Commercial motor-cycling sector in Northern Cameroon in total cacophony

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Garoua City- dwellers in the North Region of Cameroon are finding the notion of having to guide commercial motorcycle riders they hire quite unsettling, as it becoming more and more recurrent. This was not the case some months back, customers complain. To them, the growing phenomenon only points to one nerve- wracking revelation: the number of strangers in town is burgeoning.
 Even more disturbing on the part of these new-in –town  bike riders is the fact that they insist they know the destinations required of them just to persuade the customer to get on, then along the way either ask to be guided, or get lost, trying to find their way blindly. Then they ask more than they originally charged, owing to their having consumed more fuel than is necessary, roaming aimlessly.
Many of such riders I have had the opportunity to talk to, say they left the Far North region of the Country plagued by threats of Insecurity especially in some of its far-flung localities, for more tranquility, and greener pastures in the North Region.
While the concerned authorities have promised to look into the phenomenon, to the population this decision is not nearly enough, as more urgent action is awaited to restore order in the sector.
For, many fear that evil- minded persons and groups might take advantage of the tide to perpetrate heinous acts, to destabilize the peace and harmony the area knows.


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