Cameroon: Bui SDO Orders All State Owned Cars be parked at Security Posts after Repeated Fire Mishaps

The Senior Divisional Officer for Bui division in the Northwest region has ordered that all state cars be parked at security posts in the division.

The order signed by the administrative authority, Nzeki Theophile, to this effect is dated June 5, 2018, TCR has learnt.

Going by this order, authorities with administrative vehicles must park them in police stations or gendarmerie brigades at the end of the day.

Sources said that the measure of Theophile Nzeki, is motivated by the arson attacks on state owned cars in his area of jurisdiction in the past few weeks.

TCR learnt that many administrative vehicles recently caught fire in the division including that of the divisional delegation of the Ministry of Environment. The incident occurred while the car was parked at the delegate's home. Two days later, a police pickup truck burned at a commissioner's residence.

A local source told our correspondent that most administrative cars in Bui have been cleared of anything that identifies them to avoid attacks.

We learnt that even though there is no clear-cut evidence that these fire mishaps are the works of criminals, the prefect has however chosen to limit damage by asking users of administrative vehicles to park them in a safe place.