Traffic would be disturbed as a special clean up campaign organised for Bamenda City Council takes place this Tuesday and Wednesday in Bamenda one and two municipalities respectively. The City Mayor Paul Achobong Tambeng issued an announcement to residents on the phone. He is determined to bar the fatal coronavirus from his jurisdiction after it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on March 11.
An announcement issued by the Bamenda City Council states that Tuesday March 17, 2020 shall be the turn of Bamenda one Sub divisional Council, Wednesday March 18, 2020 for Bamenda two Sub Divisional Council meanwhile the date for clean up for Bamenda three would be announced in the days ahead.
The announcement further states that the special clean up campaign starts at 7:00 am and ends at 11: am each day. During the period, all offices and business places would remain closed within the concerned sub divisional counsel areas.
Workers are called to participate at the clean up in their various working premises. Automobiles would halt circulation between 8:30 am and 11 am on each day of the clean up campaign. Hospitals, security and administrative vehicles at the concerned areas are permitted to circulate during the clean up campaign
Speaking to the press on the subject of the clean up campaign, Mr Tambeng made an appeal to the population
“I am appealing that tomorrow Tuesday all the people who live in Bamenda one, all the officers, all the civil servants. Please come out in your numbers. We shall move from the governor’s junction through the customs, trade, the cattle market and move right up to the palace. We are going to clean this up station Bmenda one municipality, wash the area with water full of disinfectant and disinfect the whole place. With the coming of coronal virus, we have to start fighting it here in Bamenda. The virus is already being recorded in Cameroon. If this virus steps its foot in Bamenda we are gone. This virus kills more than bullets. I appeal to every Bamenda man to come out wherever the clean up campaign is called so that we can kick corona out of Bamenda.On Tuesday all of Bamenda one should come out. We have made an arrangement with vehicles, with trucks and with water to disinfect all areas necessary. On Wednesday we would be doing it in Bamenda two and I am calling all the population to come out amass. We would clean the commercial avenue, food market, Ayaba streets, Sonac street, hospital round about and Azire new church. Let everybody come out. The cleanliness of the city is not the business of the city council. It is the business of the citizens of that city. I as the city mayor, I entreat everyone big and small, young and old, poor and rich . Come out full let us et us take away this dirt from our streets and bar corona virus from our city”
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An overflowing refuse heap in Bamenda |