Douala-Cameroon: Mabanda inhabitants cry for help as windy rains destroy houses

The Mabanda community in the economic capital Douala has continued to call on the government to help them since the rains of Sunday night put them in the cold.

Since the windy rain of sunday destroyed houses, schools and other public utilities, life has not been the best for the inhabitants of Mabanda. Inhabitants of that community have been calling on the government ceaselessly to come to their aid.
“In this incident, we don’t know what is wrong; we are praying that the government and the council should help to reestablish us again. This windy rain is not something we were prepared for” says a victim of the storm.

Some inhabitants put thing s in the hands of God. “We are putting everything in the hands of God” says a frustrated landlord as he looks at his recently unroofed investment. We don’t know what is coming in the days ahead” he recounts.
Generally the rains this year seems to have come with “things” behind it as explains an inhabitant of Ndu were a somewhat similar incident almost took place.

In Ndu of the Donga Mantung Division, many label the rains of Sunday night as war. Hail stones filled the whole town in what was described by many as snow, something that has never happened in the past. Inhabitants were stunt at the new view the hailstones had given to their community.

The question on mind remains: are these the products of climate change? If so what are we doing as individuals and as a country to promote the protection of our environment?