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Cameroon: Council Ousts Truck Drivers from Besseke
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
8 July 2008
Posted to the web 8 July 2008
Effa Tambenkongho
The trucks drivers were stationed around the old park.
Truck drivers who are stationed around the old Douala Park at Besseke have been asked by the Douala City Council to leave the site. The branch of the Douala City called the Metropolis whose duty is to chase out, destroy kiosk and demolish unwanted structures from prohibited locations went to the site with some police officers asking the truck drivers to leave. They also marked X with red paints on the trucks parked on the site.
These sites happen to be an area previewed by the Douala City Council to create an Urban Forest. But these trucks were stationed there since after the park moved from there to the present site. Around April other trucks which used to be station around the ARNO round about and Douche Municipal were asked to leave from there because of road construction and to create some order in parking around the town. They all moved to Besseke and joined the other trucks which had been stationed there since the year 2002.
The official at the City Council on July 3rd on his way to his job site met one of the trucks parked along the road side. He gave an Ultimatum for them to leave the site in two hours time. Later in the afternoon the metropolis came in with the police and marked their trucks.
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The divers were furious and said they cannot go anywhere because they have nowhere else to go. They said they had written letters to the Government Delegate asking for a site. But there has not been any response to any of their letters. The drivers lamented that they are treated like outcasts in their own country, yet they pay in lots of money to the state budget. They said their problem is that they do not know where to go, because if the council can give them parking space and ask them to pay, they will do that. But, they cannot go to Yassa because they believe it is CEMAC Park. A park for Chadian, and other foreigners. But as citizens of Cameroon they need their own parking space.
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