Mayor Balick Fidelis Chairman of Distribution Commission
Failure to secure a permit from the High Commissioner, to
cross over to Nigeria and visit the over 50.000 refugees from Cameroon in
Nigeria with supplies, Social Democratic Front party SDF headed by Chairman Fru
Ndi resolved at a National Executive Committee meeting that held recently in
Bamenda, to rather reach out to the internally displaced persons in the
Northwest and Southwest Regions. The managing Commission head charged with
distribution, Balick Awah Fidelis Mayor of Bamenda II, told pressmen that the
resolve was welcomed by NEC members and surely it would be appreciated by the
general public.
Mayor Balick said the reverting is because of the numerous speed
brakes mounted by some regime Barons stopping the SDF as a party through their
National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi from travelling to Nigeria, does not in any
way means that the refugees in Nigeria have been abandoned and forgotten. He
made allusion to the probability of getting SDF militants in Nigeria to pay
them a visit with the necessary supplies. These supplies are said to have been donated
by just everybody for the party to meet with the brothers and sisters running
away from restive areas.
Pressmen were ushered in to the store room where the supplies
had been piled in heaps for almost a year now. The consignment consist of bags
of rice, maize, beans, oil, blankets, some medication, clothes, utensils, shoes and hygienic female pad. These supplies would
go to savage the already precarious situation and it is hoped that by the time
the supplies are getting finished, solution to the crisis would have been
sought. Some families in Bamenda and environs are hosting 15 to 20 IDPs in
their homes and have been feeding them for months which is not an easy feat given the very tight
finances.
To benefit
from this gesture, victims are advised to meet any Mayor of the SDF party
within Mezam and register his or her name and the supplies would be delivered
to them where they are hosted just to ensure that they are not collected by the
wrong people and later sold. The supply destined for Southwest region shall be
channeled through the party’s representation. The Mayor prides self that SDF is
people oriented reason why the supplies were contributed by the common man. Typical
of the SDF, Mayor Balick blasted government initiative to what is now referred
to as emergency humanitarian relief plan budgeted at FCFA 12.7 Billion, saying
that the money is being contributed by the very Rich for reasons beyond giving
assistance to IDPs and refugees. To him, one of those Rich people can even
manage the IDPs and Refugees from his pocket but are seen pretending to
contribute a few millions from the lot that they have amassed at the detriment
of the people through tax evasion. According to Mayor Balick, the speed brakes
were political given that those who masterminded the speed brakes at the level
of Nigerian High Commissioner know very well that if SDF moves to meet Refugees
in Nigeria, it would score the party more points national and internationally.
By Ignatius Nji
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