The Cameroon Consumer League is organising a week of activities to inform, sensitise and educate Cameroonians on their rights.
Members of the Cameroon Consumer League, LCC, are taking to the streets and media houses beginning March 10, 2016 to inform, educate and sensitise Cameroonian consumers on their rights that hinge on eight points : the right to information, security, education, safe and sustainable environment, representation, right to be heard and to make a choice have been baffled by vendors and entreprises, with LCC championing the cause of consumers to reinstate such rights. The Executive President of LCC, Delor Magellan Kamseu, during a press conference in Yaounde on March 9, 2016, revealed that the association was ready to change the mindset of Cameroonian consumers, from being docile to facing defaulting entreprises that reaps enormously from the indifference. He stated that inertia profits entreprises and it was time consumers were schooled on their rights. Consumers during the week will also be educated on the respect of standard. The league has dropped sit-ins as a means to voicing out their dissatisfaction. They have resolved to go the legal way, lodging complaints against disloyal companies.
He disclosed that the LCC is flooded with complaints from consumers, with at least 15 received each month. The complaints are varied with the sectors of electricity and telecommunications taking the lead. Such complaints, it was said, are examined, negotiations opened with concerned companies after which strikes and legal actions are taken against them when negotiations fail. Actually, the league is in court with cases such as the non-identification of some mobile telephone subscribers with some mobile phone operators and the near non operationalisation of the 4G, says the league.
Elective General Assembly
A new executive of the league will be known soon. An Elective General Assemby has been convened for March 15, 2016 at the Yaounde Conference. Registered members of the league are currently bracing up for the event that will see the election of a new Executive President renewable after five years. The last Elective General Assembly held in October 2007.
