Ndop main market reopens after 3 years
Honourable Njingum Musa a Member of Paliament from Ngoketunjia has convinced traders of the locality to reopen their shops over 7 years after they were locked down due to the socio-political crisis and high rental fees they say the council obliged them to pay.
The Ndop council had claimed, these rents were to be used for local council support fund. The angry traders say they were left with no choice but to shut down their shops since 2016.
“We can not have an economic crises going on and the council in Ngoketunjia keeps taxing traders so high. We barely could feed our kids and business was so bad since so many persons left the North West. We could not continue so we had to close down our shops till date,” Sophia Ndicheh a trader in the market explains.
After mediation from the Member of Paliament for Ngoketunjia, the traders have reopened their shops and the market is once again active. Hon. Njinkum Musa met with the traders on Sunday April 02, 2023.
“I will advise that we government officials leading the affected areas hit by the anglophone crisis should visit our people often, listen to their worries and try solving some of the problems. This to me will greatly help situations and slowly drive out fear in them because the only way to restore our region is to remove fear out of people. Everyone has so much fear in them and no one wants to risk their lives by being alone in the fight to reopen markets or not respect Mondays [ghost town days]. Security is assured.”
“I must say it has not been easy all these years staying at home in so much fear. I for one am happy that we can reopen our shops and start selling again. At least we will not starve and I pray that, this decision we will not regret because things are yet to completely go back to the way they used to be before the crisis,” Thompson Lem, another trader says.
Honourable Njingum also donated 500 benches at the start of the school year to government primary school Bamunka to encourage parents to send their children to school.
