Landlord seizes tenant's pot of chicken soup over unpaid rent

A landlord surprised one of his tenants by confiscating a pot of chicken soup his wife had cooked after the tenant refused to pay his rent for over 6 months.

Cameroun-concord reports that the incident which occurred at Bassa in Douala, Cameroun resulted in a big fiasco as efforts by other tenants to appeal with the landlord to return the port of soup, fell on deaf ears.  

The landlord later revealed that he took such measures because the man(tenant) had been using the penal code as a scare tactic to support his refusal to pay his rent.

The landlord said 

 “this man has money to prepare chicken but does not have money to pay for his rents, has not paid his rents for the past six months.Each time I ask him to leave my house, he states me some articles of the Penal Code indicating that I might get into serious trouble with the forces of law and order if I kick him out within two months without notice."

Tenants who witnessed the drama said that they were very surprised that the landlord was very lenient with the tenant particularly as the land landlord was very serious when it comes down to rent matters but made it clear that things had never gotten to this stage before. 

One of the tenants said

'It is just today we are learning the tenant had been quoting sections of the Penal Code to scare the landlord away,' one of the tenants said.