NACDA held its Mid Year General Meeting in Bonaberi, Douala, on Saturday, June 23.

Residents of the port city of Douala over the week-end savoured a thrilling cultural display by Ndong Awing sons and daughters. The Council Hall of the Douala IV municipality and its premises jammed with an enthusiastic culture-hungry Douala residents, as well as sons and daughters of Ndong Awing from across Cameroon, who travelled from far and near various Ndong Awing Cultural and Development Association (NACDA) to attend the meeting.

Various traditional dances and mass choirs kept the attention of spectators to the thrilling episodes that spiced every talk by nobles and elite of the locality for several hours. Closely following was the reading of the gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke Chapters 8 and 9 in Ndong Awing language.

The Mid Year General Meeting was presided over by His Royal Majesty Fon Fozoh II of Ndong Awing, who was accompanied by his sub Chiefs and entourage. The President General of NACDA underlined the meeting’s importance as a rallying event to discuss, discover new faces and make an assessment of activities of the association for the last two years, like construction of the Fon’s Palace residence, the development of a factbook, water and electricity supplies, cultural halls, roads rehabilitation, construction and equipping of a Permanent Secretariat for the NACDA in Ndong Awing. It also created the Awing Association of Civil Engineers for road maintenance, as well as equipped hospitals and health centres. The factbook, which shows the details of the Ndong Awing population, a locality in the Santa Subdivision of the North West, and their development priorities, designed to state clear its development priorities, will be made available to government, diplomatic missions, organizations and so on for assistance.

Ntsonkefo’o Peter Akote, NACDA President General, said: “We have dug our roads, secured electricity supply and equip schools, hospital and health centres, as well as developed our water supply ourselves. Our challenge is recalcitrant members.”

Ntumfor Barrister Nico Hale, peace crusader and elite of the village, pointed out that the Ndong Awings will in November 17, 2012, be celebrating 50 years of success, achievement, and great things that have been done to Awing by its sons and daughters. “We are going to consolidate love, peace and progress. If you don’t develop your village you cannot develop your country.”