Editorial: Floods on Rampage in Cameroon, Stop the Havoc Now or Expect the Worst. Time of Reckoning is now for Great Climate Restitution..

 

After Fako, Meme Flood Scenario, Mezam now Inundated and Wrecked by Floods

This is as a result of Climate Change and excessive rainfall this August 2026.

A rain situation Cameroon have never witnessed before, similar to what happened in the grand North in July-October 2024 when the Logone and Chari River overflowed it’s bank and displaced a lot of Northerners, destroy properties and lives.

The past two weeks weather forecast and rain reports cautioned about exponential rain fall calling on citizens to watch out in the Littoral, South West and North West Region.

Unfortunately these calls fell on deaf ears of the denizens settled in flood risk and disaster zones in the South West and North West Region because of Poverty.

The damage caused so far as we report these fierce and heart touching moments of what flood victims have experienced and are presently going through in Limbe and Bamenda cannot be measured or evaluated as help strip in from the State, NGO and individual.

The cause effects of the flood action directly point back at the Cameroon government for being lenient on call for action to displace people around flood zones and disaster risk area.

Leniency on the part of government is also seen in the direction of enforcing decisions prohibiting excessive land reclamation which is responsible for the obstruction of several urban run off tracks and drainage process.

 Tolerance to a much extend is at the center of the rain flood theatre we have witnessed in Limbe and still continue to witness in Douala and Bamenda.

Outright and reckless, haphazard building in the said urban towns and space with the compliance of city Council officials is grossly responsible for what flood victims are going through.

Poor urban planning with less consideration of future risk zone settlement and swamps, are also responsible for the various land slides in town.

75% of the amount of torrential rains that have fallen of late have not evaporated and the quantity that has soaked the soil have exceeded containment level which is why the steep walls and slopes are sliding and causing havoc down stream.

The excessive flood situation and damages caused down Bamenda town is also as a result of rampant building activities that have taken place of late up Station hills covering much outer space, reclaiming wetlands and even encroaching on run off tracks which is what is responsible for the huge amount of run off coming from up station hills to meet a Bamenda Urban space where there is serious road works going on obstructing major passages, gullies and culverts.

Based on probability, if the rains continue at this frequency, the North West Administration should start thinking of displacing people living in flood zones and disaster risk areas.

Bamenda I Council and City Council officials should start thinking of containing and treating all run off from up station and redistributed as portable water.

Another better possibility is creating an artificial lake where all the run offs from up station hill of Bamenda will empty herself and subsequently serve as an Ecotourism destination.

Mulang, Old Town, Ntarikon, food market, as we report have been inundated by floods and many left homeless properties destroyed. Time of great reckoning is now in the NoSo, affair a suivre as Nature shows her ugly face through climate change….