Curbing ignorance among Konye councilors:

Mayor tells SDO to organize training sessions

-Promises improvement in development projects

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Dr. Barrister Musima George Lobe

The Lord Mayor of Konye council, Dr. Barrister Musima George Lobe has urged the Senior Divisional Officer, SDO of Meme to regularly organize quizzes for councilors of the municipality in order to reduce naivety and ignorance on issues regarding the council in the domain of development. The Mayor made the plea April 20 on the occasion of the examination and adoption of the 2016 administrative and management accounts of the Konye council at the council chambers.

                Mayor Musima’s plea comes on the backdrop of irrelevant and unnecessary questions posed by the councilors during the session which to him shows their ignorance of the said councilors of issues regarding them. While responding to sundry of such questions which had made some officials to term it the most boring session ever, the Mayor revealed the only way out from such embarrassing questions posed by councilors to raised unnecessary and unfounded debates will be curb if regular exercises are organized to edify the councilors of such situations.

                While addressing the councilors and officials present, Mayor Musima revealed “we worked very hard but we did not attend the level which we expected because of some short comings” while adding that the council however despite the shortcomings crossed the marked with a 58.9% in the budget realization. He noted the sum of FCFA 502 million was collected as revenue with expenditure of over 870 million.

                While citing sundry development projects for the year 2016, the Mayor revealed that the tarring of the road will has led to an influx into the municipality thereby boosting the economy of the municipality. To him, this will also lead to other problems like social problems which will be top on his agenda in order to make the youths busy and industrious in order to curb crime.

                He further lamented the fact that the ongoing Anglophone crisis has deprived pupils and students from enjoying didactic materials provided for this academic year by government while begging on the SDO to look for a solution into the situation.

                The session was chaired by the first Assistant Senior Divisional Officer for Meme,VerklineEpolewaneMbua in which she revealed the 58.9% realization rate is below that of previous year.  She equally challenged the Mayor and the councilors to put more effort to see into it that improvements are made in the development of the municipality.