Victims of Lake Nyos To Return Soon

Government's commitment to speed up the resettlement of the victims of Lake Nyos has been re-echoed by North West governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique. It emerged from the Bamenda Regional Pilot Committee meeting to rehabilitate victims on June 3, 2013 that the resettlement of victims remains a priority. It was against this backdrop that the Pilot Committee evaluated the state of development projects to facilitate the return of victims to the land of their ancestors.

Government's commitment to speed up the resettlement of the victims of Lake Nyos has been re-echoed by North West governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique. It emerged from the Bamenda Regional Pilot Committee meeting to rehabilitate victims on June 3, 2013 that the resettlement of victims remains a priority. It was against this backdrop that the Pilot Committee evaluated the state of development projects to facilitate the return of victims to the land of their ancestors. Twenty eight years after the killer explosion on August 22, 1986, the degassing process has been stepped up to quicken the safety of the lake and its environs for victims to resettle. Prominent in the Lake Nyos waters are three degassing pipes planted to help matters. In effect, Dr Gregory Tanyi Leke, Permanent Secretary of the Lake Nyos and Monoun Degassing project, told Cameroon Tribune after visiting lake Nyos on May 30, 2013 that "Over 55 percent of the gas present at the onset in 2001 has gone and degassing pipes which were initially 46 metres over the lake have reduced to barely four metres, indicative that the degassing system is effective".