The Community Developer….. Fongu Cletus

Mr. Fongu Cletus

Fongu Cletus, the Community Developer is at the head of the Bamenda III Municipality, an area of the Bamenda City Council still fraught with a lot of infrastructural challenges. The Bamenda III Municipality and its transforming face stand as testimony to the community development qualities of Fongu Cletus. The successful growth of a third world nation like Cameroon depends on the good management of Local Government Areas like Bamenda III. Cameroon People took out time to visit and appreciate the community development initiatives of Fongu Cletus as Mayor of Bamenda III Municipality.

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In order to meet up with the current water shortages and difficulties within the Bamenda III Municipality, the council in accordance with her partners have constructed a second Giant water Reservoir with a capacity of 200m3 (200,000Litres) added to the former with a production capacity of 80m3(80,000litres). This second storage tank will improve filtration, sustain network and reduce shortages. In addition, with the establishment of a basement plate, another pump will be mounted thus intensifying water production and curbing shortages in quarters with difficulties to access water due to their location altitude and height. 

Mayor Fongu Cletus and Mayor Njong Donatus of Kumbo during Sister Cities International Conference Colorado 2018

The area is well enforced security wise with a site office and a barrier wall
Get more Infors on our website www.bamenda3council.org/

Bamenda III Council offering help to Internally Displaced People

 

After these measures taken to beef up water supply in the municipality, modalities for water connection were put in place. The modalities put in place seriously facilitated the connection of water to households though these conditions applied only to piped Quarters. To get water connected all that is needed is a hand written application addressed to the Mayor and titled “Application for Water Connection” submitted in Room 26 of the council.
Secondly, communal stamps for FCFA 1000 should be put on the application
followed by a visit from an inspection team from the Water department. This visit is to carry out inspection for the materials needed according to the distance from the mainline.

Water Projects

After estimates are made and money paid in at the cashier’s desk, the
connection is done within 24 hours if the customer is ready to excavate.
Excavation is not done by the water team but by the customer.

The next community development initiative of Fongu Cletus is the partnership between the council and the Livestock and Fisheries Development Project North West Region. This partnership is described on the council’s facebook platform in the following manner:

“ The Bamenda III Council in partnership with the Livestock and Fisheries Development project North West Region(LIFIDEP),have carried out an educative and sensitization campaign aimed at providing financial assistance to farmers involved in livestock and fisheries. With an objective to contribute to increase rural income and living standard through increase productivity and production, LIFIDEP has launched microcredit loan scheme to enable livestock farmers to improve on their productivity.
This assistance will be timely and highly competitive and the criteria is a follows
• For small scale and resource limited farmers, the client must have received training and capacity building from LIFIDEP, and should equally operate an account with the selected Microfinance Institution.
• For medium and large farmers, clients must have been in business for at least 6 months, operate at a profit and have some inventory in stock and should equally operate an account with the selected MFI.( which is United savings and Agricultural Credit limited (USA-Credit Union Ltd) Bamenda and , Nsanimunwi Cooperative Credit Union Bafut)

Water Tank Being constructed in Bamenda III

 
• Have a clear simple business plan
• The president of the cooperative or the quarter head must be a “moral guarantor” for each client, vouching for his or her business acumen, character, integrity and commitment to honoring the terms of the contact.
• Age of beneficiaries range from 18 years to 75 years….”

Next, the Bamenda III Council under Fongu Cletus donated Material, Financial and Moral support to Internally Displaced persons IDPs from Momo Division (Batibo) and Manyu Division (Kendem) resident at Ma Camp David’s home at Mile III Nkwen, on June 21,2018. Some of the items included, Rice, Mattresses, Blankets, Salts, Oil, Cloths and a Cash Sum of 50000Frs to purchase cloths for the IDPs.

With these community development strides, other development stakeholders started developing interest in working in partnership with the Bamenda III Council. A case in point is the interest shown in the activities of the council by Jude Nforngang, proprietor of Telefree Digital Network Systems & Services. He states his interest in working in partnership with the council in the following manner:

“I have read your comments here and it appears all your troubles center around Fraud, Cost and Time. I will be very happy to provide a digital system to Bamenda III to automate the registration of birth right from the Martenity where delivery is done and the council can print out the birth certificate of the children automatically in a mater of a mouse click and fitting paper into a printer, print and hand over to the mayor to sign. This system is ready and you do not need to install any computers. Let me know if you need my help on this. You can contact me from company website http://www.mytelefree.com God bless as you take a new turn to be fraud free as I help you go digital.”

Earlier on in 2018 in a briefing with Fongu Cletus, the Lord Mayor had predicted a positive 2018. Taking a retrospective look at 2017 he said “I think 2017 was a very interesting year as far as the Bamenda III Council is concerned even though a number of challenges came up. A lot was done this year and we have been able to realise some road projects within the municipality and provide water to the population. We have equally been able to assist some areas in the provision of electricity and other social projects. We have equally built bridges, culverts, classrooms and provided assistance to people with special needs.

The Lord Mayor said these projects were realised thanks to the commitment of the municipal councilors, the population and stakeholders in the process of development. He said they would have loved to achieve more but due to the socio political crises affecting certain Regions of the country they could not do more. “These crises have affected us adversely and this is because the population during this period did not pay its taxes” he said.

Fongu Cletus has recently participated in Sister cities international conference the most recent being that which took place in Colorado, USA, 2018.

The Bamenda III Council now has a newly updated website where you can catch up with recent news, on projects, partners, and more. www.bamenda3council.org/.

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