North West Region: Administration Remains Unshaken

Despite threats posed by agitators to the socio-political stability of the region, various services are going about their duties in a business-as-usual fashion.

It’s an early morning on Monday in the city of Bamenda; a typical ghost town day ordained by aggrieved Anglophones as a form of civil disobedience. Shops have been temporary closed while movement across the city is paralyzed by boycott of roads by cabs.

Only a few commercial bikes and taxis are braving the odds. Yet, by 8am, administrators, amongst them the Governor of the North West Region, Adolphe Lele Lafrique Deben Tchoffo, are already in their offices.

At Up Station Bamenda, a service user who elected anonymity said he is there for certification. “Despite the fact that today is ghost town day, I really had to struggle to come here. I had to trek from my home before flatting a bike to this place. This document is important to me because I am running out of time. It’s my life and my future, so I have decided to take things into my hands,” he said before proceeding into one office of the services of the governor for the certification.

In other administrative services which Cameroon Tribune visited Monday November 27, 2017, service providers were already on hand early morning. Officials of the Regional Delegations of Culture, Tourism and Leisure, Basic and Secondary Education, amongst others, were carrying out business as users trooped in gradually and steadily.

Just the next day, the Senior Divisional Officer for Bui, Simon Emile Mooh was on the field in Jakiri subdivision sensitizing his people and reminding them of the need to be responsible citizens. He called on parents not to allow children be poisoned with drugs; a thing which he said makes them not to be able to control themselves and are then manipulated to foment trouble. 

In Kumbo, Simon Emile Mooh raised worries over parents deciding to keep their children away from school. Rather, they prefer to engage the minors in quarry activities, a phenomenon the Bui administration is looking forward to prohibit.

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