By Fai Cassian Ndi
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| Akio Augustine Abe |
Akio Augustine, the mayor elect of Ako Council has been
installed by the Senior Divisional Officer for Donga Mantung Division with firm
instruction to ensure the territorial integrity of the border municipality.
Officially married to four wives and a father of 20, Akio Augustine is on his
second mandate given that he took over from an impeached mayor and was booted
out of office barely two years later. However, since politicians are what they
are, they fiddle with words and talk big out of nothing. Akio Augustine, who
would have fitted well as a traditional ruler (with an extra-large family of
ten wives-four officially recognized) upon taking over the mayoral position of
Ako council is already on tree top telling everyone who cares to listen how he
is inheriting debts estimated above 55 million FCFA as if when he was leaving
the council some 12 years ago, the coffers of the council were loaded with
money.
However installed
Mayor Akio Augustine Abe told this reporter that he shall ensure that the
agricultural sector is harnessed to the fullest to bring about the much needed
development of the municipality. And that
if the agricultural sector is full developed, the Ako border market will which is
still under construction have a ready market with neighboring Nigerians. Located
in Donga Mantung Division of the North West, the municipality is very fertile
but most of the people rely mostly on old palms planted by rats
to earn a living. A new generation of youths have taken over this black oil (palm cultivation) as a challenge and iIt is however hoped that with the coming of the Cameroon
Development Corporation-CDC in the palm sector, improved palm species would be
planted so that hardworking farmers could improve their standards of living.
While
commissioning the elected Mayor and his deputies in to office last November 30,
SDO Ngone Ndodemesape Bernard warned that they should take the council
management for a blank check to manage it any how and that as supervisory
authority, he shall not hesitate to make use of every legal administrative
measures to bring back any defaulter on track. The chief executive called on
the elected officials to continue to show proof of maturity as demonstrated
during election and strife to serve everybody irrespective of party leaning
given that the council is not an organ of a political party. Ako municipality
which is border town the SDO called on the Mayor to ensure that Cameroonians
living in his council area have a sense of nationality. It has been noted that
the use of the Nigerian currency (naira) right in Ako town is a common
phenomenon. The development of Ako municipality should surpass all other
interest thereby pitting the mayor and his team to harness every possible means
to realize that goal. All revenue sources should be exploited with human face
for the growth of the municipality.
Notwithstanding,
a critical judgment analysis of this SDF run council indicates that there is no
equitable sharing. The configuration of the council executive doesn’t take into
consideration the sociological component of the municipality. This is so
because the mayor and first deputy Chemo Alice come from the same village,
Akwesse. Hon Ntoi Joseph out gone parliamentarian for Ako/Misaje who was
present for the occasion believes very strongly that Ako council was supposed
to be shared between SDF and the CPDM given the results of September 30 which
did not give SDF party an absolute majority. Harping on the results SDF
obtained, Hon. Noti said with 50.71 percent which was not an absolute majority the
council would have been shared between SDF, CPDM and NUDP. He tagged ELECAM
Council Head for Misaje for falsifying the results.
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