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Cameroon: Misusing Administrative Vehicles
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
1 April 2008
Posted to the web 1 April 2008
Brenda Yufeh
Some people use their service vehicles to go shopping, transport children to and from school, visit nightclubs, attend funerals etc.
Saturday night, 11 p.m. This is the time the Technical Adviser of a certain ministry in the country sets out with an administrative vehicle (with a "CA" number plate) for his usual night movements. While he takes off from his home, he makes the first stop at a certain cabaret down town Yaounde where he spends over two hours. Later, he drives towards the Mvan neighbourhood in search of a girlfriend. It is at about 1 a.m. when the girl hears her gate bell ringing. Saying she was not expecting any person, she decides not to open her gate. The Technical Adviser rings the bell for long to no avail. Afterwards, he gets into the car and begins horning as a signal of distress. The entire neighbourhood wakes up to his rescue as most of the inhabitants after peeping through their windows realise that the registration number plate carries "CA". They understand that the occupant is indeed in problems. But, it is with dismay when they realise that the said Technical Adviser is out to settle scores with a girl.
The question many people asked was how he could use an administrative vehicle at that hour of the night for such a purpose? Just like how the Technical Adviser uses his service car so do many others who have access to administrative vehicles. Several individuals do not conform to the management standards for administrative vehicles. While some use these vehicles for official purposes others use them to transport family members to church, markets or village gatherings. Such is not in conformity with the law.
Take a look around church premises on a Sunday. Many of the vehicles that occupy parking lots within the church buildings have "CA" on their number plates. While the occupants are attending church services, drivers are seen either sleeping or playing music in the car as they wait for their masters to finish church services. Some people say using an administrative vehicle for church services may not be absurd for God is above everything that mankind does. However, some individuals have transformed their administrative vehicles for the transportation of goods from the market as well as from their farms. One needs to see how these vehicles are usually overloaded as people do harvesting of crops especially during the maize, plantains or sugarcane season. It has even been reported that some of those who have four- wheel cars as administrative vehicles rent them out to people who want to transport huge quantities of food. Usually when these vehicles get bad, the owners transfer them to the administrative garage for repairs.
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Some people have even devoted their service cars for family use. As such, the cars are being used not only to transport children to and from school but any other thing that needs the services of a car within the family. With the manner in which administrative vehicles are used, reorganising the sector is of urgent need.
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