The Ghost Town Operation and the Disturbance of Public Peace in Kumba Cameroon

Abstract

This topic sets out to examine the Ghost town operation and the disturbance of public peace in Kumba. In spite of all the measures taken by the administration to prevent turbulence in Kumba, some persons still took to the streets to cause public disturbance and this later ended up as a ghost town operation. Consequently, this exposed the city of Kumba to Destruction of life and property, desertion of city streets, as well as the closure of all economic activities. The objective of this work is to examine the causes of the ghost town operation, the different types of manifestations and the measures taken by the administrative authorities to control the situation. The Methodology employed in this work is mainly empirical in nature and mainly based on observation and experience. We also supported this methodology with the doctrinal research methodology that permits us to analyze various Laws related to the field of study. Our findings reveal that, despite the measures put in place to prevent the ghost town operation in Kumba, there was still much destruction during this period. We however recommend that, a more spontaneous measure should be set up to regulate issues of manifestation.

Keywords: Ghost town, Disturbance, Public peace.