New Bafut DO Tasked To Revitalized Economic Activities

 By Anye Nde Nsoh

Bafut, an agricultural area noted for the production of cash crops such as ginger, cocoyam, maize, plantain and others have had its agricultural potentials drastically reduced due to the armed conflict plaguing the area since 2016. 

Farmers have been unable to exercise their full agricultural potentials despite the availability of farm lands. Commercialists have been unable to effectively market these products produced caused by gun battles.

Bafut equally plays host to tributaries of River Mezam, a major river from which Mezam division derives its name, which has become bedrock for river sand exploitation, employing hundreds of youths and serving as a major source of income generation to the Bafut Council. 

This has ruined the economy of Bafut causing poverty low standards of living since some farmers have lost their lives, others are unable to cultivate and market their products.

The New Divisional Officer of Bafut Subdivision Fokou Njukeng Andrelys have been tasked by the Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam Division Simon Emile Mooh to revitalized economic activities, restore the status quo of Bafut and make its economy booming.

According to the SDO of Mezam Division, the incoming DO should work in close collaboration with the population for their security.

"You must collaborate with the population to ensure that life returns to Bafut. You must work without favoritism and also ensure the security of the people and their property." Emile Mooh told the DO

Ngwakongoh Lawrence Mayor to the Bafut Municipality in his key note address expressed the deseire for collaboration between the council and the administration for smooth functioning. He also made mention that the DO is coming at a time when the third wave of COVID-19 is ravaging lives in some parts of the region. 

He said it is a priority for Bafut sub division to be COVID-19 free.

The first mission of the New DO as instructed by the SDO for Mezam is to set up vibrant vigilante groups for information sourcing, so as to give the crisis what he terms a befitting burial.

The incoming Divisional officer, 32 years old Fokou Njukeng Andrelys is a holder of a BSc in Law and political science from the University of Dschang.

He has served as support staff at the Regional Delegation of the Public Service and administrative reforms North West before moving to Mamfe where he served as the 2nd Assistant SDO for Manyu from March 2020 to the 15th of October 2021 when he was appointed Divisional officer for Bafut.

Fokou  Andrelys replaces Diobe Elumba  Didacus Elumba who served in Bafut for over a year and five months.

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