The Chamba Cultural Development Association (CCDA) held a special meeting in Ganye on Thursday, September 30th, 2021, with illustrious and distinguished personalities in attendance. The meeting deliberated exhaustively on both the socio-economic problems currently confronting the Chamba nation and the fate of Chamba people in the forthcoming 2023 general elections.
The meeting reviewed and commended the past roles of Mr. Philip Maken and Alhaji Faruk Jauro, all of blessed memory, whose tremendous efforts united the Chamba and ensured they spoke with one voice and acted collectively. The meeting also looked at the present set of Chamba leaders and hailed the untiring efforts of Honourable Justice Ambrose Mammadi (rtd), Mr. Innocent Sanda, Mr. Sopkonso Polycarp Kaigama, Alhaji Ahmed Dama, Alhaji Saad Maiyaki, Alhaji Sahid Umar, etc., that deployed their wealth of experience to bring together diverse Chamba socio-economic and cultural groups under one umbrella to ensure that there is unity of command and direction henceforth in Chambaland.
While the meeting called on Chamba elites to contribute immensely towards addressing Chamba problems, it also solicited the unalloyed support and cooperation of the Chamba nation to unite and act in unison to save Chambaland from its myriad of existential problems. This call has become necessary to save the fatherland from dire consequences of present laxities and future calamities as a result of the pervasive poverty and hardships experienced in the land as elsewhere across the country and the mindless siddon look mentality.
The meeting demanded for adequate and pragmatic solutions to better the lot of the entire inhabitants of Ganye Chiefdom and solicited the support and cooperation of the Chamba and other groups in the chiefdom to harness forces and resources to ensure economic empowerment and improvement of the standard of living of the entire populace, irrespective of tribe, tongue or creed.
All socio-economic and political groups in Chambaland were also called upon to deploy synergy and work together for the progress of Ganye Chiefdom. Due to the monumental problems bedeviling the area, urgent action is imperative to pull it back from the precipice and give it respite. The most deprived and suffering people in our midst deserve more humane and compassionate treatment to better their lot. This is the objective of the series of meetings held in the recent past culminating into this present one.
The meeting also reviewed some fundamental issues to salvage the Chamba nation from incipient and crippling leadership challenges lurking both at home and the Diaspora, the poor economy of the Chamba and, lastly, 2023 politics and the role of the Chamba nation in the forthcoming elections.
The meeting appreciated the gravity and magnitude of the current cultural and political leadership challenges in Chambaland and resolved to raise some fundamental issues with elders and major stakeholders both within and outside Ganye Chiefdom, especially business tycoons, technocrats, top politicians and people occupying elective and appointive offices in the land, to find common grounds on how to move Ganye Chiefdom forward on the path of growth and rapid socio-economic development.
The issues of youth and women developments were also reviewed and exhaustively addressed. The meeting therefore called on the state and local governments to, as a matter of priority, address the prevailing problem of unemployment affecting the teeming population of youths and women across the state in general, and Ganye Chiefdom in particular. To complement government efforts, the meeting resolved to embark on novel entrepreneurial schemes to benefit the youth and women groups in the chiefdom and is therefore set to register unemployed youths and women so as to generate and maintain a data bank for effective use by the CCDA and the various levels of government when necessary.
The meeting formally commended the Executive Governor of Adamawa State, His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, for the appointments he gave the sons and daughters of Ganye Chiefdom and his giant development strides that have virtually transformed Adamawa State in the various sectors of the economy and given Yola, the state capital, a befitting metropolitan status. The meeting also called on the governor to extend his development efforts to other areas that affect the people most at this critical time in the life of our country and our dear state, economic empowerment and welfare.
SIGNED
Communique Committee
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