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Cameroonian youths living close to the border with Nigeria are benefitting from the efforts of a man who left his administrative duties in a well-established company and created an information technology training center to empower youths and reduce the chances of them joining the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Wakil Idi, 34, said he decided to help when he found out unemployment was leading young people in his town of Kousseri, which borders Chad and is close to Nigeria, to join Boko Haram.
The Islamist terror group has increased attacks in the area in the past seven years.
He said many of the youth left but never returned, and those who escaped from suspected Boko Haram strongholds told stories of how they were sent to loot, kill and burn at schools and churches.
Idi said he learned the terrorist group was offering up to about $5,500 for each person kidnapped or killed, and that was tempting to poor, suffering and jobless youths.
Since 2013, Boko Haram has kidnapped scores of people from Cameroon, including a French family of seven, a German citizen, 10 Chinese road construction engineers, as well as traditional rulers and clergy.
Cameroon's government has said it refused to pay ransoms for their release but said it negotiated their freedom.
Idi said he was able to flee to Cameroon's economic capital, Douala, to learn information technology with the hope of returning to help his fellow Cameroonians by educating them on the dangers of joining Boko Haram and, more importantly, by providing jobs for the youth.
He said even though he has only four desktop computers before returning to Kousseri, he has not been discouraged from his plans to help young people in his hometown.
Among the hundreds who have been trained at the computer institute is 36-year-old Hassa Abbashmir.
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Cameroonian youths living close to the border with Nigeria are benefitting from the efforts of a man who left his administrative duties in a well-established company and created an information technology training center to empower youths and reduce the chances of them joining the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Wakil Idi, 34, said he decided to help when he found out unemployment was leading young people in his town of Kousseri, which borders Chad and is close to Nigeria, to join Boko Haram.
The Islamist terror group has increased attacks in the area in the past seven years.
He said many of the youth left but never returned, and those who escaped from suspected Boko Haram strongholds told stories of how they were sent to loot, kill and burn at schools and churches.
Idi said he learned the terrorist group was offering up to about $5,500 for each person kidnapped or killed, and that was tempting to poor, suffering and jobless youths.
Since 2013, Boko Haram has kidnapped scores of people from Cameroon, including a French family of seven, a German citizen, 10 Chinese road construction engineers, as well as traditional rulers and clergy.
Cameroon's government has said it refused to pay ransoms for their release but said it negotiated their freedom.
Idi said he was able to flee to Cameroon's economic capital, Douala, to learn information technology with the hope of returning to help his fellow Cameroonians by educating them on the dangers of joining Boko Haram and, more importantly, by providing jobs for the youth.
He said even though he has only four desktop computers before returning to Kousseri, he has not been discouraged from his plans to help young people in his hometown.
Among the hundreds who have been trained at the computer institute is 36-year-old Hassa Abbashmir.
(VOA)
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Prof. Titus Edzoa, leader of the progressive wing of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, an organization dedicated to protesting the Cameroon's government’s policy of legalizing corruption was released in Yaounde after 17 year in prison.
Believing that non-violent measures would be successful, Edzoa and a host of other former barons of the ruling CPDM party intend to challenge the Biya government in the 2018 presidential elections. Titus Edzoa was arrested and sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was convicted a second time for corruption. He received another 20 years sentence and was held at the National Gendarmerie Headquarters in Yaounde.
On the notorious Gendarmarie Headquarters in Yaounde,Prof Titus Edzoa lived in a tiny cell, received meager rations and performed hard labor like the Great Nelson Mandela. The Cameroonian people now believe that his 17 years in prison became the crucible which transformed him. Through his intelligence as a Professor of Medicine, charm and dignified defiance, Edzoa intends to assume the Cameroonian leadership and bring about the intensive and productive change badly required in Cameroon.
Many senior Cameroonian elite including the leader of the main opposition party, Ni John Fru Ndi, led an international movement to free Edzoa. Many countries including the United Nations stated that he was a political prisoner. The Cameroonian dictator offered to release Edzoa, who had been moved from Komdengui Central Prison in Yaounde to the National Gendarmerie Headquarters on the condition that he renounced revealing secrets of the ruling CPDM hegemony. Edzoa, like Nelson Mandela refused, saying, “Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Only free men can negotiate.”
In France, Hollande became president and began to dismantle the policies of President Biya's victimization policies and pressed for the release Prof. Titus Edzoa. Edzoa was realeased after 17 years in prison. In this exclusive interview with Cameroon Concord's Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai, Edzoa believes now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. Edzoa says to relax our efforts now would be a mistake which generations to come will not able to forgive.
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Prof. Titus Edzoa, leader of the progressive wing of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, an organization dedicated to protesting the Cameroon's government’s policy of legalizing corruption was released in Yaounde after 17 year in prison.
Believing that non-violent measures would be successful, Edzoa and a host of other former barons of the ruling CPDM party intend to challenge the Biya government in the 2018 presidential elections. Titus Edzoa was arrested and sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was convicted a second time for corruption. He received another 20 years sentence and was held at the National Gendarmerie Headquarters in Yaounde.
On the notorious Gendarmarie Headquarters in Yaounde,Prof Titus Edzoa lived in a tiny cell, received meager rations and performed hard labor like the Great Nelson Mandela. The Cameroonian people now believe that his 17 years in prison became the crucible which transformed him. Through his intelligence as a Professor of Medicine, charm and dignified defiance, Edzoa intends to assume the Cameroonian leadership and bring about the intensive and productive change badly required in Cameroon.
Many senior Cameroonian elite including the leader of the main opposition party, Ni John Fru Ndi, led an international movement to free Edzoa. Many countries including the United Nations stated that he was a political prisoner. The Cameroonian dictator offered to release Edzoa, who had been moved from Komdengui Central Prison in Yaounde to the National Gendarmerie Headquarters on the condition that he renounced revealing secrets of the ruling CPDM hegemony. Edzoa, like Nelson Mandela refused, saying, “Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Only free men can negotiate.”
In France, Hollande became president and began to dismantle the policies of President Biya's victimization policies and pressed for the release Prof. Titus Edzoa. Edzoa was realeased after 17 years in prison. In this exclusive interview with Cameroon Concord's Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai, Edzoa believes now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. Edzoa says to relax our efforts now would be a mistake which generations to come will not able to forgive.
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Prof. Titus Edzoa, leader of the progressive wing of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, an organization dedicated to protesting the Cameroon's government’s policy of legalizing corruption was released in Yaounde after 17 year in prison.
Believing that non-violent measures would be successful, Edzoa and a host of other former barons of the ruling CPDM party intend to challenge the Biya government in the 2018 presidential elections. Titus Edzoa was arrested and sentenced to 17 years in prison. He was convicted a second time for corruption. He received another 20 years sentence and was held at the National Gendarmerie Headquarters in Yaounde.
On the notorious Gendarmarie Headquarters in Yaounde,Prof Titus Edzoa lived in a tiny cell, received meager rations and performed hard labor like the Great Nelson Mandela. The Cameroonian people now believe that his 17 years in prison became the crucible which transformed him. Through his intelligence as a Professor of Medicine, charm and dignified defiance, Edzoa intends to assume the Cameroonian leadership and bring about the intensive and productive change badly required in Cameroon.
Many senior Cameroonian elite including the leader of the main opposition party, Ni John Fru Ndi, led an international movement to free Edzoa. Many countries including the United Nations stated that he was a political prisoner. The Cameroonian dictator offered to release Edzoa, who had been moved from Komdengui Central Prison in Yaounde to the National Gendarmerie Headquarters on the condition that he renounced revealing secrets of the ruling CPDM hegemony. Edzoa, like Nelson Mandela refused, saying, “Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Only free men can negotiate.”
In France, Hollande became president and began to dismantle the policies of President Biya's victimization policies and pressed for the release Prof. Titus Edzoa. Edzoa was realeased after 17 years in prison. In this exclusive interview with Cameroon Concord's Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai, Edzoa believes now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. Edzoa says to relax our efforts now would be a mistake which generations to come will not able to forgive.
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The people of Kupe Muanenguba Division in the South West Region have urged President Paul Biya to stand as the CPDM candidate in the 2018 Presidential election. The appeal is contained in a motion of support addressed to the President of the Republic and National Chairman of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) during a thanksgiving ceremony organised by sons and daughters of the Division in honour of Elung Paul Che, appointed Minister Delegate to the Minister of Finance during the October 2, 2015 cabinet reshuffle.
The Tombel municipal stadium where the event took place appeared small for the mammoth crowd that thronged the venue including over ten Members of Government, Members of Parliament and the representative of the Secretary General of CPDM Central Committee, Dr. Joseph Dion Ngute, to join the people of Kupe Muanenguba in thanking God for using President Paul Biya to appoint yet another son of the division into the government. Be it through the CPDM Kupe Muanenguba III Section President, Samuel Samme Mesape, the Mayor of Tombel, Rose Ngassa, the President of the Kupe Muanenguba Divisional Chiefs Conference, HRH Etame Albert Ekane and the Steering Committee Chair, Johnson Okie, the gratitude of the people of Kupe Muanenguba to the Head of State was echoed repeatedly and the pledge to reciprocate the steadfast love of the Head of State to Kupe Muanenguba by renewing their unflinching support and loyalty to the CPDM and the National Chairman.
While advocating the need for unity among the sons and daughters of the Kupe Muanenguba Division, various speakers at the event spiced by cultural displays did not hesitate to evoke the major problem confronting the Division; the deplorable state of roads, which retards socio-economic development of the area endowed with enormous agricultural potentials. On his part, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Finance, Elung Paul Che, condemned backstabbing, bickering, hatred; egoism among the elite stating that they need to put together their resources in order to drive meaningful development in the Division which he said will never cease to thank the Head of State for his love and concern. While calling for steadfast support to the President of the Republic and State institutions, the Minister Delegate pointed out the need for greater vigilance especially among youths as the country wages war against the terrorist sect, Boko Haram.
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