Gov. Okalia
Bilai reassures populations amid brutal killings
By Doh
Bertrand Nua in Kumba
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| SDOs pose with Governor at SW coordination meeting |
The Governor
of the Southwest Region has urged all and sundry in the region to work in
synergy and preserve peace, tranquility in the midst of the escalating
insecurity due to the Anglophone crisis.
Okalia Bilai made the call on 28 November 2017 while presiding over the
SW Regional Administrative and Security Coordination meeting at the Kumba City
hall.
The two-day meeting on 28-29
November 2017 brought together all administrative authorities of the South West
Region including heads of regional army, gendarmerie and police units; heads of
administrative units, political leaders, municipal authorities, traditional and
religious authorities and members of civil society.
The meeting had as sole aim to evaluate
the security and the administrative situation in the Region and preempt further
escalation of violence.
Speaking at the conclave, Okalia
Bilai urged all to denounce and rub out terrorist actions that might put the
peace of the region at jeopardy. Without mincing words the firebrand Governor
noted that stopping children from going to school is an academic genocide that
is invited on the children by their parents.
He congratulated the SDOs,
Regional heads of Defense and Security Forces, Regional Delegates, Mayors and
Traditional Rulers, School administrators and teachers for their resilience and
dedication to ensuring the smooth functioning of the administration and schools
in spite of terrorist threats and intimidations.
The governor reassured the
population about government’s determination to crackdown on the terrorists and
urged them to go about their daily activities in peace, tranquility and without
fear, especially as the end of year feasts are fast approaching.
On their part the Regional Delegates
of Secondary and Basic Education both castigated the burning of schools and
threats and intimidation of teachers and students by secessionist hoodlums
especially in rural areas.
It emerged that some 36
secondary schools in the region have suffered varied degrees of damages due to
arson, while 11 schools have been burnt to ashes.
Other
speakers included the Regional Delegates of Health, Transport, Water and Energy
and the Pay-Master-General of the region.
The meeting was graced by the
presence of two eminent partriarchs; Chief General Tataw James and Senator Nfon
V.E Mukete who both condemned the killings in NW and SW and also called for a
return to normalcy.
The Regional Coordination
meeting ended with an in camera security meeting between the governor and heads
of security operations and the six SDOs of the region.
The Governor took the
opportunity to visit the Small Ekombe base of SOUROBAT, the company contracted
to tar the 60km Kumba-Ekondo-Titi road.
The governor’s visit comes after
the Regional Delegate of Public Works recently criticized the company for the
snail’s paced progress of works.
Worthy to note that the
Kumba-Ekondotiti road project is still at 8% execution after 42% of the project
period has been consumed.
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