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Considering that Cameroon signed and ratified the Charter of the United Nations which is based on the principles of the dignity and equality of all human beings and seeks, among other basic objectives, to achieve international co-operation in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion,
Considering that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that all human beings, Nso people inclusive, are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind, in particular as to race, colour or national origin,
Considering that the United Nations has condemned colonialism, and all practices of segregation and discrimination associated therewith,
Taking into account the failing top-bottom approach to governance in Cameroon, the misuse of public funds, the abuse of public institutions, and the irrational privatization of institutions that provide the basic rights such as access to safe water and sanitation,
Taking into account the fact that, the people of Nso are citizens of Cameroon and have the inalienable rights to cultural and community development activities that provide for their basic needs including safe water, health, sanitation, and food,
Alarmed by the manifestations of administrative blunders, secretive privatization and bypass of traditional authority still in evidence in Nso, as imposed by the 34-year ruining and ruling regime by means of legislative, administrative, judiciary or other measures, in the form, inter alia, of bad governance, segregation, and separation,
Convinced that the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) clearly protects and promotes cultural rights in Africa and for all Africans and that culture is an integral bond that factors into effective growth and development strategies,
Convinced that all forms of discrimination against culture, still more so, governmental policies based on the prejudice of tribal superiority or on hatred, besides constituting a violation of fundamental human rights, tend to jeopardize friendly cultural relations among peoples, cooperation between tribes and national peace and security,
Convinced further that the building of a Cameroon society -- free from all forms of segregation and discrimination -- factors which create hatred and division among men, is one of the fundamental objectives of the United Nations and the Cameroon constitution,
1. I solemnly affirm the rights of the people of Nso to keep managing their community development project -- Kumbo Water Authority -- which they have been relying on to successfully supply safe water and sanitation to entire communities for more than 40 years;
2. I solemnly affirm the importance of adopting community-base approaches to governance, development, and growth, citing the case of Nso in particular. It is important that decentralization is seen in every stratum of the society and that culture should be promoted as a development strategy while recognizing the pivotal role played by traditional rulers and opinion leaders in their communities;
3. I solemnly support the Fon of Nso for standing for the rights of the people. I support every action to promote individual and collective rights. The Nso water project is a collective right and the people have a say in every decision taken by the regime;
4. I solemnly encourage open and inclusive dialogue, negotiations that bring together every relevant stakeholder identified in growth processes within the society. We cannot keep up with a top-bottom approach when it keeps failing us ever since we gained independence in 1961. We must learn to empower the local communities to manage their own affairs, support those communities and not rip them off with harsh and dubious policies;
3. Opinion leader and traditional rules in the African culture are pivotal in peace and security with any sovereign state. and for a fragile state like Cameroon, with increasing threats of terrorism, swelling grievances against the regime's loopholes, it is imperative that the HRH Fon Sehm Mbinglo must be seen as a citizen and a pivot seeking to promote unity and cohesion in his Fondom.
Fon Sehm Mbinglo, you have the motion of support from the youths who stand behind you. You have my support. Remain blessed and steadfast with your drive. You are a nation builder.
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The Alternate Senator for Boyo Division in the Northwest Region, Prudential Ndim Wibua, has petitioned President Paul Biya against the recent appointments in the Ministry of Basic Education and other Ministries that were orchestrated recently by Prime Minister Philemon Yang.
The petition, dated August 10, a copy which The Post procured, has as subject matter; “The extreme tribalisation, egocentric and scandalous appointments in Basic and Secondary Education as well as other ministries by the Prime Minister Philemon Yang Yogi.”
The appointments leaked to the social media which went viral, to the disappointment of those who were tipped as new delegates.
Ndim Wibua holds that the Minister of Secondary Education appointed a Regional Delegate of Education who, to her, is one of the most experienced and competent personnel, but the population became flabbergasted and embarrassed that his name was dropped a week later, “because the Prime Minister had to appoint his tribesman “
The CPDM Alternate Senator tells Biya, who is their party Chair that; “We the CPDM militants in the Northwest and even beyond are not happy with the extreme tribalism exhibited by the Prime Minister as far as appointments are concerned.
In his subdivision of Oku, the best facilities in all Ministries are given to the staff administrators,” the letter reads in part.
To buttress her facts, Ndim Wibua points out that the Director of Technical Education is a son of Oku, from Prime Minister Yang’s village, the Regional Delegate of Basic Education for the Northwest is from Oku; Divisional Delegate of Secondary Education for Momo is from Oku; the recently appointed Chargé des Mission at PMs Office, hails from Oku; Representative of the PM’s Office at SNH Yaoundé, is “Yang’s brothers son. What an act of tribalism!
All the Principals and Headmasters in Oku Subdivision are sons and daughters of Oku, just to mention these few,” Ndim averred.
The Alternate Senator appeals for prompt investigation by the Head of State, else the consequences will be too huge to bear.
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After postponing his trip twice, the head of State of Cameroon will be leaving Yaounde in the coming hours for an indefinite stay in Europe, according to sources at the presidential palace in Yaounde and Nsimalen International airport.
The city center of Yaounde has been put on hold with heavily armed presidential guards blocking the entire stretch of road leading from the presidential palace right up to Nsimalen Airport.
Reportedly, Paul Biya Biya will be heading to Switzerland, where his family is.Sources say the President is travelling abroad to bring home his wife and children from holidays.
Paul Biya regularly veers off to Switzerland for some cooling off each time he leaves Cameroon for an official visit to Europe. His stays in the Alpine country don't come cheap. Some years back, the French press published reports indicating that the Biya entourage was spending $40,000 a day on 43 hotel rooms.
It is hardly ever announced when Biya leaves Cameroon, but his stage-managed homecomings always receive rapturous publicity. Droves of supporters chanting ego-enhancing, masturbatory messages and clad in fabrics with his smiling face embossed on them swarm the Yaoundé Nsimalen Airport.
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A cloud of mystery surrounds the goals of those behind the recent release from prison of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the assassinated Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Prof. Yehudit Ronen, a leading expert on Libya and the African Sahel region at Bar-Ilan University, told The Jerusalem Post that Gaddafi, who was the designated heir to lead Libya, is still wanted by the International Criminal Court and a Libyan death sentence still hovers over his head.
“His recent release has aroused discussion in Libya and abroad. Does the Zintan armed militia that released him envisage his return to the center of the Libyan political stage?” asked Ronen, a political scientist and author of the acclaimed Qaddafi’s Libya in World Politics.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, while hiding in the vast southern Libyan desert, was captured by the powerful Zintan armed militia in November 2011, several months after the collapse of the regime in Tripoli.
About five years later, Ronen elaborates, “after being imprisoned in a well-guarded jail in a town in the Western Zintan region, the Zintan militia, which adamantly refused to turn him over to the Libyan government, released him from prison.”
The Zintan militia, along with its powerful political and military rival, the Misrata militia, controlled the foci of power in post-Gaddafi Libya.
The surprising move was reportedly made under a general amnesty.
“The release of Saif al-Islam brought him again to the political forefront, notwithstanding his well-known and hateful statements during the 2011 bloody war against the fighting rebels, including the Zintan forces, vowing to fight them down to ‘the very last bullet’ and threatening that ‘rivers of blood will flow through all cities of Libya.’ “Does the Zintan armed militia, whose members were once allied with his father and served in Libya’s army, wish to seize his political charisma, experience and diplomatic talents and connections to gain the upper hand in Libya’s chaotic and violent struggle, which has reached in fact a tragic stalemate?” she asked.
The Libya expert added that other questions remain, such as the place of his current hiding as well as whether other Libyan and non-Libyan players were behind the release.
“What were their goals in releasing Saif al-Islam?” Whatever the answers, says Ronen, the disintegrating and dysfunctional Libyan state, which is torn up by civil war as well as by a determined war by Islamic State, which seeks to deepen its hold on the oil-rich and strategic Sirte region, “requires the utmost creative moves to help post-Gaddafi Libya curb its slide into the abyss.”
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Within two months alone, Cameroon, a poor underdeveloped West African nation has wowed the public with massive amounts of money either borrowed from international banks, stolen from the homes of alleged state thieves or spent wastefully in few days. I will explain.
1. In June, FCFA 555 million ($956,464 USD) was reportedly stolen from the home of current health minister, Andre Mama Fouda. It has not been recovered, according to reports. Mr. Fouda has not been investigated for keeping such a huge amount of money.
2. The regime borrowed CFA 75 billion ($129,343,500 USD) from Exim Bank of China to supply laptops to university students currently enrolled only for the 2016 academic year. It was described in the state media, CRTV, as a "gift," from President Paul Biya. Will you borrow to offer gifts? Should we -- a poor people living on a shoestring budget, suffocate our future generations with debts just to offer political gifts obtained on huge loans?
3. FCFA 1.3 billion ($2,241,954 USD) was spent in few days on fewer than 25 Cameroonian athletes "participating" at the Rio 21016 Olympic games. They were all kicked out even before the games could start. When quizzed about the disappeared amount, Cameroon's Olympic organizing body recently told the Guardian Post that it was meant to "prepare athletes for the next games."
4. Last week, the rogue state reported that FCFA 180 billion ($ 310,204,800 USD) has been borrowed from the World Bank to boost the services of the national grid company. The company has repeatedly suffered privatization in the hands of several foreign bodies. Who will pay back this money and how?
And watch out what could happen in the upcoming weeks. More money could still be borrowed. According to the CIA 2016 World Factbook, only less than 6 percent of Cameroonians are above 55. Interestingly, a majority of the leaders who have denied leaving power are above 55. This means that they will die in power, and leave the poor youths to suffocate in the huge loans they borrowed. Who is fooling whom?
Please, foreign donors, I hereby distance myself from any loan(s) being taken on my behalf (as a lawful citizen) by my leaders including Mr. Biya. I deny being party to the agreement. When I will be a leader in the next regime(s), I will deny paying back their loans. I will give you the keys to the graves of these gangsters so that you can exhume their bodies, beat them up, transfer and jail them at the graveyard in the University of Kondengui, a maximum security prison in Cameroon. For those who will still be alive, you have my full support to do with them whatever you will.
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The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has killed ten people and kidnapped 13 women and children at a village near Chibok on Saturday.
According to the residents of Kubrrivu who spoke to AFP, the Boko Haram fighters arrived in the village on Saturday night and opened fire while they were sleeping. They looted and burned homes before kidnapping 13 women and children.
“The Boko Haram fighters were on four motorcycles, (and) three on each, and fired on houses while people were sleeping,” reported Damina Luka, resident of a nearby village.
“They burned everything, after stealing food stocks and livestock, and abducting women and children,” he added.
Ayuba Alamson, a community leader at Chibok, located 20 kilometers away, confirmed to AFP that 13 people were abducted in the attack.
“Of the 13 people, there were 7 women, 5 boys and a girl,” he added.
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls from Chibok provoking a widespread outrage in Nigeria and around the world. Fifty-seven of them managed to escape soon after their abduction.
In 2014, the village of Kubrrivu was totally destroyed in a previous attack by the group displacing residents.
A year later, the Nigerian army took control of the territory and residents rebuilt their homes.
Despite numerous military victories since the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari took over power in 2015, many communities in northeastern Nigeria remain under control of the Islamist sect.
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