Road Safety: Security checks intensified

The national gendarmerie has continued its road safety campaign dubbed "control-surveillance-repression" to sensitize road users on the dangers of disrespecting road signs and rules.

On Saturday 27th December 2014, the campaign team was along the Yaounde-Bertoua highway to ensure that the festive period is void of accidents resulting from recklessness.

During the campaign a number of defaulters were warmed and educated, while those found guilty of over-speeding paid on the spot fines of 25000F CFA. Amongst those who committed road offences was a man intercepted at Atok by the mobile gendarmerie team for possessing two suspicious identification documents.

The defaulter presented a “laissez passer” attestation and a certificate of loss both containing two different names, nationalities and places of birth.

The name of the Cameroonian authority who signed the attestation was not clear and the document had expired since May 2014.

Due to the double identity, the man was held under custody and investigations opened to verify his real identity.

The road safety campaign which is being carried out simultaneously on other major roads in the country is marked by the distribution of fliers to commuters. The document contains counsel and road safety tips.

Besides sensitization, luggage and passengers are searched using metal detectors in a bid to check the flow of light weapons and small arms.

The officers also reprimand drivers captured on radar driving at high speed, over-taking poorly or not wearing seatbelts indiscriminately.