By Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Mimi Mefo Info
Published on 2024-02-05 14:58:10
The rise in fuel prices announced by the authorities last Friday did not leave the civil society indifferent. During the traditional debates organized on television channels on Sunday, several actors of civil society denounced the high cost of living.
“Even the announcement of this increase was not made randomly. It was on Friday night, when all workers are demobilized. So they say that on Saturday and Sunday, the people will have time to digest it, and to get over it from Monday,” said journalist Souley Onohiolo in the Libre Expression program on Info TV.
According to Prof. Dolisane Ebosse, who intervened in the same program, “the Cameroonian people are a cowardly people. It’s incredible that such a statement is made and it remains like that. We are more inclined to talk about Ivory Coast, Mali, or Burkina,” she lamented.
Speaking of the government during the same program, lawyer Me. Emmanuel Simh thinks “we are facing a government that deliberately impoverishes its people, and the people do not complain. You will see, even if we increase the fuel to 2000 francs, nothing will happen.”
This program followed the increase in the prices of certain petroleum products announced last Friday by the government. According to the statement published by the government, the price of super gasoline has increased from 730 CFA francs to 840 CFA francs per liter. The price of diesel has risen to 828 CFA francs from 720 CFA francs in the past.
The government’s announcement, which took effect yesterday, Saturday, led to an immediate increase in transportation prices. The Touristic Voyage agency, which serves several localities in the country, has posted a new price list. For example, the transportation from the Bertoua Belabo line, which cost 1500 CFA francs the day before, has increased to 2000 CFA francs, representing an increase of 500 CFA francs in absolute value and 25% in relative value. On the Bertoua-Nguelmendouka axis, the transportation has increased from 3000 CFA francs to 4500 CFA francs, representing a 50% increase.
Albert Atangana
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