BAMENDA-BABADJOU ROAD DRAMA

Bamenda-Babadjou Road a Failed Promise Revisited

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The road linking Bamenda the chief town of Midland Region of Ambazonia to the West region of La Republique du Cameroun is a nightmare. This road termed the Bamenda-Babadjou Road is the main commercial road to the people of Ambazonia.

Users of this stretch of road waste a lot time navigating the pot holes of the road and at times spent the night at a spot as with the deepening holes.

It's now more than a year that the house slave Prime minister Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute promised an immediate construction of the stretch of the road in 2021. Here we are in August 2022 with statemen still given excuses for the slow pace of realization.

Is this not just a calculated attempt to punish the people of Ambazonia?

What can one expects of a government whose PM is failing to fulfill a single promise?

Now is house slave Hon. Wallang Richard Ebua saying the slow nature of the rehabilitation of the Bamenda-Babadjou is as a result of lack of peace.

It is almost a year now since Cameroun's colonial Prime Minister Chief Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute assured that construction works at the Bamenda-Babadjou Road were starting.

However, the road has remained a nightmare to the people of Ambazonia plying it as work has commenced in some parts of the road and going at the pace of a snail since the PM promised.

The Chairman of the Midland Regional Participatory follow up committee of the execution of Public Investment Projects for the Midland Region, Hon. Wallang Richard Ebua says the slow start of works along the Bamenda-Babajou stretch road was due to the lack of peace.The Lawmaker was speaking in Bamenda on Tuesday 28 July 2022 during the first seminar meeting of his committee aimed at evaluating the level of execution of public investment projects in the region.

According to Hon Wallang, for work to fully take its steam, there is need for peace and team work from everybody. He stated that there were still doubting Thomas’s who had not accepted the fact that contracts for effective work on that road had been awarded.

The Bamenda-Babadjou stretch of road is indeed a nightmare to users. A journey that should not take up to thirty minutes takes more. It becomes even longer and dangerous in the rainy season with some vehicles remaining stuck in mud. Passengers are obliged to spend risky moments pushing the heavy vehicles out of the mud.

The Midland Regional delegate for Public Works NGWAIMBI PAUL during the meetig acknowledged that contracts had actually been awarded to some contractors by the Minister of Public Works. Section one being Babajou-Matazem, Section two Matazem-Welcome to Bamenda and section three Welcome to Bamenda-Ecole de champions upstation Bamenda.

While on a so-called peace mission to Bamenda a chief town of Midland zone of Ambazonia in 2021, the colonial PM promised that immediately he lands in Yaounde, the political capital, that work was going to commence.

Promising and failing the people of Ambazonia is normal with the colonial Yaounde regime. The colonial President of LRC did promise the construction of a ring road to link the Savannah States of Ambazonia to Midland zone. Decades have passed and the ring road is still to see the light of day.