Achombong Paul,Bamenda city mayor who deplored the attitude has challenged mayors and the Regional Delegate of Housing and Urban Development to stamp out the arnachy in Bamenda town.
The city mayor was reacting to worries raised by participants at the launching of the National Sanitation campaign and "cleanest town" competition by the Regional Delegation of Housing and Urban Development at the conference Hall of the region Delegation of Secondary Education in Bamenda.
The city mayor indicted some of the Administrators for violation of building norms. He equally lampooned the population and Regional Delegates for promoting the disorder and poor state of Hygiene and Sanitation in Bamenda town. " When I querrelled some of the mayors of Bamenda town for tolerating construction of houses in restricted areas, the response they give me is that our hands are tied, meaning they are most often overpowered by big guns". The city mayor urged the Regional Delegate of urban development to put an end to the anarchy at all cost.
In same vain,worries about the wanton disposal of waste and it's management were tactfully handled the Regional Delegate of Housing and Urban Development MINHDU Ndiwum Gilbert who emphasized on the need for the population to corroborate the state in the Hygiene and sanitation program to keep our towns and cities clean.
While expressing wish for everyone to take the hygiene and sanitation as a perminent exercise both in homes and offices, he announced that his Ministry on 30th of May 2022 signed an M O U with a certain French company SETEC Energy to build a transformation plant that would manage waste in about 27 towns of Cameroon.
"This will certainly free our streets towns and cities from environmental and health hazards and uncontrollable disposal of waste". Ndiwum Gilbert expressed satisfaction while noting that during the world Habit Day (WHD) celebration in Douala on October 5th 2020,one of the principal recommendations was institutionalization of the activities of Hygiene and Sanitation in Cameroon towns and villages to ensure continual cleanliness of towns and villages on the nation.
Gilbert expressed satisfaction that the exercise has since its introduction,had produces very good results, reasons why the exercise has become an annual exercise.
He noted that the introduction of the Hygiene and Sanitation competition code name" Clean towns" have had a positive result, as local initiatives in the sphere of hygiene and sanitation have stepped up in the entire Nation. Given the general mobilisation in collaboration with village Development Organizations, etc,several linears strains gutters were clean,tons of plastic bottles and household waste were
Guilbert emphasized that the main objectives of the "Clean Town" competition is to select and motivate the cleanest town and councils of the country to spur the population continually live in a clean environment.
Apart from the objectives,awaited results, methodology and mode of operations of the cleanest town, selection creterial, the Delegate gave details of the roles and
The declaration that Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU) with a French Company for management of waste in Cameroon was highly appreciated by the population.
By Chifu Edward
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