The Director
of Civil Cabinet at the Presidency and Chair of the National Organizing Committee
for the 50th Anniversary of Cameroon’s Reunification, Martin Belinga
Eboutou, early this month in Buea, said
major projects earmarked for the event were almost complete, indicative of the
fact that the golden jubilee would soon take place this year.
Mr. Eboutou
made the remark after an evaluation of the some of the major projects.
He was
accompanied to Buea by the Minister of Armed Forces Alain Mebe Ngo’o, the Minister
of Tourism Bello Bouba Magairi and Southwest Governor, Bernand Okalia Bilai.
Their evaluation
tour took them to project sites such as the new grand stand, Buea Mountain
Hotel, Parliamentarian Flat (Hotel), new Buea Council Building, and the two
presidential residences in Buea.
Other
significant projects such as the construction of the cultural village opposite the
new grand stand, estimated to cost 350 million Fcfa and the erection of the
reunification monument estimated to cost over 750 million Fcfa are still to be realized, although officials
are hopeful that they will come to fruition as soon as possible.
Unfortunately,
residents of Buea continue to face water crisis with some neighborhoods such as
Bokwango hardest hit. For almost a year now, residents have been trekking long
distances daily just to fetch portable water, following CAMWATER/CDE repeated
failures to meet their own deadlines to ensure regular water supply.
The road network of Buea is being improved.
But regrettably, the ridge on the over 8km double-lane road in Buea is being
scrapped off, despite widespread condemnation by the public that the removal
would provoke more road accidents. Officials say the ridge removal is to ensure
the security of the presidential motorcade.
Several Buea
streets have been lighted, although many residents doubt whether after President
Biya must have come and gone, the street lamps will still be lighted.
Clean-up
campaigns in Buea have now become more regular.
For their part, the Peter Mafany Musonge-led Southwest Local Support committee for the golden jubilee , last May 4 in Kumba , ended their fund-raising by realizing 198 million FCFA ,up from their original target of 150 million FCFA.
In another twist, historians and
constitutionalists who recently converged on Yaounde for a conference-debate on
the theme “The case of Cameroon at the UNO,” organized by the Commission in
charge of Studies, Conferences and Debates for the 50th anniversary of
the so- called Reunification of Cameroon, confirmed that there has been no
legal union between the state of La
Republique du Cameroun with Southern Cameroons
(First published in The Recorder Newspaper,of Cameroon,May 15,2013)
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