By Njodzefe Nestor
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| B’da III Council Inaugurates Giant Water purification scheme |
The Bamenda III council in partnership with
the Association for the promotion of drinking water supply in Cameroon on
December 1, 2016 inaugurated a purified water scheme that shall collect, treat
and supply clean portable water within the sub division.
In
a highly attended ceremony chaired by northwest Governor, Adolf Lelelafrique as
who represented the Minister of territorial Administration and Decentralization
in the presence of the resident representative of the German Ambassador to
Cameroon and the German partners of the water project.
Speaking
at the event, Mayor Cletus FunguTangwie presented the purified water scheme as
a life changing facility within his municipality that shall serve life and
prevent waterborne diseases.
“Fresh
and clean water is one of the most vital resources and when our water is
polluted, it is not only devastating to the environment we live in, but is also
deadly. Education suffers when sick children miss school. Economic
opportunities are routinely lost to the impacts of rampant illnesses and the
time-consuming processes of acquiring water where it is not readily available.
Children and women bear the burden most “he said.
On
behalf of the entire municipality of Bamenda III, the mayor described the water
purification plant as life changing and as the dawn of an era.
In
a municipality that boasts several water schemes to have epileptic water supply
of doubtful quality, mayor Fonguh said the council water scheme has come to
supplement and not to stand any competition with the existing ones.
A delegation of six (Christian Girnt head
of delegation representing the Mayor of Trier City, Gerd Muller, Michael
Kollete, Lambert Akongha, Karl Heinz Heinish, and Anne Schober) from Germany
witnessed the inauguration together with the Permanent representative of the
German Ambassador to Cameroon.
The representatives of the German
ambassador to Cameroon and the mayor of Tier in Germany said water provision
remains a priority area in the German development corporation adding that one
of the development millennium goals set by the United Nations remains
environmental sustainability.
“Water
is essential to life. The right to water is a human right. When people are ill,
they can work and have an opportunity to end poverty. Water scarcity stands on
the way of education and gender equality as millions of women and girls miss
school and walk in search of water in distant areas “They said.
According
to the national chairman of the SDF, the Bamenda III council purified water
scheme has shocked his 26 years as a politician.
“We
live in an environment where politics prevail in every developmental gesture to
their home towns. I laud this initiative of Lambert Akongha who decided to link
up Bamenda III council with that of Tier in Germany for this project, instead
of taking it to his home town of Mbessa. I call on all Nkwen youth to plant
more trees at Ndzah to ensure water scarcity “he said.
Governor
LeleL’afriqueChufforDurben who cut the symbolic ribun.said it was the first
time he was inaugurating a giant and life changing project as such, adding that
access to water facilitates all activities in all walks of life.
The Bamenda III council purified water
scheme currently serves some seven quarters within the sub division through
private individual subscription, stand tapes with over 8000 consumers serves as
a source of revenue to the council and shall power the industrial zone in
Nkwen. Technological transfer from Germany have been ensured with training of
some five technical staff from the council and have created some 100 temporal
jobs to the youth of nkwen.
The
water scheme over a billion FCFA, is expected to run at maximum for at least 50
years. Functioning on gravity, the project experts say supply is expected to be
uninterrupted everything being equal with a production capacity of 80.000 cubic
litters of clean drinkable water every hour.
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