Inside Cameroon

A group of five boys are on the run in Bamenda after haven allegedly chopped off the hands of three students at Government Bilingual High School Bamenda yesterday June 5 2017. This incident took place behind the school campus when these boys attacked the girls with cutlasses.

Some girls were witnesses to the act but those boys who carried out the act promised them worst if they called for the attention of those around.

The motive for this action is unknown and rumors goes that it is because this school is one of the two GCE Writing Centers in Bamenda and coupled with the violation of school boycott on the part of these girls. Rumors also goes that these girls went for revision classes in preparation for the upcoming GCE exams.

Bamenda has witnessed turmoil lately but it has not been violence against school children and more precisely the girl child.

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Rita Akana

07.Jun.2017

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The Head of State and Commander in Chief fo the army, Paul Biya has instructed that hard measures be taken against 33 soldiers who staged a protest in the Far North region over the weekend.

A source has confirmed  to Cameroon Concord that the striking soldiers were feried to Yaounde yesterday on the instructions of the Head of state where they are presently under detention. In a communique signed by the Minister Delegate at the Presidency incharge of Defence, Jospeh Beti  Assomo, Investigations have been opened to establish the truth of the matter at the end of which they would stand trial at the Military Tribunal .

33 soldiers of the Cameroon Airforce  who are part of the Multinational Joint Task Force, MNJTF  over the weekend blocked the National road No 1 around Waza in protest of unpaid allowances. They also wanted their present dues to be tallied with their colleagues in MINUSCA operations in the Central Africa Republic. When we sought to enquire why the contingent fighting Boko Haram earns less than peace keepers in the Central African Republic, a defence official told Cameroon Concord that they MNJTF is funded by countries who are plagued by the terror threat of the group and the money coughed out by Cameroon, Chad, Nigeria and Niger cannot be compared to that of the UN who is funding peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic.

In the meantime, the speedy transfer of the striking boots to Yaounde and their subsequent trial is raising dust as to the management of resources in the anti  Boko Haram offensive. While they could be disciplind for carrying out their fustrations away from the camp, top security officials who are found wanting in the management of resources in the operation will not also be spared.

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06.Jun.2017

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Reports reaching Cameroon Concord from the Far North region, say about 30 Cameroonian soldiers of the air force who are part of the Multi-national Joint  Task Force, MNJTF fighting Boko Haram in the troubled zone mounted barricades in Waza and Dabanga in protest over the weekend.

The angry boots were demanding equal payment of bonuses which till now appears to be lower than what their fellow colleagues on continental assignment receive.  Most of them are alleged to have asked the Commander of the MNJTF to tell the Cameroon Defense Ministry to treat them like other Cameroonian contingents in peace keeping operations in the Central African Republic.

 We are yet to confirm whether bonuses recently given to Cameroon MINUSCA soldiers by the President of the Republic pushed their colleagues of the MNJTF to cry out. But one thing we know  is that Cameroonian soldiers have been fighting the Boko Haram terror group for close to three years now, and it is likely they expect more from government for the selfless services rendered to the country. 

Administrative and Security authorities of the region rushed to calm the striking lawyers. But the head of the Communication division at the Ministry of Defence, Colonel Didier Badjeck has rubbished claims that such an incident took place insisting that the atmosphere is serene and bonuses paid on regular basis.

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05.Jun.2017

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Two boys from the same family drowned in River Benue in Garoua over the weekend. Both boys reportedly took advantage of their mother's absence to go swimming with friends. Their mother had travelled to Ngaoundere for her daughter's thesis defence.
The two boys, 12 & 14, were in the company of two others.
According to the CRTV, one of the boys had attempted to go further into the river in spite of strong warnings from the other boy who had brought them there. As he moved further, the current became too strong and carried him away. Upon seeing the danger, his brother tried to hold him but it was too late as the water swept both of them away.
Their corpses have been fished out and are responding to an autopsy .

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Tasha Seidou

05.Jun.2017

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A landlord in the Bassa neighborhood in Douala yesterday carried away a pot of chicken soup his tenant’s wife had been cooking. Every effort by the neighbors to convince the landlord handover the pot of soup back was met with stiff resistance.

The landlord bitterly speaks out “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.”

The other tenants say their landlord has been very lenient to this guy ever since he started refusing to pay his rents but it has never gotten to this stage. They acknowledge the fact that the landlord is very troublesome when it comes to rent issues but they could not understand why he has been quiet on this guys case, “it is just today we are learning the tenant had been quoting sections of the Penal Code to scare the landlord away” this tenant says.

Douala with its dense population is facing serious housing shortage and people cling to the houses they get despite the ill-treatment they get from some landlords. The Government has managed to build low cost houses to curb this housing shortage but the problem still persists.

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Ivo Nsame

02.Jun.2017

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Last Wednesday, four suspected bandits armed with knives stormed the Marché Nkololoun holding each and every trader to drop the sum of 500frs CFA or they will not be responsible for what will happened to those who do not comply.

The Gendarmes were informed and they quickly arrived the scene but “Rambo” the gang leader wanted to defend his title by engaging in a knife fight with the forces of law and order but was shot in the ribs as the law officer defended himself with his gun. His colleagues seeing their commander wounded took off but the public apprehended one of them and gave him snake beatings but the law officers rescued him from the hands of death.

One of the traders whose name we got as Raul said “we usually see small scale theft incidents here and we don’t know what courage these guys had to come during the day to harass traders, it was just because of the knives that we could not stage a fight with them but thank God we have the Gendarmes just nearby”

Two of the bandits are at large and Rambo(the ringleader) with his colleague who survived a gunshot and serious beatings have been transferred to Bonanjo to face the law.

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Ivo Nsame

01.Jun.2017

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