Bambili water crisis: Tubah Mayor blamed!

For the past few months the inhabitants of Bambili in Tubah Municipality have been going without clean water. The newly constructed water supply scheme for the community of Bambili sponsored by FIECOM is not functioning as the population heaps blame on the Mayor for complicity with the contractor of the poorly executed water project for selfish reasons. Despite the numerous complaints from the population and more especially by the Bambili Water Management Committee, against the poorly executed water project by the company named Premier Enterprise, the Mayor of Tubah Sofa Stanislaus went ahead to receive the project in his office without the consent of the representatives of the Bambili community. A meeting on the Bambili Water crisis dated 5th May 2011 took place at the Tubah Council Hall presided at by the Mayor himself. In that meeting, the problems facing the newly constructed water supply scheme were raised and the attention of the Mayor was called to them. At the end of the meeting and following the various problems raised against the poorly executed water project, recommendations were made to reverse the odds about the project so that the population could better enjoy the good intentions of the project which are access to good drinking water and control of the numerous water borne diseases that come from bad water sources. 

It be noted that both the problems raised and the recommendations taken at the various meetings chaired by the Mayor, the Mayor failed to make sure that the recommendations be carried out to enable the proper functioning of the project and instead went ahead to receive the project in his office as completed and good for the population. Unfortunately, the project has failed to meet up with the unique intention of providing access to clean drinking water for the growing population of a place like Bambili. Since the contractor claimed to have completed the project, water has never flown in any of the public stand-taps and homes of the inhabitants. Thank God, it is rainy season, else, the tastiest Cameroonian would have been the one living in Bambili where when the dry season comes and the water situation is not taken seriously, Bambili may be a fertile ground for the outbreak of deadly water borne diseases.

The people of Bambili are today faced with the problem of potable water supply. The water crisis in Bambili has caused the people to question the legitimacy of the Mayor in the area. According to the people of Bambili, the Mayor of Tubah Council is largely blamed as the one responsible for the persistent water crisis now plaguing the area.

The people of Bambili are not happy with the unfair treatment given them by the Mayor of Tubah and they now see Mayor Sofa as one who has very little or no concern in the well being of the people of his municipality especially when one considers the importance of water to life. The Mayor according to the people of Bambili has deliberately refused to listen to their cry to follow up and make sure the hard earned multi-million water project in Bambili financed by FEICOM works for the common good. Worst of all the population are questioning the Mayor for receiving a water project when no water is flowing out of the tank to supply the population with the badly needed potable water, thus making life more difficult and uncomfortable in Bambili.

As this reporter gathered from the grudging villagers, a protest march to the Mayor’s office is underway to mount pressure on the Mayor for water to flow in Bambili.