K’ba III Council adopts 400M as 2017 budget

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Mayor John Kona Makia, Kumba III

The Kumba III Council has adopted the s of 400 million FRS CFA as the budget for the 2017 financial year. This was in a budgetary session that was held at the council hall this December 21, to examine, deliberate and adopt the budget balance in both revenue and expenditure.

                Speaking at the conclave, the Lord Mayor for Kumba III council, John Kona Mania revealed the 20% drop in the budget amounting to the tune if 100 million from that of 2016 is in line with the ministerial circular letter No 090498/LL/MINATD/DCTD of 20th October 2016 relating to the preparation and e execution council budgets.

                Mayor John Kona Makia revealed his road map for the council in 2017 will be in all spheres of development such as providing bore holes to the population to soft the problem of drinking water, construction and maintenance of roads, classrooms, organization of training seminars to educate the population, construction of bridges, culverts as well as a sloter house. He equally promised that in relation to the partnership agreement between the council and the city council, the NTAM motor park will go operational in early 2017 at the permanent site. The mayor also revealed roads will be top on his scale of preference for the municipality as well as strengthening their partnership with CDC and the International LabourOrganisation in areas of development.

Consolidating achievements:

Buea council adopts ambitious 2bn budget for 2017

By Boris Esono in Buea

Mayor Ekema Patrick

The Buea municipality has voted the sum of over 2 billion FCFA as budget for the year 2017. The impressive sum that was balanced in revenue and expenditure was examined and adopted during the second and last council session for the year 2016 holding at the council chambers on Tuesday 20 December 2016. The 2017 budget observed an increase of 18.53% compared to the 2016 budget.

                Speaking during the budgetary session, the Lord Mayor of Buea, Patrick EsungeEkema, explained that the observed increase of the 2017 budget compared to that of 2016 is informed by the ambitious projects the municipality has programmed for 2017. The projects include notably the purchase of transport vehicles for the council and employment of more youths to curb unemployment in the municipality among others.

                The mayor noted that the Buea council is the only council in Fako that has not benefitted any state subvention in 2016. “Thus have meandered our way through human and nocturnal forces to achieve our set goals for 2016,” Mayor Ekema said.

Muyuka council adopts 963bn as budget for 2017

By Boris Esono in Buea

Officials during budgetary session

The Muyuka council has adopted an ambitious budget of nine hundred and sixty three million five hundred thousand (963,500,000) FCFA as its budget for the year 2017. The budget witnessed an increase of one hundred and sixty three million five hundred thousand francs as compared to that of last year given a percentage increase of 20.43%, balanced in revenue and expenditure. It was adopted during the second and last ordinary council session of the council that took place on Friday 23 December 2016 in Muyuka.

                To the mayor of the Muyuka council Mr. Nkeng Michael Akamin, the revenue is to be generated from the council’s internal sources, government subsidies, PNDP, and loans from FEICOM.

                During the solemn gathering, Mayor Nkeng Michael called on the councilors to strive to harness a new value paradigm, build a society that is at peace with itself and shun the boom and burst circle that has caused so much grief in the past.

                               Recently, according to the mayor, arm banditry has taken a toll in the municipality like never before. Some days ago, a police officer was shot dead in the course of taken guard in one of the highly elevated business premises. The council building has also been burgled in two separate instances with the last very devastating with each council office ransacked.

                To him, the administration needs to put in place tough security control machineries like beefing up the police and gendarmerie services in Muyuka and Mutengene through the provision of patrol vans for immediate response to requests for help by those in need of such assistance.

Kumba City Council Adopts Over 1.6bn as 2017 budget

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

NgohNkelle Victor

The kumba city council has adopted the sum of 1, 669, 165, 042 Francs CFA as their council budget for the 2017 financial year. The budget was adopted during the budgetary session of the council that took place Tuesday Decembe 20 at the Kumba City Council hall.

                Speaking at the conclave, the government delegate to the Kumba city council NgohNkelle Victor explained the budget is in consideration of the ministerial circular letter No 0004843/LC/MINATD/DCTD of the 20th October 2016 relating to the preparation and execution of council budgets. The over 1.6 billion budget witnessed a 138 992 431 FRS drop in financial terms and 7.7% in relative terms from that of 2016 which stood at 1 808 957 473 billion.

                While presenting his draft budget proposal to the councillors and administrative officials present NgohNkelle Victor explained out of the amount, 87% will be recurrent revenue which is intended to come from internal revenue sources, the common decentralisation fund and other transfers amounts to the sum of 1453550000frs while 13% will constitute investment revenue of 216415042 FRS.                               The government delegate revealed the expenditure is spread to cover overheads and capital and investment expenditure and will cover staff cost, provide material and supplies, cover transportation expenses, settle other services and various financial costs, grant general recurrent allocations to sub divisional councils, take care of other social expenses and develop projects from the master plan through consultancies and other methods, settle kumba city council indebtedness to third parties and other government investment.

ENS Yaounde graduates 55th batch

-Authorities told to shun linguistic marginalization

By Rachel NtubeNgwese

Prof. Jacque Fame Ndongo

The 55th batch of the higher teachers training college ENS Yaoundé have received their end of training diplomas as teachers and guidance counselors to secondary and high schools of the country. The 138 graduate teachers came from the departments of letters, human sciences, sciences and guidance counseling in both the first and the second cycles of the institution with a general performance rate of 97,41percent.

                According to the director of the institution who presented the batch, the training consisted of two categories of students which include foreign students recruited directly after a proper examination of their documents presented either by their state or previous institution, and regular students recruited through a competitive entrance examination by the public service.

Low-cost housing:

MIPROMALO sensitizes Kumba population on use of local materials

- Provides compressor machines for earth blocks production

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Technicians from MIPROMALO demonstrating how compressed earth blocks are made

The population of kumba has been sensitized on the production and use of compressed earth blocks. This was during a three-day seminar-workshop holding on 19 to 21 December at the Kumba City Hall, organized by the Local Materials Promotion Authority, well known by its French acronym MIPROMALO.

                Resource persons at the workshop edified the population on the use of local earth to produce compressed blocks for construction of houses. The representative of the director of MIPROMALO alongside some technicians from the agency, used practical methods to demonstrate the sundry advantages of using compressed earth blocks to construct modern, low-cost houses.

                Officials of MIPROMALO said studies have revealed that the earth in the entire southwest region is quite suitable for producing compressed blocks, further revealing that houses constructed with earth blocks are cheaper, more durable and conducive than those built with cement blocks. They noted for instance that such houses are cooler during the hot dry seasons and cannot be penetrated by bullets, as opposed to cement blocks.

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