The Chairman of the Divisional participatory follow up committee for the execution of the Public Investment Budget, BIP, in Meme, Southwest Region Honourable Martin Atinda Mboni has identified “the phenomenon of contractors sending spies to evaluation meetings as a cause of underdevelopment”.

Atinda made the observation recently during the first quarter participatory meeting for the evaluation of the execution rate of projects within the 2015 budget for the Division, staged at the Kumba City Council Chambers.

According to the Member of Parliament, MP, he has been a subject of attacks and misinformation after evaluation meetings, owing to the fact that contractors send spies to meetings, who in turn, relay false information blackmailing (sic) committee members.

He regretted that, each time an issue is raised in a meeting concerning a contract or contractors, some people go out and tell the contractor something different. The situation, he noted, has caused some firms to have personal skirmishes with BIP committee members.

The lawmaker insisted that, the members of the committee always congregate with a ‘clean conscience’ to receive reports and analyze work done. Atinda added that the committee meetings are not a forum for cheap gossip, personal attacks or political differences.

To him, the binding factor remains development and the well being of the people of Meme irrespective of their political leanings. He said that the resources staked out yearly were Government’s input to drive development all over the nation.

Meme Second Assistant Senior Divisional office, SDO, Nelson Yongkuma Gamsi on his part, advised technicians to remain original and desist from dishing out conflicting percentages of work done.

Mambanda Population still begging for water!

During the deliberations, the committee was yet to find a common ground on what was still holding back water from running in the Mambanda neighbourhood of Kumba III. While the contractor insisted during the meeting that he had done the job based on the terms agreed with Government, the Vice Chair of the committee Paul Makembe disclosed that the water points are not evenly distributed in the community.

Despite being a priority project, there seems to be dark clouds hanging over the project, both administratively and at the level of Camerounaise Des Eaux , CDE and Camwater.

Yet the committee agreed that, a second phase of the project be drawn to include areas that have not been reached in the first phase. 95% of Projects Awarded!

According to the Secretary of the follow up committee Godlove Buinda, who is also the Divisional Delegate of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, MINEPAT, 95percent of the 53 projects have been awarded to successful bidders while 8.5 percent of the projects have been executed.

Buinda assured the public that, with the current pace of project award and realisation, there is going to be an improvement in the quality and quantity of work done in the Division in 2015.

Meme Division has 53 projects worth FCA 499million, showing a decrease from what obtained in 2014.