166 driving schools accredited

According to the Minister of Transport, those that are not on this list have one month to be approved.

Aspirants of driving licenses now know which doors to knock at in Yaoundé, Douala and in other regions. Evolving in a dire circumstance when no one knew who had the discharge of the State and who was illegal, the driving school sector gradually turned back to anarchy.

It was Robert Nkili, Minister of Transport (Mint), himself who whistled the end of the chaos. In a statement published in CT on Friday, he made public the list of the 166 driving schools now allowed to offer driving training.

The law also stipulates that the list comes from the compliance audit conducted among driving schools and according to the press release of January 7, 2015, until February 28, granting a period of one month to self-promoted schools for the regularization of their situation.

After the process, the central region has 85 accredited driving schools, the Littoral escaped with 14 driving schools in good standing including nine in Douala. The Adamawa Region has eight structures, the Far North has ten. The West is with 12 and the regions of the South and the East have four structures each.

In the Southwest region, there are 13 driving schools, nine in the northwest and three in the north.

For the undocumented, Robert Nkili recalls: "These driving schools not on the said list should immediately come in line, in any case within a period not exceeding one month. After this time, these structures will be closed and will neither accept trainees or field candidates in the examination of the driving license."

The multiplicity of driving schools has always been on the agenda of the various meetings between developers and managers in Mint. Over 450 driving schools were registered in Cameroon and the authorities indicated that only 102 had permission. The others were formed in the dark and were fielding candidates. This is what provoked the ire of members of the National Union of driving schools operators. They then denounced the distribution of driving licenses to people with no knowledge of conduct. With the publication of this list, the spirits will perhaps subside in the sector.