BY Bakah
Derick
Blogger@hilltopvoices
Among the
many issues that filtered from the Tuesday August 4, 2015 Bamenda city board
meeting with direct bearings on the lives of Bamenda City dwellers was the
relighting of streets in Bamenda.
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| Bamenda Commercial Avenue at night |
Noting that
after the visit of the President of the Republic Paul Biya to Bamenda in 2010 that
came and went with streetlights leaving Bamenda into pure darkness, Senior
Councilors questioned the Government Delegate on what was being done to relight
the city.
The
councilors cited several cases of burglary in the city caused by the darkness
and according to them something rightly needed to be done.
"There
is no security in darkness" a participant at a recent security meeting in
Bamenda said addressing self to the government delegate. The City council was
generally faulted at the security meeting chaired by the regional governor on
the street light issue with submissions that it could help promote terrorist activities.
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| Bamenda City Board in Session |
In reaction
the Government Delegate announced that a partnership agreement has been signed
on the repairs of streetlights with work expected to begin soon.
"Noooooo
if i have such a contract i will not dare to claim on a poll to repair lights
with these heavy rains" Ojong Stephen a city dweller told HILLTOPVOICES.
A visit to
Bamenda by night leaves everyone with a worry over whether it is the same city
that was heavily lighted just four years back during the head of state's visit.