SDO gives 1 month ultimatum to “Big Mop” Market illegal occupants

Zang III, Senior Divisional Officer (SDO) for Fako has ordered those illegally occupying government lands around the “Big Mop” Market in Mutengene to quit within one month.

The supervisory authority for councils in Fako Division was speaking in Tiko, Wednesday, July 16, 2014, during an ordinary session of the Tiko Council reserved to examine and adopt the Administrative, Management and Stores Accounts for 2013.

Given that houses have already been constructed on the said land, Zang advised that the structures should be removed within one month or he will demolish the structures at the expense of those concerned.

On a similar note, the SDO instructed Daniel Moukondo Ngande, Mayor of the Tiko Council to eradicate the phenomenon of clandestine transportation within Tiko.

The mayor was also told to fight criminality and concentrate on the development of the municipality.

To the councilors, Zang III told them to encourage solidarity, unity, and team work and to shun petition writing, witch-hunting and backbiting; tendencies he said were gaining grounds in the municipality.

In the domain of roads, Mayor Moukondo Daniel Ngande mentioned the rehabilitation of and decoration of Likomba Round About, the construction of culverts at Likomba, the reinforcement of box culverts and grading of earth roads from Koel Primary School to the road junction at Fobete Clinic amongst others.

Other public utility infrastructures that the mayor mentioned include the construction of three platforms for Christmas trees at Likomba, construction of a block of 40 hangers for bread vendors in Mutengene which he said was ongoing.

In the domain of hygiene, with the support of the Divisional Officer for Tiko, there’s been collective effort geared towards upholding hygiene and sanitation in the town.

He however conceded that this activity was facing a lot of problems due to the attitude of some denizens of the Tiko Municipality.

Negotiations, he said, are on with the FEICOM Medium Cities Decentralisation Programme (PDVM FEICOM) under the financing of a German organisation KFW during a one day workshop in Yaounde to select a single project that could be financed to the tune of FCFA 1.3 billion.

Equally worthy to mention is the effort to assist some youths within the municipality in preparing for the next Academic Year by embarking on the employment of some 300 youths within the Municipality for holiday jobs.

About 15 projects have so far been realised by Mayor Moukondo Daniel Ngande and his team.

Meantime studies for some projects have been done and forwarded to the Divisional Delegation of Public Contracts for award procedure.

These projects the Mayor said include the construction of the Tiko Council Banquet Hall and the construction of a fence and parking lot at the council office.