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.


SDOs At The Launch Of The 2020 Budget For The North West Region.

Family Photo After The Launch Of The Budget.


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