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Nchunu Justice Sama is a barrister practicing in Bamenda, Cameroon. Starting in 2005, he watched as the dump at Atuanki, Mile 6 Mankon, grew at the edge of the Mezam River. Untreated waste from the site leached into nearby settlements, leaked into the river, and spread across the adjacent highway. Sama and his associates wrote to the City Council and to the neighborhood councils, using the formal petition system to ask for enforcement of solid waste laws. They received no reply.1
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Foti, J. (2012). Getting Local Government Right. In: Starke, L. (eds) State of the World 2012. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-045-3_17
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