Councilors of the Bamenda II municipality have held deliberations that will authorize the Mayor of to secure land and construct a new market under the ‘Build-Operate and Transfer terms.
The deliberations were adopted at the midterm evaluation session on Wednesday July 22, 2020.
During the session, councillors of the Finance Committee also charged the Mayor to look for alternative means to raise revenue in the council whose revenue hangs on the public investment budget, decentralized funds, subvention from the Bamenda City Council amongst others.
The coming of the new market will greatly decongest the Bamenda Main and Food markets and increase the revenue of the council area.
Mezam Senior Divisional Officer, Simon Emile Mooh, congratulated the new councilors and urged them to improve revenue collection which currently stands at 47%.
‘’I sincerely appreciate the efforts of these new councilors for a job well done within this five months in office. Though very young, these councillors work with a lot of discipline,” Mezam SDO said.
‘’ I want to encourage you all to put more efforts in terms of revenue collection. Bamenda is a cosmopolitan city, the heart of our economic activities with the main market, all the banks and microfinance institutions. So you have to maximize this,’’he added
For his part, the Mayor of the Bamenda II Council, Chenwi Peter, says security and lack of equipment are the greatest challenges in executing projects.‘’Our greatest problem is security challenges, but we have derived a formula to use quarter heads. Because of security challenges there are certain areas we cannot penetrate We also lack equipment like graders, front head loaders, trucks, which have actually slowed down the road construction project’. To solve this problem, the Mayor plans to go in for heavy equipment to facilitate work and generate income.
‘’We want to go in for these equipment, the council carried out vigorous campaigns in the fight against COVID-19 in schools, market, streets and hospitals, the council also had a twinning with councils in South Korea through Glotens Cameroon. A training seminar was held to train councilors and limit conflict in management, construction of a borehole in Ntankah.
The Mayor throughout his function provided basic necessities like chairs, tables and other necessities for offices at the temporal site. He equally championed the construction of a block molding industry in Mbingfibieh which will create employment for youths, amongst others. In the months ahead, the construction of two classrooms in Mbatu village and the construction of a Civil status centre will see the light of day.
The council is currently carrying out road maintenance works in Ntamulung and Atuakom, Culverts at Ndimabeah, Mbeah-Mazom in Ntarinkon and Mbeah-shuimangoroare in Ntarikon. Maintenance of roads in Ndzong quarter Mankon, Ntabecow and around Nitop market.
For the smooth functioning of the council, the Mayor was charged to recruit 8 new staff into the technical services of the council. 83,497,322 were incorporated into the 2020 budget being transferred credits.
The council is functioning on a budget of 731,860,321 francs. The current financial execution of the council stands at 120,850,321 francs representing 8.2% in relative terms.
