Paul Biya orders the compensation of 1 Billion FCFA to the Eséka disaster victims’ families

President Paul Biya has announced the reimbursement of 1billion FCFA as an additional assistance to compensate families that lost their members in the Eseka train accident and a monument constructed on the accident side in honor of over 100 people who perished on 21 October 2016. In a released signed by the Secretary-General at the presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh yesterday.

 According to reports the president’s release and building of monument have been criticized by deceased relatives. 

“Where was the president when we suffered our lost? The Government cannot come a day after 7 months wanting to assist us. I doubt if we will receive anything since it was the same thing the camrail did promised us and never fulfilled it. Few days after the accident, we were promised to be compensated the sum of 1.5 million CFA per family. This was to assist in the funeral expenses. Since then, we have not heard from Camrail”says a deceased family angrily.

After 7 months of research the result for the cause of the Eseka train accident is out.

The commission put in place to investigate the cause of the accident made public the results of the survey, after seven months of waiting. This commission put the blame on the transport company Cameroon Railways (camrail) for the cause of the accident. The company is accused of the non respect of security measures, high speed, overloading and bad states of the breaks systems.

Cameroon Railways (camrail), it officials, and all the persons found guilty by the investigators will be judged and sanctioned accordingly says the president’s release.