Wamey Panky
4 July 2008
Nkambe and Ndu councillors recently slammed votes of no confidence on their mayors; Jones Mango Tank and David Nfor Ngarngong respectively.
The decisions came after the councillors refused to endorse the administrative accounts presented by the mayors for what they termed "several irregularities."The decisions were arrived at in a meeting of the councils supervised by the SDO for Donga-Mantung, Godlive Mboke Ntua, and the Northwest Chief of Councils, Henry Shey.
According to a memo drawn by the councillors, the decision came due to irregularities, mismanagement, fraud and retarded development in the council area due to inefficiency, laxity and extravagance on the part of the mayors.
The councillors urged the Northwest Governor, Territorial Administration and Decentralisation Ministry and the Audit Bench to carry out an in-depth audit of the mayors' mismanagement, in order to rescue the council from collapsing.
The Nkambe councillors especially, accused their mayor of colluding with council workers to use forged receipts instead of official revenue collectors' receipts to enrich themselves.
They also lamented the mayor's extravagance quoting that he spent over FCFA 12 million for fuel and lubricant when the council has only one vehicle.
SDO Nullifies No Confidence Vote
In the wake of votes of no confidence, Bui SDO, Daniel Panjounou, found himself at cross-roads with the second rejection to adopt the administrative and stores accounts of the Nkambe and Ndu Councils.
He said he had exhausted all avenues to persuade the councillors to understand and appreciate State laws on council administration.Meanwhile, the SDO said the votes of no confidence slammed on the mayors were done in a wrong session and that no place was provided for it in the agenda.
As such, he said the no confidence votes were null and void. On his part, Mangoh blamed the saga on the illiteracy of the councillors. He stated that they neither read nor understood the council laws.
He also faulted them for mixing up political party policies and ideologies with government's, which stand supreme.One of the councillors, also the Nkambe SDF District Chair, Wilfred Shey Mbeh, blamed the council's imbroglio on what he termed Mangoh's exaggerated greed.
He said the mayor has refused to cooperate with everybody save the SDO, who he described as "a friend in crime."
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