It will take six days for the three-man team to ascertain the impact of the 746 volunteers trained in the six Divisions of the region.

A three-man control team from the National Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development (NCSAPD) is on the field in the South West Region to check and evaluate the activities of the 746 volunteers recruited, trained and financed in 2012.

The State spent globally FCFA 770 million on 5,933 volunteers engaged nationwide. By that investment, the Government intended to improve on the social and economic development of the country as well as build on the morality of its citizens.

Mr. Esua Enow, Deputy General Manager, of the NCSAPD is leading the technical control squad for the South West Region which started from 3^rd till 8 November, 2014.  He explained to Cameroon Tribune that the exercise will enable the necessary adjustments and re-orientation of the NCSAPD as prompted by the Head of State’s message of February 10, 2014.

Mr. Esua Enow’s control expedition including Madam Rose Namundo and Mr. Enaw Daniel Agbor, South West Regional Co-coordinator of NCSAPD is combing through the six administrative Divisions of the Region to assess the actual realisation of the 65 projects initiated in the Region in 2012 for 756 volunteers. The team is finding out if the directives issued to the volunteers are being applied, if the parties involved are in active collaboration and what difficulties they may be facing on the field. 

Curiously, a first-hand assessment already noted only 426 active volunteers by August 2013 in the Region giving room to question the whereabouts of the 330 others duly trained and assisted.  The South West volunteers constituted 65 working groups (or projects) of which Manyu Division crowned the chart with 25, Ndian (10), Meme (8), Kupe Muanenguba (8), Fako (8) and Lebialem (6). 

The control mission has promised an encouragement package of FCFA 2.5 million to the best five groups that may still be holding on to their projects in the South West. On the other hand, recalcitrant volunteers duly trained and financed but who have abandoned their projects will be brought to book. In the same vein, the squad is monitoring the on-going training of new volunteers recruited this year.