By Mokum Thomas
All waste
management stakeholders in the city of Bamenda have recommitted themselves to
ensure that the recently reported filthy city is clean again.
The July 12
meeting presided at by the newly installed Secretary General to the City’s
Council Mbah-Mbole Pius brought together authorities of the National Cleaning
Company HYSACAM, the Mayors of Bamenda I, II and III, Quarter Heads, Fons from
around the city council area.  |
| Waste Management stakeholders in Session in the Bamenda City |
Speaking
during the opening of deliberations, the Secretary General stated that the
meeting was a crucial one and the intention of the meeting was to get a
solution to the problem of waste in the city of Bamenda. He enjoined the attendees not to look at what
went wrong or do the blame game but to look for an immediate solution to the
waste management crisis in the city of Bamenda that was celebrated for
cleanliness.
The meeting
which provided an avenue for the top management of HYSACAM that has been
heavily criticised for the poor waste management in the city also permitted the
company to make some revelations.
According to
the Director Zahmu Joesphy, apart from the fact that one of his truck was
attack by separatist fighters, the road going to the dump side in Mbelewa Nkwen
Bamenda III Subdivision was cut off by separatist fighters and the temporal
site at mile 6 Mankon can is full and cannot contain even an additional
kilogram of waste.
He also
added that they were just victim of circumstances adding that they were just at
the wrong place at the wrong time.
For the past
6 months he added his company has been able to work just for two months and is
a big disadvantage to them since they have to carry a particular tonnage of
waste a day before they are being paid.
“As per my
contract signed on the 30 of January 2017 I am just to carry waste to the dump
site. It is not my responsibility to look for a dump site and my company is
ready to clean the town if the city council provides a dump site.” He said
The meeting
however resolved to use the state land at new road besides the cattle market as
a dump site with the city council forming a committee to see the Fon of Bamendakwe
for the go-ahead and also to provide access road to the site. It was also
decided that hysacam should work in partnership with a road construction
company for a temporal access road to be provided to the waste site in Mbelewa.
The Secretary General in his remarks insisted that these resolutions are to be implemented
within a week from the meeting date.
The wish of
the meeting attendees is to have Bamenda gain her place as one of the cleanest
cities in Cameroon.