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Panic griped administrative authorities in Ndop in Ngoketunjia Division of the North West Region, when cable operators in the Division recently added the newly created Southern Cameroons Broadcasting Corporation (SCBC TV) to their cable lines and transported the signals into homes.
Within hours, everybody in Ndop was watching the television channel and relegated the State-owned Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV) to the background.
The people said CRTV has been carrying out Government propaganda and broadcasting lies to Cameroonians and the entire world about the Anglophone Problem, which has paralysed economic, academic and judicial institutions in the North West and South West Regions for half a year now.
The people regarded SCBC as their own station that will tell their own story and portray their suffering to the entire world to see how Anglophones in Cameroon are not only marginalised, but how they are treated as second class citizens by their French counterpart.
News of the new channel spread in the Ngoketunjia Divisional headquarters (Ndop) like wild fire and within hours, the Senior Divisional Officer (SDO) of Ngoketunjia, Valery Nobert Kuella, is said to have switched on his television set in the office and captured the new channel.
Stunned by the new channel and the enthusiasm with which the population of the Division has received it, the administrator immediately summoned the Legion Commander of Ndop to his office and ordered him to rally his men and arrest the seven cable network operators and dashed into households and arrest all those watching the new channel.
The Ndop Legion Commander and his men set out for work and swooped on the cable network distributors and remanded them into custody, while a manhunt was opened for viewers of the channel.
The SDO is reported to have requested for more security forces to be drafted into the Division to help maintain law and order, especially as the country prepares to celebrate her 45th National Day.
According to Kuella, the Division has been suffering from intense Ghost Town and that the administration will not take any chances from anybody that will attempt to destabilise the security of the State.
The SDO is also said to have ordered that all young people who are fanning and promoting the Ghost Town calls in Ndop should be arrested.
Speaking to Cameroon Concord one of our source in Ndop said; “Young people in Ndop, especial the male are sleeping in their farms now just to escape from arrest.”
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The reaction of Cameroonians to men in uniform is as, alarming, old and threatening as the presence of colonial masters in Africa and Cameroon (in particular).
But as Cameroon celebrates National “Unity” Day, things are losing their masks gradually.
The Ministry of Defence has invited and urged Cameroonians to go closer to men in uniform at the 101 air base in Yaounde in a bit to understand how they operate. This, they say, is to make the military a little familiar with civilians, in line with the theme of this year’s National Day which entails harmony between the military and civilians.
Through this encounter, most Cameroonians will fall in love with the profession and join it as soon as possible. This is another objective of the move.
However, the secrets of the corps will not be revealed to civilians, the message reiterates.
This is a wonderful move to be lauded by many, especially those who have had any dark memory about the men in uniform in Cameroon.
People who have had a foretaste of the brutal presence of the “white man” in Africa may tell you better.
I can still recall a certain day when a friend recounted a hyper-shocking story to me. That was in 2012 in Ndop (North West Region).
A certain member of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) had returned home for a break just to find out that his sister was pregnant.
Without any delay, he took matters into his own hands and gave the author of the pregnancy the kind of cruel beating that only Jesus Christ can explain its twists and turns.
He was a “BIR” and nothing could be done against him.
The same drama happened in a village in the same Region, not far from Ndop, after all.
Another “BIR” beat a man to death on the grounds that the latter had made his sister pregnant.
In fact, these two are just isolated cases in a line of uncountable life stories.
The presence of men in uniform can only be likened to the dreadful thought of hellfire, for Christians, most importantly in rural areas where most people do not know their rights.
We may not have to cite cases in our village where people just offer drinks to gendarme officers like water flowing down a river. And to an outsider, it gives the impression that the villagers are generous to a fault, even more than the Bible recommends.
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Today the 19th of May,2017, a troop of French speaking Cameroonian Police stormed homes at Alabukam, Chuboh and Mile 8 neighbourhood arresting,molesting and collecting bribes from peace loving Anglophones, who because of being fed up with the lies they are fed with by CRTV,chosed to obtain dishes so as to be informed.
How can people be deprived of their dishes that host close to forty different channels just because of one channel? Is this not a hall mark of stupidity and stupendous attitude exhibited because of the kind of junk education most Cameroonians have received from our backward professional Police Schools? Does this not infringe on the fundamental privacies of citizens that the constitution stands to safeguard and protect? These Police officers, Gendarmerie officers as well pompous BIR battalion and Soldiers must be called to order before it's too late.
Freedom of information,freedom of assembly ,freedom of movement are fundamental human rights enshrined in the United Nations Charter and prefaced on the purported Constitution of Cameroon. All of these rights have been raped,tortured and shattered in the erstwhile Southern Cameroon and especially in the North West Region.
What justifications and what explanations can the state give for destroying satellite dishes from people's private homes because they are watching a particular channel which is purportedly outlawed in the Countr?.
This portrays to the civilized world that the people we fondly call police are empty in their skulls and can only mar the image of the nation through their primitive acts and mannerism.
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Anglophone teachers in Yaounde who went protest have resumed the marking of the Government Common Entrance today after negotiations with Basic Education authorities.
The teachers went on strike following the slashing of their marking dues from 120 FCFA per script marked to 27 FCFA .
Worst still Basic education authorities displayed arrogance when they were approached by the disgruntled teachers leading to a break down in talks.
They have finally regained their marking centres after lengthy talks Thursday, with officials of the Ministry of Basic education.
It has been agreed that the cost per script will be at 60FCFA. Conditions for their feeding, transportation and additional bonuses have been increased.
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A Special recruitment of 70 Science teachers into the Higher teachers training College ENS Yaounde has been launched by the Ministry of Higher Education. The entrance exam targets candidates of the GCE 2017 Session who would have passed in Science subjects. 35 places are up for grabs in mathematics while the rest goes to the other subjects.
By launching this "concours," observers say Government is trying woo candidates in the North west and south west regions who are dragging their feet to take the exams. The GCE practicals which started this week has registered a timid turn out in the anglophone regions owing to the crisis. And officials fear the situation might be the same during the written phase. They believe that Government is therefore using this entrance exam to swell GCE participation.
Government went ahead with official exams despite the teachers strike in the english speaking regions which has kept children away from school for 6 months. Critics raised fears over the physical and mental preparedness of candidates in these regions but that has not detered government who is using every means to encourage students to take the exams. The minister of secondary education, Jean Ernest Massina Ngalle Bibehe was in the two regions where he gave specific instructions for a good conduct of the exams which is now under threat fom unknown arsonists and "mysterious" forces of nature.
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The President of the North West Fons’ Union (NOWELA), Senator Fon Teche, on Tuesday, May 16, verbally whacked the population of Santa for surreptitiously boycotting the launching of the reconstruction work on the Babadjou-Bamenda Road.
“I am quite embarrassed by the timid turnout of the population of Santa for this history making event,” Senator Teche fumed.
The NOWEFU President expressed his disgust at the turnout, when he and Senator Simon Simon Achidi Achu mounted the rostrum to vouchsafe a word of thanks on behalf of the North West population.
Both Senators thanked the World Bank and the African Development Bank for rescuing Northwesterners from the deplorable road network and has recently become a high slaughter house.
On his part, the Mayor of Santa, Moses Khan, warned protesters never to set fire on the tar when the road is completed.
To the Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, the Mayor thanked him for compensating all those whose property will be destroyed by the road project, but appealed to the Minister to hasten the transfer of competencies to councils and the rehabilitation of farm to market roads.
Earlier in his address, Minister Nganou Djoumessi, vowed that nothing would perturb the Government from tarring the 52km stretch of road.
To him, the overall objectives of the road project is to improve road safety and security by reducing transport costs and delays on the Yaounde-Enugu Nigeria corridor.
On her part, the World Bank Country Director, Elizabeth Huybens, said the holistic approach that underpins the design of the road project, is to improve Cameroon’s institutional absorptive capacity, through the establishment of programmatic planning tools and targeted post graduate training, designed to support Government’s long term strategy as defined in the Growth and Employment Strategy Paper.
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