Mobile Fiscal Stamps Abolish In Cameroon.
By Raymond Dingana.
The North West
Regional Tax Controller has announced that, Mobile Fiscal Stamps have been permanently
abolished thereby giving priority to Franking stamps.
He made the announcement
recently at the Conference Room of MINEPAT at Up Station Bamenda during the launching ceremony of the Public Investment Budget
for the NWR. He added that, 56 Franking Machines arrived the region recently to
fill the gap created by the absence of the Mobile Fiscal Stamps.
He furthered that, in
areas where electricity is a problem, solar energy will take care of the situation.
Though electricity is said to be a handicap to the whole process, the NW
Regional Tax Controller says, the greatest problem faced now is the insecurity
that reigns in the region as a result of the socio-political crisis that is
greatly affecting day to day life in the NWR.
He says those Franking
Machines are very expensive and that, they can even be vandalized or seized in
the course of moving the machines from one place to another.
Security concerns were
also raised by many at the launching. The NW Regional chief of Customs said, only
about 12.1 Billion FCFA was collected out of the 203Billion FCFA that was supposed
to be collected because of the socio-political crisis. He also said 75% of
their offices were burnt down.
Service Heads who have
fled their offices because of insecurity were equally asked to return to their
Divisions for a smooth execution of the Budget.
According to the Senior
Divisional Officer for Ngoketunjia, Mr. Nkwetock Harrison, the budget will not
be executed if Service Heads continue with the attitude they exhibited last
year. He also lashed out at Divisional Delegates whom he said are good at stigmatizing
their colleagues who want to work.
To the Senior
Divisional Officer for Bui, Mr. Lanyuy Harry Ngwanyi, if security is the problem,
he is willing to share his house with the Service Heads so that they can execute
the Budget for the sake of the nation.
On his part, the SDO
for Donga Mantung, Nkwenti Simon Ndoh, and execution of the Public Investment Budget
face a lot of challenges because of the crisis. He said building materials find
it difficult to reach his Division. He added that, all the projects in his
Division have been signed out but the execution phase is not the best as they
had anticipated. He went further to say that, that, measures are being put in
place to clear all road blocks to enable contractors execute their projects.
Meanwhile, the representative
of the minister of finance at the launching, Mr. Patrice Lumumba underscored
the need for peace to return to the NWR. He said, peace must return to the NWR
because they cannot be any meaningful development without peace. He also said, all
those projects that could not be executed in 2017,2018 and 2019 including those
that were started or vandalized will be put in a special package and redistributed
to enable the NWR catch up with projects.
According to the North
West Regional delegate of MINEPAT,HRH chief Fotsop Dominic Yanai Asaah,183 projects
were executed 100%,121 projects ongoing and 274 not started given at execution
rate of 38.8%.He blamed the low execution rate of Public Investment Project to
the socio-political crisis, the late transfer of contract credits among others.
There are hopes that, all
will be done for the crisis to end for the 2020 budget to be executed smoothly.
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| SDOs At The Launch Of The 2020 Budget For The North West Region. |
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| Family Photo After The Launch Of The Budget. |
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