Transport unions and other actors are mobilizing against an attempt to force down their throats the installation of a centralized management and monitoring system in all goods transport vehicles.
Their attention was drawn to a recent radio-press release informing urban and interurban road transport sector actors that, on the “Very high instruction of the Head of State,” the installation of a centralized management and monitoring system in all goods transport vehicles had been mandated.
Their motivation for resistance became stronger when upon investigation it emerged that it was a complete setup by a corrupt businessman, one HILAIRE TINEN, CEO of the tracking company CAMTRACK, in collusion with the Minister of Transport NGALLE BIBEHE, to control the entire road freight transport sector in Cameroon.
According to sources quoted by Actu 24, this project to install surveillance cameras in all transport vehicles was exclusively entrusted to CAMTRACK, which imposes it on transporters at an exorbitant cost of an average of two hundred and fifty thousand francs (250,000 FCFA) for the purchase of the kit per vehicle. Additionally, these same transporters must pay a monthly subscription fee of twenty-five thousand francs (25,000 FCFA) per vehicle.
Transport unions and other actors are therefore preparing to vehemently denounce this scam in the coming days.
It should be noted that the interurban goods transport activity has faced enormous difficulties in recent years, with degraded and poor road conditions, an impressive number of road checkpoints (police, gendarmerie, customs, etc.), and many other bottlenecks that actors in this sector face daily.
