The city which had seen the multiplication of dumb sites around major junctions in town, is currently being cleaned up by these soldiers, after the company in charge of maintaining good hygienic conditions within the city, stopped carrying out their work, due to constant attacks from separatists.

At the start of the week, some neighbourhoods were lucky to find these soldiers on the field, carrying out this activity.

Last month, a journalist who had enough of these dumb sites on major streets, staged a silent protest on social media, where he snapped he collected a picture he took before the ongoing crisis in the Anglophone(when all was calm and city was very neat) and attached a new picture where he stood by the dump site on same street with the former picture.

Many reactions to it, pushed local authorities to clear off the waste. The City Council was in charge of collecting waste in Bamenda, until the services of Hysacam were obtained in 2016.

According to many, Hysacam had been doing a great job, until the crisis started and armed separatists attacked their workers and burnt down their equipment.

In January 2019, the company suspended its activities within the city of Bamenda. In a press statement, it explained the company was exposed to violence, perpetrated by armed separatists in the North West. They announced they had lost close to FCFA 1Billion.

Suspected separatists, damaged the bridge, connecting the city to the waste management center This grounded HYSACAM’s activities for 15 days with no way to carry on with waste disposal in Bamenda.

The company stopped for some time but continued until recently when their workers were kidnapped and they paid ransoms for them to be liberated. The military still interceded at this time of need.

Reports say some its workers have been transferred to Bafoussam in the West region, as well as its equipment.