Minister criticizes traders whose activities damage roads

The Minister of Public Works (MINTP), Patrice Amba Salla, has severely admonished activities of traders whose activities damaged roads. He made this pronouncement during his recent visit to assess the progress on the Kumba-Mamfe-Ekok-Bamenda axis in the Northwest region.

Patrice Amba Salla, in an interview with CRTV in July after a visit to the region of the Northwest, abruptly criticized Cameroonians engaged in inappropriate transportation of goods between Cameroon and neighbouring Nigeria causing severe deterioration of roads to gain more illicit money at the expense of the Cameroon’s road maintenance.

He condemned the practices he personally observed on the field where some Cameroonian businessmen had parked three overloaded trucks with goods purchased in Nigeria at the Efok village.

Faced with these anti-patriotic actions, Mintp Patrice Amba Salla said, "we won't accept this kind of behaviours. We cannot destroy a road we just constructed on the pretext that people are doing business. This is not business, it is vandalism. We have to completely put an end to vandalism and not continue when the road is entirely complete", said the Minister of public works.

He announced that there will be a mobile weighing station at Efok to regulate the situation and punish all offenders.