CUY demolishes road-side structures

The Yaounde City Council has engaged into a massive demolition of make-shift and illegal structures besides the main streets of the Nation’s capital.

The demolition exercise kicked off this Thursday 22nd January at the Messasi neighbourhood with caterpillars crushing buildings illegally put up by the road sides.

Some owners who have attempted to resist the council authorities brandish receipts of payments for temporal occupation of the roadside.

The officials who were accompanied by forces of law and order dismissed such documents stating that it is valid only for a few days and movable structures.

He cited the example of building materials placed by the road side for a short while when construction is on-going after which the portion must be freed, but most people used such papers to put up permanent structures by the road side.

Demolition officials on the field say they are working on the instruction of the Government Delegate to the Yaounde City Council to clear the street side of Yaounde of all make-shifts stalls temporal or permanent buildings that do not conform to the regulation enforced.

“It will continue in all parts of Yaounde. Temporal occupation attestations have not been delivered for buildings” the coordinator of the exercise noted.

He also decried the fact that the Emana –Olembe road lane has not yet been received after construction, yet its pavements have already been occupied in an anarchical manner with garages, make-shift stalls, kiosks, petite businesses and some buildings which are currently tearing down.