{"id":457,"date":"2022-08-11T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousido.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:41:14","slug":"relation-locataires-et-bailleurs-a-douala-et-yaounde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lousido.com\/en\/relation-locataires-et-bailleurs-a-douala-et-yaounde\/","title":{"rendered":"TENANT AND LANDLORD RELATIONSHIP IN CAMEROON."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conflicts between tenants and landlords are among the most common in the neighborhoods of Yaound\u00e9 and Douala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced with the government's near impossibility of providing decent housing to its populations,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private companies are struggling to offer various types of housing to citizens. However, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

due to the economic situation, the high unemployment rate and the difficulties of living together,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It very often happens that landlord and tenant look at each other like dogs of failure and sometimes even end up in confrontation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most settlements are made amicably and for the rare cases that reach the judge,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the tenant most often faces serious penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cameroonian penal code dictates the penalty applicable in cases of rent fraud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its article 322 \u2013 1 provides: \u201cIs punishable by imprisonment of six (06) months to three (03) years and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

a fine of one hundred thousand (100,000) to three hundred thousand (300,000) francs <\/p>\n\n\n\n

or one of these two penalties only, the lessee by lease, duly registered, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

of a building, whether built or not, which, owing two (02) months of rent, has neither paid said rent, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

nor vacated the building concerned one month after summons to pay or vacate the premises\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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There is a provision in the INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a text in force in Cameroon since June 27, 1984), <\/p>\n\n\n\n

which specifies in its article 11: \u201cNo one may be imprisoned for the sole reason that he is not in <\/p>\n\n\n\n

measure to perform a contractual obligation\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It being understood that the hierarchy of legal standards places conventions and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

international treaties above internal laws, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is therefore clear that in the case of rent fraud, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is impossible for the tenant to go to jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason is quite simple, the lease contract which binds the lessor and <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the tenant is a contract, and a civil type contract. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faced with this contradiction in two important texts, the judge of the High Court <\/p>\n\n\n\n

is forced to make a choice. Even if the choice may seem obvious, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parliament will still have to consider these ambivalences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the texts for better application of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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