NW Region: Ring Road construction gradually becoming realityFive corpses abandoned at Bamenda Regional Hospital

The construction of the ring road that links the Donga Mantung and Bui Division in the North West region was previously used as a campaign strategy for politicians who promised to accelerate the construction but failed. For decades this strategy had been going on until 2023 when it became evident that the project would kick off. Buns Construction, the company that won the contract has started widening and clearing parts of the roads. Heavy-duty machines were spotted clearing the road that links Ndu Subdivision in Donga Mantung and Kumbo in Bui Division, on Wednesday, December 27, 2023. According to reports, construction works shall begin in January 2024. Source: Cameroon News Agency The Director of the Bamenda Regional Hospital Dr. Denis Nsane, recently sent a statement calling on locals to come to the hospital and identify the faces of corpses that were deposited at the hospital's mortuary. The longest duration shows that a corpse was deposited for close to three months without any family member knowing the whereabouts. One of the corpses in a poor state was deposited by a member of the Rapid Intervention Battalion, BIR. The Director said of the bodies are not retrieved by the end of December 2023, they will take measures to dsipose them. Source: Cameroon News Agency