| NW CPDM prepares ground for Biya’s visit |
| Written by Jude Viban |
| Friday, 29 January 2010 15:58 |
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Biya as been to NW three tims
Biya has been in Bamenda three times already
Ministers and other elite of the region held at least six meeting across the region last weekend, urging the people to turn out in large numbers.
No date has been set for the presidential visit but we expect it before the National Day on 20 May. With the current movements in the region it now looks very imminent. Biya will be in Bamenda to chair a controversial event to mark 50 years of the Cameroon military. It will be marked by parades and a speech by the commander-in-chief of the armed froces. The meetings that were held at divisional headquarters were strategic and open only to party officials, mayors and members of parliament of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movenment (CPDM). Culture minister Ama Tutu Muna was in Mbengwi Saturday, where she held a meeting at the government technical high school there. She said the North West had become the envy of other regions because of the visit. It is one of the places the president has visited most. She said it was an “honour.” Trying to forge a unity, she urged the people to shun political divide and contribute to the success of the event, likely to take place along the Bamenda Comercial Avenue. “The presidential visit is a national event and thus an event for all, which requires a collective effort,” Muna said. “The CPDM is only benefiting from this visit because the president is also chairman of the CPDM.” North westerners hope Biya will address key development concerns like the building of the Ring Road, when he comes to town. It would be his fourth visit to Bamenda, making it one of the cities most visited by the head of state during his 27-year stay in power. North West elite are hoping to draw the largest number of people ever to a presidential visit on the occasion as a way of showing off their political might, we understand. The Momo CPDM section is expected to provide 350 official delegates as its quota to represent the division on the day of the visit. Similar quotas are being mobilised around the region of seven divisions. Previous visits by the president here were in 1983, 1984 and 1985. The visit coincides with the 50th anniversary of the independence of Cameroon, the Cameroon army and the 25th anniversary of the CPDM party, which was founded here. 
 
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we are firstly glad to receive papa in bamenda but this company kennyjacks decoration plc dealing with decorations and water fountains, construction of monaments and other public designs on streets and gardens and roundabout wish to appeal for an oppotunity to install a three level water fountain in first roundabout of the airport which makes the airport decorated as papa will like to have feelings of living water in bamenda town, we also plead for that oppotunity to do other decorations around the town like monaments and other interesting structures and water foundtains on rounabout in bamenda eg the city chemist round about. this will make the town also have a cute look before foriegners visiting bamenda town especially since it is not facile to trove engineers doing some of this thinks in africa.
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