CONSTRUCTION WORKS ON BAMENDA CITY ROADS UNPROGRAMMED
The nature of roads in the City of Bamenda are not to be desired. The roads are highly depriving road users from enjoying the comfort of their cars with numerous potholes and gutters dividing the roads. A five minutes drive before is now thirty minutes the same distance as a result of the bad nature of the roads. The roads were manageable before until the house slave city mayor Paul Achombong started scabbing the patches of tar on the roads with information that soonest the roads will be tarred. It was an information Southern Cameroonians believed especially when they saw houses beside the roads being demolished as the City mayor assured the new road will be expanded to 33 meters. They seemed to have forget that nothing good can ever come out of the Biya government.
After the demolition, it is about two years and work is still to start and when the work will eventually start is still not known. What have people of Ambazonia done to deserve such a treatment from the colonial LRC regime, that a good road is denied them? Is it that the colonial authorities don't have any empathy or sympathy on the people under their jurisdiction? It is not yet time for the people of Ambazonia to have autonomy on the development of Amba land?( Let's see the present state of roads I'm the City of Bamenda, the road stretch from Hodi road about to T- Junction).
Over the state media Monday August 8, 2022, the Minister of Public Works Emmanuel Nganou Njoumessi of the La Republique du Cameroun was clear that paper works for the rehabilitation of the city roads in Bamenda are still on. This outing of the colonial Minister is coming at a time circulation in the City of Bamenda, chief town of Midland Region of Ambazonia is a nightmare. A situation that has been worsen with rainfall given that it is the rainy season in this part of the globe. With no drainage system for running water as reconstruction of the roads hasn't reached the horizon, roads are frequently flooded making it difficult for users to move.
Of recent at the Small Mankon neighborhood, two children belonging to the same parents lost their lives as they were slept away by a fast running water current after a down pour. Hopes of a sooner relief or freedom from the bad road are all dashed away with the outing of the minister Nganou While the inhabitants of Bamenda were hoping that work will soon commence on these roads given that the City mayor in a press briefing, informed journalists that funds for the work have already been approved by the funding partner, the minister's outing has Killed this hope. The minister public works failed to give an estimated period for work to begin and even when the paperworks will be over.
The stretches with the worst condition of roads amongst others are, the stretch from City Chemist roundabout passing through SONAC street through Veterinary Junction to Ngeng Junction; Hospital roundabout to T-junction; and Mobile Nkwen to New Road Junction Nkwen. The City mayor from one of his trips abroad after taking office, promised Bamenda City duellers that he was going to transform the City to Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Yet what we have as City roads two years after the promise is nothing short of an abandoned farm to market roads.
