Presidential Plan for Reconstruction & Development:

Paul Tasong Begins 2-Week Mission to NW & SW

-The ‘awareness and sensitization’ mission instructed by the Prime Minister, Head of Government, Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute, will run from Monday 22 June to Friday 3 July 2020.

Paul Njukang Tasong, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development In Charge of Planning will begin a 12-day mission to the North West and South West Regions on Monday, 22 June 2020.

              

The National Coordinator of the PPRD-NW/SW, Paul Njukang Tasong

  He will be leading an “Awareness and Sensitization Mission” in his capacity as National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the North West and South West Regions.

                “Under the High instructions of the Prime Minister, Head of Government, Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute, the National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the North West and South West Regions (PPRD-NW/SW) hereby announces that he is embarking on an Awareness and Sensitization Campaign from Monday June 22 to Friday July 3, 2020,” Tasong said in a press release.

                Although hostilities are yet to end between state forces battling armed separatists in the area, Tasong says the Campaign, which is aimed to reach out to the beneficiaries of the reconstruction and development of the conflict-hit regions will afford his team the opportunity to expound on the reconstruction activities envisaged.

                For 12 days, they will outline the processes and mechanisms for the implementation of the Plan as well as define the methods of organization and support for the various beneficiaries and ensure ownership of the Plan by the said beneficiaries.

                It is expected that from Monday 22 June to Friday 3 July, Paul Tasong and his team will hold meetings with beneficiary populations of reconstruction and development plan, as well as engage with other actors in the field.

                Paul Tasong and Donatus Njong were, in April, respectively installed as National Coordinator and Deputy National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the North West and South West Regions, PPRD-NW/SW.

                The duo are expected to supervise “the rehabilitation of about 350 schools, 115 health centers, 40 bridges, 400 power points, 500 KM of Low tension power points, 600KM of rural roads, 45 markets, 12000 houses, 25000hectares of farm land, livestock lost by grazers, reestablishment of close to 3000 personal documents lost.”

                Recall that corporate demands by Common Law Lawyers and Anglophone Teachers in November 2016 led to protests in the NW and SW. The street demonstrations that ensued later morphed into running gun battles between government forces and armed fighters seeking to create a separate state in the two English-speaking regions. This led to untold destruction of human lives and property.