News­gath­er­ing Ed­i­tor

Last Tues­day, se­nior of­fi­cials from mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions—both Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-con­trolled—were sum­moned to a meet­ing with Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen, where she at­tempt­ed to de­vise a strat­e­gy to get in­tend­ed projects off the ground.

In this closed-door meet­ing, and amid the re­cent fir­ing of thou­sands of Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) and Forestry work­ers, Min­is­ter Ameen re­port­ed­ly urged may­ors and chair­men, CEOs, trea­sur­ers, fi­nan­cial of­fi­cers and en­gi­neers to move swift­ly on short-term em­ploy­ment projects to, as she put it, “help the peo­ple on the ground.”