Wum Mayor branding Award
By Brian Mboh
The workaholic mayor of Wum Council, Menchum Division, North West Region, Dighambong Anthony Mvo, has been decorated for his outstanding development strides. Mayor Dighambong was unveiled on Saturday, May 30, in Yaounde, winner of the “Best Development Oriented Mayor of the Year”.
This was during the celebrations of the Decennial Trendsetters, of the English weekly newspaper, The Voice, held in Yaounde. According to the organisers, Mayor, Dighambong Anthony Mvo was recognised for spearheading the development of the municipality, through opening of roads linking remote areas and for markets, health centers, schools and the construction of the Wum town hall gradually taking shape. According to Mayor Dighambong, the Wum Council is faring well. Despite being away for some few days. It was an atmosphere of joy, that he said his council was doing great, although his wish and that of his population is to see the beginning of the tarring of the Bamenda-Wum Ring Road, as promised by the Prime Minister, after the visit of a delegation of elite to the Director of the Civil Cabinet.
Mayor presents positive end of academic year in Wum
Mayor Dighambong Anthony said, the just ended academic school year, drew its curtains on a positive and satisfactory note. This was after a beautiful celebration of the 54th Unitary Day, with all the schools coming out massively to make, the event a resounding success. “As part of preparations for the next academic year, it is always a tradition for the Wum Council, to make available holiday jobs for students, as has been the case for the past ten years. The council spends a total amount of seven million Francs CFA, for the over two hundred holiday workers, which helps to purchase their didactic materials, without depending on their parents. The communiqué for the holiday jobs, was signed and pasted in the council since the 22 of May. We are inviting young people of age ranging from 16 to 25-year-old to apply,” he said.
Mayor Dighambong Anthony Mvo gets honorary recognition for exceptional qualities
Wum Council faces transformation
He said the council has engage in a good number of giant projects, in some major parts of the municipality, through the opening of roads leading to most of the palaces and neighbourhoods.
“We have the construction of classrooms, made-up of compressed mud bricks, produced by the Wum municipality. Most of these classrooms will be completed by ending June and July. Building with local materials, started in the 2025/26 academic year, in about five government schools,” he stated.
Population mobilized to give 54th Unitary Day flamboyant celebration
The mayor in a special way paid tribute to the entire Wum population, for their ceaseless efforts rendered, in making the celebration of the 54th edition of the Unitary Day, a resounding success. He saluted the teachers and pupils, whose massive turn out got him emotional.
“It is often said, once when we have problems, we must jointly look for solutions and like the saying goes ‘when crying keep moving’, that is why the population of Wum massively came out to celebrate the national Unity Day, that was Commemorated by the state. We saw all the schools come out in their colours and it gave us a lot of hope and of course a lot of challenge, as I asked myself where will all these students get jobs, when they graduate,” he explained.
Mayor Dighambong Anthony dedicate Awards to hard working Wum population
Reacting to his double awards received for his numerous developmental strides made to enhance development, in the Wum Municipality, he said the awards were dedicated to the old mothers and population of his community, who continue being supportive, towards his efforts in ensuring that their living conditions get better day by day.
“I dedicate these awards to my old mothers in Wum, who keep on supporting me, in the exercise of my duty as mayor, telling me to go wherever I want to go for they will always be behind me. I am glad someone, somewhere is watching, what am doing, for if it depended on what, was shown on Facebook, I couldn’t have been at this level of receiving these numerous prizes. I am one of those persons who have hard a bitter experience being under the command of the secessionist in Wum, this was for peace to return in my municipality, it’s within that period of captivity, that l realised the boys of my community were not bad. It was after our exchange that we now have peace in our community. And it is thanks to my elite, that we organised a meeting in Wum, on March 2023, that we all took the decision that, we are done with the disorder in the community, it was time to call on all our children in the bushes to come out and look for ways to work for peace and development. A move that yielded a lot of positivity, as Wum is peaceful and our children can now serenely go to school. We pray that, this peace continues. Menchum has always been an abandoned Division, from 1982 we have not had a single member of government nor a director general, we keep working hoping that the powers be, will one day put a smile on our face like other Divisions,” he added.
Mayor calls for unity, peace and prayers
He called on the population to be peace lovers, be united and should pray for their leaders. And know that every leadership comes from God. Citing the Holy Bible, in Hebrews 17:13, that says pray for your leaders, for they have a responsibility towards them and if they don’t pray for them, it will be difficult to contribute towards , the development of their communities.
