Bamenda: Security Reinforced Against Protesting Youths
Forces of Law and Order push back rioting youths from the streets, protesting ugly state of roads, poor work by Chinese company rehabilitating 40-year-old water system.
Generalized trekking has been in vogue with very few commercial motorcycles available for service following Monday, November 21, 2016 violent protests by some youths who erected barricades on the streets of Bamenda, burnt tires, slowed economic activities and seriously threatened social peace. Inhabitants are still at a loss about the situation which started with some youths who assembled in the neigbourhood of City Chemist Roundabout before proceeding to criss-cross the streets, expressing frustrations about the ugly state of roads in the city.
Their first stop over was the Bamenda City Council premises where they destroyed the gate and shattered some window glasses. The City Council Secretary General, Waindim Jude Nsom barely had time to listen to their leaders when the coffin carrying youths led by a certain “Mancho BBC”, moved to the Bamenda food market where they equally destroyed the gate before forcing businesses to shot down at the Nkwen and Bamenda main markets. It emerged from the protesters that they are unhappy with a Chinese company that has been hired to rehabilitate the 40-year-old water system because they dig open roads and refill with cement instead of tar. They find it inconceivable that Bamenda features street lights dur...
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