More Homes Demolished As Kumba Council Grades Roads

By Olive Ejang Tebug

More homes and house foundations have fallen to the Kumba Council caterpillars' shovels as the council grades more roads within the municipality.After grading several roads in the Kumba Town area, the next stop was Fiango where the council opened a road after Seminary Street in Hausa Quarters.

Buzzing caterpillars brought down this home of 10

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This road would give access to vehicles and commercial motorbikes to reach Kossala Kumba with ease. But in the course of grading the roads, one house and the foundations of two houses were destroyed, with no compensation to the affected owners.

Along Bao and Church Streets, foundations of houses very close to the road were destroyed to create more space.The house of the quarter head of Church Street, Martin Fonkem, was destroyed in the process, rendering a family of 10 people homeless.

The Post learnt that since Fonkem didn't have a building permit, the council compensated him by levelling his nearby plot for the construction of a new house.The Council is expected to demolish other houses in the neighbourhood of Church Street to link it to Club Number One and the railway station.

Apparently reacting to the demolition of his house, Fonkem reportedly wrote a letter to Prince Ekalle Mukete, Meme I CPDM Sub-Section President, citing his ordeal if his house was destroyed.

Ekalle, in a recent meeting at the CPDM party house Kumba, told his militants that they were not against development, but problems set in if houses are demolished without compensating the affected families.

He told the members that they would seek means of solving the problem in their next meeting. But the quarter head's house had already been demolished before the next meeting.

When The Post contacted one of the quarter head's daughters, Bridget Fonkem, a nursing mother putting up with a neighbour, she said the situation was unavoidable for the sake of development.

The Kumba Council Chairman, Ferdinand Asapngu had told The Post that the council would compensate people for demolished houses with permits, according to the law.

Comments

[Fonjong]

This is all nonsense.

The council will compensate .......

You should say the council has compensated and not that it will compensate after rendering an entire family homeless.

Please people should learn to have respect for others. Clothing, housing and feeding are the 3 most basic necessities of all individuals.

Being inhumane is barbaric.

[evaristus]

THAT IS THE RESULT OF STUPID BUILDING OF HOUSES IN CAMEROON. EVERYBODY WANTS TO BUILD A HOUSE ON THE ROAD. OUR THINKING HAS TO CHANGE.

[fred]

That's rediculouse to hear as those people who have been sent out of thier homes are now restless cos even where to sleep is not.Fellow cameroonians hope we now understand our rights as to kind of bad behaviour of some individuals.Truely this is really againgst human as the kumba council has constantly been voilating citizens rights in the sense of development.please where do you want those evacuated from thier home to start?please those incharge should give me the answer.
Surely one day God will punish that cameroon and his evil dowers.