Dilapidated Road Diverts Travellers To Kumba Train

By Olive Ejang Tebug Ngoh

Transporters and workers of traveling agencies in Kumba have begun lamenting that the decrepit Kumba-Muea highway is diverting several travellers to use the Kumba train.

Impassable roads kill business

This, they complain, has drastically reduced their incomes and thus rendered them miserable. Speaking to The Post recently, a worker with one of the travelling agencies, Isaac Nekembeh, said they are almost out of business as passengers find it difficult to travel along the Kumba-Muea road.

He said most people now use the train, which leaves Kumba for Mbanga daily.
Nekembeh said because of the bad road, traveling by train is cheaper and faster, thus people traveling to Limbe take the train to Bekoko in the Littoral Province, before finally heading for Limbe.

"This is really abnormal and we are living in misery. Since the launching of construction works on the Kumba-Muea road, no serious work is going on. I don't know how many years it would take for this road to become a reality," Nekembeh lamented.

He also intimated that, at first, his agency used to load between 10 to 15 vehicles to Douala, with 300 to 350 tickets sold per day.He said nowadays, they load two vehicles, with only 90 tickets sold per day.

For one Alex Tchakounte, a loader, since they are paid according to the number of vehicles they load, their incomes have also dropped drastically.He said initially, his daily take home package was FCFA 4,500, but with the bad road and the absence of passengers, his income has dropped to FCFA 800 per day.

Another loader, a certain Serge Nana, said some of them have resorted to smoking wee in order to reduce stress.Meanwhile, most passengers who spoke to The Post said the transport fare has been doubled because of the bad road and scarcity of vehicles.
Another devastating effect of the bad road is that vehicles rapidly break down.

A frequent traveller on the Kumba-Muea highway, Jim Fongoh, said when vehicles go into disrepair, their owners are not willing to replace them on the bad road.Besides breaking down vehicles, the Kumba-Muea road is also a death trap.

According to Fongoh, several pregnant women have miscarried, and patients have died on their way to the hospital while travelling along the Kumba-Muea road.

Comments

[Legima Doh]

The road linking Muea and kumba,a major road in the Southern Cameroons shall remain a fiasco as long as the occupational regime stay in place.They bring equipment and heavy machines during election periods to deceive the people.As soon as elections are over,the assets disappear into thin air.Neither the Cpdm nor the Sdf can help the plight of our motherland.

Peace upon that Land.

Legima Doh,
ScNc

[Tombele]

Those South Westerners who voted for cpdm, go ask them to build the road. Inoni, Njeuma you came begging and buying votes and sleeping with the enemy go travel the kumba-Muea Rd. 25 years and counting you fools still believe in sleeping with the enemy. We hear the constitution is going to be changed so that Biya mafia and france can rule for another century. God help us. NJF has never had the chance to rule don't judge him in advance, if anything he has put his hands and heart out to dumb and stupid francophones that we are all Africans and should work for our prosperity regardless of what colonial language we speak, but frogs can't understand and continue to undermine us. He has proven to the whole WORLD that in good faith we wish to be one, everything has failed, it is time for every anglophone to contribute in anyway possible to gain our independednce, this marriage has not worked, it has failed miserably, will never work, this should be the absolute END!!!!!!!!!

[Legima Doh]

Tombele,
Thanks a lot.Let them all have the eyes to see.For it has failed,failed woefully the relationship with la republique.

Peace Shall reign in our motherland.

Legima Doh,
ScNc

[dimle]

what a disgrace that close to half a centuryy after independece the people of KUMBA and all neighbouring villages cannot get home!The dictators sit in yaounde and claim to be leaders!They should all commit suicide for being so incompetent and the first to swallow cyanide should be that buffoon INONI who calls himself prime minister!I lost my baby on those kuba roads on the same day chantal biya had her last baby.I had to leave kumba because I was too traumatised to live there anymore.Anyone in kumba who is still voting for that mugabeish govt in camer needs to have their heads examined by a shrink!Gog bless cameroon!

[UnitedStatesofAfrica]

Both options are bad. The trains are unsafe, dilapidated and constantly attacked by thieves. What a shame BIYA, what a shame.

[M Nje]

The was never any legal union between La Republique Du Cameroun and Southern Cameroons.

Southern Cameroons was invaded by La Republique and they have been occuping our land and exploiting our resources since then.

The JUDAS from Southern Cameroons who continue to lie to our people will be surprise about the future. I am sure the British could not imagine we wil undercover their dubious activities to hand Southern Cameroons to La Repubique. Those who continue to advocate for any relations with La Republique will come to confess their ills.

Any demand for any relationship between La Republique Du Cameroons and Southern Cameroons be it "federation" or whatever is a FALSEHOOD against the people of Southern Cameroons. It is not an opinion but an attempt to continue the Annexation of our land.