Mix Feelings Over Lifted Embargo In NW

By Kesah Princely
14 June 2019

Bamenda citizens have expressed divergent opinions over the termination of a long standing curfew on movement of persons and property in the region.
The echoes are in reaction to a communique signed Friday June 14 by Northwest Governor Adolphe Lele Lafrique.

According the NW first Citizen, the November 2018 order modifying the already existing interdict on movement of persons and goods from 9pm to 6am has been averted. “The security restriction placed on the movement of person and property within the North-west region are from the date of signature of the present order lifted” the communique reads in parts.
The Chiefs Executive Officer of the crisis ravaged region equally ordered head of administrative units to enforce this ban with immediacy.
Meanwhile some Bamenda city dwellers have saluted the move stating that it will revamp business activities in the city.
“This order is going to improve business dealing as people will feel free to do their businesses especially at the Busy Bamenda food market” Kelly Bih a Bamenda based business operator said.

In the meantime, some Bamenda residents have castigated the upliftment, describing it a government tactic to prolong the ongoing Anglophone crisis. “As a business man, the curfew remains in my mind because uplifting it is not a solution to the crisis that has paralyse business activities in Bamenda. Authorities are only misusing power” says wine dealer Penn Clerkson.