Police making fast money via road safety campaigns

Police in Kumba are making fast money from commercial bike riders, taxi drivers and other motorists with vehicles that have no official documents as Government has stepped up effort to curb road carnage through road safety campaigns.

While the transport officials are busy on the main streets checking the documents, uniform officers are busy at street junctions in the neighbourhoods collecting FCFA 500 and FCFA 300, for cars and bikes, respectively, as daily circulation fee.

In Kumba, elements of the equipe d’intervention rapide, known in French as ESIR, make fast rounds especially hanging at the junction from Mulango Street in Kumba II through to the Railway Station in Kumba III, where they trap drivers and 'bendskin' riders who have escaped from the normal road safety checks.