The Babessi Council in the Ngoketunjia division of the North West region has chosen to move while crying rather than stay on one spot crying with no development to show for.
The Anglophone crisis which has had a toll on the area since the onset, has permitted the council to rather focus on making Babessi emerge through various developmental projects envisaged for 2022. Meeting at the Babessi Council hall on Friday December 17,2021 the councilors of the municipality all agreed towards the vision of Mayor Joachim Metoh to have Babessi emerge even before the envisaged emergence of the country by 2035 as laid forth by the President of the Republic Paul Biya.
Through the various committee reports, the juicy projects outlined and unanimously accepted by the councilors did show prove of the general interest of the population taken into huge considering, as well as where the council wants to see itself in the nearest future.
With water, electricity, infrastructure and education to consume the voted budget of 887,700,000CFA balanced both in income and expenditure, the Mayor believes that it will transform the municipality economically, socially, health wise, culturally and aid in sports development of the local authority.
Revenue collection which used to be a major challenge especially in 2021, new strategies have been put in place by the council authorities to see that in 2022, revenue collection would not constitute a challenge. The council has therefore envisaged sources like the council additional taxes and state subventions all with the hope that reluctant contractors deliver their projects especially the cassava mill and the construction of the Babessi modern market by February 2022.
The Babessi 2022 budget of 887,700,000CFA will also help the council to execute projects like the provision of 4 boreholes in Muchacha, Konyiart, Menua and Saji, extension and the rehabilitation of the Mbakwa water in Baba-1, extension of electricity in Ngwinchenter in Babessi and Ibia, Tavendong and Saji in Babungo amongst many others.
Mayor Joachim Metoh Mbah used the session to call on all councilors to be peace setters and ambassadors of goodwill, with plans for his 5 years mandate to end not only in Babessi being an el dorado of peace but an epicenter for agricultural transformation and productivity.
By Peter Tasi
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