According to a close associate of the current mayor of Doumaintang commune, in order to evaluate the achievements of a municipal executive, a distinction must be made between the powers transferred by the State (the BIP, the general staffing of the decentralization and other complementary subsidies from public authorities.), agreements signed with development partners and other institutions (FEICOM and PNDP.) and investments from the municipality's own resources. The evaluation to be objective must only concern the achievements of the own resources of the decentralized territorial collectivity.
In Doumaintang, we can look at the revenues from the exploitation of the communal forest: the income from taxes subject to equalization and communal taxes. According to the same manager, "no project on own resources of the town has ever prospered in Doumaintang on a whole mandate apart from the acquisition of a pick-up vehicle at CAMI and whose clearance of the debt is very far from the term ".
He pushes the point by taking as other examples, "the construction of the place des fêtes and central roundabout with the financial support of the Urban Community of Yaounde and whose sites are abandoned. Moreover, the construction sites of agropastoral product marketing sheds are stopping in several villages. And more than 30 less staff salary arrears over the period from 2015 to 2018, with the corollary non-payment of social security contributions and other taxable deductions".
According to the annual ranking of the performance of the PNDP in 2018, the town of Doumaintang is 29th out of 33 in the East and 13th out of the 14 communes that account Haut-Nyong. All things that demonstrate the weaknesses of the mayor.
Dagoumé Ngamba Lazare, municipal councilor of the village Mbaguempal expresses concern about the situation."We find that after 6 years as a city councilor, nothing works in Doumaintang.The municipal executive is more involved in the loop of Woulbiam where he is from.
A few months from the end of the outstanding mandate, the achievements under the municipality's own funds are invisible in the rest of the municipality. We are hard pressed on the management side of the communal forest. When we seek to understand what is happening, we are intimidated by the prefectural authority which forces us to sign the documents blindly.
At the end of each session of our municipal councils, we are always embarrassed in front of our populations.What to say to those people who ask so many questions? As a city councilor, I tell you with certainty that the term of Mr. Charles Mbola Ndjas is a dismal failure and a crash all the way. Even more, our mayor is not visible, in Doumaintang. He lives in Yaoundé. The gates of the town are closed to users, "he denounces.
Zam Clovis, a young farmer from the locality does not feel sorry: "Concerning the management of the town of Doumaintang, we regret bitterly. The management of Mr Mbola Djas Charles is opaque and calamitous. We learned that the city of Mbaguempal benefited under the BIP, a staffing in the classroom and equipped latrines. But I can tell you that we have never had any realizations on the ground for years. Logging has already told us what benefit? Where did the road maintenance go? Where did the achievements made by the municipality come from, with the exception of the municipal inn whose equipment is invisible? We are in tears.
He goes further in wishing that the public authorities act, "We are penalized in the district of Doumaintang following the closure of the services of the town hall. In fact, the municipal agents, accused several months of unpaid wages.Moreover, the city hall is in a sorry state and the town is excessively indebted. Who will bear this burden after the next election since Mbola Ndjas Charles will be hunted here as a bush rat by local people.Besides, he does not reside here. We call on the government to open an investigation that will shed light on the current mayor's management. I invite our political elites to let us freely choose at the polls, our own mayor".
Interpelled several times to answer the facts, the mayor of the town of Doumaintang did not wish to speak on the subject. Accusing rather, our colleague Jean Jacques Zé to blame him for no reason. "There are 33 communes in the East but why are you particularly interested in the commune of Doumaintang? I am aware of your maneuvers and I let you do your job and know that journalists are not my constituents.. ", he warned.
Charles Mbola Ndjas before we hang in the nose, told us by the way, the visit of a member of the government in his commune on March 16 to touch the finger of his achievements.
Would he be trying to manipulate a minister of the republic to polish his image with his electorate? Let's wait and see.
Source: actucameroun.com