Francis Tim Mbom
8 May 2008
An 80-year-old-widow, Angeline Enjeh, resident at New Town in Limbe, was recently installed into a new house constructed by Hon. Rachel-Celestine Lyonga of the Fako East Constituency.
The new structure is a modest four room structure built of plank and furnished with a concrete floor.Hon. Lyonga told reporters that it cost some FCFA 2.3 million to re-shelter this old mother of two whose living condition, Lyonga said, had become deplorable. Lyonga said the old woman's abode had become an eyesore.
"Her house had dilapidated to the extent that she used to barely use a sheet of a hole-riddled zinc to shelter the corner of the house she was living in. I looked at the condition with pity and considering her as my own mother I said I must do something," she said.
One of the widow's sons, Fidelis Tah Kimbeh, 55, who is an umbrella repairer, told The Post that he was elated by the Parliamentarian's gesture to shelter their mother.Tah revealed that their father died in 1983 leaving their mother
with little or no financial means for them to take care of her. He added that as a mere umbrella repairer, he found it difficult to raise money and rescue his mother from her state.
The DO of Limbe, Peter Itoe Mbongo, hailed the MP for the gesture and that it was a fight against misery.
Asked if she realised the project from her micro project grants, Hon Lyonga said it was partly from the grants and part came from her salary and donations from some benefactors.
She, however, complained that the FCFA 8 million parliamentary grant a year was not sufficient enough if she were to meet the needs of her constituency.
The MP disclosed that from the micro project funds, she will soon give assistance to some needy primary schools in the West and East Coast areas of Limbe.
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