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| Bamenda III Councilors in Session |
The Bamenda
III Council of Mezam Division in the North West Region has made public the
intention to develop the road network within the municipality. The intention
was made known during the budgetary session of the council Tuesday December 5,
2017.
According to
the Finance Committee corroborated by the Mayor Fongu Cletus Tanwe, the
municipal body will be dedicating the lion’s share of the 2018 budget to
improving road network within the municipality. With close to FCFA 200 Million
moving up from 140 last year, the council hopes to open new roads, rehabilitate
and maintain old ones which according to the Mayor will effectively accompany
the development process in council area particularly at the time when the
strategic development plan of the council will be reviewed and updated.
With FCFA
589 million as the global budget balanced in revenue and expenditure, the
council also intends to improve while continuously maintaining the council
water scheme, provide more employment opportunities for the youth, construct
markets, and insure councilors amongst others.
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| Bamenda III Councilors in Session |
The
councilors also used the session to decry fraudulent activities that have
provided leakages for revenue amongst them particularly proceeds from
impounding and parking fees which were only able to generate FCFA 160.000 and
FCFA 118.425 in 2017 far below the budgeted FCFA 1M and FCFA 6. 000. 000M
respectively. While describing the realizations as “grossly unrealistic, the
situation on the field considered”, the municipal officials recommended that
“corrective measures must be taken to address” the situation even if it means
redeploying or even dismissing those found guilty of providing such leakages
must often diverting income into their pockets. Stands in markets, discharge
taxes and others
also featured in this category.
The socio political
crisis in the region, the cutting of City Council annual subvention, leakages
in revenue collection chains amongst others emerged as reasons why the budget
for 2017could not be realized at 100percent.
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| Fongu Cletus Tanwe Mayor Bamenda III Council |
For 2018 the
council hopes to develop a broad revenue base with everyone including
councilors involved so as to achieve a reasonable percentage of the budget when
2018 comes to a close.
The
Divisional Officer DO for Bamenda III Sub Division who represented the Senior
Divisional Officer SDO for Mezam praised the councilors for adopting the budget
he sees as realistic. He promised to accompany the council in their development
endeavors particularly in the area of revenue generation.
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