By DANIELA ITOE NGUM
The Honourable Member of Parliament for Meme West, Hon. Martin Atinda Mboni has extended material support to the thousands of internally displaced persons, IDPs of his constituency.
The consignment of goods that comprise bags of rice, bags of salt and cartoons of soap were handed to the population on Saturday June, 22 at the Kumba City Council hall in the presence of the 1st Assistant Senior Divisional Officer, 1st ASDO for Meme Division, Joseph Nguime and the D.O for Konye Sub-Division, Blessed Ekolle Epimba.
Addressing the crowd, the Honourable Member of Parliament appreciated their massive turn out. He told them that his mission is in solidarity of their plight. He added that it has come to his notice that some of the IDPs are unable to provide for themselves reasons why he decided to share the little he has with them.
“This is not the first time that Hon. Atinda is coming to meet his people. The core message is for peace to reign in Meme, we are tired of having our children killed, we are tired seeing corpses littered around and so I have come with a message of peace; that let us concede to dialogue which the Head of State has prescribed through the Prime Minister in his last visit here’, Hon. Atinda noted.
“There can be no development without peace and so like you heard me talking to my people in the hall, I have begged that be it soldiers, be it Ambas they are all our brothers and sisters. They are our children, will should talk to them in a special way that they should concede to dialogue and let peace reign in Meme’, he furthered.
According to the Hon. Atinda, the items he brought for the population are not much but he believes that just as Jesus Christ fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fishes so shall the items feed the thousands of IDPs.
Quizzed on what parliamentarians have done to solve the ongoing crisis, Hon. Atinda said “It is not everything that they discuss in the parliament that goes to the public, the party which I belong is a party that believes in talking in an orderly manner, we don’t need to shout to make noise in public to prove that we are working. The Head of State sent people to the various divisions to get the impressions of people and everything has been channelled to him through the parliament and that is why they are calling for dialogue’.