NJINIKOM:COUNCILORS GIVE MAYOR TERENCE CHAH BAM ANOTHER PASS MARK

Councillors of Njinnikom council have voted as satisfactory the administrative, management and stores accounts of the Njinijkom council for 2015.This was march 31 during a council session chaired by Terence Chah Bam, mayor of Njinikom council in the presence of the supervisory authority represented by DO for Njinikom, Justine Bongtang.

Opening the council session, Mayor Terence Chah Bam announced that the council in 2015 collected over CFA 281 million as revenue and spend over 227 million as council expenditure leaving a balance of 54 million carried forward to 2016.To the mayor, projects like construction of class rooms, rehabilitation of health centres, construction of sheds and bridges, opening of roads, provision of benches, rehabilitation of electricity in Yang and the opening of the road to Mbueni through Jemchi as landmark realisations of the council in the past year.

It was also an opportunity for the mayor to break the news to councillors that the council will soon be moving from category 4 to 3 given the constant move of council accounts from 171 million to 281 million.” Njinikom council was amongst the last councils placed on category 4 as our accounts were below 250million.with the current improvements in our administrative accounts from the revenue we were able to collect and donations from donors, it enabled us to raise our budget and our accounts have also moved from 171million to 281 million.im positive that with impending revenue generating projects which we are still lobbying like the construction of markets shed to cover the whole of the area above Jua Memorial college and more sheds in Kikfini, we will hit 300million will completely put us on category 3”the mayor said.

According to Lawrence Nkain Yong, chairman of the finance committee, the movement in category will serve as a positive pointer for the council and stakeholders” councillors will have their sitting allowances, transport, mission allowance increased and placing the council in a better position to source for bigger loans from FEICOM to boost development in the councils, I use to hear of deficits in this council. Now there has been a three year history of consistent positive balance from one year to the other thanks to the present mayor, adding that as chair of the finance committee, he shall dig deep into the arbitrary auctioning of the council property sanctioned by his committee but the process was not backed by a council deliberation as stipulated by law.

Other issues that predominated the session was the issue of projects abandonment. Projects like the rehabilitation and lateliting of the road linking the Njinikom roundabout to the st Martin De pores hospital, the town hall almost completed without the extension as stipulated in the contract and the to be tarring of the hospital road which could be a far fetch dream if the current works on the road are not hastened. The council session failed to deliberate on the issue of the council buying a vehicle for the council, but rather enjoin the municipal magistrate to continue sacrificing for the growth of the municipality by serving the council with his private car as he has been doing in the past three years. “I remain a satisfied mayor. I came to the council to serve the people. I have been using my vehicles to serve the municipality. I did not come to cultivate personal wealth in the council. I cannot decide now to take a loan to buy a luxurious car for the council when the resources are not there.it will not make sense, it will not develop njinikom.it will rather drains it. The living conditions of the people must be alleviated “said the mayor