TOMBEL LGA CRIPPLING: LACK OF ROADS, ELECTRICITY...
Even though a strong sympathiser of the colonial LRC barbaric regime in Yaaounde, that suffered for lodging “maquisards” fleeing French terrorism from LRC in the 1950s to the 1970s, it has been abandoned to itself. News reaching undaunted says the people of Tombel LGA in Kupe Muanenguba County have been without electricity for over 3 months and this has had negative effects on their activities and coupled with the poor nature of roads in the locality has not made matters easier for populations.
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Akum Germaine a student living in Tombel LGA laments: “The major challenge we face is electricity issue because I do not think there is anyone who can survive with day – to – day life without electricity in this century.
We have been for over 3 months and still counting without electricity. We have cried out so many times for government intervention. For example from Saturday till today February 06 we have had no electricity not even a little flash of it,”.
“The roads are the worst especially for some of us who depend solely on agriculture for livelihood. We harvest plantains, yams mostly cocoa and we are frustrated on how to get them to the market. We have everything in Tombel, so many farm produce but no roads so how do we survive?” Asongwe Hilary, a farmer wonders aloud.
“In a locality where youths are mostly farmers, most of us depend on agriculture to survive. Some of us could not finish school while others have all the school certificates but have returned to their localities to farm due to lack of jobs,” Moa Pascal a young farmer explains.
In order to address some of these situations, the colonial LRC minister of youth affairs and civic education Mounouna Foutso alongside other LRC government officials, has promised to equip the multipurpose youth empowerment centre which is under construction in Tombel. Tombel LGA is one of the localities hit by the Ambazonia liberation conflict. The colonial LRc minister Mounouna Foutso has urged the youths of Tombel to remain prudent and has congratulated them for striving to be an example to others as they engage in agriculture.
The youths and population of Tombel LGA are calling on the colonial LRC government to grant them their wish of good roads and electricity so they can enjoy farming and be able to produce more. Tombel LGA is not alone in its predicament, almost all the other LGAs and Counties in Ambaland have been neglected by the colonial LRC exploitative government. In Donga Mantung County for instance there are no roads and the population there last saw electricity over three years ago. Many depend now on solar energy which is not even affordable per every household
