Re: Streets of Bamenda inundaunted with mad men

One Suggested Solution:

Building of Mental Health Institutions (Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centers, Psychiatric Clinics) at National,  Regional and Divisional levels.

 

 This should be a top policy priority in the healthcare delivery system, because the trend will increase.

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From: Pa Fru Ndeh <PaFruNdeh@YAHOO.COM>
To: Cameroon Politics <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 10:50 AM
Subject: Streets of Bamenda inundaunted with mad men

 

June 25, 2013

 

Streets of Bamenda in undaunted with mad men

 

http://cameroonjournal.com/streets%20of%20bamenda.html

 

By Nyingchuo Hilary

June 25, 2013

 

By Nyingchuo Hilary

 

(Cameroonjournal), Bamenda, June 23. The streets of Bamenda are witnessing an unprecedented increase in the number of mentally challenged persons. Most of them appear to be in their twenties and early thirties. While Bamenda city dwellers remain very concerned about the attendant image that their presences gives the city, lots of reasons – some speculations, are being advanced for their influx on the streets of the city.

First, there are unconfirmed allegations that some neighbouring regions are transferring their mentally challenged and dropping them in close proximity to Bamenda so that they have just a walking distant into the metropolis.

The case of the Mayor of Mbouda in the West region has been cited. People in Bamenda have alleged that in an effort to keep his town clean, his workers were seen dropping off the deranged from his municipality in Matazem, in Santa. The result - most of them then made their way down to Bamenda city. The allegation appears to hold water based on the fact that most of the mad men are unable to speak any mother tongue that is spoken in the entire region.

 

The heavy cultivation of marijuana in the region is also being pointed to as a reason for the many mad people on the streets. A handful of divisions in the region like Bui, Donga Mantung and Boyo have been noted to supply quite a heavy amount of this intoxicating drug. Most young men and women smoke it without reserve and it often result to their walking mad on the street. Majority of them end up on the streets of Bamenda half- naked or naked.

Away from drugs, some have attributed the phenomenon to curses acquired through fraudulent undertakings online in what in Nigerian parlance is popularly called "419."

 Many of them are accused of "scamming" and have picked their misfortune from the "Machines they play with". The desire to get rich quick, drive in big cars and have a fleet of girl or boy friends is what has pushed most youths into "scamming". Many of them end up soiling their hands in some kind of cult and as a result they end up picking papers along the streets and running naked with nothing to show.

Authorities of the Bamenda City Council are yet to react and seek solution to the situation, which could go very well off hand. Many of them are not only vicious but have made a real mess of important locations in the city like the famous commercial avenue

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