Tug Of War Between Mintransport and Driving Schools

Owners of driving schools in Cameroon have vowed to interrupt the exams to obtain driving license if the government does not stop their irregularities in the sector.

They presented their grievances to the minister for transport, Robert Nkili denouncing corruption by transport officials.

The exams scheduled for 24 January risk being postponed. The proprietors argue that candidates who present themselves during exams have never gone to driving schools and that transport officials have confiscated the exams especially with releasing results which according to them takes more than three to four months to be published.

The proprietors say none of them will channel his list for the exams if Mr NKILI does not look into their problems. On his part transport boss had suspended the issuance of licenses for creation of new driving schools.

Robert Nikli had revealed during the meeting, that just 102 of the 442 driving schools in the country are operating in conformity with the acceptable standards set.

A survey carried out indicates that about 154 of these schools operate without licenses.

The Minister of Transport also frowned at the fact that some managers of these schools are deceptive; training is carried out without the necessary equipment while others are lured into believing that the training offered qualifies them to have international driving licenses or become drivers of heavy-duty vehicles.