Accounts Session:

K’ba II Mayor Accuses Ghost Towns for Falling Revenue
-Charges residents to form vigilantes groups and fight ghost town
By Ekoko Willies in Kumba

 

K’ba II Mayor, Mbachu Jacob Kay

 

The population of Kumba II municipality have been challenged to form vigilante groups in their neighbourhoods to fight separatist-imposed ghost town and lockdown that is dealing a heavy blow on the council’s revenue realization.

    Mayor Mbachu Jacob Kay made the appeal 29 July 2020 during a session to examine and adopt the council’s Administrative and management stores accounts.  "…let's create vigilante groups in all the quarters for our goals…we have to fight the ghost town and lockdown phenomenon," Mbachu implored councilors, adding that the rate at which the civil disobedience calls is respected in the municipality is crippling the council’s revenue avenues and project execution.

    Mbachu pointed out that in 2019 the council budgeted the sum of FCFA 633 000 230 million out of which only a meagre sum of FCFA 183 970 072 million was collected.  This he aid represented just 29.9% of the revenue realized, the worst realization rate recorded in the history of the council. He opined that the council’s declining fortune has further been made worst with the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.
    Cognizant of much needed development expected of the council by the population, the Mayor disclosed that despite the challenges, he and his team remain optimistic if given the necessary supported by the population and administration to boost the economic and social standards of the municipality.
    "We have to break our new grounds, explore new territories expand our vision and remain focused," Mbachu said. The session was under the watchful eyes of Meme Second Assistant SDO, Hermia Njonje, who, urged the councilors to remain focus and ensure to handle the difficulties left by the previous team intact to ensure the reutilization of the dream for the municipality.