Over 50 students from state and private owned universities and higher institutions of learning have received their end of holiday job pay packages from the Limbe City Council.

The ceremony which took place last Thursday October 2 was presided over by the Government Delegate to the Limbe City Council, Motanga Andrew Monjimba. Speaking during the ceremony, the representative of the students, Thelma Njomo, a level 300 student from the Catholic University of Bamenda, said the exercise of holiday job this year is proof that the Government Delegate has the students and youths of the municipality at heart.

Thelma Njomo opined that, the one month period they spent at the council, gave them the means to ameliorate their relationship with people from the different sectors of life.

She quoted Nelson Mandela as saying that education is the best tool necessary for poverty alleviation in any country; hence the provision of jobs and eventual payment will facilitate their going back to school hence becoming good citizens of the nation.

The Government Delegate was praised for taking into consideration gender and regional balance in the selection process of the students as students came from very far off universities and different cultures.

Praises were also lavished on the Secretary General of the Limbe City Council, the Chief of Personnel and other staff of the Council who collaborated and directed the students throughout their stay at the council.

In sketches, play-backs and songs, the students lauded the government delegate and the senior councilors for the development strides in the city of Limbe. The cultural display during the first edition of the Limbe Festival of Arts and Culture as well as the tarring and maintenance of some roads were identified as some of the strong points of Mr. Motanga.

Enter Motanga The visibly satisfied government delegate took the floor to speak to the students, whom he addressed as his children.

“It is with a renewed sense of pride and responsibility that I stand here again in front of you students, in fact, my children, to re- echo the importance of this scheme within the global vision of this council towards education and the development of its youths” he said.

According to Motanga, the growing success of the scheme can be measured not only by the affluence of applications registered each year but also the impact it is having on the direct beneficiaries who are the students and indirectly the society.

It should be noted that the first phase ran in July for secondary students with fifty of them benefitting to the tune of FCFA 2,000,000.

The second phase was organized particularly for high school students where 52 of them bagged home a cumulative sum of FCFA 2,080,000 while the third and last phase for university and students of higher institutions of learning saw 50 students taking home the sum of FCFA 2,500,000.

Hence in all, the Limbe City Council spent a colossal sum of FCFA 6,580,000 on holiday jobbers this year, bringing to total a whopping sum of FCFA 40,000,000 since the inception of the scheme six years ago.

The administrator cum politician would not have closed without calling on the students to always register and vote during elections since it is their rights as citizens of the state.

“I can only make one promise to you; this scheme will live and will live long. The ball now shall be in your court, so study hard”. He said.