I Am Disappointed With My Senators, We Expected Vehicles Not Motorbikes-Councilor Bang Bullet

By Ignatius Nji

             Councilor Kengong Johnson alias Bang Bullet(Nkambe Council)

The maiden visit of the Senators did not impress me at all maybe it did to other councilors. To me their visit was a disappointment first because they gave the meager FCFA 10000 only to Councilors who were present meaning those who were not is Nkambe are left out. Does it mean when another election would come they shall expect votes only from those who were present in Nkambe? If you want to cajole somebody to vote for you do not wait until the day of election to do that. You begin early with something convincing like FCFA 300.000 then at election you don’t need to give anything to be voted in to office. Secondly the FCFA 10.000 each meant nothing to us for example those councilors who left Nwa and came had to spend minimum FCFA 24000 on transport alone only to be given FCFA 10.000. The Senators were supposed to give the FCFA 10.000 to all the councilors present or not. To me if these Senator continue this way and in 2018 election they give me even FCFA 500.000 to vote for them I won’t vote even if my Mayor tells me to do so.  Thirdly the Senators are coming two years after to give each council a bike, is that what the people are expecting from them. What were they doing in Yaoundé all this while? To us in Donga Mantung Division our Senator of late, Prof Njikong Stephen alone donated a Million francs to each Council as Scholarship at the end of the first year at the Senate which to us was great comparatively to what eight Senators have jointly done. I, Councilor Kengong Johnson alias Bang Bullet spend more money  than that for my people in Njap and can equally buy a bike for my council. These bikes to Councils is an excuse not to lobby for roads in Donga Mantung Division and I think these bikes would make sense as gift to some individuals living in enclave areas not to us in Nkambe we need but vehicles. If they brought but vehicles for the councils it would have made some sense not motorbikes. One other aspect that angered us the councilors was the big joke these Senator boasted that they have voted a law reducing prices of Beer and one of the Senators even told us to our faces that we like drinking a lot so this law is very good timely. This was an outright insult to councilors and for a people who want to develop Cameroon beginning with Donga Mantung Division and they are rather propagating drunkenness. A bill on the reduction of fuel prices would have had a spill over on other commodities if at all they have concern for their people. Crude oil at the World market has dropped drastically yet prices of fuel in my country keep rising and the Senators are quiet because they have fuel bonds and can not feel the pinch of the common man.
Calls for Vigilance against boko Haram
Honorable Councilor Kengong called on the population of Nkambe and Donga Mantung to be more vigilant concerning these attacks by Boko Haram. He says Cameroonians should protect Cameroon before the Police and Gendarmes given that there is need for total collaboration in the fight against these evil forces. The youths should champion this vigilance and should report any suspicious movement in the communities. Any continuous silence on the part of anybody in the face of this circumstances might give room to more evil. Everybody should be involved and contribute in the fight first with vigilance. People should move around with their national Identity cards and stop late nights and avoid crowded environments. Any new person in the neighborhood should be questioned and ascertain his/her mission of visit.