The inter-urban transport agency FINEX Voyage has been sealed following an incident that led to the death of a Gendarme officer at the agency for not having 100FCFA coin to pay after using the toilet.
It should be noted that Cameroonians have been suffering from lack of coins for over a year now making small payments very complicated on the part of users and service providers.
Marechal de Logis Armel Lipembe was killed at FINEX Douche Municipale Douala in the early hours of Thursday 23 July 2020 at about 3:00 a.m when he was set to travel to Yaounde via same transport agency.
Eyewitness reports say that the gendarme officer with his colleague did not have 100FCFA coin to pay after using the toilet but pleaded in vain to go and look for change to come and pay the toilet “manager”.
“While waiting for their bus to depart for Yaoundé, the two gendarmes went to relieve themselves in the agency's toilets. Coming out of there, they did not have the coins with them to each pay the 100 FCFA related to the use of the toilets. They unsuccessfully asked the FINEX security guards to give them time to go and make change. This refusal triggered clashes during which FINEX agents savagely beat the gendarmes", eyewitness recounts.
CNews24 has gathered information from a very reliable source that the Gendarme in question gave a 500FCFA banknote to the toilet management to remove their charges and give him his balance but the management instead insisted that he, the Gendarme should be the one to go look for the change.
The change issue instead erupted into a serious fight between some “Park boys” of the agency and the two gendarmes that saw the death of one of them and the other beaten to almost death too.
Watch video below to see what happened
Marechal Logis Lipembe greeted the cold arm of death after he was been hit at the back of his head with a plank by one of the fighters dressed in the uniform of loaders, commonly called “motoboys” of the said agency.
While Lipembe lies at the mortuary of the military hospital in Douala, his colleague is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit of the same hospital.
The two uniform men are said to be returning from a mission in Buea, South West region, one of the two English speaking regions of Cameroon plagued by the Anglophone Crisis.
The instant death of this Gendarme officer and the maltreatment of his colleague has sparked a nationwide debate with people questioning why passengers travelling through a transport agency should be forced to pay 100FCFA in order to answer nature’s call, even up to the point of loosing their life?
Are these not supposed to be free services to be provided by all transport agencies to meet the needs of their passengers?
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Itoe Thomas Mote
Good morning Mr Fifa president,am not astonished for me to see how u make countries to like foot ball,
If u where in time of Samuel Ego'o,D .J Droba,u could have been giving them world best player.Well sir I pray u stay long to take football as fare as behind.I may like to withness one world cup
May God Benedict u.
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