Facemasks Are Not Pocketmasks-Motanga Tells Limbe City Dwellers


By Mbonda Lizzy Noel

"The facemasks are not meant to be kept in the bags or pocket or held in the hands, they are meant to be put on to cover the mouth and nose" Motanga Andrew kept instructing the population during a recent campaign to fight the deadly COVID-19.

The Limbe City Council headed by its number one magistrate, Motanga Andrew Monjimba, Senior Divisional officer Engamba Emmanuel Ledoux and the District Medical Officer for Limbe, Dr. Constance Ngoni Njie and other stakeholders recently sensitized and distributed facemasks in the Limbe City Center.

This is the second time the team is doing this and educating the city dwellers on the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city and the way out.

The team accompanied by the SDO for Fako Engamba Emmanuel Ledoux went through the new market, old market, slaughter area, Half mile and Mile 4 Motor Park; educating all those they met to observe measures to contain the spread of the virus.

The issue of having facemask and putting them on was the main preoccupation of the Limbe City Mayor Motanga Andrew Monjimba.

A huge consignment of facemasks was freely distributed in the course of the one day COVID-19 campaign in which Motanga Andrew personally instructed those who have facemasks in their pocket to put it on.

"The facemasks are not meant to be kept in the bags or pocket or held in the hands, they are meant to be put on to cover the mouth and nose" Motanga Andrew kept instructing as they moved on.

Many Limbe city dwellers scrambled for the facemasks, promising they will adhere to the measures against the pandemic.

The Limbe City Council has also planted a number of wash-hand points across the markets and streets, encouraging the frequent washing of hands by the population.

According to Limbe City Mayor, Motanga Andrew Monjimba, everyone must be involved in the fight against the pandemic as the virus keeps spreading.

He noted that they engaged the fight last year with fruitful results recorded, but frowned at the negligence of a section of the population that caused the second wave of the pandemic to be stronger than before.

He observed that Limbe is one of the hardest areas in the region and therefore enjoined all in the city to strictly adhere to measures against the pandemic to eventually clear it off the city and the nation by extension.

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