By Baweson Ndi
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| Mayor Balick Awah victim of blackmail or political anarchy? |
Thomas Hobbes, the 17th
Century English Philosopher in his classical work Lorianthan wrote that
whenever a city is caught between the evil of people who do bad for the sake of
it, it results to hatred and victimization. In such a situation Thomas Hobbes
emphasized that men will spare at nothing to give a dark impression of others
creating a “state of nature” where everyone is enemy to every person. “There is
no place for growth because the fruit thereof is uncertain and consequently no
culture of the earth, nastiness and worst of all, fear, poverty, character
assassination and terror” he lamented. Hobbes who at the time of his writing
was more concerned with the chaos human behavior would create to destroy others
believed that it is the duty of the state to intervene in order to curb
Frankenstein monsters –like from ruining society.
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| Bridge allegedly not back-filled yet this picture shows that the job was completed |
I do not know whether the Bamenda II
council area where Balick Awah Fidelis is a perfect Hobbesian jungle, it is
probably the closest description to it that exists in Cameroon. Funny municipality! But what lesson of this? Almost
certainly, the onslaught backstabbing to assassinate the character of Mayor
Balik Awah Fidelis can only be captured through his trappings that have gave
his detractors sleepless nights. While today the word Balick evokes images of a
transformed Bamenda II municipality, something quite different and something
almost honest and gentle, his political detractors have swung into action
inviting CONAC. The spirit of honesty that was applauded by FEICOM Director recently
given the mayor’s efforts of putting in place a befitting council hall for
Bamenda II could be seen as the bone of contention. Yet the man who is governed
by the Levantine spirit of Mankon and nation building is being backstabbed
simply because he ignored the call that men could be broken from others. This
is Bamenda II municipality at its best-a plural society where a group of
misguided individuals want to excel in the trade of backstabbing and blackmail.
While Mayor Balick is working hard for the municipality to grow and jointly
emerge with Cameroon by 2035, prophets of doom “outside agitators alias petition writers" wielding the
butchering knife want to take him from behind. “Whenever I think of the
trappings of our mayor, I am reminded of the improvement of the road network in
the municipality. But what I read in a newspaper on an alleged complain to
CONAC about the roads we praised our mayor severally during council sittings
was shocking. I am tempted to say that it is a form of political sabotage that
we need to chisel out from under the scar” remarked a councilor of the Bamenda II
Council. It is said that some men are born to time that they cannot change.
Ironically, Balick Awah Fidelis from what we gathered from the inhabitants of
Bamenda II council is a good man born in a very bad neigbourhood. In fact, an
optimistic soul born to a bad time which is characterized by backstabbing and
blackmail which he (himself) cannot change. Yet his optimism towards society
has been directed towards his work as Mayor of Bamenda II Council in the city
of version. Yet, a visit to some of the projects which the mayor’s detractors
described as uncompleted portrayed that the present state of nature has
transformed the municipality into weed and not flower. Give it just the
slightest ray of sunshine and the thinnest drop of water like what Mayor Balick
is doing and it will shoot up and multiply between the cracks of Bamenda
rubbles.
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| Ntatru road (mile 8 mkt) road well graded |
The
Eye
is aware that all the road rehabilitation projects in the Bamenda II
municipality were a resounding success. A newspaper report insinuating the
CONAC has been invited to investigate the rehabilitation of some roads in
Bamenda II was an embarrassment to the inhabitants. Allegedly, Bamenda II mayor
had received congratulatory messages from various quarters including the
management of Step by Step (Step by Step-Matgenie road) for rehabilitating
their road. In our investigation, we visited the Musang-Mankon road, Ntatru-Mankon,
Backfilled Bridge behind Radio Hot Cocoa and Nitop I neigbourhood. The most
intriguing thing is that the purported complaint against Balick Awah indicates
that the mayor had issued fake contracts to fake companies that exist only on
paper. This is intriguing because fake companies don’t execute contracts yet
the same complaint indicates that some of the projects were not completed. The
question therefore of fake is nullified. However, all attempts to get to the mayor for
his own side of the untold story were fruitless. Yet The Eye gathered from reliable sources that Mayor Balick is a
victim of the Mbachongwa factor and seemingly scape-goated on grounds that he
is a stumbling block to the emergence of the Mbachongwa council reasons why the
scheming has resurfaced after the first attempt flopped woefully. It is even
alleged that during the senatorial election, a politician in Bamenda II (name withheld)
stormed the council to check in proxy by one councilor who had flown out of the
country. The same fellow was already on treetops accusing Balick Awah of fake
signature etc. It is also aired that the false alarm was raised by a handful of
petition writers who see nothing good in any thing except in the form of bread
on their own tables.
The Bamenda II council as indicated has
been transformed by outside agitators into a sinkhole of character assassination.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. Minute by Minute Report on Cameroon and Africa
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