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Two chiefs in the Bakassi peninsula have been dismissed by the Senior Divisional Officer of Ndian after discovering that they had spread false information that 97 Nigerian fishermen were killed by Cameroonian officials in connection with tax collection.
The decision was taken during a facts-finding mission co-ordinated by Nigerian and Cameroonian delegations on Thursday.
Both delegations concluded afterwards that no Nigerian had been murdered as was rumoured.
The chiefs of 'Diabame I' and 'Diabame II' were then found 'guilty' and sanctioned.
"From our intervention, we have come to realize even one person was not killed...," the SDO said on CRTV.
"[...] no Nigerian was killed," the consular assistant at the Nigerian consulate in Buea who led the Nigerian delegation said.
"Everywhere we find ourselves, we should be law-abiding," he cautioned.
The SDO also cut the tax from FCFA 75,000 to FCFA 37,500.
The story of Cameroon killing Nigerian fishermen had made headlines, as people feared a new escalation of violence between both states. The Bakassi peninsula was a highly disputed area between Cameroon and Nigeria until the International Court of Justice ruled in favour of Cameroon.
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Cameroon’s octogenarian President, Paul Biya, has outlawed the purchase of porch cars for officials of his bloated Government as salary cuts and heavy taxes looms over Cameroonians.
Biya’s embargo is contained in a recent presidential fiat, which gives orientation on the 2018 draft budget.
The presidential fiat is not unconnected to the activities of some Government predators, who have fashioned an administrative racket in which very expensive cars are bought every year.
The purchase of such cars, are not informed by the necessity of service or need, but by individual gains.
Going by recent statistics, Government officials in Cameroon bought over 14,000 administrative vehicles in 2015, but such cars were bought without the approval of the Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, as prescribed by the law.
Form the findings gnarled by Cameroon Concord, some top Government officials have about four to five very expensive service cars for themselves, but paradoxically, their ministries or institutions lack vehicles to perform their task.
Despite a well stipulated law that a car in a Government institution is supposed to be used for at least five years, some Government officials have made it a norm to buy cars every year and auction the old ones to themselves.
Besides the abusive buying of such cars, which the officials misuse, the cars also inflict an additional financial scare on the Government in terms of maintenance.
It is based on this financial burden on the State that President Biya has prohibited the reckless purchase of porch cars, especially at when there is looming rumours about a possible devaluation of the Francs CFA that will possibly lead to salary cuts and increase in taxation.
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A recent Boko Haram suicide bombing in Cameroon on Friday evening left at least two persons dead and four others injured and sent troops scrambling to apprehend one of the bombers on the run.
The latest bombing took place in Dabanga, a locality in Cameroon’s far north region where Boko Haram attacks have multiplied in recent months.
Cameroonian newspaper, L’Oeil du Sahel, who first reported the suicide attack, said one of the bombers was killed while troops were after another one.
Boko Haram has been wreaking havoc in Cameroon since 2014, killing thousands of civilians, in addition to hundreds of policemen and soldiers. The terrorists have also kidnapped thousands of people.
In neighboring Nigeria, the massacre has been even worse. At least 25, 000 people have died there while more than two million people remain displaced, several years after the insurgency began in the country’s northeast in 2009.
Thousands of people have also been kidnapped there, many of them turned into sex slaves or suicide bombers. At least hundred Chibok girls abducted in 2014 remain missing.
The United States Department of State in its 2016 Terrorism Report released on Wednesday said Boko Haram killed thousands of people in West Africa last year. Worse, Nigeria was among the five countries where 75 percent of all terrorism related deaths occurred in 2016.
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Cameroon's Information Mninister has accused Amnesty International of becoming a propaganda machine for the Islamist radical group Boko Haram.
Minister Tchiroma Bakary was speaking to the BBC on Thursday at the backdrop of accusations of brutal torture of Boko Haram suspects by Cameroonian security forces.
In a recent report, the rights group accused Cameroon of beating, waterboarding and forcing Boko Haram suspects into stress positions. And some died as a result.
But Mr Tchiroma rubbished the reports, insisting that the country's security forces were out to protect the "physical integrity" of the nation and there was no need to kill innocent civilians.
He remarked that by persistently accusing Cameroon, Amnesty International has become a propaganda tool for Boko Haram.
"Why don't Amnesty International ask Mr Shekau[Boko Haram leader] to leave us alone?" he asked, the BBC reports.
This is certainly not the first time Amnesty International is accusing Cameroon of human rights violations.
But Cameroon has always dismissed every bit of it.
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It's rumoured that football legend Samuel Eto'o is set to challenge Paul Biya during the 2018 presidential election in Cameroon.
Afri Pulse reports that Eto'o made the declaration on the timeline of a certain Georges Weah.
The same news site quotes Malitribune as saying that Samuel Eto'o had disclosed during a recent media outing that he had always wanted to do politics but had been waiting for the right moment...
Cameroon is set to organize general elections next year.
President Biya is seeking reelection after over three decades in office.
There are no independent confirmations from Samuel Eto'o yet.
Samuel Eto'o is one of the best players in the history of African football.
He has won the African Best Player of the Year Award four times.
He is the top scorer in the history of football in Cameroon.
He captained the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon for a few years.
But his leadership encountered a lot of obstacles which led partly to his resignation in 2014.
He led his country to 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, from which they brought home just one goal and three defeats.
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An “okada” man was met with inhumane treatment and subsequently locked up on Wednesday 19 July 2017, for reading a Newspaper. This provoked a spontaneous reaction from the bike riders, who have so far been demonstrating agreeable solidarity in this Anglophone struggle.
The victim whose names were gotten as Atanga Durand, had gone to a newspaper stand just like any other person to get himself updated. After seeing a story on the Ambazonian Struggle, he felt excited and was trying to lay more emphasis to people around him, on the fact that there will be no school resumption if a referendum is not passed for the English speaking part of the country to decide on their fate.
He did not know that, Biya’s spy was around. He only knew it when he had been bundled up and taken to the police station, where he was tortured and locked up.
Other bike riders learned about what had happened and reacted immediately, blocking roads. They demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Durand, who according to them, committed no crime and did not deserve to be treated as such.
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