Family photo after the meeting |
The Oku community in Cameroon and in the
Diaspora will on July 9th and December 15-20, 2016 converge in Oku to raise
funds to finance development projects to better the lives of oku people.
This
filtered from an enlarged extra ordinary executive meeting of the Oku cultural
and development association, OCDA that brought together committee members
recently in Bamenda.
Speaking
to the press after the meeting, the president of OCDA, MrKeng Wilfred Nshom
revealed that they are dreaming of raising over 60million Fcfa to be raised for
feasible devt projects across Oku like the maintenance of schools, roads the
Oku Fons palace plaza and some social amenities like health care units and
water projects.
During
this enlarged exco meeting that saw the participation of three ad-hoc standing
committees like the fundraiser, projects and socio- cultural, it was also unanimously
agreed that the fund raiser bonanza at the Oku Fons palace would take the form
of a cultural jamboree to grease the traditional culture and heritage of this
community come December 2016.
“All
Oku sons and daughters must know that we all mean business and we must carry
our weight now behind OCDA" he noted. While pinpointing accountability and
transparency as the main pillars of his regime, Mr. Keng pledged to flush out
fugitives and debtors keeping any assets of this association in the past.
Fearful
of falling into the old habits of the past OCDA regimes, the new exco also
underlined the creation of a bank account into which all donations and
contributions for OCDA could be access by all and sundry for good transparency
and accountability .
Fighting
against the unforeseen in the near future or any future disappointments, Mr.
Keng and his team also articulated broad Base strategists to get all sons and
daughters of “mnkongmotehs” land involve in all OCDA upcoming events in 2016.
This executive that is just three months in office has recorded some remarkable
trappings like the legalization of the status of this organization with the
administration since its many years of creation and the reinstitution of
national OCDA financial receipt t easy donations and contributions to the
Association.
It
should be recalled that OCDA is the umbrella association for all socio cultural
and development associations in the Oku fondon and this new exco has as task to
reinvigorate a spirit of solidarity and accountability amongst the Okus for
three years.
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