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Councilors congratulate Nguti Mayor’s dev’t strides

By Doh Bertrand Nua Just back from Nguti

Mayor Tong George Enoh of Nguti addressing councilors

Councilors of CPDM-run Nguti council in KupeMuanenguba Division have hailed the Mayor, Tong George Enoh and his team for the high rate of project realization, financial execution and vision in the development of the municipality. The councilors congratulated the Mayor for his brilliance in the management of the affairs of the council and his relentless efforts in transforming the enclave municipality with his development oriented leadership. This was at the council hall on Friday August 4, 2017. 

                The councilors showered praises on the Mayor on the occasion of the first ordinary session of the council devoted to the reviewing and adopting the administrative, management and stores accounts of the council for the year 2016.

                It emerged from the deliberations that the financial realization of Nguti council in 2016 stood at 80% with effective revenue collection of FCFA 398, 978, 937, effective expenditure of FCFA 285, 526,144 giving a budget surplus of FCFA 113, 452, 793.

                According to the Municipal Treasurer, Simon SonaMakia, the excess revenue over expenditure is the result of the non-use of the public investment allocation. He noted that the failure by the council to execute PIB projects is the bane of the enclave municipality.

                Mayor Tong George Enoh acknowledged that 2016 was an extremely difficult one for the council but promised the council will spare no stone in ensuring that it realizes or commence realization of their much talked about projects.

                Mayor Tong boasted of projects such as construction works on the municipal guest house, construction of 10 permanent stores in the Manyemen motor park, the acquisition of a brand new 20 ton truck, reinforcement of the equipment pool, and construction of a block of two classrooms in Fonven which is near completion. The Mayor as well promised the inauguration before September of the FCFA 25 million newly constructed nursery school in Manyemen. The project was realized by the Nguti council using their decentralization credit.

                Mayor Tong exhorted the councilors to join him in lobbying for projects because according to him the success of their mandate depends on their capacity to lobby.

                 “I want to state that our capacity to lobby is bearing fruits already. If Nguti is a work site today it is thanks to our lobbying capacity; our ability to identify projects and source for financial support for their execution,” Mayor Tong explained, adding that it is thanks to such lobbying that by the month of September Nguti will be blessed with a new petrol station constructed by the Petroleum Prices Stabilisation Fund, CSPH. 

                The mayor also noted that with support from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Nguti will in the days ahead also boast of electricity.

                Witnessing the deliberations, the ASDO of KupeMuanenguba, Felix Kanga, called on all and sundry to send their children to school for the new academic year and urged all councilors to put the development of Nguti before all else.

Call for School Resumption

                The mayor also used the occasion of the council session to call on all council and other officials present during the session to send their children to school for the academic year 2017/2018. He argued that in order for this to be successful, the teachers themselves will have to make for the lost hours by preparing the pupils and students in catch-up holiday classes before the actual school resumption.

                He noted that Cameroon is not the first country to have problems and as such the future of the children should not be jeopardized in the name of fighting for equality.

Councilors Decry Presentation of Budget Booklet in French

                Sundry councilors of the Nguti council decried the presentation of the budget booklet to them in the French language which they could not read nor understand. To them such documents which are of vital importance should be translated to ease comprehension.

                Reacting to the worry, the Municipal treasurer, Simon SonaMakia explained that the software used in producing the documents was put in place by a presidential decree issued in French and as such it would be wrong for any such translations to be done. To him until something is done on it from above they will just have to manage to translate it locally to ease understanding.