Fungom: Awaiting The “Ring Road”

 Fungom sub division is imbued with rare agricultural and pastoral potentials. It boasts of a varied relief, characterized by gorgeous hills and crater lakes like Lake Ipalim and Lake Nyos, remembered for killing over 2000 inhabitants and some 8000 cattle in 1986. Though the population is workinghard to emerge, poor road networks may thwart their dream of becoming the hub of tourism by 2035

Fungom is the largest of Menchum’s four sub divisions with a surface area of about 1700km square. Fungom is tipped as the breadbasket of Menchum Division. Ugly roads have never obstructed the spirit of hard work among inhabitants who take advantage of the beautiful climate, fertile soils and extensive plains and agricultural basins that characterize the municipal area. In deed, a huge project funded by the Islamic Bank and the government of Cameroon is on course to give Fungom’sGayama basin a giant push in  the rehabilitation of farm to market roads, construction of  border markets and warehouses to sustain livelihood.
Away from that, the sub division is imbued with potentials of rare attractions, with varied relief characterized bygorgeous hills and crater lakes like Lake Ipalim in Bafmen and Lake Nyos. In effect, Lake Nyos, remembered for killing over 2000 inhabitants and uncountable number of livestock in 1986 is virtually becoming an attraction withthe degassing process and other developments around the vicinity. The “ring road”, expected to speed up the development of the North West region stretches through Fungom’s neighbopurhood villages of Su-Bum and Weh to Wum. The sub division is bordered to the North by Furu Awa sub Division, south by Wum, West by the Tarabaand Benue states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, East by Bum and Fundong sub divisions, South East by Menchum valley and North East by Misaje sub division.
Bafmen, Weh, Esu and Zhoa features as the main towns of the sub division that covers some 25 villages. The origins of its inhabitants are traced to the Tikaris and Bantus from the Mekaf area that migrated from Nigeria. The Fulanis and Mbororos also feature prominently in the socio- political and economical advancement of the sub division. Another unique identity of inhabitants is the fact that virtually all the 25 villages speak different dialects but for Bafmen, Kuk, Esu, Weh and Zhoa that are bound by a similar dialect.
In deed, the people of Fungom sub division are at peace, employing every effort to develop and improve their standards of living. But poor road networks, acute lack of basic social amenities like pipeborn water, electricity, plus farmer/grazer conflict remain a serious impediment.

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