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| Bike riders invade city chemist roundabout |
Over 1000 okada riders blocked
the City Chemist Round About today, June 27, 2012 to express their grievances.
The okada riders have been angered by the fact that the Council police in
Bamenda are more corrupt than the regular forces of law and order. They say the
Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council, Vincent Nji Ndumu must go. “No
Council Police” they chanted. It is even alleged that the “Hooligans” as they
are commonly referred to also shattered the screens of some vehicles at the
City Council premises before moving to City Chemist Roundabout where they
blocked traffic for over an hour. Some of the riders argued that it is uncalled
for that the City Council Police is asking them driving licenses as well as
other documents that they cannot afford for. “We cannot pay 50.000 FCFA for a
driving license and the SDO is saying we should not carry more than one person
on the bike”. Some of them even complained that even if they pay the money, it
might end up in private pockets. They also observed that if the public treasury
has been pocketed by few individuals, they would have had better jobs. “We want
the state to recover all the money stolen by these state gangsters, many whom
are still moving in our streets before we too can pay more money to the
treasury” one of them hammered. Those who defied the call for the strike
brutalized by their colleagues; however, there is relative calm at City Chemist
Roundabout as the over 1000 okada riders have moved to meet the Senior
Divisional Officer for Mezam. However, it is alleged that there are over 5000
okada riders in Bamenda, out of this number approximately 4000 are in the
without driver’s licenses. Whereas a day ago, the same okada riders held a
meeting with the SDO for Mezam and agreed that they must all comply to the
Prime Ministerial text of December 2010 regulating the motorbike sector especially
commercial motorbike businesses.
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