After his correspondence addressed to the Minister of Water and Energy, and to Greenpeace last February, with the aim of requesting the cancellation of the process of issuing the authorization to dump sewage in Mfou in favor of of the Cameroonian parquet company (FIPCAM), the native, Amougou Nna Sostheneleader of the ecological claims of the local populations, says, to undergo threats inviting him to put an end to the campaign of claims otherwise his life could suffer from it.
Anonymous phone calls, tailings operated by individuals on board a white toyota pickup vehicle, a small blue utility car, type Renault Kangoo 2011 and a white vehicle…
The company manufactures Cameroonian parquet (FIPCAM) established in Mfou in Cameroon for 22 years, has known for two months, countless shocks.
This is the result of the demands of the local populations who refuse to suffer the discharge of wastewater within their community. It should be noted that the company FIPCAM groups together within its enclosure: a service station for the storage and distribution of fuels, a store containing motor oils, chemicals for the treatment of wood by a process of soaking and spraying, a huge mechanical garage for repairing industrial machinery and heavy-duty vehicles, an infirmary, a sawmill, a dryer and two restaurants. “Pollution can be defined as the degradation of a natural environment due to chemical substances and industrial waste. Indeed, its consequences can affect regions that are not industrialized. This pollution intensifies as time goes by. years. Air pollution with smoke and gases escaping from factories causes holes in the ozone layer. The consequences are the appearance of cancers and increasingly frequent respiratory diseases among human beings because of sawmills and quarries. Soil and water pollution with the discharge of wastewater or industrial waste. Noise pollution caused by the noise generated by industrial activity” affirm, Amougou Nna Sosthene.
As for Marie Christine Bikoe Wangue, environmental engineer. She wonders about the origin of the disease which struck down her girlfriend, Mekong Catherine Freddy, died on December 19, 2020 at the age of 37 from cancer. The deceased was domiciled in Nkolnguet, one of the villages adjoining the FIPCAM company. “Mfou is not a waste lake” she says.
According to the NGO Greenpeace, worldwide, 1.4 million people die each year from diseases linked to poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene. Water is life. Water is everything.
“Wastewater contains, among other pollutants, formaldehyde designated as real dangers to human health” declared Amougou Nna Sosthene.
Despite the phone calls from a certain EC Locka or the number 657473329, the threats and tailings to which Amougou Nna Sosthene, the leader of claims for good practices for the protection of the environment and fierce opponent against the discharge of waste water in the villages surrounding the FIPCAM company in Mfou, he says he is determined to continue the battle for the survival of humanity. In its mobilization campaign inviting associations for the defense of the environment and human rights, politicians, whistleblowers, artists and media men, it has just been joined in the said battle by the association PSPA-GREENERGY RENEWABLE whose president, Samuel Merlin Meyene, insists that “several localities neighboring the FIPCAM company will be affected by this waste water, passing through small rivers, groundwater, rivers like the Mefou or the Nyong, up to ‘to the sea. As long as PSPA-GREENERGY RENEWABLE will live, we will not stop denouncing the genocide that certain foreign companies in complicity with some of our own administrative authorities are organizing”.
Case to follow.
Read on the same subject: DISCHARGE OF WASTEWATER FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITALIAN INDUSTRY FIPCAM: GREEN PEACE STORIES
