Ahead of tomorrow's MECUDA Annual General Meeting dubbed "Home Coming" (after about six years of silence due to the Anglophone Crisis) to hold on the esplanade of the Mbengwi Palace, an Annual Delegates Meeting was held yesterday in the Conference Hall of the MECUDA Head Office in Mile 18, Ku-Bome involving delegates that came from the various MECUDA branches nationwide cutting across the youth and women wings of the association plus national bureau members and others. Branch reports were presented plus financial contributions and challenges faced.
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| MECUDA Head Office, Mile 18 Ku-Bome, Mbengwi |
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| Delegates' Meeting |
The delegates meeting, held on Thursday December 15 2022 was preceded by a crisis meeting aimed at resolving the long standing dispute between the villagers of Wumnebit, Chenam and Bessi Fomukong that had a negative effect on the recently realised pioneer MECUDA project under the current EXCO led by Prof. Njoh Oliver, that of rehabilitating the water scheme that supplies pipe borne water to these three villages. According to Fobang Roland Achu the MECUDA scribe, the crisis meeting ended with an amicable settlement amongst all three warring parties.
It should be noted that prior to this year's AGM built for Saturday December 17 2022, considering that the content of the MECUDA account inherited from the previous EXCO that was headed by Ayaba Ado David had been emptied for the realisation of the Wumnebit, Chenam Bessi Fomukong water rehabilitation project and the running of other errands, considering that an AGM as such can never be successfully organised without finances, the present MECUDA P.G in a well calculated strategy to raise money for the A.G.M decided to appoint the National President of the Mbengwi Elements Development Association (MEDA), host of this year's MECUDA A.G.M in the person of Bar. Ndangoh Tah Calvin as Chairman of a specially created fund raising committee. While the legal luminary did the chairing, Mr. Ndang Michael has been doing the collection of the funds. The exercise has been going on online for weeks now and as at this morning, a total of six million, one hundred and eighty three thousand, two hundred and twenty six (6.183.226) Frs has been raised with the lion's share coming from two anonymous sources that each contributed a million francs but opted not to be known.
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It should be noted that when MECUDA Elections were organised last February 2022, Prof. Njoh Oliver and Maître Ndangoh Tah Calvin challenged each other for the post of President General. At the end, the former won just by a slight margin while the latter conceded defeat. At a time many thought the the relationship between the duo will be tensed after the exercise, surprisingly and interestingly, both have kept to their campaign promises they made to the electorate, that of working relentlessly for the interest of the Meta people not their personal interest whether winner or loser. The two have thus shown a perfect example to the hundreds of thousands of Meta people both at home and abroad that in politics, the golden rule must be public interest first before personal interest and that whether with a title/position or not, one who has the people's interest at heart will work.
Mbengwi Online has observed that intensive work has been ongoing in Mbengwi village as the people of H.R.H Njokem A. Awah get set to receive the Meta people. From Mile 19 to Mile 20, both sides of the road have been thoroughly cleared. The Home Branch President of MEDA is Ndangsa Kennedy Akam who doubles as mayor of the Mbengwi Council. He's been at the forefront of preparative activities in his village. Speaking to Mbengwi Online yesterday, he disclosed that plans are being made to smoothen the roads by filling all potholes with laterite followed by compacting.
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| Some MECUDA ExCo members with M.P for Mbengwi |
In the past, each village that hosted a MECUDA A.G.M had something to benefit away from the economic boom that was often infrastructural development as a MECUDA Hall will be constructed in the host village and after the event the hall remains that of the village. Now that Mbengwi has a giant multipurpose hall already, what gift will MECUDA leave behind at the renovated Mbengwi palace whose totem is a rhizome? Prof. Njoh Oliver and his collaborators are thinking hard.
Traditional dances will grease tomorrow's event and it is rumoured the Mukonge Dance Group of Barakwe, the Rainbow Village shall steal the show as H.R.H Bar. Teghen Humfred Takum has mobilised his xylophonists, drummers, singers, dancers cutting across men and women, boys and girls and even children to team up in one spirit and storm Mbengwi tomorrow dressed in leaves with marked bodies and ancient artifacts. It is going to be a come and see in Mbengwi tomrrow
