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Thursday 28th July 2022 marked a special date for the Buea Council as Mayor David Mafani Namange Esq, and his management team in line with the national development strategy 2020 – 2030 towards emergence, and guided by two United Nations Sustainable development goals number 5 and 17, the Buea Council carried out a Town Hall meeting to map a way forward for sustainable development. The Landlord of the Buea municipality in his words said: the Council relies on the dynamism and involvement of the civil society, the economic and support of her partners and that of the denizens of the Buea municipality, to map a way forward to build the not only the Council CDP, but equally the population needs to appropriate all projects that are carried out within the municipality as to make them sustainable.
This Town Hall meeting saw the participation of all sectors of works and the participants were glad to part of a participatory approach of governance and decisions making in the city of Buea.
The Buea Council’s history traces back to 1922, initially established as the Bakweri clan council under Chief Mathias Lifafa Endeley during British colonial rule. It wasn’t until June 29, 1977, that it officially became the Buea Rural Council, formalized by Presidential decree No. 77/203. Prior to this, Buea served as the capital of Kamerun (Cameroon) under German colonial administration from 1901 to 1909 and later as the capital of Southern Cameroons under British rule