Petrol Station owners withdraw support to
Meme SDO
By Johnson Batuo
With the proliferation of illegal fuel
points known in local parlance as zoa.zoa in Kumba, Petrol station operators
have refused to financially contribute to the SDO of Meme’s meet-the-people’s
tour The median has gathered.
We have learnt that when
contacted to contribute financially to facilitate the SDO’s meet the people
tour, petrol station owners pointed out that the proliferation of cheap illegal
petrol from Nigeria has reduced their sale at the pump.
Despite claims that the Nigerian
fuel is contaminated, many motorists, even official vehicles prefer this fuel,
given it is cheap. It is a ritual for
businessmen and other impoverished Cameroonians in Kumba to financially
contribute for any new SDO’s meet the peoples tour.
Business people and other
economic operators even those who judiciously pay their taxes to the state, who
refuse to contribute the administrator’s meet the peoples tour risked being
tagged extremists, Boko Haram, or any other derogatory term.
The new Senior Divisional Officer
for Meme division chamberlin Ntou’ou Ndong has already endedhis tour after visiting Mbonge, Bombe, Kumba I, Kumba II,Kumba iii
and Konye, He concluded his tour in
Kumba II Subdivision.
Though petrol station owners for
purely business arguments have refused to contribute to the SDO’s meet the
people tour many Cameroonians are beginning to question the rationale behind
this financial contribution.
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