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The constitutional court, prescribed by Cameroon’s 1996 fundamental law, has finally been established on February 7, 2018 by Paul Biya. According to this fundamental law, the court is composed of 11 members appointed for a 6-year term which is renewable. The members are chosen based on notable and a proven reputation.

They must have “great integrity and established competencies”. The presidential decree, which established the court, appointed Clément Atangana as president and 10 other officials as members with most of them being former members of government. They are Emmanuel Bonde, Joseph Marie Bipoun Woum, Florence Rita Arrey, Emile Essombe, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Jean-Baptiste Bakousda, Bah Oumarou Sanda, Charles Etienne Lekene Donfack, Jean Fouman Akame and Ahmadou Tidjani.

Seasoned Political Analyst, Ekinneh Agbaw Ebai comments:

Clement Atangana appointed President of the Constitutional Council; two Anglophones were included for window-dressing.
It is either Francophones don't know why Anglophones are angry or they know but they don't just care. In a supposedly bilingual nation of over 250 ethnic groups, how can anyone explain why Biya appoints only his Beti kith and kin to the commanding heights of authority in almost all positions in the public service and the army? The next Francophone president will do the same, so it is just a waste of time thinking we can belong to one nation with these people. From the President of the Republic, Senate President; House Speaker, ECOSOC President, Supreme Court President; and President of the Constitutional Council (all are Francophones). Before CPDM cheerleaders and regime apologists jump up with their predictable reaction that Biya has discretionary powers to appoint whoever he wants, let me remind them to check out the ages of the members of the Constitutional Council. I bet the youngest of them is 70 years old. We cannot continue putting up with such nonsense. We must get back to Buea...the resistance continues

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Biya has schedule Senatorial Election for March 25 and convoked the electoral college comprising Mayors and municipal Councillors. The cavalier manner in which the electoral college was convoked reinforces Cameroon's international image as a country with highly dysfunctional institutions where bizarre things happen. Cameroon is really a Banana Republic. Barring any upset, the CPDM is expected to win since they control a majority of the Councils all over the country. Although Biya still has to appoint three (3) Sin-ators from each region, what if people like Nfon Mukete, Chief Tabetando, Achidi Achu et al come out to say there should be no elections in the SW and NW until Biya ends his anti-Anglophone jihad?

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Violence reignited across the North West Region. The past two days sporadic gun shots have been reported across the city of Bamenda and beyond. Schools continue to be razed to the ground by yet to be identified arsonist.

The latest case of such misfortune is GTHS Mbatu that got roasted last night. This is very lamentable because no arsonist has ever been arrested despite the fact that these school premises are purportedly heavily guarded by the Gendarmes as well as the BIR.

Five corpses of some civilians killed by the security agents in their violent crack down on the population under the guise of fighting terrorist and terrorism. The corpses are as follows: Mesuh Promise,27,Claude Keutche Sitcheping, an engineer 47. Both are alleged to have been shot in Belo.

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To wish for somebody's death no matter how bad that person might be is being sadistic. Code a radical group formed by some Cameroonians in the diaspora had peddled this rumour for close to one week or more.

This group of persons for vicious reasons made this story to circulate on the social media.

According to them, Biya was rushed to tp Switzerland for an urgent medical attention. It was even alleged that around the hospital where he was hospitalized, some Police officers had been positioned to thoroughly search those coming to the hospital. They equally had alleged that he left Cameroon secretly, so as to hid anything about his health situation. Unfortunately nothing about this medical tourism had been mentioned on any press release by the Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon. According to CODE, the presidential couple were in an intensive care unit with life support plants put in place to assist in respiration that was failing.

These allegations haven't been proven as true by any source at the Presidency or anywhere else.

The threats of Boko Haram insurgents haven't been tamed. Insurgency is an ideology and ideologies aren't fought with weapons and therefore can't be crushed using a military approach. Six people lost their lives to these savages on Sunday the 4th of January, 2018, in a locality called Hitawa in the Far North Region.

This incident was attributed to the Boko Haram insurgents as reported by security sources. The Brigadier General of the Cameroon armed forces, Jean Claude Rene Meka cautioned the soldiers to remain super vigilant and careful with their own safety while fighting this violent and dangerous band of terrorist.

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After the illegal abduction of the interim president of Ambazonia, Ayuk Tabe& his team in Nigeria & eventually sent to Cameroon,where they could stand trial starting next week, the interim gov't of the restorationist have appointed: Dr Samuel Ikome Sako commonly known as commonsense, as acting President & Mr Milton Taka, acting deputy.Both personalities will henceforth take over the duties of running the affairs of the cabinet while waiting on the fate of those arrested.

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Tour of Senior Divisional Officer,SDO for Koupe Manegouba within his administrative area has been cancelled. According to a staff of the ministry of territorial administration, who crave for anonymity, reason for suspension is lack of safety.The Biya administrator who is in control of that area had planned to visit schools and businesses within his area of control today.But news from the activities in other areas in Southern Cameroon's, and a lack of adequate security forces to protect him while on his mission, has left him with no other choice, but to cancel the trip.

There has been over the last period of time several attacks on security personal themselves by Ambazonian freedom fighters.This has made the situation very scary for administrators all around Southern Cameroons.Last week, the Governor of the North West Region, issued a communique ordering all denizens in possession of locally made firearms to hand them over to the authorities.

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There has been uncertainty, fear and a tense atmophere in Bamenda, The main city of the NW region of Cameroon early Monday, 5. February 2018. Streets across the city are all empty and businesses closed.The situation is tensed.This comes after a weekend of heavy gun firing by unidentified individuals all across the city over the weekend, which convinced parents to defy gov't orders to send their children to school".

Seasoned journalist Elie Smith reported that,after verifications from different sources on the ground, I can confirm that, exchange of gunshots took place in several neighborhoods of Bamenda as at when I made my first tweet on the subject. I will be bringing you causality figures soon.

Meanwile in Mamfe, there is also a serious town,Elie Smith writes. I have just been told that, like in Bamenda, intense gunshots throughout the night, has forced inhabitants to stay in doors. Unlike Bda, where those shooting are not known,in Mamfe, my contacts said, it was Cam security forces shooting, in a bid to frighten off Amba Tigers infiltrations.

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