Budget session

Tiko Council hailed for satisfactory projects execution
By Ajongakou Santos in Tiko

Moukondo Daniel- Tiko Coucil Mayor

The Senior Divisional Officer for Fako has described as satisfactory the rate of execution of investment and development projects by the Tiko Council. Mr. Zang 111 was speaking recently in Tiko as he presided over a council session to examine and adopt the administrative, management and stores accounts of the Tiko council for 2014. He urged the councilors of the council to continue to be disciplined and ensure good collaboration with the mayor and his collaborators if the council must continue to show the good example in implementation of its programs.
In a report presented by the Mayor of the Tiko Council, HRH Chief Moukondo Daniel Ngande during this first ordinary council session for the 2015 financial year, he said the sum of over FCFA 766 million was received as revenue from taxes, council properties; endowment fund, amongst others. He said the money was used to execute a number of projects in the municipality notably; the construction of a modern hall complex at the council premises, the fencing of the council complex, purchase of an official vehicle for the mayor, rehabilitation works on streets within the Municipality, construction of classrooms and the donation of benches to some Nursery and Primary and secondary schools.

    While some of these projects have been realised at 100% others are on-gong, the mayor said.
    Meanwhile, statistics indicate there was an increase in revenue of over 24million FCFA, with a decrease in expenditure of over 4million as compared to 2013.
    Chief Daniel Moukondo added that the Tiko Council is lobbying for more sponsorship, after FEICOM granted the council the sum of close to 770million FCFA for the rehabilitation and extension of the Mutengene Water Project to contain all of Mutengene, Likomba, Tiko, and parts of Mongo. MINEPAT also assisted the council to the tune of FCFA 122 million for the rehabilitation of farm-to-market roads in Mondoni, Misaka, Ebunji and Likomba likewise the construction of boreholes at Mongo Layout, Likomba, Boma Street and Holtforth Layout.
    The Tiko mayor used the occasion to also appreciate the senators of the South West Region for supporting the municipality with two wheelbarrows, adding that thanks to team work, the Tiko council was ranked first amongst councils in the Fako division in the minimum package good governance competition under the canopy of the convention signed between MINTATD and GIZ PADDL which also earned the council an additional amount of 400.000 FCFA to the package.
    As supervisory authority of councils, the Senior Divisional Officer of Fako, Mr. Zang III commended the development projects realised so far in Tiko, while insisting that hygiene and sanitation be stepped up in the localities that make up the municipality through the demolition of dilapidated buildings along major streets. To succeed in this mission, the S.D.O prescribed discipline, stressing that unjustified absences, and the embezzlers of council funds will be handed to the law courts. 
    In relation to the issue of the land that was ceded to the council by the CDC, the Mayor assured that it has already been resolved and that those who took over parts of the land will be made to pay some money to the council, adding that the council is working towards seeing that the land in question is returned to its rightful owner; the Tiko Council. But this can only be done after the council procures a land certificates and documents for all its landed property.
Mayor Mukondo also debunked allegations that he favoured his friends in the distribution of shops at the Tiko Market, leaving some traders with nothing.  While promising to ensure an equitable distribution of stores in markets, the mayor regretted that traders, mostly Nigerians, have been forced to abandon an important revenue source like the Mudeka market built in 2006 by the RUMPI Project at the tune of 50 million FCFA because of police harassment.
    Also present at the council’s first ordinary session was the Divisional Officer of Tiko Sub-Division, Members of Parliament, 41 Councilors; heads of Services, religious and traditional authorities.