Kumba gov’t delegate breaks silence over water crisis

In the wake of acute water crisis that has plunged Kumba into a potential cholera plagued city and the much-heralded preparations for the celebrations of 50 years of reunification billed for Buea this year, the government delegate to the Kumba city council, Ngoh Nkele Victor in this interview granted The Guardian Post sizes up the level of preparations on the ground and the strides being made to restore good drinking water to the public. He spoke to Maxcel Fokwen. Excepts

Kumba has been facing  water crisis for quite a long time now, what is being done to arrest the worsening situation?

The water crisis in Kumba is something that concerns all of us. I went right to Douala to meet the Camwater director general. We discussed and I have seen the technicians that have been there working on the filters and the other problems and yesterday Sunday(16^th September 2012), the technicians came to my house and they brought  a specimen of good water and I saw it and told them to go back and continue to make sure that the water has no colour and they assured me  that everything is over and  I think the entire population of Kumba would start enjoying  good drinking water.

Where is Kumba with respect to security and cleanliness for the upcoming celebrations of reunification?

Thank you very much, I think the city of Kumba like Tiko, Limbe, Muyuka and Buea have an obligation to see that the cities are all clean. I want to tell you that we of the city of Kumba want to make this town very alluring to the number of guests of high standing that would be coming. We intend first of all to put our hygiene and sanitation service workable. From today, if you look at the city, you would see people cleaning it.  It means therefore that we have started our job and will not relent our efforts in cleaning the town.

What about the situation of the hotels?

That is why we are telling hotel owners that they should make their environment very clean and attractive to the guests that would come into the city of Kumba during the reunification ceremony. I think we are going to work without relenting our efforts because since people have not taken it serious, but now I know every first Thursday of the month as usual, we would all jointly keep the city clean.

Kumba is noted for epileptic electricity supply anything being done to brighten the city?

Yeah, first of all you see the two and a half kilometer stretch of road (from Kumba Mbeng to town Green) is accompanied by electricity in the town on a daily basis and the next thing is that we were told that the constructors were going to provide us with some electrical assistance in terms of bulbs and poles. For the streets, we are also waiting. It has started in Buea  and Limbe  and I think Kumba  too is also waiting. We think that we would extend electricity to the neighbourhoods, Kumba would be shining and real shining and we would be very safe.

Can lighting alone guarantee adequate security?

 We are also making sure that a lot of police men would leave Buea  and come to Kumba during this period. I mean from now. Don’t be embarrassed if you see the police moving along the streets in the night.

Can we say electricity in to the neighbourhoods and the opening of more roads would be a fall out from the would­ be 50^th anniversary reunification celebrations?

It is a fall out and we expect it to be a very serious fallout .You know with electricity, that is security and we are sure that they are going to assist us in that field , then  we should be very happy, we are all waiting  and am sure things  would move on well.