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.
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