K’ba Streets in Sorry State Due To Amba Conflict

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Ngoh Nkelle Victor, Govt delegate of K’ba worried about the state of K’ba roads

The Government delegate to the Kumba city Council has revealed that the ongoing crisis rocking the North West and South West Regions of the country has left the roads in Kumba, Chief Town of Meme Division in a sorry state. Ngoh Nkelle Victor made the revelation late last year as he chaired deliberations to adopt the 2019 budget of the city council.

                Ngoh Nkelle who will in the month of February this year clock a decade at the helm of the Kumba City Council dished out his alibi to grand councilors who form the deliberative arm of the city council. This comes in the wake of scathing criticisms levied on the City Council boss regarding the poor state of roads despite countless promises made in the domain of road maintenance and grading.

                Instead of looking for ways to celebrate his achievements at the helm of the city council when he clocks 10 years in office, Kumba inhabitants are rather on the neck of the Government Delegate, forcing him to ‘vomit’ projects or step out of the comforts of his office and enforce his lobbying mechanism to bring in the much needed development projects that will help transform Kumba which is gradually been described by observers as metamorphosing into village.

                To the Government Delegate, slow road projects execution in Kumba are all as a result of the growing insecurity caused by the worsening Anglophone crisis that has forced contractors to abandon their contracts with others even afraid of stepping foot in the Division.

                While regretting the departure of the Tunisian road construction company, SOROUBAT, charged with the construction of Kumba-Ekondo Titi-Mundemba road given the hostilities perpetrated on their workers, Ngoh Nkelle, indicated that, the company was to start its work at the roundabout of the Catholic Church in Kumba Town and link up road at Kake before continuing to Ekondo Titi and Mundemba.

                “The suspension of this road has punished the Kumba city council enormously in that even streets programmed along the highway have been discarded thus leaving the city in a sorry state” Ngoh Nkelle wept. He added that, the same insecurity is responsible for the suspension of road works on tarring the RTC junction to Bonakama junction, the CPDM Hall junction to the SDO’s residence and the Ann Gabonay Cultural Centre to Asong Garage as well as negotiations for the World Bank road project in Kumba II subdivision that has ended in impasse.

                He further stated that, the city council’s partnerships with the German city of Sindelfingen have flopped because of insecurity just when a common project for Kumba was ripe while The African Development Bank-Kumba city council partnership tractors contracted through the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, which arrived in February 2018 are still hosted at the Kumba city council for fear of vandalism.