South West Regional Assembly: Macro Projects Will Better Serve Population

T he South West Regional Assembly in its 3rd Ordi­ nary Session for 2026 no­ ted that it has to move from micro projects to macro pro­ jects to have their impact felt by the population. They were in 3rd ordinary session in Buea on Octo­ ber 20, 2026, devoted for the mid- year evaluation of the 2026 bud­ get. The representative of the State, Bernard Okalia Bilai, said there are too many micro projects of FCFA 5 000 000 in the current year. This cause the population not to see the impact of the projects on their lives. But if the micro projects are merge to sum up FCFA 40 000 000 or more then the population will appreciate it better, the Gover­ nor said. He proposed to the South West Regional Executive Council that in their next budget orienta­ tion, they should reduce the num­ ber of micro projects and increase the quality and amount on macro projects. This will become more vi­ sible and useful to the community. In the current year, the South West Regional Assembly has 38 micro projects which are below FCFA 5 000 000 which the President of South West Regional Executive Council, Zachues Bakoma Elango, said most have been executed. Pro­ jects above FCFA 5 000 000 num­ bered 171 and distributed across the six divisions of the South west Region. “To develop a community, you don’t necessarily need to have too many projects. We can maintain the same amount of money and come up with projects which will have more impact on the commu­ nity,” he pointed out. The budget under execution is FCFA 16 160 219 702. Zachues Bakoma Elango announ­ ced that at the closed of the FEI­ COM Financial Assistance Commit­ tee which he atte...