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The Ndu council draft budget for
the financial year 2015 has been adopted. The draft budget was adopted in a
council budgetary session last Friday November 28th, 2014 with the
Senior Divisional Officer for Donga Mantung, service heads of Ndu, and a cross
section of councilors of the Ndu municipality, and traditional rulers in attendance.
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Speaking to all present at the
start of the budgetary session, the lord mayor of the ndu council, Bunyui
Emmanuel Nyugap a.k.a “like father like son”, in His opening remark welcome all
and sundry and noted with satisfaction that their presence shows the importance
they attach to the growth and development of the Ndu municipality. He took time
off to count some of the land mark achievements which they have been able to
attain in the municipality within the context of the current budget. These he
said are; the installation of solar powered street lights in the town of Ndu,
the construction of bridges at Sina and Ngarum, the opening of council roads,
the endless war against stray animals in a bid to encourage second cycle
cropping, the improvement of garbage collection within the town just to name
but a few. Though all these have been realized in the first one year of their
mandate which to the mayor has been a learning period, he was however
optimistic that a lot more would be achieved next year if all hands are on
deck. Specifically, in 2015 the Ndu council looks forward to constructing an
office apartment for deputy Mayors, extending electricity to villages that
until now are in darkness, opening more roads to ease circulation of goods and
persons, improving the staffing situation of schools and health centers within
the municipality. All these Mayor Bunyui Emmanuel noted would require that all
stake holders seek means of making the council realize the budget they are
about to adopt realistic in terms of educating the masses on the importance of
paying taxes. He saluted the collaboration of those of the motor bike sector
who did not hesitate to purchase their uniforms as prescribed by the council.
In the deliberations that
followed, a 718,280,000 FCFA worth budget was adopted as the Ndu council draft
budget for 2015. This amount represents an over 16.45 percent increase from the
600,000,000 FCFA draft budget adopted last year. Although a lion share of this
amount is in terms of recurrent expenditure, the Mayor of Ndu is however
optimistic that his 2015 development vision for the Ndu council would be met
given that strategies to improve revenue collection and make the draft budget
realistic are already in place.
In his remark, the Senior
Divisional Officer for Donga Mantung Division, Ngone Ndondemesape Bernard
cautioned the council to ensure that their council development plan marches with
the budget. This he said is a conditio sine qua non for his eminent signing of
the draft budget.
Speaking to this reporter after
the session, the mayor of Ndu seized the opportunity to throw more light on the
upcoming Economic Forum organized by the council. The forum that shall run from
the 11th to the 14th of December 2014 is aimed at selling
the economic potentials and the cultural riches of the sub division. “Come and
be part of this Eco forum putting aside your political affiliation, there is no
CPDM road and there is no SDF water” are the words of Mayor Bunyui Emmanuel
Nyugap.
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