Association Working Towards Crime Free Community

By Ignatius Nji

Brother Emmanuel Nanji Displaying money contributed

An Association dubbed Ntamulung Youth for Development founded in Bamenda has launched an operation crime free Ntamulung by introducing a small loan scheme project. Ntamulung is one of quarters in Bamenda City noted for harboring highhanded hoodlums and bandits with records of constant harassment on free citizens in broad day light and at night. The security forces have a challenge of being unable to dismantle the crime network in this quarter given that inhabitants of this quarter have refused to corporate with the forces of law and order to fish out these bad guys.

As an alternative to transform the lives of these idle youth who find pleasure in robbing people for lack of education and what to do, Brother Emmanuel Nanji, evangelist of the Philadelphian Methodist Ministry Cameroon who is a resident of Ntamulung quarter together with US based Cameroonian born Abong Emmanuel crafted this idea and the association was created. This community project is gaining a lot of applause from brothers and sisters of Ntamulung given that contributions are already going on to set up the small credit scheme for the youth. Everybody is expected to contribute at least FCFA 5000 for low income and FCFA 25000 for upper the class to obtain membership status.

Talking to Eden, Brother Emmanuel Nanji who is the interim President of the Association, he says this idea came when Mr. Abong Emmanuel came visiting  and had a good time communing with his Ntamulung brothers and sisters in the neighborhood. After a heavy drinking spree he retired home only to visited by the same guys he was sharing drinks with. Mr. Emmanuel Nanji cough out FCFA 200.000 the only money found in the house. The bandits looking at how much he had spent on drinks, did not believe him so seized the daughter demanding more money. Mr. Abong pleaded with them that the FCFA 200.000, was all he had in the house yet these guys were unwilling to let go. When the bandits threatened to take away his little daughter, Mr. Abong motion courage and told them that no such thing can happen and that he is ready to die with any of them such they try to take away his child. At this moment an order came from one of them who was outside that they should let go the child and leave grand Abong alone. That is when he realized that the bandits were not strangers in the quarter.

When Abong left for the US, he promised not to have anything to do with Ntamulung people talk less of sharing a drink each time he comes visiting. When next he came home and called on Brother Emmanuel to go have a drink out of Ntamulung for fear of these boys. Brother Emmanuel advised him against that and rather said be with them and even craft out a project to solve this problem of stealing common among youth. Here the idea of an association was born and he Abong Emmanuel contributed an upfront FCFA 250.000 for the project. Many people are following suit with contributions pending a grand launching of the small credit scheme project in the days ahead. Brother Emmanuel holds strongly that to fight crime wave is to identify the root cause of the criminality among a given class of people. The case of Ntamulung is peculiar given that most of young people are school drop out for want of financial resources of their parents.

NWR Rated 3rd In PIP Realization, MINMAP Bent On Scoring 100 percent By December

By Ignatius Nji

Ediage Herbert Apande MINMAP Regional Delegate

By October rating North West Region has been classified 3^rd in the 2014 public investment Projects PIP execution. This revelation was made public during a regional Public Contracts MINMAP coordination meeting that took place in Ndop on October 30^th presided over by the SDO for Ngoketunjia. The Regional Delegate for Public Contracts Mr. Ediage Herbert Apande says with this rating he shall make sure that by close of this fiscal year North West region would have recorded 100 percent realization given that all projects have been engaged and work is already on course.

A total of 277 projects were allocated for the North West and two of them were reportedly deviated to other Region. 275 projects are expected to be realized at the end of December and so far at the level of the Regional Delegation of Public Contracts 261 projects have been launched and awarded, 170 of the 261 projects have been completed and handed over. This gives a record score of the projects executed to 62.9 percent given that no project is at zero percent. The Regional Delegate also made it clear that any project still on course had to do with seasonal lapses give the heavy rains posing as deterrent to the smooth take off especially road projects.

Talking on problems encountered, it was observed that some projects are not properly studied making it difficult for the contractors to execute the projects. The new electricity production and distribution company ENEO has come with new roles to be the sole supplier of electric poles. This is a new concept which many contractors complain that it slows down execution given the high demand which the company is unable to meet up. The coordination also examined and evaluated the consequences of the lowest bidder concept though is internationally accepted as standard, poses a problem in the field where contractors have to be pressured to do their job given that they find it difficult to adequately deliver the projects on time for want of profit margin. According to Ediage Herbert Apande, time for little miscomprehension and small wranglings is over as each stakeholder now knows understands the role of MINMAP. He says it is time for all hands to be on deck to see that execution of PIP in the North West hits 100 percent at the end of this year in terms of quality and quantity. This shall be ensured by a college of control engineers, 47 in number who are doing a commendable job.

In appreciation of the coordination meeting which is first of its kind, the SDO for Ngoketunjia Mr. Kuela Norbert Valerie says the choice of Ngoketunjia for this meeting was laudable. This meeting he says essential given that itis a stock taking meeting under the Ministry of Public Contracts in order to evaluate distance covered and to make better the way forward. He lauded the stakeholders for deliberating on the lowest bidder syndrome and hoped that hierarchy would consider the resolutions taken so far.

Association Working Towards Crime Free Community

 By Ignatius Nji

An Association dubbed Ntamulung Youth for Development founded in Bamenda has launched an operation crime free Ntamulung by introducing a small loan scheme project. Ntamulung is one of quarters in Bamenda City noted for harboring highhanded hoodlums and bandits with records of constant harassment on free citizens in broad day light and at night. The security forces have a challenge of being unable to dismantle the crime network in this quarter given that inhabitants of this quarter have refused to corporate with the forces of law and order to fish out these bad guys.

As an alternative to transform the lives of these idle youth who find pleasure in robbing people for lack of education and what to do, Brother Emmanuel Nanji, evangelist of the Philadelphian Methodist Ministry Cameroon who is a resident of Ntamulung quarter together with US based Cameroonian born Abong Emmanuel crafted this idea and the association was created. This community project is gaining a lot of applause from brothers and sisters of Ntamulung given that contributions are already going on to set up the small credit scheme for the youth. Everybody is expected to contribute at least FCFA 5000 for low income and FCFA 25000 for upper the class to obtain membership status.

Talking to Eden, Brother Emmanuel Nanji who is the interim President of the Association, he says this idea came when Mr. Abong Emmanuel came visiting  and had a good time communing with his Ntamulung brothers and sisters in the neighborhood. After a heavy drinking spree he retired home only to visited by the same guys he was sharing drinks with. Mr. Emmanuel Nanji cough out FCFA 200.000 the only money found in the house. The bandits looking at how much he had spent on drinks, did not believe him so seized the daughter demanding more money. Mr. Abong pleaded with them that the FCFA 200.000, was all he had in the house yet these guys were unwilling to let go. When the bandits threatened to take away his little daughter, Mr. Abong motion courage and told them that no such thing can happen and that he is ready to die with any of them such they try to take away his child. At this moment an order came from one of them who was outside that they should let go the child and leave grand Abong alone. That is when he realized that the bandits were not strangers in the quarter.

When Abong left for the US, he promised not to have anything to do with Ntamulung people talk less of sharing a drink each time he comes visiting. When next he came home and called on Brother Emmanuel to go have a drink out of Ntamulung for fear of these boys. Brother Emmanuel advised him against that and rather said be with them and even craft out a project to solve this problem of stealing common among youth. Here the idea of an association was born and he Abong Emmanuel contributed an upfront FCFA 250.000 for the project. Many people are following suit with contributions pending a grand launching of the small credit scheme project in the days ahead. Brother Emmanuel holds strongly that to fight crime wave is to identify the root cause of the criminality among a given class of people. The case of Ntamulung is peculiar given that most of young people are school drop out for want of financial resources of their parents.