City Mayor of Bamenda, Achombong Tambeng Paul
The population of Bamenda has heeded the call of the City Mayor of Bamenda to carryout a human investment exercise, Tuesday 23rd December 2025.
From the hills of station, through to Nkwen in Bamenda III and Bamenda commercial Avenue, businesses remained closed, people with brooms and cutlasses, hoes and spades cleaning their surroundings.
The city council was on standby with a moving truck collecting the garbage at once to the admiration of the City dwellers.
The garbage clearance situation of the town has greatly improved over the last few months with Empire Group now in charge of clearing the garbage. Despite their efforts poor behaviour cropped up from the traders of the Bamenda main market who started dumping their garbage at the middle of the road.
The city Mayor instructed that the doors of the main market should be opened at 11am for the garbage in the market to be ferried out. Other measures including the collection of garbage everyday from 9am has been instituted to ensure that the main market remains clean and the central business district (the Bamenda commercial Avenue) remains beautiful, accessible to all and garbage free.
The human investment or call it cleanup campaign is an old tradition in Bamenda. It was a period where gutters were opened, streets swept and the town was breathing. A culture the city Mayor says is worth bringing back.
Sanctioned by a perfectoral order signed on the 19th December 2025, all shops were to remain closed from 6am to midday.
Speaking to The Observer, the City Mayor said; " Cleanliness should be a lifestyle. We want to restore Bamenda's past reputation as the cleanest city in the country. This is not seasonal- it is a way of life."
"This will not be a one-off event. Plans are underway to sustain such environmental activities in the future." Paul Achombong said.
The event comes at the hectic period of end of year festivities. A time characterized with heavy shopping, traffic congestion and brisk business. Asked if the timing of the clean up campaign wasn't wrong, the City Mayor said; "There is no perfect timing for cleanliness. No one wants to celebrate Christmas or New Year in a dirty environment and I will not celebrate in a dirty city."
It is now left to see if a fixed day or date will be upheld as clean up campaign day in Bamenda. First Thursdays of every month was the day used in the past.
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Ndi Tsembom Elvis
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