Ndiwum Gilbert : New NW Regional Delegate of Housing and Urban Development.
The SG of the Northwest governor's office made the clerion call at the launching of the National Campaign for Hygiene and Sanitation and competition for the cleanest town for the 2022 edition.
The nation wide hygiene and sanitation campaign was officially launched in Cameroon in the first quarter of 2000 under the instructions of President Paul Biya.
The launching campaign and sanitation is but a reaffirmation to environmental management and planning concept of the government to continually spur the population to keep their towns and cities clean.
The immediate outcome of the program was a huge success as abandoned and repulsive structures and environments were either cleaned, refurbished or demolished. This exercise gave a new face to most towns and cities of the nation.
It is on this premise that the Hygiene and Sanitation has been instituted in Cameroon as a blend to the United Nations Human settlement program ( UN Habit).
This year's launching was done in Bertua East Region by the Minister of Housing and Urban Development ,Celestine Ketcha on the 11 of 2022 where she urged the Regional governor's to carry out the same exercise in their various Regions.
The Regional Delegate of Housing and Urban Development,Delegate,Ndiwum Gilbert gave a detail presentation of the terms of reference, ranging from National, Regional and the Divisional level.
It was on this note that the SG challenged the Senior Divisional Officers of the region to accompany the Councils in this exercise to enable win the competition.
He also underscored the importance of the exercise to human lives, owing to environmental and health hazards of uncontrollable refuse disposal in in homes, towns and cities.
In this regard,he challenged the entire population of the region to take hygiene and sanitation as a perminent duty.
Participants to the launching were edified on environmental hazards of wanton waste disposal, management and the role of the stakeholders in environmental issues.
Mbengwei council was the lone council that won the competition Last year in the Northwest .
See selection methodology in our next edition.
By Chifu Edward
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