Wednesday, June 23, 2010. At 7 pm, while the city of Garoua who rises late starts to come alive, some sellers of adulterated petrol, at the entrance to the street leading to Ouro-Talaka, are busy setting up their tables and others filling bottles of one liter of gasoline on the main road that runs in Chinese Camp, not far from the garden of Lamidat Garoua. There, a huge precipice, a consequence of degradation of the entire sidewalk and three-quarters of the floor, forcing pedestrians and motorists to be more cautious. A trap for all users who use this road, day or night.
"At night, wanting to double, some drivers are found in the ravine and several died in hospital," said Boubacar Sall, dealer -zoa zoa of a few meters from one of three huge holes in the asphalt road of the camp-Chinese. "Every day there are accidents. Yesterday (June 22, 2010) to 17 hours, a car has projected a motorcycle taxi with a client in the ravine. He injured his head and thigh. Another vehicle drove them to the hospital, "said his companion, Hamidou Mana, it also vendor-zoa zoa. Here, says Sali Bouba "road tar and quality are the causes of these accidents." Later, Ibrahim, also a vendor-Zoa zoa for 4 months for this place, attests that he saw "a dozen people who came see the damage on the three major gaps that have formed on the road. They came to the plate also set indicative of the early work. " Even
displayed the plaque indicating the start of the work does not seem to convince Houliyesi Marcus, head of the district Houro Ourso-II, popularly known as Camp-Chinese, in memory of Sino-Cameroonian who helped build the dam Lagdo. The government and the urban community should, according to him, finding a solution to this situation disparagingly that handicaps the development of this populous district. "I had several times to call the authorities about this is a disaster and this even in the media. This is the way to everyone because this leads to the cemetery Djadja, "he says.
Having seized several government delegate for, he says he was made aware of the early work on June 20, 2010. "Until then, nothing has been done. Or, Camps-Chinese, we had rejoiced at this news. Today, our hopes vanish. "Excuse me do something," he begs as this road has become a graveyard for many people in the Chinese Camp and surrounding areas. He says the latest victim is a child 11. The young boy was dragged into the huge ravine Friday, May 28, 2010 after the rain had fallen in the city. "The son of Kova had made the entry in the sixth it was only a week, said he moved. The boy's body had been dragged by the water several hundred meters from the scene of the tragedy, the tomb opened. According to him, it would be the third victim. As
as it goes along the road leading to the cemetery Djadja, the show is staggering: damaged gutters and pipes, sand, rubbish and waste water drained by rain clog old purpose-built facilities. After the rain, some young people take the opportunity to recover sand. "Since Ahidjo left, Garoua has been abandoned to itself. They say they will deliver this road of Chinese camp in the next 6 months. These are stories nobody is fooled. Until we have seen, nobody will believe, "Adama remains pessimistic, motorcycle-taxi driver, holder of a yellow jumper with the Metro No. 4778.
Against this pessimism, the authorities reassured. "We now have the funds at our disposal for carrying out the work "Said Hamadou Sardaouna, regional representative of urban development and housing which reassures that the work will begin" before the end of the month. He said the work worth 650 million will be to construct slabs for drainage, the move from the banks of the garden Lamidat and for the construction of a retaining wall. Backfill will be required from him on the eroded part followed by a two-layer coating of 500 m. "The other part will fill the potholes to the crossroads cemetery. Notices of tender would also be launched for several other roadworks.
Just like the road of Chinese Camp, all roads and urban streets of Garoua are in a sorry state. The crossroads SODECOTON illustrates this desire that has become the plight of people in the metropolis. In some places like in Yelwa, macadam is no longer visible on the road, so the potholes are filled. "If you love your car, do not do a walk through there," advises Olivier Zokom.
Now, either downtown or in outlying areas including Loper at Carrefour Beac, the military bunker Roumdé-Adja, the Garrison before the baking and the entrance to the regional hospital, the phenomenon of decay is important. Even the central market, next to the milk market as the neighborhood mayor, on the axis along the film Ribado, is no exception to the rule. "We do not know what would be this great city if HYSACAM had not deployed in the nooks and crannies of Garoua" asks Ali, taxi driver. Old
a thirty year heritage of Garoua road is not in effect anymore.
poorly maintained, it has deteriorated year after year. For if some efforts by the Metropolitan MINDUH and to improve the situation of people, his actions are sporadic and ineffective because some time later, we return to square one. "This is not to plug the leaks by plugging potholes. These roads are old and are definitely to be redone. The embankments of potholes will do nothing. Go take a look at the intersection of Beac. Does it look like a road that has just been remade? "Asks a source Abdoulaye Moussa, taking this route to get home to Tchakamidari. The section will the roundabout junction Beac market with a ramp between the bakery market and the Avenue of the banks had recently been rehabilitated. Yet it took only a few months to see that the intersection Beac quickly degraded.
Everyone I met in the context of this survey are categorical: we must start from scratch. "This is to scrape all the way to the problem and start from scratch as is done elsewhere as in Yaounde," Jerome understands Oumaté. Similarly, the public lighting on the city's main aves especially at the periphery, should reduce the uncertainty ambient band consisting of assault and armed robbery. "The Avenue of Banks in up to Lamidat is illuminated. Now he must think that the urban community at the periphery because that is lower than the attacks are frequent, "said one employee whose Cicam Moto was recently torn by assailants on the outskirts. Enjoying
HIPC funds, some areas of the city could well be "rehabilitated." This section of the urban community hub-hub Yelwa-ginning and Socaprod section - the section Protestant school-Breweries Presidential Bachéoré Crossroads. Similarly, reassures the regional delegate MINDUH, the city of Garoua now has funds CD2. "We are expecting shortly the arrival of the structures responsible for these studies to begin remediation," says Hamadou Sardaouna. These funds will be used for rehabilitation of urban roads of 15 km or 20 km drain by 2011.
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