100 students in the Batibo municipality of Momo division in the north west region benefitted from some cash packages recently, so as to enable them afford the necessary items to start the academic year.

The 100 students who were selected and recruited to take part in the Council 2014 holiday jobs programme shared 1.8 million FCFA as compensation for their one month job.

Speaking on behalf of the students, Tita Clinson, Mokwo Nadesh and Bakowei Emetien, thanked the council for the initiative of recruiting students to keep them occupied during the holidays. They said it was not all about money but the concern for the youth by the council.

“The council headed by Mayor Tanjoh Fredrick, has always supported youth programmes’ ranging from scholarship” the three noted.

The 100 students, for their one month of work carried out hygiene and sanitation duties in almost all the strategic places of the municipality that also served to them as discovering of site in their council area.

The Batibo students’ holiday job is a programme initiated by the mayor of that council, Mayor Tanjoh Fridrick that has become a yearly project to support students especially the less privileged in facilitating their going back to school.

While handing over cash prizes of FCFA18,000 each to the 100 students, the 1st deputy mayor, Nyah Boniface and his 2nd deputy Mme MbahEsther, called on the students to beware that the move by the council to recruit them was to empower them to study harder. Mayor Nyah Boniface went ahead to tell the students that they should be focused on their studies so they can become leaders of tomorrow’s Cameroon.

Mayor Nyah Boniface and Mme Mbah Esther regretted that during the holiday job programme, some of the students showed less concern to the extent that they escaped work. He thanked those who took the work seriously and said it was for the betterment of their future.

Speaking on the amount paid to the students, Mayor Nyah Boniface said it was a way to inculcate in them the spirit of working hard and earning their own wages when they must have graduated with higher qualifications.