Cavaye snubs SDF MP, women

Bui tree planting visit

 

From Willibroad B. Nformi in Kumbo

National assembly speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril  who was in Kumbo on Thursday, September 13 for the tree planting expedition, to fight climate change; snubbed not only the SDF parliamentary group leader and MP for Kumbo central but also the women folk who turned out in large numbers to welcome him.

Even though received on arrival in Kumbo by Hon. Joseph L. Banadzem, Cavaye turned down a reception by the MP for Kumbo central and SDF parliamentary group leader in his Njavnyuy residence.

“As the SDF parliamentary group leader and MP for Kumbo central, I think it was necessary for him to have a stop in my residence, refresh himself before continuing to Nkambe”, Hon Banadzem told this reporter regrettably.

Still in line with Cavaye’s snobbish attitude, the women who turned out in their numbers in over 20 groups and waited patiently from 10am to about 4,30pm when the house speaker and his entourage trooped in had a more bitter story to tell than the SDF MP. The women gave the second personality of the republic a standing ovation in song and dance as he alighted from his car; but he simply passed by as though to say “I did not come here for you people”.

Apparently convinced that Cavaye would have time after the ceremony to commune with them, the anxious women waited for long hours to shake hands with their august guest but were further greatly disappointed when it dawned to them that he had planted the symbolic tree and left. As they left disappointedly, many of the women were overheard cursing Cavaye and wished that he never sets foot in Kumbo again.

In what has been seen as a damage control, the SDO for Bui, Ngone Ndodemesape Bernard in a communiqué over local radio stations here in Kumbo has since been calling on the women leaders to stop by in his office for matters concerning them. This, it is believed, is a move to appease the women who made the occasion what it was with their massive turn out.

Meanwhile, addressing the population earlier, Hon. Cavaye painted a gloomy picture of floods situation in the country; saying his mission out here was-to fight the phenomenon of climate change.

Speaking earlier, the executive president of the Pan African Parliamentary Network on Climate Change, Hon Cyprian Awudu Mbaya, insisted that climate change has neither political colour nor territorial boundaries. He said it needs no passport or laisser-passer to enter any where. 

       He said according to UN statistics, about 350,000people die every year as a result of climate change. He intimated that if nothing is done to curb the phenomenon, in the next 20 years, one million people will be dying yearly due to climate change. He went ahead to explain that of the former figure, 75percent are in Africa.

For her part, the representative of the minister of women’s empowerment and the family, Emelienne Kamcho said climate change had resulted to the disappearance of market gardening and fishing activities that women usually carried out in streams and rivers.

Welcoming the august guest to Kumbo, Kumbo 1^st deputy mayor, Lukong Margaret Beri said the tree planting operation dubbed “One woman, one tree” corresponded squarely in her council’s project of “One child, and one tree” initiated in 2006. She explained that each child being registered in her civil status service is entitled to a tree which is planted and taken care of by the parents.