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“A senseless strike!” Vincent Ndumu Nji, Government Delegate. Bamenda City Council Mr Government Delegate, during the traders’ strike of 12 July over increased market shed rents, you were in a conference in London. So, how did you feel when you got the information? Well, I felt a little bit worried in the sense that, you can easily agree with me that it was a senseless strike! The first thing about it is that, as a business man operating within the premises of a municipality, when you go on strike, the strike should be about something beneficial to you, because closing your shop or activities for one day causes you to lose money. Secondly, we had had a lot of discussions with the representatives of the traders of all the four markets here. All of us agreed on the necessity, given the means that are required to run this market, to bring up some of the market rents to the minimum official rates provided by the 2009 law on council fiscal revenue. So, I say it was surprising in the se...

Isangele Council is located in the Ndian Division in South West Region. It is privileged to be among the 18 councils out of 360 with a female mayor at their helm. It is also privileged to be located at the border, at the crossroads between Cameroon and Nigeria. As such, its population is a melting pot of ethnicities, not only from these two nations, but also from other West African countries attracted to its rich fisheries. A building scheme in Isangele: Solving the housing problem. Created on june 29, 1977, this Council 765 km² Isangele Council has a population of 5,000 inhabitants and is governed by a council of 22, under the leadership of Caroline Offiong Usim. It is bounded in the north by Mundemba council, in the south by Kombo Abedimo council, in the west by the Atlantic Ocean  and in the east by Ekondo Titi and Kombo Itindi council areas. This is the parent council of the Bakassi Area, with offshoots being the Kombo Itindi and Idabato Councils. The main settle...