Reality of digital switchover hit Yaounde folks

Digital switch-over waits for no one. Few months to the June 17, 2015 deadline, some technicians still in possession of customers’ analogue television sets, have started getting rid of them while grinding their teeth in despair.

“Gabonais,” a TV technician at Carrefour Omnisport Yaounde is an example of a disgruntled technician who has spent not just time to put some TV sets in good shape, but money as well to replace spoiled parts just for bad fate customers to abandon their TV sets in his workshop.

He has taken the initiative to remove and expose the TV sets at the detriment of owners who shamefully look at the opposite direction when passing through his workshop.

As to whether he exposed the TV sets outside for scrap metal dealers to make money or otherwise is still not clear. “Gabonais” said some TV sets have been abandoned in his workshop for more than ten years. He added that over 100 TV sets which had already being given out to scrap metal dealers, had occupied his workshop for six years and above. According to him,“It reached an extent that TV sets pushed me out of my workshop because there was no space for my working tools and I. For some years now, I have been working either on the veranda or at a nearby bar, the venerated technician explained.

Despite the verbal and written warning he sent out to customers since December 2013 on coming for their TV sets, they remained taciturn and headstrong. The ace technician who had over 30 years of career experience said he has pleaded with owners of the over 70 repaired ones to come for them to no avail.

While removing the boxes, the indispensible occupants of the workshop (rats, lizards and cockroaches) had no choice than to find solace in other hunted grounds.