Reunification celebrations:
Presidency delegation holds security meeting in Buea
BY
ATIA TILARIOUS AZOHNWI
The Chairman of the National Organising
Committee for the Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Cameroon’s
Reunification, the Director of the Civil Cabinet at the Presidency of the
Republic, Martin Belinga Eboutou has chaired a crucial security meeting in Buea
ahead of the event.
The meeting held at the Presidential Palace
in Buea adjacent the office of the South West Governor, was attended by
officials from the presidency of the Republic including the Chief of State
Protocol, Simon Pierre Bikele and the Deputy Director of the Civil Cabinet at
the Presidency of the Republic, Joseph Anderson Le.
Security officials from the presidency of
the republic, local security and administrative officials were privileged to
attend the in-camera meeting.
When Belinga Eboutou and his team touched
on Buea last Friday, January 24, his mood proved that they had come for strict
business, signalling that the date for the celebrations is at hand.
Though they did not attend the security
meeting, the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary; Minister of Urban
Development and Housing, Jean Claude Mbwencho; the Minister of Arts and
Culture, Ama Tutu Muna, the Deputy Director General of the Cameroon Radio Television,
Francis Wate and the boss of the News and Publishing Agency, Marie Claire Nana
were also part of the high-profile delegation from Yaoundé to Buea.
The delegation received breakfast at the
Buea Mountain Hotel, to make assurance double sure that the infrastructure is
ready, before proceeding to the two presidential palaces in Buea.
They paid a brief stop at Bongo’s Square to
evaluate work done on the Presidential Tribune and later zoomed off to the
University of Buea were works to rehabilitate and extend the university’s
open-air amphitheatre ahead of the august feast had been completed.
The delegation seemed satisfied, particularly
with the reunification monument that had reached an advanced stage but
disappointed with the Regional Open-Air Amphitheatre at Bongo’s Square whose
execution rate has remained worrisome.
On Tuesday, January 28, it was the turn of
the Minister of Transport, Robert Nkili to visit transport projects ahead of
the reunification celebrations; notably the heliport at the presidential palace
and the Tiko Airport.
Minister
Nkili accompanied by the Governor of the South West. Okalia Bilai Bernard and
the Regional Delegate for Transport, Vivanje Ivo and other members of his entourage were denied
access into the Presidential Palace where the minister had wished to inspect
the heliport found within the precincts of the structure.
After
struggling to convince the fierce-looking security officials at the palace to
let him inspect the project, he was told that everything at the heliport was
set and ready for the visit of the President.
At the
Tiko Airport, the minister rather approved the renovation of a small portion of
the airport into a heliport.
Technicians
argue that the two weeks it will take them to do the job would have been more and
costlier if the entire airport is to be rehabilitated. Also, most of the
airport land is occupied by members of the pubic who have either constructed
living houses or transformed the land into farms.
Even
though the date for the celebrations is kept in the breast pocket of the Head
of State, the people are waiting.
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