Clandestine Transport Under Watch

Actors in the road transport sector have been sensitised on the need to come out of the informal sector.

Douala is one of the towns noted for clandestine transport that does not only paralyse the transport sector, but contributes to urban disorder. During a sensitisation mission by the National Committee for the Fight against Road Clandestine Transport, the Secretary General in the Littoral Governor’s Office, Ludovic Ngbwa, after appreciating the committee, disclosed that the situation in Douala is preoccupying.

Since according to the mission, clandestine transport is not only those who use personal vehicles for public transport, but equally those who lack administrative documents, ply unauthorised lines, overload,  lack corresponding licences for the vehicle, lack knowledge of the town and lack driver’s badges, among others. It is doubtless that the aforementioned infringement abounds in the economic capital.

In her address to transport trade unions, public security men, officials from the transport delegation, and administrative authorities among others, the Coordinator of the Committee’s Technical Secretariat, Evelyne Koa Otsili Medzogo, disclosed that the winding off of the then urban transport company (SOTUC) in Douala and Yaounde resulted in a deficit in t...