Hon. MP Tubah Bafut Promote and Donates to Tappers of his Constituency for the Conservation of Wetland, Fight Extinction of Raffia and Climate Change.

 

Honorable Agho Oliver Bamenju member of Parliament for Tubah Bafut Constituency Cameroon’s number one Parliamentarian fronting the fight against Climate change through community led Mitigation and adaptation actions, has on Tuesday August 25th 2026 at Mezam Divisional Delegation of Agriculture, North West donated and financially empowered tappers of his Constituency.

This to him is a sustainable Humanitarian outing and call to action to rescue nature and preserve the cultural heritage and values of his people.

Tapping, palm wine, raffia, wetlands is a practice, a sector, a business, a product and an environment component which contributes greatly to enrich culture and the biodiversity components of the society or environment.

Which is why the sector must not be undermined and disregarded reasons why the Honorable Member of Parliament went beyond party lines to promote and donate to this sector which forms part of the life wire of a grass fielder.

As a child, the Honorable Member of Parliament recounted that tapping activity by his parents helped pay his fees.

Mindful of the need to meet increasing demand for raffia palm in an ever growing University environment, mindful of the drying off of many if not all wetlands in and around the Constituency,.

Mindful of the possible extinction of raffia and raffia Bush, mindful of the role these plants play in the Conservation of nature and the reanimation of the Ecology.

Mindful of tapping economic gains, Honorable Agho Oliver in the heart of increasing flood actions in the North West Region took upon himself to donate to Tappers and encourage their activities while educating them to act friendly to the source of their daily bread as they conserve nature.

He seized that particular opportunity to condemn Outright actions of land reclamation in the two Sub-Divisions which has led to the drying off or elimination of many wetlands which use to contribute a lot to enrich the biodiversity components of the environment around the area.

A landscape scenario or green space which do not only add to the beauty of the environment but beef off the forest situation and provided provisional shelter to the environment while meeting the established needs and goals of the UN Ramsar convention.

This action by the Honorable Member of Parliament for Tubah Bafut Constituency, it must be noted and commended for adding force to a resilient Media campaign launched in the Region and nationally by Land Media Actors of Cameroon Climate Journalism Network (CCJN) since 2023 to enhance effective reporting on wetland conservation and to stop outright harvest of Raffia palms for fear of extinction. Not leaving out abusive land reclamation practices in the Region and Cameroon.

Since then the sector and practitioners have known how to uphold some values and principles to conserve while exercising in their tapping business.

Honorable Agho Oliver member of Parliament for Tubah Bafut it must be emphasized before we end this climate friendly report is Member of the World Bank Climate Finance Steering Committee, 2nd Vice President of the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD), Oceans Campaign Convener and Board Member for Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA),  Legislative Advocate for Sustainable Agriculture and a multi Award winning member of Parliament recently crowned by Nature based solution Reporter of Cameroon Climate Journalism Network (CCJN) as Cameroon’s MP of the year Championing the fight against Climate change and nature protection.