Politics

The population of Lebialem yesterday boycotted the Installation ceremony of a newly appointed S.D.O. for Lebialem Division in Menji; this to the embarrassment of the Governor of the South West Region Bernard Okalia Bilai who came in person to install the newly appointed administrator.The installation ceremony was delayed due to the partial destruction of the Grand Stand earlier yesterday night by men of the underworld who used a locally fabricated bomb to explode the structure.

Reports say that only 16 members of a traditional dance group hailing from the village of origin of the newly appointed official were present at the installation ceremony alongside dignitaries.

Locals of Lebialem have rubbished the installation ceremony saying enough is enough; that they have been neglected by the Cameroon Government as though they were not part of Cameroon. Bad roads and lack of basic facilities were at the helm of the boycott according to inhabitants.It is worth noting here that earlier on his journey to Menji the Governor’s car got stuck in the muddy trenches that lead to the Lebialem Capital. His vehicle had to be pulled out of the mud by another vehicle.

The Governor in his speech condemned the attitude of the inhabitants of the locality and mentioned in his speech the following: “although some people thought that the installation will not take place, I am here and the installation must take place.

Today the Governor is expected to preside over the Installation Ceremony of the Senior Divisional Officer of Kupe Manenguba.

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Rita Akana

14.Jul.2017

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Reliable sources have disclosed that the retired chief Justice Ayah Paul released a letter in which he stated clearly that the Minister of Justice and keeper of the seals Laurent Esso tried to kill him himself.

“My life is in the Hands of the Minister of Justice and keeper of the seals with his accomplices.

I have been keeping this to myself and my family for a very long time now. It has to be revealed to the Cameroonian public and the world so that they know the plotters behind my misfortune. Honourable Igbele is behind a couple of machinations sponsored by a black cabinet led by Laurent Esso who has as objective to eliminate me.

One of their plans was to isolate me in special cell where I would be alone so that they can eliminate me silently but it hasn’t worked till today thanks to the social media and the world who are aware of everything that is happening to me here. For over 170 days that I have been here, my only problem is poor health and maybe some little abnormalities in my sight.

At the age of 67, I don’t have an internal toilet in my cell neither do I have direct access to toilets as from 10pm-6am. Every Cameroonian should know that my life is in the hands of Laurent Esso and his team. They should equally know that I have a big and all powerful God who will never abandon me. I thank him” extracts of the letter read.

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Emergency Admin

14.Jul.2017

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Brain washing or having a sense /feeling of recognition by La Republique determine those who now push and cry that schools reopen . LR has convinced the brainwashed by telling them that," Those who say schools be shut down are all abroad and their own children in schools while we stay home in Cameroon and receive all negative consequences of children not going to school". This statement is brainwashing because education is not necessarily about schooling. Workshops are better placed in the present situation of the country than rushing to obtain certificates that neither give us clear cut skills to compete nationally and internationally. This type of education is only useful for those with godfathers who will give such youths/citizens fake certificates, fake recruitments into government offices and higher schools of learning and this outcome is a fake society . It is not uncommon to see a medical doctors from the said schools butcher patients in hospitals. The teachers in teaching, teach " wrong stuff" . Etc. The brainwashed Southern Cameroonian does not see that, all about schools reopening is for LR's advantage only. How many children of peasant farmers are in ENS, EMIA, ENAM etc.? You must have a godfather to cross. SO WHY RUSH CHILDREN TO SCHOOLS today so that tomorrow they beg for dresses and shoes from you as graduates? We are helping LR to go ahead with corruption, embezzlement, annexation and all other societal ills including the selling of the future of our children by buying their deceitful brainwashing ideas. Why do we not open our workshops at all angles and give children skills that will help them to be independent financially at early stages of life so that they can return to formal education later while we handle this rubbish?

PARENTAL ROLE MODELLING

Play a good role in parental counseling. Can your child look and copy your life style and even call you their role model? In other words are you a good parent? Or are you a parent with La Republique blood flowing in you or are you helping in bringing up these children in God' s principles? Are you comfortable with your LR connections so that the rest of our children may rut in jail, poverty and servitude while yours continue to foster the tribe of privileged slaves?

Those who are asking you to send children to schools have their children pampered by our endowed natural resources and your tax money. For some time now, they have received no money from the physical stamps etc we buy .This money always ends up in individual pockets. When you assess the number of children deceived to write ENS a year and the amount each student pays before writing the exam, multiplied by total number of students who write the exams and adding to the total number of exams launched each year, then you will see why they are preaching the song for schools to reopen. These exams are announced when the list of those to enter the schools had already been compiled with each candidate handing in heavy envelopes for LR circles to share. When we get back our land it will certainly not be a problem taking care of the teachers who were not paid during the period of crisis.

Our children have a right to decent education, meaningful and purposeful education. You have a right to good health insurance considering the natural resources we have. Everybody has the right to enjoy a certain percentage of these resources. It is every parent's dream to endow their children, both with a good education and a thriving economic legacy. Good parents don't only want to leave behind an inheritance for their children, they think of their grand children as well. Let us not be a penny wise and a pound foolish.

What if churches and school proprietors call us to send children to school? These are businesses and they are under pressure. This is because, they are trying to come out of the heat LR is putting on them. But know that if we say no, they will not enter our homes. What do you say about those in prison and those who have died, those in exile? Where is your steadfast contribution as an individual or community?

Why do they say there is dialogue yet those who spoke the truth and asked for dialogue are in prisons? Well let us know the fact and the truth; if our parents had done their assignment, we most certainly won't be here. Shall we look at our children and allow the fear of hunger defeat our good reason? Are we able to stare them in the face and tell them:
"Dear children, we are sorry, you will have to handle this situation on your own when we are gone?"
Dear good parents, let your conscience guide you.

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Rita Akana

14.Jul.2017

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As the 2018 electoral year narrows down in Cameroon, the United Nations (UN) Electoral Assistance Division was in Cameroon, to prod into Elections Cameroon’s (ELECAM) preparedness and the political environment.

The visit of the UN mission led by Akinyemi Adegbola, was intended to evaluate the readiness of the elections governing body to curtail mass rigging that has often characterised past elections in Cameroon.  

Others members that accompanied Adegbola were:  Pascale Roussy, Dieudonné Tshiyoyo and Nadjita Francis Ngarhodjim.

The UN envoys met members of ELECAM led by Abrams Enow Egbe and the Director General of Elections, Abdoulaye Babalé.

Speaking during the visit, Enow Egbe, said the visit is in line with the relationship the electoral body has with the UN.

“We have important elections in 2018 and they are here to discuss with us and assess our needs. They are experts from the UN Electoral Assistance Division, whose reputation is well known around the world. We have to work with them for the continuity of the electoral process aimed at being transparent and reputable elections,” he stated.

On his part, Adegbola said the objective of the visit is very simple.

“We received a request from the President of ELECAM for some form of assistance from the UN. We have a system in the UN by which each time we receive a request, we deploy a needs assessment mission to determine in which areas the UN might be able to provide the assistance and under which conditions we have to collaborate with the organisation.

Adegbola said they are also in Cameroon to look at the environment in which elections will take place so that they can design the assistance to meet the actual needs and not just based on their own ideas of how it should look like

“The request signed by the President is quite clear in defining our area of assistance. It talks about information, education and communication.

“We will focus on that but we will also look at other possibilities and areas of assistance in which we can collaborate with partners to meet the needs of Cameroon in the areas identified,” he told reporters.

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Abeh Valery

14.Jul.2017

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After 54 years, Cameroon a bilingual country with British and French colonial heritage  will now have a Common law Bench at the country's highest court. This follow the enactment into law a bill reforming the Supreme Court to allow the creation of the Supreme Court.

According to the law signed on July 12, officials appointed to the Common law Division must have an Anglo Saxon background. The Common law Bench shall have competence over issues relating to the Common law .

This was one of the biting issues raised by protesting Common law lawyers which sparked the Anglophone crisis. After giving a deaf ears to this demands, Government sluggishly swung into action. The Minister of state, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals on March 30, 2017 announced the creation of the Bench amongst others measures.

Esso said at the time that , the measures are intended to improve on the functioning of the judiciary and also to satisfy the legal and judicial disposition of the constitution in section 1 paragraph 3 which stipulates that the official languages of Cameroon shall be English and French both languages having equal value.The Minister even claimed , that before the lawyers went public with their claims, the President of the Republic had initiated reforms regarding the functioning of the judicial system and had presided judicious measures.

A bill relating to this was sent to Parliament during the just ended session and  was adopted, paving the way for Biya to sign the Ordinance creating the structure.

While some Common law practitioners have appreciated the move, Barrister Fru John Soh has rubbished the move saying it is too late.  A fire brand critic, Ekinneh Agbor Ebai is worried about the clause "Anglophone Saxon background." This is what has raised concerning the issue: "But in the context where many Francophones are sending their children to Anglophone colleges, what does "Anglo-Saxon" legal background really mean? What happens if a Francophone attends SASSE College; graduates from UB and proceeds to the Common Law Department at ENAM where he graduates as a Magistrate and is subsequently appointed to the Common Law bench? Sounds like marginalization through the back door; or am I missing something here? And is it too little too late as the train seems to have already left the station?"

Common law lawyers continue to ground courts in the North West and South West regions in a crisis which has taken an unprecedented  dimension with the Biya regime paying in hard currency for innitially downplaying the demands raised by the lawyers.

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Rita Akana

14.Jul.2017

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SOUTHERN CAMEROONS INTERIM PRESIDENT AND GOVERNMENT PRESENTED TO THE UN BY MOLA NJOH AND CO. (OFFICIAL REPORT)

In the first official diplomatic move after the election if our president H.E S. AYUK TABE, the UN Security Council played host to a delegation led by our legendary Free MOLA NJOH LITUMBE.

Mola Njoh writes:

Yesterday, by prior appointment, I led a small delegation of Southern Cameroonians, comprising two men and two women, to re-present the Case of the Uncompleted Decolonization of the former British Administered UN Trust Territory of Southern Southerns, over which the UN General Assembly, by Res. 1608(XV) ot 21st Apr. 1961, fixed the date of S. Cameroons independence to be on 1st October, 1961, upon joining the sovereign state of La Republique du Cameroun, in a Federation of 2 states equal in status.

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Rita Akana

13.Jul.2017

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