Effa Tambenkongho
31 March 2008
At "rue de la casse" the sellers deal in second hand goods which are suspected to be stolen items.
La rue de la Casse is a street situated in Bonakuamuang, Douala where the traders deal in second handed goods; mostly electrical equipment. It is a market where anybody can get any electrical or building material and also equipment at rereduced price.The traders sell gas plates and bottles, toilet pots, taps, rods and other equipment. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of Bonakuamuang have always suspected the area as a zone where stolen items are being sold. They believe when household equipments are stolen from their houses they are sold in that market. They believe it the area poses a lot of threat to the neighbourhood because it is believed to harbour thieves. Talking to Manjo Tobias, one of the traders, he said they have always been suspected by many people to have been dealing with stolen goods which he said is not the case. He said they deal mostly with technicians with whom sometimes they do some sort of trade by barter. Most of the equipments he sells are looking new while some are old. He said they old ones are exchanged while the new ones where bought from a shop. He added that most people buy from them because they do retail what a shop would not retail. He said somebody may want to sell his gas plate; he brings it to them they buy and resell to some other person. He added that even if the goods are stolen it would be difficult to detect which ones are stolen or not.
Because of complains from the inhabitants, he said they have been threatened several times by government to leave the place. He said the former Government Delegate even came there and asked them to leave. Manjo said they cannot leave because they have no other place to go. But he added if government will provide another site for them they will happily relocate. The area they occupy, he said is a secondary road and does not disturb anybody. "Beside it is a market which is helping Cameroonians", said Manjo.
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