Rains, Excessive Cold and Health Exigencies Fast Becoming an Emergency Call for Collective Action in Cameroon

Lately Cameroon has suffered quite a whole lot with torrential rains never known in the history of rain falls in Cameroon. The planetary winds have been quite unfavorable all this while.  

The unpredictable weather situation is fast becoming a worry and falls in line with predictions by astrologists. North to South, West and East of the country for the past one month has witnessed excessive rains and torrential rain falls. Added to that, cold, catarrh, fever, Malaria and typhoid has been the routine health problem affecting the population.

The population are over burdened by the situation and the issue at stake is fast becoming a national worry provoked by natural irrelevance and animated by insensitive behavior to nature by the same people. This Reporter must emphasize!

As we report the bearings are over bearing and the burden is fast becoming precarious as collective attention is now tilted on ways out or wait for the unknown.

Speculations which were abound, so far has reached its limits as no specific scientific explanation and measures are working to remedy the situation. All these is happening, this Reporter must confess before the bare eyes of the government and nothing has  been said or done, even the Ministry of scientific research is mute.

With authority we can concord at the moment that as weather worsens with everybody caught in the trap, everybody is just watching as floods, excessive rains and run offs,  continue to ravage communities and society.

The nation is sick, weather is sick, everybody is sick and the way out is no remedy. Remedy indeed, absolutely looked after or sort for by a desperate and a needy population who need a quick and immediate action.

True to what we are reporting, the days ahead are not promising and there is absolute need for urgent emergency actions or perilous times are near. As a victim, I know what I am saying on behalf of the voiceless who are helplessly helpless.

The rate at which umbrellas and pullovers have been bought for the past one month, is never know before in the history of Cameroon. To tell the world what this part of the country is going through in the hands of the uncontrollable wind of climate change and it’s exigencies.

Coming back to movements, road accidents and accessing certain areas undergoing road works and maintenance, one cannot just utter any positive statement in that direction. Due to the excessive rains, the road linking Bamenda to Wum town is unpassable. Coming back to the main stretch linking the West and the North West Regions undergoing road works, mud has completely slowed movements along that stretch. Not to talk of farm to market roads and newly dug and graded roads which are completely inaccessible in and out of the Region.

The rains from complains all around is more than the rains we use to experience in July and August worst of it, it has come with too much cold and illnesses.