Eminent Strike: North West Councils to go on Rampage Against CNPS/NSIF Blockage of Accounts

Noel Alain Olivier Mekulu Director General of the National Social Insurance Fund NSIF

CNPS (National Social Insurance Fund) North West officials decision to block the accounts of Councils in the Region surviving by the special Grace of God has sparked quite a lot of confusion in Council management to an extent that it’s Mayors and staffs can bear it no more.

News avails that tension has mounted to an extent that they are all unanimously planning a general strike actions to hold CNPS officials hostage for helping to block the normal functioning of Councils struggling to survive in the midst of the Deepening Anglophone crisis.

It should be noted as we report that, no positive steps has been taken by CNPS to uplift the decision with their bankers after the petition by the Union of Councils and the meeting held calling on their attention to the great havoc their actions are causing.

Speaking to most of the affected Councils and staffs, most have decried such a decision onto councils struggling to survive with the confusion in the North West Region.

According to them, the intention to go on rampage will be the best way to cause government to act fast and listen to the plights of most of their Mayors and what they are going through running Councils without revenue collection sources and quarterly payment.

Others wander and are almost tempted to conclude that it is an indirect way by Yaounde to punish Councils operating in Bamenda clandestinely instead of their Council areas or Municipality for security reasons just like teachers.

Which is what they will not take lightly for fear that it may become instituted since Cameroon only listens to the language of strike action.

Coming back to Bamenda CNPS Boss, the decision to block Council accounts should be on instructions from above caring less of it’s outcome.

The general outcry is that CNPS is saying people and Councils are not in order, are they also in order? Following all the scandalous mismanagement and misappropriation reports that have of late been in the news about the system and it’s officials.

Hard to bear, if Mayors and Council workers are to honor their rendezvous before this month end, then, it will pose more as an additional threat to the peace and security in the Region which is even growing worst daily.