By Christopher Ambe
The new National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the
Reconstruction and Development of
the Northwest and Southwest Regions(PPRD-NW/SW),Tamanjong
Motuba Obase and his deputy, Njong Donatus Fonyuy, last Thursday,January 12, met
with representatives of the Southwest Regional
Assembly led by its President Zacheus Bakoma Elango and a delegation of the UNDP officials at Mountain Hotel Buea, to
review projects both institutions are executing for the common good ,in order to avoid
duplication of projects.
The PPRD-NW/SW team
was meeting the SW Regional Assembly on the instruction of the the Director of
Cabinet at the Prime Minister’s office, Balungeli Confiance Ebune , who doubles
as the Chair of the PPRD-NW/SW Steering Committee, according to a press
Minister Paul Tasong , appointed by a Prime Ministerial decree of 3rd April 2020 as the pioneer National Coordinator of the Presidential Plan
was replaced by Tamanjong Motuba
Obase on 4th November 2022 .
And the new National Coordinator
is expected to continue executing the multi-billion Fcfa Presidential Plan,
which is intended to boost socio-economic and infrastructural development in
the crisis-stricken Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon.
Opening the meeting,
the National Coordinator of the PPRD-NW/SW said his meeting with the Southwest
Regional Assembly was an instruction from the Prime Minister, Head of
Government , Joseph Dion Ngute ”who wants more
activities in the field to improve the lot of the people”
Motuba Obase said the Presidential Plan was put in place in
January 2020 to improve the living conditions of the People of the Northwest
and Southwest regions negatively affected by the Anglophone crisis.
He disclosed that
when he and his deputy met the Prime Minister upon their appointment, the
latter instructed them “ to seek for more funding so that they can get more activities
on the ground.”
The meeting reviewed the state of implementation of the
PPRD-NW/SW in the Southwest region; examined the 2023 implementation strategy
and prioritized projects to be carried out in the region this year.
President Zacheus Bakoma
Elango, speaking to the press after session, thanked the PPRD-NW/SW management team for initiating the meeting, which he said ended
on a good note.
. The Regional
Assembly President said, “The idea behind the meeting is to ensure that we
avoid duplication of projects (what the Regional Assembly is doing and what the
Presidential Plan will do) so that we more projects to improve on the welfare
of our people.
“We had useful
exchange and proposed projects that should be relocated. We are the ones in the
fields and know our communities well.
“The National
Coordinator has accepted our proposals and will go and fine-tune what they will do for this year.”
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