Efficient Use At Least!

Water and electricity are basic commodities that people of all walks of life need to live conveniently. In Cameroon, the reality is that these commodities, as vital as they are, are still somehow luxury to many people in many areas. While some are yet to have the resources, the supply in others is everything but stable. Thus, efficiency in their use ought to be imperative!
Curiously, ongoing behaviours especially in public structures give the impression that anyone can do anything with these scarce but valuable commodities. After all, they consider it government resources and thus free for use. Growing abuses is what is disheartening here!
It is not uncommon to see water taps in government ministries and other structures oozing non-stop for days and even weeks. If it is not in an open air, it would be in offices sometimes to points of soaking precious documents. You would either hear complaints like the pipe is broken or an officer mistakenly left his tap open and went for the weekend, mission or even leave. The same story is told of electricity where bulbs and other energy-consuming gadgets are carelessly left on even when the users are not in the offices.
These may sound banal but what government loses in such insensitive behaviours is non-negligible. We may not have statistics on the prevailing ill but if one were to imagine that for instance only one in every ten State functionaries misuses averagely five cubic metres of water as well as kilowatts of electricity in a week and looking at the number of them within the country, the damage on government’s scarce financial resources would be running in billions of FCFA. It is even more disturbing given that such wastes are spearheaded at a time government borrows huge sums of money to pilot vast projects to step up supply of these co...