To promote hygiene and sanitation in the municipality, Mayor
Martin Tanjong Meshungong of the University Council area of Tubah in the North
West of Cameroon has on December 7 2015 launched a clean community campaign
with school competition on waste management. Schools in Tubah shall be
competing cash prize of FCFA 1000.000 for 2016. The cleanness school at the end
of the exercise shall take home FCFA 500.000, the second shall receive FCFA 200.000,
the third shall get FCFA 100.000 and so forth. While on a four days contact
tour in his municipality, the Mayor called on all communities to each do its
best to end the covetous first prize as cleanness community.
This competition that shall include everybody in Tubah
municipality beginning from students, teachers to parents, is in itself an
exercise to inculcate not only the values of cleanliness in the children but to
ensure, the future of clean communities are guaranteed. According to Mayor Tanjong,
clean environment means more healthy living in disease free communities. He
cautioned against excessive drinking habits common among his people. He reiterated
that a great man in a community is not measured by the number of beer consumed
a day nor by the number of rounds of drinks given in a beer parlour rather a great man is measure by the quality
of education he afford to his children and the comfort he enjoys in a stable
family. What one eats determines how healthy he/she lives, he said. The rampant
consumption of sachet whisky, food wrapped in plastics and drinking white stuff
at funerals, from containers emptied of chemicals, the Mayor said, are certainly
the root causes of cancer and other strange diseases common in the communities
today. From these chemicals consumed, most children are born incomplete, some
with half limb or blind. The Mayor insisted that people should stop buying and
wrapping food in plastics which are later discarded just anywhere destroying
the soil fertility. He prescribed a
return to the traditional use of leaves which are toxic free void of chemicals.
To stop the spread of plastics, people should stop buying the plastics.
On the falling morality rate witnessed in the communities
today especially among the youths, Mayor Tanjong told his people of Tubah that
broken homes are the cause of most of these societal ills witnessed on daily
bases. To him the family remains the main solution to all these ills given that
no political party can change a community better than the force of a strong family
bond. When a family is stable, children grew up with good values embedded in
them and these serves as strong foundation for any nation. Children born of
broken homes become wayward reason why a teenager would easily joins a gang of
armed bandits just to express his disgust of a family he never had. Today many
are witnesses to the age group recruited by the Boko Haram insurgents to
detonate bombs. In order to strike a balance in a family, parents should always
dialogue with their children at home. Talking to the soul is better than
Inflicting pain on the flesh. Most parent don’t sit to talk to their children
in a friendly manner reason why they do not understand themselves which results
in to quarreling and sometimes fighting and before long the home is broken.
By Ignatius Nji
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