A stadium construction workers strike in Cameroon has ended after workers at Yassa accepted a final wage offer.
Most of the 200 workers who started striking last week had already accepted promise by the Turkish construction company, Yenigun Construction and returned to work.
“There was a strike by Cameroonian workers here last week, because we have a few months of wage arrears but we have agreed to come back to work and wait,”said one of the workers in an interview with a French portal.
” We do not know if it is because they are the Turks and they speak a language that we do not understand,”he added.
But according to Camerunweb workers at Youssa,one of stadiums in in Doula were holding out for a better deal.
A visit to the Youssa stadium shows that no work is going on and the only available information to journalists is banner displayed round the fence indicating the client and contractors address.
At Doula ,Cameroonian journalists have been barred from visiting the site with the constructor informing the press they are not welcome.
So far the Ministry of Sports and Physical Education which is concerned with the building of the stadium has remained mum giving least information about the construction of the seven stadiums meant to host the African football showcase in 2019.