Content of the Minister of Transport's communiqué on cleaning up the illegal road transport sector
Urban and peri-urban transport is marked by the proliferation of illegal carriers resulting in numerous accidents. It is in this context that the Minister of Transport makes a communiqué to establish a timeline to put an end to this type of practice. According to the ministry, 40 to 60% of vehicles on our roads are "clandos" involved in many accidents. The figures obtained from the gendarmerie bear witness to this. Thus, in 2014, 3088 traffic accidents resulting in 1102 deaths and 4262 injuries, most were victims of "clandos". Already, it is an illegal activity which evolves in the margin of the regulation in force. In addition to evolving legally, they do not offer users the minimum comfort. It is this phenomenon that obliges the Minister of Transport, Ngalle Bibehe Jean Ernest Masséna, to make public a communiqué to the knowledge of the national public opinion and the operators of urban and peri-urban road transport that the mixed teams will carry out the raids on the ground to raise awareness of the perpetrators of such practices, as part of the fight against illegal road transport. The purpose of the press release is therefore a pedagogical approach: to sensitize and educate the people concerned. Thus, a period of three months was granted to them to "regularize their situation or cease all transport activity".
