CAMEROON`S INCREASED FUEL PRICES
By Tikum Mbah Azonga
Ever since Cameroon`s national football team was booted out of the
ongoing World Cup competition, Cameroonians have been boiling with
rage. It was a double blow because it was not just the fact that the
Indomitable Lions lost out but also because the behavior of some
players while in Brazil for the games was below the belt. Worse still,
top officials such as the Chairman of the Football Normalization
Committee and the Minister of Sports and Physical Education were said
to have been at daggers drawn while in Brazil.
As a result, the day the delegation returned to Cameroon not all of
them returned.. One player who came back was physically
assaulted by angry mobs and his car, damaged. Cameroon`s President
Paul Biya issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Philemon Yang to give
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him a report on what went wrong with the national team as well as make
suggestions for improving the situation, within one month.
However, the euphoria was overshadowed on July 1, when the government
suddenly increased fuel prices throughout the country. The new prices
went into effect on the same day. So, a liter of petrol rose from 569
FCFA to 650 FCFA, which represents an increase of 81 FCFA. The price
of diesel went up from 520 FCFA to 600 FCFA. A bottle of cooking gas
climbed from 6000 FCFA to 6500 FCFA. However, kerosene was maintained
at 350 FCFA per liter.
Reaction was swift with taxi drivers grumbling that it was an unfair
deal. The Cameroon Consumers` League announced a strike action to
start on 7 July. The League warned: "The specter of the hunger strikes
of February 2008 is already looming over Cameroon after the recent
increase of (fuel) pump prices". The national president of the
transporters trade union, CGSTC, described the rise as "the last straw
breaking the camel`s back, considering that the transport sector is
already undergoing the anguish of unfair competition imposed by
clandestine drivers, nuisance from the men in uniform, and the
multiple road check points."
Nonetheless, . . .
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THE PROBLEM SURROUNDING INCREASED FUEL PRICES
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