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President Paul Biys recently signed various Presidential Decrees indicating a change in format of most official identification documents in Cameroon.
According to the decrees, National Identity Cards, Residence Permits, Refugee Cards, Entry Visas and Retirement Cards for officials of the National Security will all have a single identification number and not multiple numbers as has been the case in the past.
The documents will also have a SIM card allocated to them.
The move is aimed at modernising the system and ensuring security.
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A group of Pentecostal pastors in Cameroon have "pressured" for an extension of the 34-year-rule by Cameroon's president, Paul Biya, according to a signed letter officially published Tuesday in the state-run newspaper, Cameroon Tribune.
Most of the names endorsing the 83-year-old leader appear to be from the French-speaking regions in the West African nation. However, critics have been quick to rubbish the move, arguing that a marriage between religion and politics ruins governance, democratic accountability and the rule of law.
"In Botswana, the church was instrumental in speeding up democratic processes. They assisted in holding leaders accountable and pushing forth good governance policies. In Cameroon, it is the opposite. Religion and politics marry, and pastors and priests bless their union on the altar," Fai Pontius says.
"I will never go to church again. It is unacceptable," Moh Cletus tells me on Facebook.
But others claimed pastors and priests have the right to participate in politics because they are citizens. "Give to Biya what belongs to Biya and to God what belongs to God," a Facebook user told me on grounds of anonymity.
In 2013, Cameroon's President Paul Biya ordered the closure of nearly 100 Christian churches in key cities, citing criminal practices organized by Pentecostal pastors that threaten the security of the state. Biya used the military to permanently shut down all Pentecostal church denominations in the nation's capital that were not registered.
Security analysts dismissed Biya's actions as a "ploy" to seal up lips that speak against the regime in churches. More than 500 Pentecostal churches operate in Cameroon, but fewer than 50 are legal, according to state reports.
In 2018, Biya would be running for another term in office despite growing discontent about his heavy-handed rule of his citizens.
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The Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo signed communiqué No. 16.000/MINESUP/CAB/nn on July 26, 2016 explaining Biya’s regime’s “Plan Special Jeunes”. China’s Sichuan Telecom Construction Engineering Co. Ltd has been contracted to supply 500,000 pieces of mini computers to university students. This will gulp down 75 Billion Francs of borrowed money from China’s EXIM Bank.
PAP, amongst other issues, pick the following:
• PAP notes that the government failed to inform the Cameroonian people of the interest rates of this loan that the country shall incur within this ten year period. We ask that such figures be made known immediately;
Muchas computers are vital for research and other academic course work, PAP believe that, this does not beat urgent priority projects on Cameroon’s development totem pole such as fighting the scourge of unemployment, provision of potable drinking water to every household, mechanise agricultural practices, putting meaning to the words, ‘free primary education’ etc. Let us randomly consider the issue of combating unemployment.
75 Billions can do a lot! Go also, to our state budget line by line and cut back on fuel, so-called out-station allowances and other reckless spending such as entertainment. Put all of these together and create factories across the country that would finish our raw materials … create a name for the country as a manufacturing hub in the region.
And by the way, in case this embarrassment of a regime didn’t know, 75 Billions could provide six thousand jobs to youths with a monthly salary of 100,000 Frs for the next ten years.
• The bidding process to pick Sichuan Telecom Construction Engineering Co. Ltd is mired in mystery and constitutes a very bad deal for Cameroon.
At the press conference of Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo, he brandished a sample of the said computers. This shows that what the government intends to supply are only mini laptop computers. The Intelligence Unit of PAP National Strategic Team contacted seven major laptop manufacturers in China’s leading manufacturing city of Shenzhen namely Shenzhen Yu Chuang Xing Ye Technology Co., Ltd; Shenzhen Yongjing Digital Limited Company; Shenzhen Sanwo Digital Technology Co., Ltd; Shenzhen Yyhong Technology Co., Limited; Shenzhen Sayirin Technology Co., Limited; Shenzhen Hisent Science & Technology Co., Ltd and Shenzhen BOCOOR Technology Com Ltd and requested for Pro forma Invoices (PI) for the highest grade quality of 500,000 mini laptop computers with each having a warranty of 2 years. Lo and behold, the prices ranged from 52 dollars (29,350 Frs) to 79 dollars (46,373 Frs) per piece [Current exchange rate is [1 USD = 587 XAF].
A mean of the best prices these factories accept to provide is 65.5 dollars (38,448.5 Frs). Now, if government is buying 500,000 mini laptop computers for a whopping 150,000 Frs per piece, it is either a very bad deal or some ministers have added mouth-watery commissions – four times greater than the actual cost – a scenario capable of ‘under-developing’ the Cameroonian people.
• It is a bait president Biya is using to impress upon the youths as elections draw to a close.
Biya’s so-called “Special Plan for the Youths” is a mockery to the young people of Cameroon. PAP believes that it is the youths who ought to be the actual commanders of their destiny and not some octogenarian who is tired, unproductive and lazy!
The youths must remember that as per the research carried out by the School of Gerontology, Southern California University in 2011, cognitive ability depreciates with age. That explains why, in 1981, the IMF reported Cameroon’s economic growth rate stood at some 12.25%. The minds presiding over the country at the time were young, vibrant and energetic.
Joseph Owona became director of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) in 1976, "when he was all of thirty-one years old" (Martin Mayer, The Diplomats, p. 162); Bello Bouba Maigari became Paul Biya’s Prime Minister in 1982 at 35; Dorothy Njeuma, who until a few years ago was still the Rector of the University of Yaounde (I) became Vice Minister of Education in 1975 when she was 32 years old; Nzo Ekangaki was 28 years old when he became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1962, and 38 when he was elected Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); Paul Bamela Engo, currently a judge at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, was 33 years old when he became a Minister Counselor at the Cameroon Embassy in Bonn, Germany in 1964 and 38 when he was elevated to the rank of a Minister Plenipotentiary in 1969, Kamdem Niyim became Minister of Health in 1964 at the age of 23, etc., etc.
Fast forward to 2004 when our economic growth rate plummeted to 4.2%. Those governing? Tired, lazy, unproductive gerontocracy!
These old men cannot pretend to be designing a future for us they won’t live to see.
And as the PAP Chieftain, Ayah Paul Abine always puts it to the youths, "the red sea may not part in our days. We need a bridge to cross to the other side ... that bridge is PAP"
PAP strongly advise the youths to guard against such game of hoodwink by the Biya regime at the wake of elections.
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The Head of State of Cameroon,President Paul Biya makes a gesture to boost digital communication in the entire nation by offering free laptops to students.
The beneficiaries are students enrolled in any institution based in Cameroon, whether private or public. The conditions of entitlement have not yet been made public.
The agreement will be signed on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 in Yaounde, between Jacques Fame Ndongo, Minister of Higher Education representating Paul Biya, and one of the delegates of the Chinese company whose identity is yet to be revealed.
More than 500 000 students will benefit from the donations from the Cameroonian "strongman". Total cost of production will be roughly Cfa 75 billion FCFA.
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Security of Cameroon and its neighbors depends on seamless cooperation. At the last meeting in Abuja in May, during the second regional summit on security in Nigeria and neighboring countries, it was intended to maintain and develop military cooperation between the countries of the Basin Commission Lake Chad (LCBC),
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President Paul Biya of Cameroon recently sent a five-man delegation to Nigeria's anti-corruption agency to learn strategies for tracing money stolen from their heavily corrupt country.
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