The idea that the panacea for Northwest development is the much talked of Ring Road has been contradicted.
A budding Bamenda-based contractor, Edison Fru Ndi, argues that what the Region needs more is a free trade zone.Edison Fru, who spoke to The Post in Bamenda, argued that the Northwest lacks natural resources, but is blessed in that it has proximity to Nigeria, a large industrialised and commercial nation.
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