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Inoni’s unaccomplished mission
Written by Eugene N. Nforngwa   
Monday, 19 October 2009 00:00

Yaounde -- Almost four months after his a July deadline, commercial motorbikes are still operating in chaos, which means the former PM might have lost his last major policy action.

The bike riders, who flood the country from corner to corner, are running without licenses, helmets, uniforms, yellow tanks, which should have been history by now.

Some under-aged and untrained, they are wounding and killing more and more people in the streets everyday.

“We cannot allow the kind of disorganisation that characterises the bike sector to continue,” Ephriam Inoni said last December when he swore that by mid-year the chaos would come under control. It was his most important policy action directed directly at the population.

“This plan will clean the sector,” a release from the last 2007 Cabinet meeting stated. But this did not happen and may not. The PM left the administration on 30 June, the eve of the deadline.

The campaign, which many thought was worthwhile, seems not to be a priority of the current government. There was a prolongation of the deadline and then nothing.

All rules set by the former head of the Star Building, including the acquisition of licenses, bike registration papers and the most basic-helmets, have not been enforced.

Several city and rural councils have taken the campaign to different levels but efforts have largely remained solo and uncoordinated by any collective government action.

The Yaounde city council is seizing bikes that stray into the city centre, but it has its own regulations outside those of the former PM.
City authorities in Yaounde estimate that bikes cause at least three accidents in the city every week.

In Douala, with the largest population of the two-wheel machines in the country, riders have easily turned to stealing and molestation.

Though very important in rural transport, many people thought some order, which Inoni promised to instil in the business bike sector, was necessary if not imperative.
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