Road accidents reduced by 16%

According to a statement by the Secretary of State for defence in charge of the National Gendarmerie, the number of accidents on our roads was reduced by 16%, road mortality is down by about 30% as a result of a campaign by the gendarmerie.

Jean-Baptiste Bokam presided Thursday at Camp Yeyap in Yaounde, an evaluation seminar at mid-decade, the campaign of 'Control-surveillance-suppression' of road traffic offences.

The gendarmerie initiative, launched in June 2011, is designed ' to curve traffic accidents and consequent dead.

Three years later, the SED expressed satisfaction with the work carried out on the ground.

Not only because the curve of accidents has been reversed, but also of the fact that the infringements led to harvest more than one billion CFAF fines donated to the public Treasury.

The meeting yesterday was also an opportunity to educate specialists in road safety, namely, elements of motorized road platoons.

Indeed, according to the SED, although we can be proud of results obtained by the campaign, there are also "mentioned some behavior differences that are the subject of complaints, including the multiplication of checkpoints despite the instructions of the hierarchy, the lack of courtesy towards users, corruption, failure to comply with international conventions and other police harassment."

This also justifies the presence of the trade unions in this meeting, so that they also bring their appreciation of the countryside.

Jean Collins Ndefossokeng, Union president, welcome thus the social dialogue established and hope that this will be permanent, for example every three months.

While it recognizes "that we talk more accidents every day as in the past, which is appreciable," he regrets the fact that there are too many bad apples in the body.

Incidentally, Jean Paul Noah, another trade union president, asked SED on the required parts and official pricing. "Because on the roads, any offence is taxed at 25.000 F, which is not normal” He said.

We also hope that on our roads, the gendarmes focus on insecurity by checking the slips, road and goods, including night buses that carry more than illegal products.

At the end of seminar, SED recommended inter alia more steady activation of the Red brigades for the fight against corruption; the as regularly as possible introduction of controls targeted to reduce red tape and the establishment of the blitz, with a particular emphasis on offences, sources of accidents.