WIDIKUM LANDSLIDE KILLS DOZENS
Landslide Waste Lives, Properties In Widikum
The environment we live in needs us to give its best to the betterment of ourselves. The environment can only give back to man according to the activities of man in that environment. Though man can shape the environment to suit a given desire or purpose, there are some areas that man has little or no control over it. Such environments are considered risk zones. Risk zones present a combination of the consequences of an event (hazard) and the associated probability/likelihood of its occurrence. With difficulty of diverse nature, some people have no alternative than taking risk zones as the first choice of where to settle. It is left with the authorities in place to secure a safer settlement for people in risks indentified zones. What can really cause a person with the right frame of mind to willfully settle on a risk zone?
What name be given to a government that is passive with those in risks areas.
Hundreds of people currently stranded after heavy rains of August 11, 2022 in Widikum. The heavy down pour killed 2 and swept away 20 houses, leaving the owners stranded. Widikum is a Local Government Area LGA within the Momo County of the Midland Region of Ambazonia. Torrential rain has caused flooding and landslides in Tiben, Widikum where at least two women have lost their lives and about 20 houses swept off. According to the house slave Mayor of Widikum, Andoh Stanislaus, "there was a landslide in a village called Ekah just about 10km from Widikum, that swept two houses and killed two women and the floods in Widikum swept about 20 houses away". The Mayor added that work is ongoing to determine the actual extend of the damage caused.
The incident also disrupted traffic flow along the trans African high way that links Southern Cameroons and the Federal Republic of Nigeria passing through Widikum in Momo County. House slave Stanislaus is pleading on persons of goodwill to assist the hundreds of people currently stranded after heavy rains of August 11 in Widikum. A road user confessed to UNDAUNTED that the area of the landslide had signs of a potential disaster because of the huge crack at the banks. "Any time I reach that particular place in a car, I will just start meditating and calling on God to help us cross the place" She added. Similar occurance of flood took place in a far Northern region of La Republique du Cameroun and the colonial Minister of territorial administration mobilised immediate relief support to victims. This time around it is the people of Southern Cameroons that are affected as a result of this natural disasters. Today Monday August 15, 2022 makes it 4 days and counting, and the stranded are yet to benefit any support for the colonial authorities.
