Inside Cameroon

 Jacob Zuma's roller coaster ride as President of Africa's third largest economy,  and the most sophisticated, is over.

Since rumours began swirling around about his resignation, the Rand, the country's legal tender, is according Bloomberg, one of the best performing currencies on their chart of emerging economies.

No one expected that the man married to several wives and who has resurrected several times politically, while declared dead, will ever tender or accept to go as he has done. Zuma is a political phoenix or he is a political cat with 9 lives. But this time around, it was time up.

The credit for Zuma' resignation goes to the ruling party, ANC, that he was the head of intelligence during guerilla warfare and also as chairman. While the party has been supporting Jacob Zuma to the point of helping him survive several no confidence votes in parliament initiated by the opposition, the same ANC has to decided force their now erstwhile champion out of the political scene.

Why? Simply because, Jacob Zuma was no longer a political asset, but a liability to the ANC. The ANC under the stewardship of Zuma was characterized by divisions an as President of the Republic of South Africa, he was marred by successions of scandals.

He did not only ruin the reputation of South Africa, he made seemingly invincible ANC, vulnerable. It is now left to be seen whether its new leader, Cyril Ramaphosa will be able to turn around the battered image of the party of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu.

What the cadres of the ANC have done, shows that, they have their party and country at heart. It is what the ruling parties in Congo Brazzaville, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo would have done or should emulate.

Take Cameroon for example, its ruling CPDM party has been in power since 1982, but has nothing to show of not political and economic degradation. It's because of the ruling Cameroon's People Democratic Movement, that the Anglophone crisis has degenerated.

Sadly, members of the ruling party of Cameroon have never thought it wise to force Biya out because he has become a liability to the party and the country. On the contrary and shockingly, some members of the ruling party want the old tired President who is officially 85 to run for the top job of the land this year.

The Republic of Congo Brazzaville is in a similar situation. Its long-standing President, Denis Sassou Nguesso has destroyed the country, yet the ruling Congolese Workers Party, PCT is clinging to a man who is running the country as a family and tribal business.

Cadres of the PCT even when the extra mile of supporting Sassou Nguesso to change the constitution in 2015. To pay them back, immediately he was fraudulently elected in April 2016, he sparked a war in Pool region. It is a classic example of human orchestrated disaster. For 80 thousand people in the Pool region need assistance that the broke government can't afford and many more have died or missing.

Normally, cadres of the PCT would have sat down and decide to force Sassou Nguesso out of power. Perhaps with has happened in South Africa, which is not the first though, political party leaders, especially those of the ruling party will now understand the need to put country first before their individual or political interest.

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Elie Smith

14.Feb.2018

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The trick star and maverick Politician, Paul Biya has decided this time around to use but these brain washed youths. Haven understood the worthlessness of the People's call, which became a huge scandal, these youths had to gather in Yaoundé, at the Yaoundé Conference Centre.

Gathering under the auspices of " Friends of Popaul" It beats my imagination that youths of age 40 and below can pretend that they are Biya's friends when the realities on the ground show great disparities and frustration. Youth unemployment is galloping and all appointments are given to retirees, who have worked with the government and are brought back to continue where they rested.

Even the Senatorial Election does not give priority to youths below 40 years of age. Where then is the place of these youths who gathered at the Conference Centre as " Friends of Popaul" pretentiously clamouring for Paul Biya to stand in the forth coming Presidential Elections.

The purported come together of Youths cutting across all Sociocultural spheres is to pretend to the International community that the Country is one. Deceit and manipulation has its flaws and these flaws are unamendable. Instead of struggling to admit that the Anglophone crisis is real and only genuine dialogue and the resolve of the root cause as requested by the UN can peace return to this once an Island of peace amidst troubled waters.

The confused youths amounting to three thousand answered present paid and lodged by the state on a wasteful venture that has no bearing. Can Paul Biya show his balance sheet to anybody and claim that it's a positive one? His tenure as President of Cameroon has brought untold turmoil to the country. Cameroonians attribute Economic Crisis to his tenure and to his person.

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Rita Akana

14.Feb.2018

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What does the Electoral code say about this election? The depositions related to the senatorial election are contained in Article 8 of the Electoral code. This years Senatorial election is slated for the 25 th of March, 2018. The electoral college had been summoned to that effect on the 7, February 2018..

The organization of this election is defined by law no 2012/001 of 19 April 2012 being the Electoral code. In Chapter 8, the electoral code dwells on articles 212 and 242, thus defining and modifying the modus oparandi of the elections, eligibility, the electoral college, the declaration of candidature, electoral campaigns, voting and proclamation of results.

It should be noted that the Senate has a five mandate and new elections are organized, forty days to the end of the previous mandate. The elections are of mixed candidates and one round. Each party participating in the elections is obliged to present a list of 8 candidates chosen amongst his militants, having the main candidate and an alternate candidate for each Poll.

Each aspiring senator must be of age 40 or on or before the election date. The Senate in Cameroon has a capacity of 100 seats and out of these, only 70 are on offer for elections and the remaining 30 are appointed by the head of state. Each Senatorial candidate is obliged to pay a caution fee of one million francs CFA. The Senatorial election is a list system and there isn't any possibility of swapping of names on a submitted list.

The electoral college is made up of municipal councillors. They are obliged to vote . The voters list is published per poll 30 days before the elections.

They are given special electoral cards uniquely for the senatorial election. These cards are supposed to be distributed by Elecam , within 20 days before the Senatorial election.

The constitutional council has fifteen days maximum to proclaim the results of the elections. The candidate with the highest votes per poll is declared the winner and thus the Senator for that Division.

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Rita Akana

13.Feb.2018

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It's so saddening today that the African sociocultural and cosmic Fibre that use to connect families and lineages together seemingly have become ruined by copy catting of European ways of life. These mundane European ways of life that aren't comparable to ours have left societies in a state of topsy turvy. If this wasn't the scenario, how could a nephew be accused by the uncle for haven confiscated his home, illicitly converting it into his father's residence.

The complainant, Florent . E accuses his nephew for illicitly converting his house to his father's residence. Tabling the matter at the Nfoundi Court of First Instance, his nephew presented his own version of the story. " As a son of my father, my sister hadn't any place she could call her home.

My father then showed her a house in the Etoudi neighborhood. Before she died she left behind very firm instructions, alluding that the house should become the property of their elder brother, who had passed away several years ago. The house was then given to his daughter.

When she became of age or matured,she came and requested for the parcel of land that is being occupied by sister and her children. My sister rejected her request. Unfortunately she decided to begin creating problems here and there. Now her children want to recuperate what belongs to them and they are refusing to bulge.

It's for this reason that this complaint has been filed in two different courts for judgment and verdicts by the competent Court Judges.

The case has been adjourned for a latter date. Cases in Cameroon often suffer from protracted adjournments and this kills the spirit of equity and justice .Justice delayed is justice denied.

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Rita Akana

13.Feb.2018

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Three more Gendarmes are killed in Kembong on Feb. 11
Cameroon Defence Ministry spokesman admits War crimes
Soldiers launch punitive expedition as three more gendarmes are killed in Kembong on Feb 11. Defence Ministry spokesman, Col. Didier Badjeck, who made the announcement, also defended the army's collective punishment reprisals against the local population, telling the French news agency, AFP, that "you cannot make omelettes without cracking eggs." Badjeck also took a swipe at the EU and other international organizations that have criticized the regime's use of force, arguing that innocent civilians in places where soldiers are killed are complicit and deserved to be punished. This clearly is a man who talks before he thinks. If Badjeck thinks such tough-talk would earn him applause, then he's mistaken, because he just inadvertently admitted that Cameroon security forces are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ambazonia. The world is watching as the resistance continues.

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Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

13.Feb.2018

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celebrations turned violently bloody across the Northern and Southern zones amidst the lies telling propaganda of the regime that normalcy has returned. The Sub Divisional officer for Batibo as well as three Gendarmes were killed yesterday. This nullifies the fake announcement by CRTV that normalcy has returned.

This breaking news is so scaring and worrisome to the other civil Administrators across the Northern and Southern zones. The folly of LA Republique Du Cameroun for declaring war on the people of Southern Cameroon's and using its scouts in fighting the unarmed civilians hasn't paid any dividends.

Three other scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun were equally killed in Kembong in the South West Region. Other attacks were purportedly pushed back by the scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun. In a video published online by the separatist leader, Sako Ikome Samuel who is presented as the Interim President of Ambazonia.

The name given to the restored state of Southern Cameroon's have called for self defence against the scouts of LA Republique Du Cameroun, whom he accuses for haven caused untold damage and destructions on Southern Cameroon's territory and people. Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the kidnapped leader of the state of Ambazonia, illegally kidnapped in Nigeria on the 5th of January and flown into Yaoundé and kept incommunicado for more than one month now alongside 51 others.

The international community especially America and the United Nations Human Right Commission for Refugees have unequivocally demanded that these kidnapped persons be returned to Nigeria. Yaoundé pretends that they were kidnapped to face charges against them though we know that they were only kidnapped after a well woven conspiracy internationally woven.

LA Republique Du Cameroun has no right to hold them in Yaounde because it's on record that even LA Republique Du Cameroun voted against the issue of the plebiscite of having Southern Cameroon's joining LA Republique Du Cameroun. Resolution 1608 of the UN puts LA Republique Du Cameroun on the scales of shame, disgrace and humiliation. Is there any international instrument of law that LA Republique Du Cameroun can use to buttress their claim of having legitimacy over Southern Cameroon's territorial boundaries? Francophones must be told that the era of falsehood and manipulation is over.

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Rita Akana

12.Feb.2018

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