School Resumption : Travel Agencies Under Pressure

Prior to school resumption on October 5, most travel agencies in Douala were over crowed with passengers till late on Sunday October 4. A sojourn to some agencies reveals that most of the agencies were unable to meet up with the increases in passenger demand. While at the agencies, some passengers were found sleeping in the waiting room, others were looking for any available vehicle to take them to their destination. An official in one of the agencies visited said they had more than two hundred passengers waiting to travel to Yaoundé but there were no buses available. 
He said those that have already paid their tickets will take the next bus which is still on its way to Douala from Yaoundé. He said by that hour they had loaded more than 40 buses to Yaoundé but the crowd was still over whelming.
An official in another travel agency confirmed that they had about five buses on its way to Douala that will reduce the waiting passengers. The official added that they will not be able to transport the over three hundred persons in their waiting room. He said they had stopped sell...