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Cameroon: Governor Abakar Promises Hard Times to Embezzling Mayors
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The Post (Buea)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Chris Mbunwe
Northwest Governor, Mahamat Abakar, has told 34 Mayors of the Northwest that the axe will fall on those of them who have engaged in swindling council funds.
Governor Abakar said some mayors connive with supervisory authorities; SDOs and DOs in wrecking the council using fake bills. "I have come to realise that the habit of inflating fuel bills on council service cars is already creeping into the Northwest." He cited a case in his former Province, East, where he said a mayor swindled FCFA 25 million on one service car for a year.
He said this is unpardonable and others who will be identified to be doing the same thing in the Northwest will not go scot-free. "How can you spend half of the council's budget on fuel alone?" Governor Abakar questioned. Besides identifying areas where mayors carryout dubious acts, urged them to be development conscious so as to live up to their election promises.
The Governor cautioned the Mayors while presiding over a day information sharing meeting between the grass field project management on the activities of the local Development Fund of GP-DERUDEP.
As president of the steering committee of the grass field Decentralised Rural Participatory Project, Governor Abakar called for total collaboration between the Mayors and Grass field Project authorities. He appealed to the mayors to judiciously use the funds from the African Development Bank to better the living conditions of their populations.
"The management of GP-DERUDEP has done its part for all these years by putting in place the various structures needed to get the activities roll on hitch-free. The ball is on your court."
Abakar also warned that no mayor should use the Local Development funds for political gains. "Prove to your people that you are their best development forerunner and that they can count on you when it comes to their development problems."
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He urged them to respect deadlines as agreed upon with the ADB, ensure local Development Fund Tenders Board to function objectively.At the end of the one-day seminar, the mayors promised to transform the lives of their committees.
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