WASTE MANAGEMENT CRISIS IN BAMENDA
Municipal Authorities Misses Out On Waste Management in Mezam County
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Recycling waste is still at its early stage in Southern Cameroon in general and Midland Region in particular. There's no recycling unit put in place by the colonial Biya's sorogates in Southern Cameroon.
Though some individuals are engaged with the recycling of used tyres, plastic bottles and pulletin bags, the impact of their efforts is still to be felt within households. This is because there's yet no demand on these refuses as recyclers have more than enough.
Households lack the knowledge on waste management and will gladly dump all what they produce as waste at any nearby dump site.
It is common to find dump sites at different road junctions and streets around the Bamenda III LGA.
Are these dump sites not breeding ground for mosquitoes?
Can malaria be eradicated with such a scenario?
The Bamenda III LGA of the Mezam County in Midland Region of Ambazonia is facing a waste management crisis.
The waste management company hired by the Bamenda City Council stopped work as a result of attacks by non state armed group on their properties and staff.
The non state armed group forced the waste management company HYSACAM to stop work in Midland Region of Ambazonia for reasons best known to them.
The City Council like the Bamenda III LGA authorities have not be able to put in place an alternative means of discarding household waste from neighborhoods.
Given that households keep producing waste in a regular basis, it is fast becoming a problem. The stench produced from the dump irritates passers-by and those living around. Circulation is slowed down in areas where the pile of heap is huge and invading the road.
UNDAUNTED visited the New Road neighborhood in Bamenda III where the cabbage heap is fast invading the road. Households keep increasing the dump with waste as they have no alternative way of managing their waste.
Recently in the Coastal Region of Ambazonia, there was a reported outbreak of Cholera. This Cholera outbreak resulted to a number of deaths. Poor drinking water supplied by the Water Utility Company was identified as one of the causes of the outbreak and propagation of the epidemic.
There is now therefore the fear of an outbreak of a health pathology in Midland Region of Ambazonia and in Bamenda III in particular with the dump heaps littered all over the Municipality.
Another diseases now will be divastating as the region is still fronting with the current armed conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic
Let's take a look of the New Road road site dumping ground in Bamenda III
