Dimapur, November 30 (MExN): The District Congress Committee Phek has expressed anguish and concern over the unabated factional clashes and killings among the national workers in the district. Raising these concerns at the joint meeting of District Congress Committee, ACCCs and frontal organizations of Phek district held on Saturday November 29 at SIRD Conference Hall, Phek town, DCC Phek appealed the national workers to “stop all kinds of hostilities towards each other, build peace and unite in the larger interest of the people”. DCC Phek in a note appended by Mikha Kenye, its president, also urged both the GoI and the national workers to work towards an early solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political problem.
The Congress Phek division at the meet lashed out at DAN govt. for its ‘complete failure to provide safety and security to life’. Condemning the deteriorating law and order situation in the district DCC Phek questioned “the wisdom of the State Govt. in withdrawing the law enforcing forces from the district to elsewhere”.
DCC Phek also noted that ‘rampant extortion, threat and intimidation, illegal taxation, unauthorized deduction from salaries of Govt. employees have become the order of the day.’ “The deteriorating law and order situation has brought the economic activities to almost a grinding halt,” the note stated.
A number of serious concerns pertaining to the District were deliberated upon at the meet where R.L Akamba, Ex-MLA and vice president, NPCC i/c Phek district was the main speaker. Despite attaining the status of a district in 1973, DCC Phek lamented that it is “the only district HQ in Nagaland State without a single black-topped/all weather road” and protested “this step-motherly treatment” by the State Govt.
The ‘skeletal presence of officers and staff in the district’s offices’ was taken note of, at the meet and demanded the state govt. to act fast to ensure regular attendance in the offices. DCC Phek also brought to notice a number of departments in the district. “The District Hospital, Phek has just two or three junior doctors in the station on most occasions. The situation in Community Health Centres, Primary Health Centres and Sub-Centres are not better in any way. Nine administrative posts and a SDPO post in the Phek district are said to be lying vacant. In Meluri sub-division, other than SDO (C), other offices are left without officers and staff.”
On the present practice of making payments related to contract works in Kohima or Dimapur with the “Ministers and MLAs summoning the DDOs or (payments) through Bank Demand Draft”, DCC Phek demanded that such practices be stopped and that payments should be made only in the district headquarter. It further demanded the state govt. to implement the photographic electoral roll in order to remove election mal-practices and allow genuine voters to participate in election process. In addition, it demanded the state govt. to improve basic amenities in the district while DCC Phek also deplored ‘the near absent electricity supply, water supply and other essential services.’
The district Congress meet also appealed to “DAN MLAs from Phek district to defend/protect the cause and interest of the people or bear the moral responsibility for failure and resign”. It further also made appeal to “erstwhile congressmen and women from Phek district who had deserted the party to come back home and work together to salvage the people of Nagaland from perishing together.”
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