Eric Binfon, President Ticketing Committee - COCAN.
You recently announced that tickets for the
The first priority of the ticketing committee is to create the online sales platform which is at the verge of completion. This platform would permit all spectators who wish to acquire their tickets and pay online. This is a simple platform that users will click and follow up just as if you want to buy goods online to do so. It will be open by the beginning of December and all spectators home and abroad who wish to purchase their tickets online will follow the platform and they will purchase their tickets. Next, there will be Kiosques where tickets will be sold. They will be available in all the host cities of the
What measures have you taken to avoid trafficking of these tickets especially looking at what happened during the CHAN?
We have taken adequate measures to avoid trafficking. There was no trafficking of tickets during CHAN. During CHAN we used thermal tickets and all the sales were physical. There were no fraudulent tickets in town. The only issue that we had was the misunderstanding of spectatators like what happened in
Given that there will be high demand, what mechanisms have you put in place to avoid shortages?
We will understand that our stadiums have limited capacity. All we can do is to assure Cameroonians that tickets will be on basis of first come first serve. If we put 60,000 tickets for example for the opening match in the Yaounde-Olembe stadium, for sure we will have more than 60,000 people who want to go to the field. It will certainly get finish. The only way Cameroonians can avoid or fight against this shortage is to come first and get the ticket. We should cultivate the habit of doing things timely. We assure Cameroonians that they will have tickets if they come on time.
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