Mbarga Nguele's
mission to Bamenda, the capital of the North West Region was to congratulate
and reward some police officers for their heroic act in averting a well-planned
terrorist invasion into the region on the 20th of May 2015. Though the
officers, Tawe Alfred, Eteme Joseph Noah, and Elondou Vincent were the happy
recipients of epaulets for their prowess in foiling the planned macabre, many
Cameroonian children who wrote the competitive examination into the police core
are in pains and yet to understand why the result is still pending.
This
explains why the Interim Secretary General at the Bamenda City Council, Jude
Waindim in his welcome address mustered the courage to ask the visiting police
boss what has become of the examination. Mbarga Nguele as if to play Pontius
Pilate, unconvincingly declared that it was because of lack of logistics for
training. According to him, the Police Training Centre under rehabilitation in
Babanki-Tubah was poorly done by a contracting firm owned by a 'Son of the
soil' referring to Prof. Peter Abety.
The poor job done and the non-completion of the center according to him
is part of the problem that has delayed the publication of the result of an
examination written almost close to a year ago.
When this
reporter got to Prof. Peter Abety, a former minister and the current Chairman
person of the Cameroon GCE Board to react to his indictment by the Delegate
General for National Security, he was quick to point out a number of issues to
rubbish the pronouncement by the DG for National Security, Mbarga Nguele.
According
to him, he did the job perfectly well and it was well received sometimes last
year. He questioned why they received it if the job was not well done just to
turn around a year after and condemn it. Prof Abety thinks there is a mixed up
somewhere and that he is ready to challenge Mbarga Nguele in Court for
tarnishing his image and that of his firm. Hear him;
‘I think there is a mixed up somewhere
because he received the job a year ago and i was fully paid for it. The
company, TRAP intended it for a work camp and they built it in 1991 when they
were constructing the Bambui-Fondong road. These were not structures that were
intended to last for twenty years because every company would want to maximize
profit in everything that they do…
It is well over a year that the work
had been received and left again to run down.
When you live in a house, you take care of it , keep it warm and the
environment clean so that may not run down. The structure was a dormitory with
no classrooms or open space where people could learn except for a small dining
hall intended only for a few workers…
For that structure to have been
rehabilitated twenty years after it was abandoned and ransacked by thieves
needed a careful job which we did successfully. We did the best that could be
done...
Even if they wanted to start the
school, they needed to build classrooms, dormitories and other facilities
because these were apartments for senior TRAP workers...
In this year's budget, the delegate
had put out a budget to build classrooms, construct a field which he has not
done. He cannot turn around to blame us. In fact if you look at that budget
head you would see classroom and other infrastructure which has not been done.
It is better for him to say that the classrooms and other structure in the
budget have not been done than to say that the rehabilitation work has not been
done and giving me negative names over what i think was the best of bests…
I will take time to go and meet him
personally. I may have to sue him for giving my company and my person such a
negative publicity.'
This is
not the first time the police competitive examination has ended up in drawers
after candidates had spent huge sums of money either to register, do fitness
tests or displaced themselves to the examination centers.
The delay
in the release of the result has been a cause for concern in many quarters.
Some people think and truly so that the delay only provides fertile grounds for
'lips to be oiled' or for brown envelopes to exchange hands. When the result
will finally be published, many must have died, gone for greener pastures,
fallen sick, gotten other jobs or would be above age. The cacophony would
therefore give the opportunity for the powers that be to fit in their kin or
god sons and daughters who might not have written the examination into the police
force.
In
launching the competitive examination into the police force, the government was
quite aware of the kind of infrastructure at its disposal. They placed the cart
before the horse. Abety contracting firm should therefore not be held responsible
for a job duly done and received. Mbarga Nguele should look for pretexts
elsewhere and should be able to tell Cameroonians what has become of the budget
to build classrooms and other infrastructures as stated by Prof. Peter Abety.
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