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Police and gendarmes, on April 6, forced open the gate of the St. Joseph Cathedral Big Mankon, Bamenda, for the FENASSCO ‘B’ Games football final to hold, against the advice of the owners of the playground; the Bishop and the Church.
Prior to the finals, the administration of the Northwest, made frantic efforts to get the church to allow access to the playground and the request was turned down. The FENASSCO officials were thus informed that they could not use the Catholic School playground because tracks had been circulated by unidentified persons threatening to burn the school if the FENASSCO finals took place there.
Reverend Father Humphrey Tata Mbuy, who spoke to the press, described the incident as regrettable. The person in charge of the playground, according to Tata Mbuy, had turned down the application.
Instead of taking the finals to the many other playgrounds in Bamenda, the forces of law and order forced open the gate into the holy premises and heavily deployed well armed troops and the children played the finals without spectators.
Addressing athletes and officials who converged at Bamenda Commercial Avenue grandstand for the official closing of the 2017 FENASSCO “B”, the Minister of Basic Education, Youssouf Hadidja Alim, congratulated the participants for excellent performances and called on winners not to lie on their laurels while consoling those who performed poorly to work hard next year in the East Region.
West Region came first with 12 gold medals out of the 24 medals won; Littoral came 2nd with nine gold medals in 25 medals (highest); Northwest 3rd – seven gold medals in 13 medal; Centre Region – six gold medals; Adamawa 5 – gold medals; Far North – four gold medals; North – three; East – one; Southwest – one; the South Region occupied the last position with seven silver and six bronze making 13 medals.
The Governor the Northwest Region, Lele L’Afrique and the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council, represented by the Secretary General of the Council, Jude Waindim, handed over the medals.
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Communication Minister and Government Spokesperson, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, says the ongoing crisis in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon is not in any way related to the slow implementation of the decentralisation process in the country.
“The ongoing problem in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon is not in any related to the slow implementation of the decentralisation process,” Tchiroma stated.
Speaking on April 12 in a press conference, the Communication Minister alongside experts from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation reiterated that much has been achieved as far as the implantation of the decentralisation process is concerned.
Going by him, implementing decentralisation is a complicated situation that needs time since Government cannot fulfil the demands of the process overnight.
“The process of decentralisation is a complicated process, but what is certain is that Government is bent on implementing the system. The process will continue and will go to an end even though some major challenges are faced.”
Recalling that the mode of organisation and administration of the State originated from the deep history of Cameroon, the Communication boss said, the Constitution of June 2, 1972 actually offered only limited prospects for the strengthening of decentralisation.
Tchiroma further averred that the Constitution of January 18, 1996, came in to give a new impetus and a more ambitious content to decentralisation.
“This fundamental change therefore paved the way for a genuine strengthening of the decentralisation process.”
Concerning the transfer of competences and resources, 60 of the 63 competences devolved to 20 Ministerial Departments were effectively transferred by the State to local and city councils as of December 31, 2015.
With regard to the financial resources legally allocated to the Regional and Local Authorities by the transfer of taxation, by allocation or by both, the amount allocated for the period 2010-2015 amounted to FCFA 251 billion.
The Minister, however, noted that the State has already transferred the commonly called “windscreen license” royalties to Regional and Local Authorities , the local development tax, a proportionate share of the supplementary municipal tax and a proportionate share of the annual forestry royalty.
Within five years, the State has repaid nearly FCFA 600 billion to Regional and Local Authorities within the framework of transfer of powers.
On why Government has not put in place Regional Councils as stated by the Constitution, experts from Territory Administration said the process is a gradual process and that with the putting in place of the Senate, there is hope that there is no turning back.
Despite challenges in effectively implementing the decentralisation process, the Minister and experts from the Ministry of Territorial Administration said, the decentralisation process is an obligation for the Government.
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A Southern Cameroonian inmate in Kondengui abducted as a result of the current Southern Cameroons crisis has been attacked. His right eye was attacked with a fork and was almost plucked off. Information says this came as a result of provocation and mockery his francophone brother did unto him as a flag burner (for burning La Republique flag).
This information was made public earlier by the Secretary General of SCACUF Mr. Tassang Wilfred ON his official facebook page.
BaretaNews correspondent in Yaounde has confirmed this incident and Mr. Vernso Stephen is currently undergoing treatment. Let us continue to pray for him.
BaretaNews was made to understand that since the announcement of the UN SG representative that all Anglophones arrested should be released, some francophones inmates have become violent and crazy on Anglophone colleagues. They are bent on harming some before they ever leave. Our people are now afraid. Kondengui is not safe anymore. We are told as a result Dr. Fontem has been urgently transferred today to meet Barrister Balla and Mancho at Principale section of the prison.
We of BaretaNews continue to call for restrain. Prison authorities must make sure Anglophone inmates are offered maximum security. We also call on Southern Cameroonians to receive this new information with good faith and not to retaliate on any francophone. It's a struggle for restoration and not a francophone vs Anglophone issue.
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The endgame of this struggle is a UN-supervised REFERENDUM. Nothing more nothing less. Like it or not, the UN cannot give Southern Cameroonians federalism or Independence. However, Southern Cameroonians can force the UN to recognize their right of self-determination. The civil disobedience is an effective weapon to achieve that. After the UN have recognized this right they will then accept to supervise a free and fair Referendum. The truth of the matter is that LRC does not want even to hear the word "federation", let alone independence.
The solution of our marginalisation can therefore not come from LRC. LRC wants to maintain the Status quo with cosmetic measures such as the commission on bilingualism, etc. Dialogue according to LRC is for Southern Cameroonians to accept the "one and indivisible" form of the state of LRC.
The endgame of a referendum is achievable because history has proven that the Slogan of a ” ONE AND INDIVISIBLE COUNTRY ” is a myth.
The “ruling elite” in Cameroon is not the first to claim that the Country will remain “one and indivisible”. Many dictators before Biya have only used such slogans to cling to power. Permit me to cite a few of them:
1. Dictator Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin vowed that the Soviet Union will remain “one and indivisible” ad infinitum. However, the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 resulted in the creation of 15 independent countries.
2. Dictator Josip Broz Tito promised that Yugoslavia will remain “one and indivisible” forever. Today we know that he was only day-dreaming
3. Dictator Umar al-Baschir swore that Sudan was “one and indivisible”. Today we know that he was simply playing to the gallery.
4. Dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam pledged that Ethiopia will remain “one and indivisible”. Today Eritrea is an independent country
5. Dictator Edvard Beneš swore that Czechoslovakia will remain “one and indivisible”. Today there are Czech Republic and slovakia as independent couintries
6. General Suharto vowed that Indonesia will remain “one and indivisible “. However, today East Timor is an independent state.
7. etc.
Southern Cameroonians should therefore ignore the fear mongering of Agents of LRC that more bloodwill be spillt if we want to separate from Biya's so-called "one and indivisible" LRC. The truth of the matter is that the BIR of LRC can NEVER EVER maintain LRC “one and indivisible”. The Soviet Union was the second most powerful nation in the world but she disintegrated into 15 independent states.
The only guarantee for a “one and indivisible” Cameroon is the dismantling of the SYSTEMIC marginalisation of the minority Anglophones.
Southern Cameroonians MUST therefore continue with the civil disobedience and even intensify it until the UN recognises our right of self-determination by accepting to supervise a REFERENDUM.
End.
I will be back.
Mark Bareta
From Bui County
Southern Cameroons
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Cameroun Audit Conseil and CBL Consulting two selected service providers who failed to meet up with desired standards in delivering the integrated Personal Management system used by the state of Cameroon may soon have a second chance. Michel Ange Angouing, the minister in charge of the Civil Service (Minfopra) says the integrated Management System which goes by its French acronym as Système informatique de gestion intégrée des personnels de l’Etat et de la solde, deuxième génération (Sigipes II) presented by the two service providers last year, did not have all necessary components.
In a recent cabinet meeting convened in Yaounde by the Prime Minister Philemon Yang in Yaounde to audit the SIGIPES II project which will cost some 7.5 billion Frs CFA, Michel Ange Angouing said he was already in touch with the service providers to make sure that the software was delivered with all components to the satisfaction of all parties.
Pundits have praised the move of the state to acquire such sophisticated software which will clean up the ghost workers from the Cameroon payroll and ensure proper civil service personnel management but are worried over the fact that corrupt Cameroonians may still be the ones to operate the software. Many have said “Nothing might change”.
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Lawyers in West Cameroon have lost income for six months and their families are suffering. Were they sacrificing for the usual promises?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
Consortium Leaders are in jail, some on self exile, while their families are suffering in Cameroon. Did they ask for promises?
No, Mr. President of Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
Over 100 West Cameroonians, arbitrarily arrested and incarcerated in East Cameroon are suffering in jails for months. Is that why they are paying this price?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
Some of our children have been killed and their families are still in pain. Did they die for promises?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
Our children have sacrificed a whole academic year; parents have lost school fees paid; teachers in private schools are without salary for 5 months now. Is that what they sacrificed (and are still sacrificing) for?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
Business people in West Cameroon have lost income from sales by adhering to Ghost Towns. Some have seen their fortune go up in flames! What have they got in return?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
My colleagues are in jail while others have been forced to go on exile for daring to stand for the TRUTH! Are Lawyers not the watchdogs (whistle-blower
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
How can I go to court in a country where a Superscale Magistrate in active Service at the Supreme Court (Ayah Paul Abine) is arrested and incarcerated with impunity ~ without due process?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
How can I go to court when an Honorable Member of Parliament (Joseph Wirba) who did nothing more than his duty as a true Representative of the people (and not a hand-clapper) has been forced out of his country for telling the TRUTH?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
West Cameroonians have suffered more than enough in this Triangle since 1961 as their heritage has been completely wiped out!
Where is Cameroon Bank?
Where is NPMB?
Where is WADA?
Where is PWD?
Where is Yoke Power Station?
Where is Santa Coffee Estate?
Where are our much cherished Institutions? Health? Education? Justice? Law and Order? Etc, etc?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, you are not an Anglophone and I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017.
If I should go to court on the 02.05.2017 or thereafter:
1. ALL our brothers and sisters arrested as a result of the strike action that we (Common Law Lawyers) started on the 11.10.2016 must be UNCONDITIONALLY
2. Internet Connection cut off from West Cameroon on 18.01.2017 must be re-instated.
3. The towns and villages of West Cameroon flooded with soldiers, must be de-militarized.
When the above pre-conditions would have been met, dialogue will resume so that the problem of marginalization
Is this a poem?
No, Mr. President of the Cameroon Bar Council, I won’t go to court on the 02.05.2017 or any date thereafter as I’m ready to boycott the courts for two years (renewable) until JUSTICE is done and seen to have been done to us.
ShuSheey AKUWIYADZE,
(Barrister-At-L
Kumbo.
West Cameroon.
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