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After 8 years at the helm of the elections governing body ELECAM, Dr Samuel Fonkam Azu’u has been ejected from the structure. He has been replaced by former governor Enow Abrams Egbe and former inspector at the ministry of sports and physical education Amougou Abena Apauline as vice president. The mandate of some ELECAM board members which had expired in January this year has been extended by four years by the head of state. Some new members have also been appointed to join the board members of ELECAM including Abena Apauline, Dieudonne Amougou and Mbu Peter.
These decisions are contained in a series of decrees signed and made public yesterday by President Paul Biya.
The new ELECAM boss reacts positively to his appointment and calls for the collaboration of the media.
Mr. Enow Abrams Egbe says “I am grateful for the choice of the Head of State, for renewed confidence in my modest person. I want to cease this opportunity to say that we are called for better challenges. We have to put all hands on deck and work together to make it work. I think that with the collaboration of the media. The media must be positive so that we give our country a good electoral system”.
The replacement of Dr. Samuel Fonkam Azu’u at the helm of ELECAM is coming less than a month after he had a heated argument with the general manager of ELECAM Abdoulai Babale over the payment of certain benefits to board members. The General Manager of ELECAM had refused to pay up saying he was not sure of their status as ELECAM board members.
The now sacked ELECAM president Dr. Fonkam Azu’u, argued that he remains a board member until the head of state appoints new members or extends the mandates of the old members. It should be noted that the former Director General of ELECAM Sani Tanimu before being sacked, also had conflicts with Dr Samuel Fonkam Azu’u.
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Bishops recommend dialogue as way forward to the Anglophone crisis, say government should acknowledge what is wrong and give right solutions to it.
Bishops have recommended dialogue among stakeholders of the Anglophone crisis as the only way out for the situation which is crippling activities in the North West and south west regions of the country. They were speaking at their plenary session which opened in Yaoundé yesterday April 25 2017.
The 42 plenary session of the catholic bishops of Cameroon which took place amidst the Anglophone crisis and against the backdrop of the recent Court summons issued to the Anglophone bishops of North and South West regions who have been accused of not allowing children to go to school amongst others.
However, all accusations have been rejected as illustrated by the Archbishop of Bamenda, spokesperson of the English speaking bishops in Cameroon.
“We are not the parents to tell the children to go school. Our schools are always open and ready and we have told them any child who comes to our schools is welcome. But no parent dares to send their children” says Archbishop of Bamenda.
“We have had two meetings with parents and they have vowed to keep their children home until their problems are looked into. They say they want to prepare a better future for their children. Some are accusing us that government is not receiving taxes from us because we are not paying teachers. They are not even thinking about the welfare of the teachers themselves. So you ask yourself, who is accusing us?” he adds.
The Bishops are calling for dialogue as the only way to get out of this crisis.
Spokesperson for the Anglophone Bishops says “The moment you acknowledge that something is wrong, find out what is wrong and try to give the right solutions to what is wrong. Then there will be peace”
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When historians become silent and blind when historical facts are distorted and disgorged, then know that intellectual dishonesty is flooding and rocking that nation.
How can a Country's history be so muddied, ruffed and truncated like that of Cameroon?
How can one nation be having three flags and as many Constitutions that concurrently run like Cameroon?
I have asked to know which of these flags represents who and that question keeps slipping and skipping off my Mind unanswered.
From memory I know and can recollect that French Cameroon had their political independence from France in 1960 with a piece of cloth having Green,Red and Yellow stripes without anY uniqueness! Reluctantly they accepted the erstwhile Southern Cameroon,so that the new nation be established called the Federal Republic of Cameroon, that same piece of cloth was rammed down the gullible and bellitician John Ngu Foncha and it now had two golden stars on the green stripe. As if that was never enough the French scheme to Francophonize the Anglophones was and became an agenda.
Then came 1984 when by the stroke of the presidential golden pen the name of the nation once more was changed as it was changed from the Federal Republic of Cameroon to the the United Republic and then to la Republique du Cameroun.
What a deception and what a fraud or fraudulent way to manipulate public opinion and gradually erase a people's identity and uniqueness?
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My Fellow West Cameroonians,
A few hours to the start of our "Civil Disobedience", the weapon we have been divinely instructed to use against the forces of oppression that wreak havoc and cause bloodshed, I wish to remind you again that:
1. Our struggle is a peaceful resistance, not a violent one. No citizen, worthy of West Cameroon should take part in any form of violence or take part in any bloodshed. Teachers will not go to school, so children, don't bother to go to school. The indigenes of West Cameroon are heroically and collectively resolved to resist until their demands are met.
2. Any one who dreams of enjoying the citizenship of West Cameroon should do well to keep their children at home so that State provocateurs will not use them to inflict violence on our community again. We have known shame, lack, abuse and all forms of human suffering, but only self-discipline will take us through.
3. Our God is God of justice and truth. He defends the weak. He delivered Israel from the hands of Pharaoh with his mighty army. He will do same for us. So, we do not have to fight to achieve it. God will do it for us.
4. Anyone who plans to betray this cause should imagine what will happen when God finally gives us the victory. The shame will be too much for you and your future generations. Think about that and don't doubt what God can do.
5. Finally, I thank the Church and all the Men Of God for their prayers and intercessions. We look forward to a nation that will serve God in truth and in spirit, free from intimidation, marginalization and the fear of the unknown.
God bless our peaceful struggle.
Dr. Fontem A. Neba
Secretary General
Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium
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A group of police officers have paraded the empty streets of Bamenda early this morning to stage an anti ghost town protest.
The officers who were all dressed in civilian attires were carrying banners and posters denouncing the still down of activities in the city on Mondays.
The banners carried messages claiming the population of Bamenda denounces ghost towns. Ironically, our reporters in town informed Cameroon Concord that those who took part in the sham demo were numbered below 30 persons.
Southern Cameroonian logger and activist wrote this on his wall:
While Ghost town is going effectively in Bamenda, we are seeing few police men and ladies disguise as civilians marching and they could be heard speaking in French.
La Republique you lost it. We are in charge.
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Since Friday night, life at the family residence of the arrested Justice Ayah Paul Abine has not been the same again as unidentified individuals stormed the residence and injected fear and panic to the family through threats of death.
The family during a press conference over the weekend explained an incident during which unidentified terrorists as they called it attacked and menaced them with threats of death.
“Friday night, there were some terrorists at our gate, they tried forcing themselves in for 2 hours but did not succeed. They rang the bell severally and even called out on us. We don’t know who these people are working for; we don’t know who sent them and we don’t know what they need but we know that they were after us” says one of the family members of the arrested Judge. “It is very difficult to say this is a coincidence because this is happening at a time when our father has been under illegal detention following his forced arrest on January 21 2017. Can this be a coincidence?” he questions.
We are calling on the authorities that they should take this very seriously, because the lives of the Ayah’s are under siege. Our family is under attack. These terrorists are ready to do everything to get us.
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