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Retired Chief Justice Ayah Paul Abine has spoken up again.
All judges handling his case were promoted recently when the council of magistrates met in Yaoundé under the watchful eye of Paul Biya, he observed.
It is for this reason that Ayah believes that no fair trial can come his way at this point in time, reports Cameroon-Info.Net, citing Le Quotidien Emergence.
Justice Ayah Paul has been in 'unconstitutional' detention in Yaoundé for over six months now.
The reason for his arrest, which he calls abduction, is not yet declared to him.
However, he believes that he was arrested because he had strongly opposed the 2008 constitutional amendment, which principally makes the mandate of the president unlimited. The mandate of the president is seven years, renewable...
Ayah Paul was a member of parliament by then.
He was dismissed as judge and sent on retirement while in 'captivity' by Paul Biya during the recent meeting with major legal practitioners.
Ayah Paul is among a host of other Anglophone Cameroonians detained in Yaoundé in the wake of the unrest in West Cameroon.
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If corruption were a disease in Cameroon, we may never find a cure for it. We have grown to love it as the body needs blood.
And what is more shocking is the fact that this is happening right under the nose of so-called anticorruption commission CONAC.
I was travelling on Saturday from Yaoundé to Bamenda on board a seventy-seater Amour Mezam bus when a glaring case of corruption hit me right on the chest.
As we neared entering Bamenda, a certain 'doctor' stood and warned that anyone without the National Identify Card should inform the driver before we ever got to the last checkpoint.
Two persons raised their hands.
When the bus drove up to the checkpoint, the conductor came over and collected FCFA 500 from each of the two guys.
The rest of the passengers walked down and presented their cards.
But the men in uniform at the checkpoint rejected the money, as if they didn't want to be corrupted.
But little did we know that they wanted and increase.
One if the two victims suggested they wanted the amount doubled. And when they did, the money was collected quietly.
And the journey continued.
The question I ask myself is: What is the reason for that 'strict' checking when nothing changes after all?
If it were to prevent criminals from travelling with good people, why then would they let those 'criminals' go through?
Or is it just another way of helping greedy uniform men and women to squeeze the last penny out of the feeble hands of the needy?
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On Friday, early in the morning, an explosion was heard in a locality called Meme some 13km form Mora, which killed four female suicide bombers.
Reports from Cameroon-info:net reveal that, according to security sources, the women made their way into the small village without being noticed. One of them at a point detonated her own bomb which killed her and two of the others. The fourth woman was shot by a police man before she could make any dangerous move.
Meme is a small village not too far from Mora which has equally been troubled by suicide bombings. One of its heaviest attacks from Boko Haram was on 19 February 2016, which left 20 people dead and over 50 others wounded as related by info:net.
The village is equally said to be a centre of the multinational task force which is fighting the Nigerian based terrorist group
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The National President of the Cameroon People's Party (CPP), Edith Kahbang Walla, wrote a letter to the President of La Republique, enumerating a number of issues she thinks Biya needs to look into and fix within the shortest space of time. In this Letter she called on Paul Biya to give Southern Cameroonians what they want.
Kah Walla laid much emphasis on the right of our children to education, which the regime in power is doing nothing to guarantee.
"According to estimations, over 3 million children did not go to school during the 2016-2017 academic year in the North West and South West Regions, despite threats and use of force by your soldiers to make them go to school.
"Your government is calling on school resumption in a month's time... In what class will the children be, will they repeat or move to the next class? What measures have been taken to ensure smooth studies?
"It is clear that parents do not want to send their kids to school due to insecurity and arbitrary arrests that characterize the two English speaking Regions" the CPP President outlined.
She went further to say that, before schools even resume all the illegally detained Southern Cameroonians must be released.
Other key issues were mentioned in the letter like the Boko Haram insurgency in the Northern part of Cameroon and financial crisis that are plaguing the Country, which Biya was asked to give an account for.
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"World financial institutions have so far been according us much confidence which is gradually helping us to attain our plan in terms of growth.
It is no doubt that we are facing falling prices of basic commodities of which fuel is not an exception, especially in the world market.
The sum of 667 million dollars, has been loaned to us by The International Monetary Fund. This collaboration is aimed at stabilising our economy and increasing job opportunities" the president explained.
According to him, much progress is being witnessed in Cameroon. He keeps on borrowing but we don't see what is being done with the money. It remains a wonder how it will be reimbursed to the lenders.
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One of the dirtiest wounds Cameroon can't hide any longer is the dishonesty of its election management body, Elecam.
Elections Cameroon is supposed to ensure fair and free elections in Cameroon.
Of course that's true, depending on where you stand.
One issue about Elecam caught my attention on Wednesday when some newly appointed members of the corrupt body were taking oath of office.
They were warned that they would be judged negatively or positively based on how they did their job.
What they meant by negative and positive judgment is what I don't seem to understand.
In normal circumstances, these guys ought to organize free and fair elections indeed.
But unfortunately, they have to dance to the rhythm of Biya's dictatorship.
Elecam is managed and run by Paul Biya.
I wonder how these guys would not favour Biya in every election, given that he who pays the piper calls the tune.
Paul Biya has been in power for over three decades and is certainly set to seek reelection in next year's presidential election.
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