Emergency Humanitarian Aid Project:

Kumba War Victims Receive Gov’t Assistance

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Meme SDO handing over aid package to Kumba IDPs

The SDO for Meme, Ntou’ou Ndong Chamberlin, has launched the distribution phase of the government assistance humanitarian plan for the internationally displaced populations, IDPs, of the Northwest and Southwest Regions resident in Meme as a result of the ongoing Anglophone Crisis in Kumba.

The exercise took place Wednesday August 8, 2018 at the Kumba Amusement Park and saw the distribution of items such as; bags of rice, matrasses, cartons of soups, vegetable oil, bags of salt, blankets, buckets, maggi, sardine and amongst many others.

            The SDO told a handful of IDPs who mustered courage to show up alongsidethe impostors who presented themselves as IDPs while launching the distribution that, the Head of State is adequately aware of their problems, reason why he has send them assistance during such difficult period.

            Ntou’ou Ndong called on thousands of other IDPs nursing fear to come forward and receive the gifts to shun fear, identify themselves and receive the gifts. “…I want to sensitise my population who are afraid to come out that these things are for them and they have to collect their own share” Ntou’ou Ndong enthused adding that the Head of State as the father has decided to take care of all his children.

            Ntou’ou Ndong who arguablyhasn’t descended to restive Konye and Mbonge Sub-Divisions of Meme for over three months as a result of the deafening crisis said that he will in the days ahead launch same initiative in the highly affected subdivisions. “We know some areas are a little bit far but the truth is that with time, the SDO will go to Mbonge with the forces of law and order to try and share all the gifts to the population who are living inside the bushes”.

            The few courageous IDPs who showed up at the distribution ground said the items will go a long way to ameliorate their living conditions for a few months pending a permanent solution to the crisis while others noted they will share the collected gifts to those still languishing in the bushes.

            To recall is the fact that a report released by government, addressing the crisis in the NW/SW Regions states that there are a total of 28 867 IDPs in Meme Division with 1867 and 27 000 from Konye and Mbonge subdivisions respectively. The same report indicates that, 3000 of these IDPs have fled to metropolitan Kumba while 25 800 are living in the forest.