Death threats hang over Kumba district hospital director

From Njingang Godwin in Kumba

                               

Dr. Ebongo Zack Nanje

The director of the Kumba district hospital, Ebongo Zacheus Nanje has maintained that his life and that of his family are at risk as he continues at the helm of the Kumba district hospital.

He initially made the declaration on Friday October 10, at the Kumba city council hall during the third quarter divisional participatory follow-up committee meeting of the public investment budget for 2014.

According to Ebongo who has been subject of insults and threat of life, his staff are no longer safe given the high level of encroachment of hospital land by some illegal settlers. 

Ebongo stressed that if care is not taken, he will get up one morning, pack his properties and that of his family and leave the town since he is no longer secured. “The land behind the hospital is a government residential area which means that the state has not yet allocated people there. It beats my imagination that people are already building houses and even blocking the hospital from carrying out a 50MFCFA project of building a fence. How they got there is what I don’t know but I am just a medical personnel send there to do my job” he sustained.

Reacting to the threat, the vice president of Meme PIB, Paul Makembe frowned bitterly on how some misguided Cameroonians who do not have the division at heart could be blocking the development of the area.

He charged the director of the Kumba district hospital to put all he said in writing for onward transmission to the presidency and the prime minister so that the fellows will be called to order.

All the same, it was resolved that the fence will be diverted so that the illegal occupants will have a road going to their various houses.

The land consultative board equally was called upon to check if the land in question has been ceded to the current occupants.

While opening the coordination meeting, the SDO for Meme said the division has some six priority projects to the tune of 153MFCFA and as of now, the physical execution rate stands as 36.07%; an execution rate which the SDO noted was not encouraging reason why the committee need to step up their follow up to ensure that at least 90% is completed.

The SDO also frowned at stakeholders who continue to stay away from important meeting of aimed at bringing development to the area.

In the meantime, the Meme divisional MINEPAT boss, disclosed that the division has a total of 532,331,000FCFA as total amount allocated and so far, the total engagement stands as 182,181,000MFCFA. Meanwhile the total number of projects stands at 70 whereas just 45 have been executed with 15 others ongoing and 10 abandoned. The percentage of financial execution stands as 34.2% and physical execution is up to 61.52%.