2020 to 2023, Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia's Scoreboard as M.P for Mbengwi
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Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia Foriben, M.P, Momo East Constituency, Mbengwi
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Honourable Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia is the Member of Parliament for Momo East Constituency, Mbengwi, a position she gained through the ballot box after the March 22nd 2020 parliamentary elections rerun in Momo division. When the government of Cameroon on February 9th 2020 organised twin elections, that is municipal and legislative, in the Momo East Constituency, Foo Ngang Prodencia was presented as candidate of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (C.P.D.M) party that finally gained control of the Mbengwi Council in 2013, a municipality that had hitherto been a stronghold of the opposition, the Social Democratic Front (S.D.F) party eversince the introduction of multipartism in the 90s.
Prodencia as such came in as challenger to the then S.D.F Member of Parliament for Mbengwi, Hon. Edena Enih Mbah who had just completed her first mandate and was seeking for re-election for a second term. When the elections were first conducted on February 9th 2020, the results from Momo East and West Constituencies were proclaimed in favour of the C.P.D.M. Disgruntled, the S.D.F filed in petitions at the constitutional council citing instances of electoral malpractices and unfavourable conditions for the smooth running of the civic exercise.
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| Foo Ngang Prodencia Casting Her Vote During the Parliamentary Elections Rerun on Sunday March 22nd 2020 in the Mbengwi Council Hall |
The first results were thus cancelled and a rerun called for. Fortunately for the previous victors and unfortunately for the vanquished, the constitutional council still proclaimed the final results in favour of the C.P.D.M in the two constituencies that make up Momo Division after the rerun. That is how Foo Ngang Prodencia became Member of Parliament for Mbengwi. She will later move to Yaoundé to be conferred her attributes comprised of an insignia and a Green-Red-Yellow sash. Now fully in charge as new M.P of Momo East, she will then afterwards get down to work in her constituency.
Mbengwi Online in this special report revisits the field actions she's undertaken eversince becoming M.P in a bit to improve on the livelihoods of her constituents. On Wednesday April 8 2020, in the Mbengwi High Court, she witnessed the swearing in ceremony of Ndangsa Kennedy Akam that had also been voted on Tuesday February 25th 2020 as new mayor of the Mbengwi Council. Two days after, that is on February 28, he was kidnapped by separatist fighters and kept incommunicado for a month. He was later released on March 30th and as such, a special swearing in ceremony was organised for him on Wednesday April 8th 2020.
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| Hon. Foo Ngang Prodencia at the Swearing in Ceremony of Mayor Ndangsa Kennedy Akam |
The M.P at the end of the swearing in ceremony gave a piece of advice to the new mayor that "He should be committed, dedicated and above all be disciplined. He should watch his family, friends and entourage because he's now expected to serve the people irrespective of those who voted for or against him"
When the global outbreak of the Corona Virus Disease, COVID-19 was announced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and measures to contain its spread being implemented worldwide, the M.P for Mbengwi couldn't be indifferent. On Saturday May 2nd 2020, she donated a consignment of anti COVID-19 kits, precisely tap buckets worth 500.000F to the Mbengwi council. The items, 50 tap buckets of 50 litres each and 50 wash hand bowls were recieved by the mayor himself. In addition to her package, the MP also handed a carton of face masks worth 1.800.000F sent by a friend of hers, a certain Pascal Dissock that she contacted to support the initiative.
Mbengwi sons and daughters worldwide after having pulled material and financial resources together, organised an anti COVID-19 campaign dubbed METACREC meaning Meta Anti COVID-19 Response Challenge that was launched at the Mbon motor park, Mile 18 Mbengwi on Thursday May 7th 2020 during which buckets and bowls for hand washing, sanitisers, face masks and cartons of soap were distributed to hundreds of persons. Present at the ceremony was Hon. Foo Ngang Prodencia and it presented an opportunity for her to make her first public address to her constituents since gaining her new office. The buckets and facemasks she had donated to the council were then distributed at this event.
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| Hon. Foo Ngang Prodencia at Handing Over of COVID-19 Items to the Population in Mbon Park through METACREC |
On Thursday July 2nd 2020 at the Momo Senior Divisional Officer's Office, a glimpse of care and concern was shown to the inmates of the Mbengwi Principal Prison, physically challenged persons of the Christaldelphian School for the Blind and Handicapped, House of Hope Orphanage, A Better World Children's Home and Global Frontiers Orphanage, all in Mbengwi Central Subdivision by the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in Charge of Supreme State Audit, Her Excellency Mbah Acha Rose née Fomundam. On special assignment to hand over the items that were made up of food stuffs and anti COVID-19 kits and seating in as personal representative of the minister was Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia Foriben.
When Foo Ngang became M.P, she pledged to dedicate her mandate for the economic empowerment of youths in her constituency. It is in this light that she on Thursday 28 January 2021 organised a one day training workshop on the management of day old chicks in the Mbengwi Council Hall, bringing together hundreds of the earmarked beneficiaries, the Divisional Officer of Mbengwi, Mayor of Mbengwi alongside the delegate of livestock who schooled participants on broiler rearing and aspects of managing day old chicks like heating, feeding, watering, hygiene and health management among other technicalities.
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| Training Workshop in the Mbengwi Council Hall for Potential Recipients of Day Old Chicks |
After the training, she will then proceed to distribute poultry inputs and at least a thousand day old chicks to hundreds farmers in her constituency made up of youths, internally displaced and vulnerable persons. This activity was carried out on Saturday February 6th 2021 at the Mbon motor park, Mile 18. The second phase of the donation exercise took place on Wednesday August 18 2021 in the Mbengwi Council Hall during which earmarked farmers, skilled labourers and institutions were donated items like three thousand day old chicks, rain boots, bags of feed, helmets and spades, shovels, polythene bags and cash prizes to some teachers and pupils who excelled in the First School Leaving Certificate examination thus uplifting the division to the prestigious position of number 1 in the regional rankings and number 2 in Common Entrance examination.
In addition, a power generator was offered to butchers in the Mbon market to counter incessant power cuts, a water pump and grass cutting machine to the Mbengwi council for the cleaning of administrative buildings, public spaces and promotion of market gardening in the Abbi valley, another mower to G.B.H.S Mbengwi for maintenance of hygiene on campus amongst other items. The M.P was represented at this donation ceremony by her alternate, Ndang Walters.
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| Hon. Foo Ngang Handing Over Day Old Chicks to Beneficiaries at Mbon Park |
It should be noted that prior to this donation exercise, Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia had necessitated the disbursement of fifty one million four hundred thousand (51.400.000) Francs from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Civic Education (MINJEC) to some fifty eight (58) youths in the Momo East Constituency who were selected as beneficiaries of the triennial plan otherwise known as the Three Years Special Youth Plan instituted by president Paul Biya in 2015 to accelerate the socioeconomic integration of young boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 30. In the entire N.W region, Mbengwi had the highest number of beneficiaries and the highest amount thanks to the political "Messism" of Foo Ngang Prodencia who, like Lionel Messi masters how to dribble pass her way into the net, scoring goals that give victory to her constituency.
On Saturday August 21st 2021, members of Bedtime Melodies Fan Club, a youth group in Mbengwi visited their peers of Sang Community for socialisation during which they donated the sum of 100.000F to support the Sang youths in the construction of their community hall. The financial support was obtained by the club from the M.P, Hon. Foo Ngang after appealing to her for help to do the reach out.
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| Ndetan Nji Cyprian, President Sang Youths Union Thanking the M.P for the Financial Support for their Hall Project (Behind Him) |
Still in 2021, the Mbengwi people's representative in Cameroon's National Assembly again succeeded to lobby for the rehabilitation of the Mbemi water scheme by the state. Towards the completion of the project, she on Wednesday October 13 2021 rallied members of the committee to manage the water for a training exercise at the Momo Divisional Delegation of Water Resources and Energy on the technicalities of how to go about managing the scheme. After the training, they were later installed into office in the village and handed some tools that they shall be using for maintenance purposes. The installation of the committee members and handing over of the project to the villagers took place on Monday November 1st 2021.
Speaking to Mbengwi Online on phone, Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia that's also the National Vice President of the Mbemi Development and Cultural Association (MBEDECA) said it was thanks to Minister Mbah Acha Rose of the Supreme State Control that used the influence of her high office to secure the water rehabilitation project for the Mbemi people from Yaounde. She added that as development influencers in the subdivision, they expect more and more villages to come up to them with development projects that will go a long way to improve on the livelihoods of the Meta people upon realisation.
On Friday April 29th 2022, "Mami Minister" as Mbah Acha Rose is fondly called this time around sent Honourable Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia Foriben to the Gutah zone of the Meta Clan. This was the first time the M.P ever ventured going to such an outskirt area from Mbengwi central town since she was elected in February 2020. It was at the once famous but now little known Presbyterian General Hospital, Acha-Tugi that hundreds of villagers drawn mostly from Njaah, Ngwokwong, Tugi and Sanyere rallied to receive the visiting delegation that came to appreciate the people for the intervention they made to rescue the medical doctor and administrator of Acha-Tugi hospital when they were kidnapped in February 2022.
The items brought by the M.P, made up of 22 bags of rice, 20 bags of fertilizer, 20 bags of salt, 250kg of maize seeds, 100 packets of tea leaves, 50 packets of sugar, 40 plastic kettles, 2 cartons of vegetable oil and sachet tomatoes, all of these amounting to the sum of about 1.5 million Francs according to the parliamentarian were distributed to the beneficiary population, both Mbororos and Meta natives that rallied at the hospital.
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| Hon. Foo Ngang Prodencia in Acha Tugi |
On Thursday December 15 2022, Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia in the company of the mayor of the Mbengwi Council, Ndangsa Kennedy Akam, the President General of the Meta Cultural and Development Association (MECUDA) Prof. Njoh Oliver, medical personnel from the Mbengwi District Hospital among others visited the Kob Integrated Health Centre where she donated medical equipments worth 8 million francs to the health institution.
From Kob, same day, she will later penetrate the Bome Valley of the Meta clan precisely to Njimetu village for the supervision of a rural electrification project she succeeded to secure for the villagers there worth over 30 million francs from the state budget. She went there to see for herself the realities on the ground and the impact the realised project was having on the lifes of the beneficiaries. Here, she was hailed by H.R.H Fon Fortu of Njimetu and his notables for having them in mind.
As an agent of development, when the Meta Cultural and Development Association (MECUDA) organised an Annual Delegates and General Meeting in Mbengwi on Thursday December 25 and Friday December 16 in the MECUDA Head Office and Mbengwi Palace esplanade respectively, Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia was conspicuously present at both events to join efforts with others in mapping out the development plan for the Meta people, her constituents.
In addition she has been actively inscribing her name on the list of contributors during MECUDA organised freewill solidarity contributions to address a developmental or life saving issue in and out of the clan. Often, the MP gives material and or financial assistance during such initiatives. In the build up to the 2023 edition of World Menstrual Hygiene Day, she supported Bedtime Melodies Fan Club, a youth group in Mbengwi with 100.000F to help them buy menstrual kits which were distributed to participants at a menstrual hygiene workshop the group organised.
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| Newspaper Report on Assistance by the M.P to Bedtime Melodies Fan Club |
In the religious domain, the M.P hasn't been indifferent to the many appeal letters that keep reaching her to sow a seed in God's vineyard. As such, she supported the Presbyterian Church Nyen congregation with 100.000frs for their project, another 100.000F for the rehabilitation of Presbyterian Church Mbemi congregation and also 100.000F to the Christian Women Fellowship (C.W.F) of the Meta Presbytery during their last rally.
In the education domain, the M.P has been providing scholarships to some undeprevileged pupils. In 2021, 10 orphans from House of Hope Orphanage, Ngyen-Mbo recieved scholarships to study at Palmer's Bilingual Nursery and Primary School free of charge for an academic year. Same year, she also paid the fees of some 5 pupils in her school that were unable to meet up with their financial obligations. P.B.N.P.S Mbengwi is one of the oldest lay private educationional establishments in the subdivision founded in 2003 by Foo Ngang Prodencia. Since then till date, the school has educated and graduated hundreds of pupils.
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| Packets of Maize Seeds the M.P Distributed to Farmers in her Constituency for Planting |
At the beginning of the 2023 farming season precisely in late march and early August, she donated hundreds of packets of maize seeds to farming groups in Ku, Mbemi, Sang, Njinibi, Meh and Fringyeng to boost the agricultural sector of her constituency. She will later descend to her Constituency for a two day meet the people tour to help resolve a misunderstanding that erupted between the business community of Mbengwi and the new Divisional Officer that resulted to the administrator sealing shops for respecting Monday ghost towns and consequently the rest of the other economic operators also closed up their shops in solidarity with the victims.
The impass went on for close to a month as the D.O insisted all shops must open on Mondays collectively or remain closed collectively. Meetings upon meetings will later be held yielding to no fruitful end. When Hon. Foo Ngang Prodencia flew into Mbengwi on Wednesday May 30th, she went straight to the Mbon motor park and market accompanied by the mayor, discussing with the traders on how to break even from the stalemate. The very next day, Thursday June 1st, Foo Ngang joint the rest of the Mbengwi council executive, forces of law and order, the administration at the Mbon motor park to address the population. At the end of the dialogue session, all sealed shops were unsealed.
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| Hon. Injoh Foo Ngang Prodencia and Mayor Ndangsa Kennedy Akam in the Mbon Market |
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| Foo Ngang Prodencia Addressing the Population at the Mbon Park. On her Right in Suit is the D.O of Mbengwi, Ngidah Lawrence Che |
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| Hundreds Gathered at the Mbon Park to be Addressed by the M.P, Mayor, D.O |
With barely two more years to go before her first mandate ends, the Member of Parliament for Momo East Constituency has been living no stone unturned to ensure she meets up to the expectations of her constituents. Elections are expected to take place in 2025 except otherwise. If she wins the confidence of the electorate, certainly she will likely be gaining a second mandate except otherwise.
