PWD Bamenda Players Strike Over Unresolved Grievances

Players at Public Works Department (PWD) Bamenda have downed tools, refusing to participate in training sessions in what amounts to an open strike against club management. The walkout signals deepening dysfunction within one of the Anglophone region’s most historic football clubs — a region already battered by years of armed conflict and institutional neglect under the Biya regime.

Striker Terence and his teammates showed up at the Mendankwe proximity stadium on Tuesday, only to collectively declare the ground dead — no drills, no sessions, no cooperation. By Wednesday, not a single player was visible at the training facility, underlining the resolve behind the protest and the severity of the grievances driving it.

The precise demands of the striking players have not been made public, but walkouts of this nature in Cameroonian football are almost invariably rooted in unpaid salaries, broken contractual promises, or the chronic mismanagement that has hollowed out club football across the country. PWD, based in the heart of Bamenda, operates in a city that has endured military lockdowns, ghost towns, and economic strangulation — conditions that make the financial sustainability of football clubs all the more fragile.