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The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng, has urged the new Director of General Affairs, Germain Koukolo Koukolo, to consolidate government’s policy on human resource management, effectively implement its policy on training personnel, follow-up and improve working conditions, discipline staff, upgrade the payroll and implement legal and regulatory texts on personnel expenditure. Koukolo Koukolo was appointed by Prime Ministerial decree on September 21, 2016 and installed on September 23 by P&T boss, Minette Libom Li Likeng. 

The new DAG comes at a time the Ministry is faced with the challenge of developing and attaining the country’s 2016-2020 digital economy vision and meeting the ICT stakes of the 2016 Female Africa Nations Cup. The control and respect of tenders for contracts, the follow-up of the execution of service provision and the management and maintenance of equipment are some of his tasks. Minister Minette Libom Li Likeng said it was therefore imperative for the new DAG to scrupulously respect the principles of management and budgeting. “Innovate, create and push things,” he was challenged. The 51-year-old Germain Koukolo Koukolo was previously in the Secretariat of the Prime Minister’s office before his appointment.

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Rita Akana

27.Sep.2016

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The British high Commissioner to Cameroon Presided over the graduation ceremony of students of the department of international programs of the Oxford university College Bambili Saturday 24th September 2016. He was Assisted by a powerful team from London

The Oxford university college (ouc) polytechnic is a high quality institution of higher learning. It is dedicated to offering quality professional qualifications.  

These qualifications are relevant, recognized and respected everywhere in the country and around the world.The institution  equips students with  professional skills which are required for the job market.It focuses on areas like Business Finance and Management, Journalism and Media, Medical and Biomedical Sciences.

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27.Sep.2016

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Last week in Buea, the South West Region Of Cameroon, the Municipal Council went out to destroy those places that did not look presentable as well as those that did not respect town planning. During the destruction process, some were given 48 hour warning to either make changes such as repainting, putting up a new roof and so on.Some did not quite yield to the instructions and thus were crushed down by council bulldozers. 

Cameroon will be hosting the  12th edition of the Africa Women Cup of Nations, the biennial international football championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the women's national teams of Africa, between 19 November and 3 December 2016.

The tournament will hold at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaounde, its Annexes 1 and 2 and the military stadium. In Buea and Limbe: the Molyko Stadium, Centunary Stadium, the Middle Farm Stadium and the Omnisports stadium of Limbe.

Among the hotels included; La Falaise, Djeuga Palace, Mont Febe and Yaounde Hilton; Mountain Hotel, the Parlemetarian Hotel, The Chariot Hotel, and FINI Hotel in Limbe and Buea.

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27.Sep.2016

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Reports from Menchum, North West Region say Mua Patrick, Journalist of the English Daily, The Guardian Post, received three punches from a ,Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement,CPDM member of Parliament for Menchum South,Hon WALLANG Richard, for writing critical articles on him.

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26.Sep.2016

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Semnwuha.k.a Claude Batle, is 30 years old and has fully developed male and female sex organs.

These double sex organs, rather than give the man-woman double pleasures, instead attract discrimination, false accusations and risk of lynching. Menstrual cramps crown Semnwuh’s predicament.

“During menstruation, I have to pad myself. But it is challenging to wear a pad because the manhood hanging up there, prevents me from completely padding myself.

The menstrual cramps make things more bizarre,” Semnwuh told The Post in an exclusive interview. 

Sometime ago in Douala,Semnwuh,who hails from Santa, Mezam Division in the Northwest Region, narrowly escaped lynching when he-she was suspected of being a homosexual. Before that, he-she had been a victim of mob beatings on several occasions.

“I am a hermaphrodite, not a homosexual. Once people accused me of raping a nine-year-old boy, while others said they caught me forcing an old woman into sex,”Semnwuh said.

The same nature that endowed Semnwuh with both male and female sex organs seemed to have double-dealt him-her.

“I have never been privileged to be in a romantic relationship, not to talk of having sex with anyone since I was born, be it a girl or boy.

Certainly, I feel the urge like every other person does, because the organs are there.

When I feel attracted to someone, both sexual organs are stimulated simultaneously, making the thought of sex more disheartening for me,” Semnwuh said.

The most painful part of this dual sex thing, said Semnwuh, is that you cannot have sex with a man even if you feel like doing it.

“It is even more difficult to have sex with another hermaphrodite because both male organs are erect and thus collide with each other.” Semnwuh recalled a scrape with death in a market in Douala.

“An angry mob in Douala almost put an end to my life when it mistook me for a gay. The people found it unbelievable and unacceptable that a human being would possess two sex organs.

They, therefore, concluded that I was a witch or wizard who had to be eliminated,” Semnwuh, told The Post.

Hard to Find Jobs

If Semnwuh finds it difficult, if not impossible to enjoy sex, he finds it even harder to land jobs. One of his-her mother’s 12 sons, Semnwuh acts to earn a living.

“Everywhere I go to look for a job, people shun me. They treat me with contempt when I sell in bars.

They do not want to give their houses to me for rent. In fact, I am looked upon as a persona non grata, undeserving of human attention.

“It is God who created me like this, not I myself. If I had an opportunity to choose, I would not be so greedy as to request for two sex organs. I sometimes go for days without eating, because of lack of money.

I equally sleep under trees, because people refuse to rent their houses to me for fear of being bewitched. Presently I am lodging in an inn,” said Semnwuh.

Government too, has been reluctant to recognise Semnwuh and his-her kind.

Semnwuh heads an organisation called Association of Hermaphrodite Persons in Cameroon presently made up of 14 members but their efforts have so far failed to legalise the association.

“We have compiled several documents and forwarded them to the different institutions that we deem competent to tackle our situation, but they always reject our files or claim that they are missing,” Semnwuh complained.

According to Semnwuh, two children of six and ten years respectively, have been operated upon and their sex organs corrected.

Dream of Marriage

Semnwuh said he dreams of one day having a surgery to remove one of the sex organs.

“My greatest joy will be to marry and hear the cry of a baby I can call my own. If God will be merciful to me and send people who can finance my trip to Spain, I will forever be grateful,” said Semnwuh.

“Our association is looking up to the government and well-wishers to consider our plight and to raise some funds that could be used to sponsor our operation, without which, our dreams and aspirations may never come true,” Semnwuh pleaded.

Semnwuh appeals to the social welfare bodies in the country to carryout sensitisation campaigns to make people understand that they are normal human beings.

This, Semnwuh explained, will reduce the unjust mob beatings they are subjected to, and also make employers open their doors to them.

Self-Sex& Suicide

Although some medics claim that a hermaphrodite can make love to oneself and get pregnant by sending sperm to the female organ, Semnwuh said, “When the manhood is sexually aroused, it becomes hard and stiff, and therefore unbendable.

The scientists explain what they think, without actually consulting us so we can relate the realities of what science is ignorant of.”

Semnwuh said several times he-she has contemplated committing suicide and even attempted to jump into the River Wouri, but for the intervention of passers- by.

The hermaphrodite, who desires to become a prophet of God, said he-she remains optimistic that one day enough money will be raised for the corrective surgery to be done.

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24.Sep.2016

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Taka Babila Cletus abandoned his job since March 2016, leaving the Council with a huge deficit.

Abongwa Che Fru was appointed Municipal Treasurer of Bafut Council in Mezam Division of the North West Region by Order No. 00000086/A/MINATD/MINFI of April 28, 2016. He replaced Taka Babila Cletus who allegedly fled since March 2016, leaving the Council with a deficit of 15.5 million FCFA for the period January 8, 2015 to March 4, 2016.

The missing amount was revealed during the mid-term evaluation of the Council. Mayor Langsi Abel revealed that the absence of a Municipal Treasurer caused great losses in revenue collection. The situation also hampered the collection of market fees, park access fee, council stamp duties and proceeds from quarry products. The consequence was the poor rate of the execution of projects. 

It emerged from the session that out of the 572,576,803 FCFA budgeted, barely 170,324,547 FCFA was collected, giving 29.7 per cent. Local revenue collection was 29,645,380 FCFA. Expenditure execution from January 1-June 30, 2016, was 131,911,752 FCFA, with recurrent expenditure amounting to 78,234,203 FCFA, giving 59.3 per cent. Investment expenditure stood at 53,677,547 FCFA or 40.70 per cent of total expenditure. Bafut Council overstretched to execute projects, amongst which was the acquisition of a standby generator, construction of culverts, grading of the Agyati-Ntahkukife, Mbehbali Mankaha road, etc.

The council also started work on phase three of the municipal stadium, offered holiday jobs to 270 students, equipped the Mforya Integrated Health Centre and rehabilitated the Akofunguba Health Centre. Meanwhile, Phase Three of PNDP projects in the North West Region provides about 77 million FCFA for updating the development plan of Bafut municipality, carrying out feasibility studies and executing micro-projects.

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23.Sep.2016

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