Mfoundi Market Riot: Angry traders storm City Hall plaza

For over an hour, vendors Bessala Theresa aged 30 of braiseuse fish hangar number 10, and Mireille Atangana 27 years in the same profession in Mfoundi market, were transported to the esplanade of the hotel Yaounde unconscious.

On Thursday, October 23, 2014 around 8:00am, the elements of the city police raided the Mfoundi market to face the recurring phenomenon of the illegal occupation of pavements. This was by confiscating property belonging to traders who faulted and things turned violent.

Roger Pascal Mfomo, a trader of Hangar # 10 said: " It must have been 8:00, when the members of the municipal police and police in uniform, arrived in pickup trucks escorted by a truck belonging to the urban community. As usual, they came down sharply from their vehicles and began to tear the goods while hurting merchants. Some fled, yet they were pursued by the executioners to the tunnel. Seven women fainted and many more injured, aside those that are lying there in front of you, "said our interlocutor before concluding:" We are here to meet the government delegate, Mr. Tsimi Evouna to take our sisters to the hospital and return our stolen goods."

In the absence of the governor, Madame Rose Zang Nguélé, a delegated deputy came to initiate a conciliation. "When this happened in the market, where were those responsible?" And the traders responded in chorus: "They were there." And the Deputy Associate continued: "When there is a problem, they are the people who need to be there. Even if you're right, when you act that way, you end up being wrong."

By the time we left the scene, calm seemed to have returned.