Clean City Contest:

MINDHU Boosts Preparation of Limbe Councils
By Ticha Melanis in Limbe

The ministry of Housing and Urban Development on Wednesday August 5, 2020 donated some cleaning materials to councils in Limbe to assist them clean their cities ahead of the national cleanest city competition organized by the ministry. 
   

MINDHU boosts clean city contest in Limbe

legate of MINDHU, Ngangsi Regina.
    Speaking to the recipients, Ngangsi said: “on the occasion of the launching of the cleanest city competition launched by the minister of housing and urban development, and because Limbe councils are competing, the minister taught it wise to hand over some materials to the councils.”
    The materials consist of wheel barrows, cutlasses, spades, nose masks amongst others. Each council went home with ten of the items.
    The competition which started on 5 August 2020 will run till 25 of September. The presentation of the awards will be on the occasion of the World Habitat Day to be celebrated on 5 October in Douala.
    The clean cities competition is open to all the sub divisional councils of the city councils of Yaounde, Douala and Limbe.
    The selection will be done in two steps viz selection of the cleanest council of each city by a local jury and the selection of the cleanest council from each of the cities to be done by a national jury which will comprise personnel from MINDHU.
    Consistency of operations and cleanliness assessment criteria include cleaning of streets, maintenance of road system and various networks, waste management, maintenance of water supply points, political vision of municipal executives and many more. 
    Quizzed on what the ministry is doing as LCC go about demolishing ‘carabot’ buildings just so the city can be clean, the SDO said plank buildings are temporal structures; they don’t have building permits.
    The clean city competition is aimed to strengthen involvement of stakeholders in the cleaning of the urban environment. It is also aimed to encourage people to adopt best practices in waste management, hygiene and sanitation.