Mbengwi CPDM Mayor caught up in land scandal

For the first time in the history of the Mbengwi council in Momo division, a female Mayor has been mired in a scandal.

Last week, we gathered that Mayor Beatrice Tebe’s hands are deep in the controversy over the demarcation of Mbengwi council land.

Worse still, allegations are rife that with less than a year as Mayor, she has been cited in the illegal sale of council fixed properties, particularly the land opposite the police post and behind the Divisional Officer’s office, which shares common boundary with Njembeng quarters.

According to sources, it was the disgraced SDF Mayor, Tah George Mbah who began the mafia.

It is alleged that the auctioned the plots to one Tamitang, who intended allegedly sold for 600,000 FRS to one Fomunong Isabella and Thaddeus Akwe.

We were even hinted that those moves were done without any council deliberation, thus illegal.

Although the 2004 law of council/018 to lay down rules applicable to council is clear on this point, the former SDF Mayor who is said to have violated was then succeeded by Tebe Beatrice a CPDM Mayor who in turn continues on the same foot prints as her predecessor.

Allegations are rife that Mayor Tebe forced council workers and collected money from them to liberate council land without any deliberations which was equally illegal.

Worse still, she allegedly sided with Teghen Simon Forbang, her former treasurer, giving him a contract to rehabilitate roads, in violation of the law. Again, she is accused of having awarded a contract to her direct in law, Jacob Tembi, CPDM sector president for Mbengwi.

It is further alleged that Mayor Tebe’s involvement in the sales of land is corroborated by one of her subordinates, a certain Ndanga of the works department in the council.

This has provoked a wrath of criticisms as to the role of the supervisory Authority.

Meanwhile, while Mayor Tebe is being criticized over the alleged sales of council land, she has also been under heat over the recovery of the council tipper. She is criticized for being unable to provide the financial logistics.

Even the courts have been faulted for partially blocking the recovery process.