Douala: PMUC finances training, acquisition of driving permits, matriculation plates of 200 bike riders

Pari Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC, Cameroon’s leading staking company reputed for its unrivaled cooperate social responsibility prowess has in a bid to reduce the amount of lives lost on a daily basis in Douala due to bike accidents financed the training of two hundred commercial motor bike riders.

The project launched some three years ago by the Littoral legion commander of the National Gendarmerie to trained and award driving licenses to motor bike rider has since its initiation been sponsored by the multi-billion stating company.

PMUC Assistant Administrative Managing Director, Tatyana Eldin.

The ceremony to officially handover the licenses to the third batch of riders trained under the programme took place last weekend at the Mboppi Gandarmerie yard with the bike riders urged to remained professional and to put to good use the lessons acquired at the driving schools.

Describing transportation by motor bike as a call for concern due to the recklessness of most bike riders who have little or no mastery of road signs nor Highway Code, the littoral legion commander of the National Gendarmerie urged the recipients to be exemplary.

He called on them to note that PMUC, whom he described as a partner for development had invested a lot to train them and they had as responsibility to stay away from negative practices which bike riders are often associated with.

Group pic with beneficiaries 

Responding, Willy Kengne, executive president of the bike riders union thank PMUC for ensuring that hundreds of bike riders in Douala every year professionalize their act and function in legality.

Willy thanked PMUC for accompanying and supporting them so they can be exemplary and professional especially as the biggest football jamboree in Africa will be hosted by Cameroon in the months ahead.

Heading the delegation from the stating company to the Mboppi ceremony presided over at by the governor of the Littoral region Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha Diboua, was the assistant Administrative Managing Director of PMUC, Tatyana Eldin.

Speaking, she announced that the staking company has trained and provided licenses to over 700 bike riders in Douala and was willing to do more. The project which she said has already cost the company some 5 Billion FCFA is geared at reducing the number of bike accidents and loss of lives recorded in Douala daily.

Receiving their driving permits under the watch of the Littoral regional delegate of transport, both Fai Emile as well as Waffo Zongnag David promised to lead by example and to put to practice the skills acquired.

The ceremony ended with PMUC donating safety jackets to the hundreds of bike riders who stormed the ceremonial ground to witness cooperate social responsibility at its best as the rendez vous was taken for next year.