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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