Politics
John Mbah Akuroh, Emeritus CRTV veteran Journalist reports :
"Talks stall in Bamenda as government bench reportedly is concentrating only on seeing the strike suspended immediately without the materialization of any of the promises made so far as concessions. Right now it is cacophony in the hall with Unionists sticking to their guns! Stay glued for more updates soon.
Meanwhile tensions are high in Jakiri as the Dvision Officer for that locality has banned a proposed peaceful demonstration slated for tomorrow Saturday by Hon. Wirba Joseph.
This is what the MP said;
The DO for Kumbo Central, Mr Kamto Francis called me a while ago and said the SDO had instructed him that our meeting to restitute parliamentary proceedings to the people of Bui cannot hold.
My reply to the DO is simple and straight forward...
"Mr DO, I am the Parliamentarian of the nation, (except you have excluded West Cameroon from that nation) and the meeting I informed you l will hold with the people of Bui, built for Saturday the 14th of January 2017 will go ahead as scheduled. It will go ahead Mr DO because your decision to stop it is part of this brutal government's policy to oppress our people, keep them in fear in order to weaken them and continue treating them like slaves. As I promised from the National Assembly, WE WILL RESIST YOUR BRUTAL OPPRESSION! It is my duty and the duty of the people of West Cameroon, to stand up and resist your brutal oppression. We will be in Kumbo tomorrow
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Members of the ad hoc committee charged with examining grievances raised by Unions of the Anglophone sub system of education enter day 2 of frank discussions in Bamenda today. After yesterday's discussions, some sources emphasized that while the government bench is so far demonstrating the will to bend full circle, there are a number of issues on which they may only propose for hierarchy to dispose.
In as much as the overall goal is to free the Anglophone sub system from assimilation by the French system and to put an end to the Francophonization of the English educational institutions of higher learning, the Consortium officials insist they have not lost sight of the fact that the demands of West Cameroonians go beyond just a few reforms of the educational sector; they insist that far reaching solutions are needed as all sectors are affected.
Although it is obvious that the number one intention of government representatives at the talks is to guarantee the lifting of the teachers' strikes, trusted sources say that has not yet come to the table and it is unlikely that will happen when youths arrested and taken to Yaounde from all parts of West Cameroon have not all been released and those missing accounted for.
Again, the teachers' union representatives note that the Biya-led government cannot be taken at its word; they have stated unequivocally that any agreement must be materialized into signed decisions and decrees before the lifting of the strikes could be contemplated.
Talking to this reporter, one of the negotiating officials dismissed press reports that because they sat through the meetings and will sit again today meant the suspension of the strike is already in view.
"The strikes will only be lifted by the Consortium after clear deliberations and at a press conference when it becomes necessary", he concluded.
The entire nation has its eyes and ears turned to Bamenda.
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Would the erstwhile Southern Cameroonian be Complaining this much if the federal structure of two States of equal status were maintained?
History being our judge will accept with us that we won't have been in this grave and muddy situation of trying to blend beans and corn paste. We must admit that water and kerosene can't blend, no matter what?
Why were the the former State of West Cameroon swallowed by the erstwhile Easy Cameroon after only after eleven years after the 1961 plebiscite and reduced to two provinces of the purported United Republic of Cameroon?
I will once more say that their purported French brothers never had any good intention towards the erstwhile West Cameroonians.
Are the strikes and complaints made by the Consortium today scars of poorly treated abscess of the failed 1961 Federal structure that was born as a result of the plebiscite?
For sure and as certain as the night and dawn are aspects which we can't change. When issues are poorly handled and when deceit and manipulation becomes a means of governance, discontentment and violent anger is brewed like beer and must explode. Today we are witnessing this explosion and how humiliated the state has been?
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The 480 militants of the CPDM of Paul Biya and the FSNC party of Issa Tchiroma Bakary respectively , joined the UNDP section of Mayo-Ourna. The militants are from the villages Tcharatché and Banli, in the Mayo-Ourna district, of the Benoué division.
The reception ceremony for the defectors was chaired by Iya Boro Ahmadou, member of the central committee of the UNDP and the representative of the national president, Bello Bouba Maigari.For the occasion, a meeting was held in the town of Bardarké where the new UNDP militants received party uniforms and their individual membership cards.
According to the explanations of the president of the UNDP section of Mayo-ourna, the reception ceremony of the new militants had been an culmination of a long process initiated by the resigners a few weeks ago. “We reassure ourselves of the sincerity of the new activists we presented to the general public.They made their desire to join the UNDP since November 2016 , “said Alhaji Oumarou Mouhamadou Nana. Sanda Madi, theCPDM leader of the resignants of the subdivision , said that he had acted with his comrades and brothers for the benefit of their locality. “We realized that the CPDM was using us and our interests were not a concern. Our village lacks drinking water. We are in the dark and No promises were made by the CPDM .
This day is a new day for us and for our new political family, “he said. Same for the president of Banli’s FSNC sub-section. For Yaya Saidou Maidadi, member of the central committee of the UNDP , the reception of the former activists of Biya’s CPDM and the FSNC of Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the minister of communication, is the response of the UNDP to the simulacra of resignation Organized on 6 November 2016 in Garoua by the party in power .
“Now we will respond piece by piece.The ceremony of Bardarké is the beginning of a long series of welcoming of new members in our political formation throughout the Northern region. 2017 is the year of the UNDP , ”said Saidou Maidadi.On his telephone, to Cameroon Infos. Net the section president of Bardarké refrained from commenting on the mass resignation of the militants of the Tcharatché sub-section.
He confirmed that he had received a letter of resignation from some activists in his section.In recent months, the leaders of the two parties regularly organize ceremonies to welcome new activists. On November 6, 2016, nearly 200 UNDP militants joined the CPDM in the 2nd Garoua commune, a stronghold of Mohamadou Ahidjo, the son of former President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
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Several youths were Tuesday and Wednesday January 11 and 12, arrested in Mutengene, Southwest Region and taken to yet to be identified detention centers in the country. The Cameroon Journal gathered that the youths were picked up along Tiko Road, Limbe Road and Buea Road exits of the town where they had gathered at night, burning tyres and mounting barricades on the road to prevent trucks transporting fuel from the National Oil Refinery in Limbe to Yaoundé.Witnesses said the youths were acting in solidarity to the ongoing crusade for West Cameroon independence.
Eyewitnesses say multiple gunshots were heard across Mutengene at about 2:30 amon Tuesday and at about the same time Wednesday morning.“On Monday night, several people were arrested at Atlanta and Rangers neighborhoods along Limbe road. On Tuesday morning, a truck from the gendarmerie came and picked up more people from those areas. Nobody knows where they were taken to,” a Mutengene resident told The Journal.
Another eyewitness who craved anonymity blamed the protesters. “The Consortium which is commanding the strike asked everyone to stay at home, but these boys will not listen. Businesses and schools were all closed on Monday as we observed a ghost town.
Tuesday businesses resumed but schools remained 100% closed,” he said, noting that people like this make things difficult for the consortium” because they cannot be struggling to release people in Yaoundé while others are getting themselves arrested here in Mutengene.
“Unconfirmed reports say some 17 truck loads of security officers left Yaoundé Wednesday night for the Southwest region. The region was hitherto seen by government as a lesser threat, as security was before reinforced solely in the Northwest region since common law lawyers strikes sparked a crisis in both regions.
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On 2 and 7 January 2017, the Cameroonian army surrounded again the town of Ngoshe, one of the strongholds of the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria, the Cameroonian Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma, revealed during a press conference organised this past 10 January.
According to this government member, this operation again resulted in important losses for the Boko Haram Islamists. We learned that their bomb manufacturing workshops were destroyed, and 150 Nigerian hostages held in captivity for months were freed by the Cameroonian defence forces, who unfortunately lost three soldiers during the clashes.
This is the 2nd time that the Cameroonian army launches a major attack on the Nigerian town of Ngoshe, where a Boko Haram command base was located at the time. Indeed, in February 2016, during the “Arrow Five” operation, Cameroonian soldiers neutralised 162 Boko Haram terrorists in this town and destroyed four bomb factories.
The Cameroonian defence forces then lost two officers. They were Lieutenant-Colonel Kwene Ekwele Beltus Honoré, 39 years, and Captain Pipwoh Yari Emmanuel, 31.
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