Yaounde: Floods hit Symbock neighborhood leaving many homeless

The population of symbock neighbourhood in Yaounde, Cameroon's capital got up this Wednesday morning June 22 2017 in tears and sorrow as floods had swept away some homes on its way and surroundings inundated. Two houses where brought down by the floods which also carried away properties from many homes along its passage.

Many businesses around the area are seriously affected by the disaster as they can't open their doors since the entire environ is engulfed by water. One amongst the businesses severely touched is the Etok- koss touristic centre which has been shutdown for the whole day. The centre which has many fish ponds, restaurant, leisure facilities, touristic sites and a poultry has been stagnant. A spokesman for the centre, Dr Thomas Essono regretted, his enterprise will lose about 500,000 fcfa per day excluding the fish ponds destroyed and a huge quantity of fish gone into the near by river mefou which break its banks due to heavy rains.

He added that since water has entered the whole centre with everything Wet and some damaged beyond repairs, it might take them at least 4 days to get back to business if the government does not intervene fast. The situation is largely blamed on the illegal and haphazard construction of houses in swampy areas which block water passages.

Inhabitants have also point accusing fingers at the national commission on disaster management for not doing its job properly. They are to prevent catastrophes and not wait to come in only when it has happened.