Bamenda: Defence Forces Champion Cleaning Exercise

Many a Bamenda inhabitant have embraced efforts by the military to clean up the city’s most littered areas. In line with its civic action and sanitation activity, the defence forces cleared garbage from gutters, junctions, and the surrounding neighbourhood of Che Street in Ntarikon, Bamenda, during the 2019 feast of the Ramadan.

The recent action was just one in a series of efforts to keep Bamenda clean and secure. Ahead of the 2019 National Day, elements of the 5th Joint Military Region were spotted in some streets, clearing garbage at junctions and streets that have been threatening the health of inhabitants.

The civic actions of the men in uniform undoubtedly paints a completely new and positive picture of the corps once thought to be associated only with weapons of defence than also of sanitation and public health. With the social and political crisis in the region, much of Bamenda’s waste is dumped at random. Even where there are garbage cans, regular collection for disposal by the Hygiene and Sanitation Company is facing a challenge, thereby leaving inhabitants to barely survive with an uneasy sight.

It is this situation that prompted the defence forces to engage civic actions involving gathering and properly disposing the waste. Brigadier General Agha Robinson, Commander...