OPINION
By Bakah Derick
Blogger@hilltopvoices
This is one of the most embarrassing things I have heard in the recent past. Some 15 Mayors drawn from selected municipalities in the Northwest Region recently assembled in Bamenda for a Two day workshop on the invitation of the Socio Economic Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities SEEPD, a disability development programme of the Cameroon Baptist Covention CBC Health Board. The Focus of the Wokshop was to school the Municipal Heads on how to involve persons with disabilities in the development process of their municipalities.
After a careful presentation of the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU expected to serve as the cardinal way forward, I was taken abark when Mayor Njong Donatus of Kumbo Council took the Microphone and submitted that the decentralisation law in Cameroon does not permit Mayors to recruit teachers.
Mindful of the fact that Mayors are responsible for the recruitement of staff for the Council, I decided to gate clarification on the issue from other Mayors. While many of them refused knowing such a law, others showed very little mastery of the law on decentralisation.
However this is not my worry. My worry is what are the priorities of our elected officials? Most of the Mayors we spoke to have spent atleast Three years in office and all of them own very good cars and very flashy council buildings. For these years one may ask what have they on their own done for persons with disabilities? They show very little mastery of statisics about persons leaving with disbilities in their municipalities. In fact there was a Mayor who came from a municipality where secondary roads are a luxury, no electricity, no water, stagnated infrastructural development for the past 30years, no basic social services with a PRADO V8 Luxury Car costing over 70 million yet complains of the recruitment of a staff.
What pretence.........
God take care of us and reduce the level ignorance, lies telling, greed, and above all disabilities in your children.
By Bakah Derick
Blogger@hilltopvoices
This is one of the most embarrassing things I have heard in the recent past. Some 15 Mayors drawn from selected municipalities in the Northwest Region recently assembled in Bamenda for a Two day workshop on the invitation of the Socio Economic Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities SEEPD, a disability development programme of the Cameroon Baptist Covention CBC Health Board. The Focus of the Wokshop was to school the Municipal Heads on how to involve persons with disabilities in the development process of their municipalities.
After a careful presentation of the Memorandum of Understanding, MOU expected to serve as the cardinal way forward, I was taken abark when Mayor Njong Donatus of Kumbo Council took the Microphone and submitted that the decentralisation law in Cameroon does not permit Mayors to recruit teachers.
Mindful of the fact that Mayors are responsible for the recruitement of staff for the Council, I decided to gate clarification on the issue from other Mayors. While many of them refused knowing such a law, others showed very little mastery of the law on decentralisation.
However this is not my worry. My worry is what are the priorities of our elected officials? Most of the Mayors we spoke to have spent atleast Three years in office and all of them own very good cars and very flashy council buildings. For these years one may ask what have they on their own done for persons with disabilities? They show very little mastery of statisics about persons leaving with disbilities in their municipalities. In fact there was a Mayor who came from a municipality where secondary roads are a luxury, no electricity, no water, stagnated infrastructural development for the past 30years, no basic social services with a PRADO V8 Luxury Car costing over 70 million yet complains of the recruitment of a staff.
What pretence.........
God take care of us and reduce the level ignorance, lies telling, greed, and above all disabilities in your children.