CAMEROON : GOVERNMENT TO ERADICATE THE USE OF OLD TAXIS AHEAD OF THE 2016 CUP OF NATIONS

A campaign to rid Cameroon’s major towns, especially Yaounde and Douala, of weird looking old taxis has been launched in the nation’s capital. Statistics show the two cities account for about 75% of township taxis in Cameroon.
Government, through the regional delegation of transport for the Centre region recently issued an order urging drivers of such taxis to take them off the city roads with immediate effect.
 Officials say the move is part of wider plans by government  to curb urban cacophony as the country gears up to welcome millions of other visitors from across the world during the women’s Africa cup of nations due to begin on 19 November in Yaounde.
Yaounde and Limbe are the two host cities of the biennial flagship African women’s football jamboree which Cameroon shall be hosting for the first time in its history.
According to government authorities, allowing such dilapidating public transport vehicles to circulate in the nation’s nerve centre when the entire Africa is around is not only risky as most of them can easily breakdown with passengers on aboard but it is enough to tarnish the image of the country.