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Students of the University of Buea (UB) on Monday, July 10, 2017, confronted the Minister of Higher Education, demanding him to strip the Mayor of Buea, Patrick Ekema Esunge, of all his degrees.
The students said the Mayor fraudulently gained admission into the citadel of learning and obtained the Bachelors and Masters’ degrees without having passed the Advance Level.
The students welcome the Minister of Higher Education, Prof Jacques Fame Ndongo, with placards bearing inscriptions such as “no to fake certificates in UB, we don’t want fraudsters in UB, strips the Mayor of his certificates obtained in UB,” among others.
The Minister was in Buea to commission recently appointed members of the university headed by the Pro-Chancellor, Prof Oben Ako and the Vice Chancellor, Prof Horace Ngomo Manga.
After the students’ demonstration, Minister Fame Ndongo waded in and promised to look into the matter.
The students’ demonstration is coming barely a few hour after executive members of all the Subsections of CPDM that make up Fako III, Buea, where Ekema Patrick is Mayor, resolved to slam a vote of no confidence on him.
The vote of no confidence issue also erupted few days after reports went viral that the Mayor surreptitiously entered the University of Buea with fake certificates.
According to the reports, Ekema wrote the GCE A level examination seven times and never succeeded to pass the exams even in two seating combined.
It is reported that after dabbling into politics, Ekema used one of his political God fathers to gain admission into UB with just a paper.
After obtaining the Bachelor and Masters’ Degrees and enrolling into a PhD programme, his fake certificate saga came to the fore.
The demonstrating students argued that many Cameroonians who genuinely passed the GCE were denied admission into UB, while those who did not even pass like Mayor Ekema are studying unperturbed.
The students told the new VC that he will never know peace in UB, if Ekema Patrick is not stripped of his degrees.
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Contrary to what many people were suggesting to be the top agenda of the National Assembly session of 8 July 2017, the Ambazonian fighter is still a full member of parliament and unshaken.
He will together with other MPs of the SDF, CPDM, UPC and other parties take part in the next and last meeting for the year, of the lower house of parliament in November. During this last session, the 2018 budget will be adopted.
Before the second ordinary session began, Cameroon-info:net asked one of the attendees if it was true that the main topic of discussion will be the stripping off of Honourable Wirba’s immunity. In response, the source who is probably a La Republic faithful said infuriatingly “leave us in peace with this your Wirba case. I don’t understand why everybody wants to focus everything on the “rebellious” honourable. His story is now an issue of the past. Everybody today, knows about the Anglophone crisis and everything is being done to solve the problem. We have better things to talk about rather than dwelling on Honourable Joseph Wirba’s case” explained the La Republique faithful.
It was revealed that, two main issues were to take centre stage; reforms in the National Assembly and discussions based on the construction of a new building where parliamentary sessions will be held. This transfer from the Ngoa Ekele glass house had been planned before now, but for a few setbacks like; finances and prolonged deliberations on the convenient site.
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CPDM MPs of the Southwest Region, led by Hons. Muyali Boya Meboka and Emilia Lifaka Monjowa, have rejected a proposal to end the Anglophone Crisis through the National Dialogue Forum.
The proposal was made by Dr. Simon Munzu.
The MPs rejected the proposal in a disclaimer sent to the CPDM Secretary General, Jean Kuete, on July 7.
In the disclaimer, which was written after a meeting of Southwest CPDM MPs, Hons Meboka and Lifaka distant themselves from Dr. Munzu’s correspondence.
“We, the undersigned MPs from the Southwest Region do hereby disavow ourselves from the letter of Dr. Munzu Simon sent to the Head of State, calling for a ‘National Dialogue Forum on the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon. We remain loyal and hopeful to the course being carried out by our National President, His Excellency President Paul Biya aimed at resolving the Anglophone Crisis,” they wrote.
On March 6, 2017, Dr. Munzu addressed a letter to Anglophone MPs, urging them to take the lead for a peaceful resolution of the Anglophone Crisis through a National Dialogue Forum.
MPs like Senators Simon Achidi Achu, Peter Mafany Musonge, Nfon Mukete, Fon Teche, Hons. Emilia Lifaka, Joseph Banadzem and Enow Tanjong, were contacted.
But most of the abovementioned lawmakers, especially those of the CPDMM did not respond to Dr Munzu’s letters.
However, Hons Meboka and Lifaka’s letter to the CPDM Scribe has trigged resentment from the Anglophone communities who regard the CPDM MPs as the Iscariots who are not only fanning the marginalisation of the Anglophones in Cameroon by the Regime, but who also playing political games with the destinies of the people they claim to be representing.
Meanwhile, in a communiqué signed on June 7, by SDF Anglophone MPs, the lawmakers requested President Paul Biya to convene a National Dialogue Forum on the prevailing situation in the Northwest and Southwest Regions.
According to Hon. Joseph Mbah-Ndam, there is need for frank and comprehensive national dialogue, since all efforts made by Government to solve the Anglophone crisis have failed.
“To maintain peace, consolidate the country’s unity and strengthen the resolve of the day-to-day experience of living together as prescribed by the Head of State, there was need to look for a lasting solution, which can only be realise through frank and inclusive dialogue,” the SDF MPs said.
The people’s representatives suggested that the forum should be held before the commencement of the 2017/2018 school year.
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L'oeil du Sahel, a newspaper with focus on the northern part of Cameroon, has accused Prime Minister Philemon Yang of marginalizing the people of that part of the nation.
The Great North comprises three regions-North, Far North and Adamawa.
The paper claims that people from these three regions are not well represented in the Prime Minister's Office.
Out of 11 main technical advisers in the PM's Office, none is from those three regions, the paper says, as related by Cameroon -Info.Net.
Of the three special advisers in the Star Building, none is from the Great North.
Only one of the seven directors in the office is from that region of the nation.
The same paper also accused the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization of failing to suggest enough names from the Great North to Paul Biya for the appointment of divisional officers.
Of the 58 SDOs appointed recently, only eight are from the supposedly 'oppressed' part of Cameroon.
How tangible are these accusations?
What this paper doesn't seem to understand is that the Great North has a large population in the military which is equal to barely no other part of the nation.
The Great North equally has more straight ministers in government than the English-speaking regions of the nation.
The vice-prime minister is from the Great North. And most importantly, this vice-prime minister is more powerful than the prime minister himself. He doubles as vice-prime minister and minister delegate at the presidency in charge of relations with Parliament.
By the way, is Philemon Yang not just a figurehead ?
Why have they left the cause to attack the effect?
Have our brothers forgotten that Paul Biya is the president, head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of government?
Or is it just an attempt to divert attention from the Anglophone Struggle?
English-speaking Cameroonians are fighting desperately against their marginalization by the eight french-speaking regions of the country.
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Following the perpetual killings and detention of anglophones, violence, ghost towns which have led to economic stagnation, grounding of schools and courts in the north west and south west regions of Cameroon stemming from the ongoing anglophone crisis , civil society organizations, parents, religious bodies and school proprietors have not stopped mounting pressure on SDF members of Parliament to engage any action that can end the ongoing stalemate in the north west and south west regions of Cameroon before schools resume in September for the 2017/2018 academic year.
It is for this reason that the SDF parliamentary group at the National Assembly organised a press Conference, Friday June 7 2017 to announce the holding of an All Anglophone Conference 3 (AAC 3) in Buea, the capital city of the south west region of Cameroon, from the 18 to 19 of August 2017. The meeting as emphasized by the SDF parliamentary group leader, Hon. Joseph Mbanazem, shall be attended by Chiefs, Fons, MPs, elites, religious leaders, amongst others all from the two English speaking regions and should be bonafide Anglophones by origin. The MPs said their recess period is to lay the ground work ahead of the AAC3.They are also expected to draft a document which will be forwarded to president Biya, for him to okay the holding of the conference.
The representatives of the people reiterated the AAC3 will be a golden opportunity for all anglophones to package their worries in a single bag and forward it to mr Biya.More to that, the present divisions and factions that exist amongst anglophone elites will be highlighted. The only obstacle to this giant initiative can be mr Paul Biya's refusal to authorise its holding according to some protagonists.
Many observers have said it is the non respect and implementation of the resolutions of AAC1 and AAC2 in Buea and Bamenda in 1993 and 1994 respectively that has plunged Cameroon into the current socio-economic and political instability which has ruined the two English speaking regions of the country.
However, it is so unfortunate that this initiative is coming at a time when most anglophones have moved from federalists to secessionists meanwhile the convenor of the meeting, the SDF stands for federation.
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Retired Justice Ayah Paul has disclosed the list of some of the people who are 'behind his detention.'
In an open letter in Le Messager, Ayah Paul believes that the current parliamentarian for Akwaya, Igelle Elias, is one of the conspirators.
Some members of government including justice minister, Laurent Esso, are part of the plot, he says.
Ayah Paul has been in detention in Yaoundé for several months, with the reason yet to be disclosed to him.
He was arrested in the wake of the unrest in West Cameroon. Anglophones decry their marginalization by the populous eight French-speaking regions of the nation.
Ayah Paul claims that Honorable Elias has never contacted him or any of his family members, not even on phone, according to Cameroon-Info.Net.
But shockingly, he observed, Mr Elias phoned his wife on 19 January 2017. Ayah says Elias had asked his wife to inform him if he [Ayah] escaped from captivity or if he was released, the same news site reports, quoting Le Messager.
Honorable Elias reportedly replaced Ayah Paul at the National Assembly.
The former judge who was retired recently by Paul Biya also deplored the condition of his detention.
He pointed out that he has been denied access to the phone as cautioned by his doctor due to his poor health.
Access to the toilet is also preoccupying to Ayah Paul.
The full list of the conspirators and their respective roles has been kept jealously by the former judge, he says.
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