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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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Cameroonian authorities should immediately reverse a decision to suspend independent broadcaster Radio Hot Cocoa 94 FM's permission to operate and allow the station to resume broadcasting immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Government officials in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon's Northwest Region, yesterday sealed the station's office, its manager told CPJ.
The regional governor, Adolphe Lele Lafrique, ordered Radio Hot Cocoa to suspend all activities until further notice, accusing it of inciting civil disobedience in a call-in show discussing a teachers' strike in the region, station manager Gideon Taka told CPJ. Residents of predominantly Anglophone regions of Cameroon bordering Nigeria have in recent months staged street demonstrations, strikes, and sit-ins to protest what they say is the Francophone central government's marginalization of their regions. The station proclaimed a "news blackout" on its Facebook page yesterday.
"The suspension of Radio Hot Cocoa is part of an ongoing effort to stifle coverage of the grievances of English-speaking Cameroonians," said CPJ West Africa Representative Peter Nkanga. "Authorities should allow the radio station to resume operations immediately and should cease censoring the news."
"Right now there is no access to my office, the studio and control room," Taka, the station's manager, told CPJ. "They sealed them off."
The Ministry of Communications in December wrote to private radio and TV stations to "stop all roundtable discussions... concerning the current political atmosphere" in English-speaking regions of Cameroon. French and English are the official languages of the country, but predominantly Francophone regions are home to the majority of the population. At least four people were killed after police forcibly dispersed a December 8 demonstration in Bamenda, according to press reports and Amnesty International.
The suspension of Radio Hot Cocoa is the latest in a series of attempts to stifle reporting and commentary on the political crisis. Last month authorities suspended dozens of newspapers and broadcasters' permission to operate; permanently banned three newspapers from publishing and their publishers from practicing journalism; and sanctioned dozens more journalists, CPJ reported at the time.
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The Ghogomu-led ad hoc Committee resumes talks in Bamenda tomorrow without schools resuming; a pre-condition the Professor raised before any dialogue could continue. That may seem like a kind of bending, but it is not, at least from information filtering out of government circles.
After the humiliation of last Monday when the government was virtually brought to its knees, the authorities are bent on having their own pound of flesh at the least opportunity, reliable inner circle sources have said.
They contend that the youths who are still in detention will not be released, but negotiations will go on and the strikes must be lifted. The highly placed sources say the government plans to judge the young men based on the anti terrorism law on grounds that they were the ones who burnt the country's flag in Bamenda.
The plan is to play softball and then turn around and go very hard on the youths when the uprising would have lost steam, using that as an example to anyone who would ever dare touch national symbols or take part in such revolutions, the informant hinted.
As at now, uncertainty looms on the academic year and the team heading to Bamenda tomorrow would have to produce results by all means, failing which the Head of State himself shall head to West Cameroon next week with a bag full of goodies, the source concluded.
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The state of Cameroon must be obliged to conduct a series of medical examinations on all the released erstwhile Southern Cameroonians because the rogue regime is so dangerous to be trusted.
They have always made attempts as well as have poisoned those they have often kidnapped and jailed in their dungeons. Those arrested from the erstwhile Southern Cameroon's have always been subjugated and subjected to mental,physical,psychological as well as spiritual torture. The Biya's rogue regime has exposed the cruelty, inhumane nature of francophones and their brutish attitude.
French mentality is brutish and incivility to the extreme. My exposure to Savage Beti and Ewondo and Bassa have ruined my likeability of anybody whose cultural background is French. French men and women by nature are thieves,dishonest, manipulative and above all savages. This sadly got induced to their colonized and assimilated people. Today the world's most backward and primitive minded people are those that savages colonized.
The amount of clientele rackets found across French colonies or la Francophone is eloquent proof how they planted disaster and its whirlwind that has resulted from what that planter called France had planted.
Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind and France is reaping it full dose. France must be rudely reminded to hands off their very miserable nations and allow them to manage their own affairs and economic challenges. If this happens then economic uplift meant shall be witnessed across all the erstwhile French Colonies.
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