After a 3 day strike, Kumbo township taxi drivers resume work

After a three-day sit down strike, township drivers in Kumbo town resumed work recently after a meeting convened by the Divisional Officer for Kumbo Central Sub Division, Francis Nkamto Ndifon.

It was thanks to this close-door meeting with the Divisional Officer, the Commissioner of Public Security, the Commissioner of special Branch, the Brigade Commander of Gendarmerie and the executive members of the Kumbo Township Taxis Drivers Union that the problem was resolved.

During the meeting, Francis Nkamto told the township taxi drivers that if anyone obstructs them in their transportation business they should communicate their grievances to the right quarters.

Also, he called on the Commissioner of Special Branch Kumboto channel any information in the transporters sector in Kumbo town, to the rightful quarters and not act in a sector that is not his.

He explained that the strike stemmed up from wrong parking by a taxi driver and insolence to a Deputy State Council, who was arrested, detained and released when the strike started. He also called on the drivers to be more organised and not to block the road when they are loading.

For his part, president of the Bui professional drivers union and town ship taxi drivers union, Nsai Yimbu Omar, said wrong parking in town by some taxi drivers is true but that some people with private cars also park wrongly in the middle of the road and block it.

The drivers went on strike amidst allegations of extortion of money and harassments by law officers and also the arrest and detention of one of their colleagues