Councillors of Bamenda II Council have voted a budget balanced in income and expenditure at 1.6 billion Francs.
The budget which witnesses a drop of about six hundred million Francs from the budget of 2025 and was termed realistic by the chair of the finance committee.
According to the committee, the budget of the council over the last three years has not been attained reasons why they opted for a drop in 2026 which is realistic.
Speaking as he officially welcomed the councillors to what seems to be their last session before facing the electorates in the 2026 Municipal Elections, Mayor Chenwi Peter saluted the efforts put in place by the councillors and their commitment towards the development of the Municipality.
From basic education through the supply of health equipment, from the construction of bridges to the construction of community halls, maintaining roads and social activities like the donation of books to keep young people in school, Mayor Chenwi said with the prevailing political climate the council would want to do more especially with the opening of roads and maintenance of the current rural road network.
Bamenda II Council Board
He called on the quarter heads to make good use of the equipment pool currently being established at the council. "What we simply want is that they assure us that the equipment will not be vandalized. Once we are sure, we will give it to them." Mayor Chenwi Peter said.
The 2026 budget will be obtained from state grants, state subvention from ministries that have decentralized their services, the local governance resilience project (PROLOG) and from the council support fund for mutual assistance (FEICOM).
FEICOM is sponsoring some 20 social housing facilities in the Bamenda II Council area in 2026 while the partnership agreements signed with councils in Canada will go into effect in 2026 with focus on the management and transformation of waste within the Municipality.
Target areas in 2026 include improving the provision of Basic social services, promotion of economic development and environmental protection, promotion of citizenship, culture, sports, and youth support and governance and local administration.
To ensure effectiveness in the management of its activities the council will be recruiting some personnel to manage its equipment pool.
"We wrote to the Minister of Decentralization to authorize us to recruit people to drive and maintain these heavy duty equipment. For now, we hire people from outside to come and handle the machines which is very expensive. The Minister has given his accord and we are very happy." Mayor Chenwi said.
The council has also adopted a resolution to buy an excavator in 2026.
Simon Emile Mooh (m), SDO of Mezam
In attendance at the Budget session was the Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam, Simon Emile Mooh who appreciated the drop in the budget as being attainable.
He called on the councillors to massively take part in the elections of Members of the North West Regional Assembly scheduled for Sunday 30th November 2025.
Only municipal councillors are eligible to take part in Regional elections.
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Ndi Tsembom Elvis
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