he says is not a compensation for their loss but a gesture
from the head of state to his compatriots.
He
also called on the victims to Shun all calls for civil disobedience and” stand
by the state” as government has taken measures to resolve the current
Anglophone crisis raised by Anglophone teachers and lawyers.
Its
popular believe in Bamenda that the shops were burnt because they did not
respect the calls for ghost town that has paralysed economic activities in the
Northwest and southwest Regions for close to four months now.
One
of the victims, MdzemniaEmmaculate, who owned a lock up shed said she received
a total of 3.9 million FRS and express her gratitude to the head of state for
coming to their aid though she acknowledged that the amount is meager compares
to the colossal sum of about 27 million FRS worth of goods that she lost to the
fire.
One
person, whose names has not been made public is currently held under detention
in relation to the fire incident while the other perpetrators of the act are
reported to be on the run, Northwest Governor said.
Through the traders initiative and means,
the part of the market that was destroyed by the fire has been reconstructed
and reinforced.
Governor Lele called on the Victims to
repay the Head of State's good gesture by shunning calls for ghost town
One
person, whose names has not been made public is currently held under detention
in relation to the fire incident while the other perpetrators of the act are
reported to be on the run, Northwest Governor said.
Through
the traders initiative and means, the part of the market that was destroyed by
th fire has been reconstructed and reinforced.
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