Tche Irene Morikang
27 March 2008
opinion
Show me your toilette and I will tell you who you are. If this adage were to be applied in Cameroon, then one could as well say a good number of people are pigs in disguise. A look at some of the public and even private toilettes in the country is enough testimony. The stench from them is unbearable. Nauseating!
The other day, a lady was petrified when she rushed to answer nature's call in an office toilette in Yaounde. She could not bare the sight or the odour. The irony is that the workers of the office went about their duties as if they had lost their sense of scent. Strange! One of the staff of the structure was even surprised that she could not find a way to "close your eyes and just do it anywhere in there". Adding that: "We are used to it, for that is how it is most of the time".
In such a situation, who should be held responsible for the sorry state of the toilettes? The workers who misuse them or those who are paid to keep the facility clean? One thing is certain, a place where people spend some of the most intimate moments of their lives (everyone undresses fully or partially in a toilet) should not be transformed into an eye sore. Toilettes, in effect, are supposed to be among the most comfortable places in any home, office, etc. Wherefore the name "Rest Room", in some cultures.
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