“Education is Passport for tomorrow”

     -Fuh Calistus tells Donga Mantung people

Fuh Calistus campaigning for massive back to school

Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry, Secretary of State for Mines, Industries and Technological Development has said that education is the passport for tomorrow. Minister Fuh Calistus made the statement during a sensitization on school resumption, development projects and industrialization programme that took place at the Nkambe community hall on September 8, 2017.

                After presenting government development projects allocated to the population of Donga Mantung Mantung Division, Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry said “we can have all, but if we cannot provide the human resources, we have failed”. He pleaded on the population not to compromise in this point, adding that education is the passport of tomorrow while urging all the parents to send their children to school.

                Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry also emphasized on the fact that the Head of State has reacted to the worries raised by the teachers and lawyers and that the people should understand that all societies have problems of different dimensions reasons why he is appealing on the population to give President Paul Biya reason.

                “Some issues concerning aspects of National life, particularly the Education and Legal sectors have been raised in the Northwest and Southwest Regions. The President of the Republic as guarantor of our Constitution listened and acted and will continue bringing more solutions to the issues raised. No society is perfect" Fuh Calistus emphasized.

                He said it is impossible for government to be quiet when children are not going to school and that he too can’t be comfortable that his own children are attending school in Yaounde while children in his own Division are not going to school. He said if he is where he is today it is because he went to school so, "education should not be negotiated for", he added.

On Government development Projects

                Harping on government efforts to foster development process in Donga Mantung Division, Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry revealed that while feasibility studies for the complete tarring on the stretch of the Ring Road from Kumbo to Misaje are going on, over FCFA 3 billion has been allocated for the grading of the road. He said the bad spots along road such as Tatum hill, Njifor at Ndu, the main street from Total petrol station in Ndu to the council, Yambaa in Mbot, Chori in Mbot, Bansobi in Misaje will be tarred. He reiterated that government is investing more that FCFA 6 billion for roads in the division. Some of these road projects he cited include the "Kumbo – Ndu – Nkambe – Misaje road project which will cost about 3 billion francs.

                To Fuh Calistus Gentry, Donga Mantung cannot industrialize if the population cannot be able to produce. He said to boost government efforts; the Frontier Agriculture Industrial Programme-FAINAP is leaving no stone to facilitate the process.

                In line with that FAINAP he disclosed will establish an oil palm agrolepole through financial support from the Ministry of Plan and Regional Development-MINEPAT which will make up the oil shortage in the country.

                Besides that, FAINAP he added is there to reverse the trends and make Nkame a dry-port in the country. The maize progamme he said has produced very positive results this year and prospects are high at that the Nkame Industrial zone situated at Binshua will go operational soon.

                On his part, Mr. Nkwenti Simon, the Senior Divisional Officer for Donga Mantung Division applauded elite(s) for their massive turn out. While congratulating the population for taking the development train, he also reminded them that “education is the springboard to leadership”. He said this is the time for Donga Mantung Division to stand out of the madding crowd and to make a difference.