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NCC In Image Cleansing Since the creation of the National Communication Council, media practitioners in the country have the opinion that it is another arm of the government to muzzle the press. The NCC has always given them reasons to think in that direction with sanctions ranging from suspension to warning of media men and organs.

The National Communication Council has spent its few years of existence running behind Journalists with whip. The new president, formerly vice president Peter Essoka has often been on the offensive, calling to order media practitioners. But their outing in Cameroon's economic Capital Tuesday September 6, 2016 has been described as‘cleansing the image’ propaganda.

Peter Essoka disclosed in a press briefing that the NCC will be awarding Journalists come December 16 and 17 in what they termed Excell’Com 2016. He however did not disclose the criteria or the deadline for application but told the press that members of the Jury will inform them on a later date. 15 Journalists will be rewarded for their hard work in contributing to the growth of media landscape and Nation building.

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08.Sep.2016

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 Prominent activist and former president of Association for the Defense of Collective Interest, ADIC, Bernard NJONGA and five others have been sentenced to Two months suspended imprisonment for three years. The Yaoundé Court of first instance found the six activists guilty of unauthorized gathering an attempt of creating public disorder.

The court’s verdict was handed down Monday September 5, 2016 in Yaoundé. Bernard NJONGA led a group of protesters on June 30 during the heart of outbreak of Birds Flu in Yaoundé to demand for workable solutions from the government. They were arrested and remanded in custody and later released two days after.

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07.Sep.2016

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A Cameroonian, who returned recently from Kuwait after a failed ‘bush falling’ venture, has sent her Pastor, Francis Mbacham, to prison for what she termed a scam.

Twenty-nine-year-old Loveline Ebangah made the revelation to the press in Kumba on Friday, September 2, during a two-day symposium grouping some 52 female returnees from countries in the Middle East.

The symposium was organised at the Kumba City Council by the Committee for the Fight against Human Trafficking and Rights Abuse, COMATHRA.

Meanwhile, Ebangah said she found herself in Kuwait through her Pastor.

According to her, Pastor Mbacham collected over FCFA 700,000 from her to process her documents. “When I arrived in Kuwait, it dawned on me that the agency and my Pastor had shared the money and I was left stranded,” Ebangah told reporters.

Ebangah recounted that she worked as a housemaid for several families in Kuwait and slept on the floor in a corridor leading to the rest room of the house side by side with a cat.

“In some cases, I was even raped. Things worsened when I requested to return back to Cameroon,” Ebangah said. She narrated that in the last days before she returned home, one of her employers threw her from a storey building to the ground floor where she was unconscious for days.

“It was thanks to God’s intervention that I regained my consciousness in the hospital before coming back to Cameroon,” she said.

Back in Cameroon, Ebangah said Pastor Mbacham refused to refund her money. “That is why I sought the intervention of the Delegate General for National Security. Thanks to the Delegate’s intervention, Mbacham is currently in prison,” she said.

COMATHRA in partnership with Freedom for All in the US and the Pan African Organisation are currently carrying out feasibility studies to support the girls to set up small businesses.

COMATHRA President, Larrry Esong Akang, told reporters that the training is aimed at reintegrating the girls into the society.

Akang said thanks to partners such as the Government, Freedom for All and the Pan African Organisation, more girls will be freed from the illusion of ‘bush falling’.

Peter Wongbie of the Pan African Organisation on Research and Protection of Violence against Women said the training offered the girls is to eradicate fear and transform them into a new breed of entrepreneurs.

The human development expert traced the causes of such migration to poverty, peer pressure and lies from travel agencies.

He said the training is in line with Government’s effort to stop such risky migration for youths out of Cameroon.

Wongbie said after the capacity building exercise, and feasibility studies, recommendations will be made for sponsorship based on the business plans the girls will present.

The team is equally expected to pay courtesy visits to the Prime Ministry, Ministry of External Relations, Delegate General for National Security and the Ministry of Women Empowerment and the Family.

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06.Sep.2016

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The people of Dibombari, a Sub division in Moungo division in the Littoral Region of Cameroon are now without an aministrative head, after the now former Divisional Officer died in a road accident which took place along the Dibombari-Nkapa road on Monday,05.09.2016. The driver of the vehicle in which the Official was seated is said to have violently hit a stationed truck, thereby causing deadly injuries to the DO.He was driving alongside the brigade commander of Dibombari who sustained serious injuries.

The two men were returning from watching a final of an inter quarter soccer competition in the area. The incident took place around 8pm local time. Tiako Alphones who hails from the Haut Nkam Division in West region became D.O of Dibombari in 2013

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06.Sep.2016

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Uncertainty currently looms in Kumba, Southwest Region, following a deadlock in a meeting between commercial motorcycle riders (bendskins) and the Divisional Officer, DO, for Kumba I, Charles Douala Fomumbod.

The meeting that held on Thursday, August 25, had been organised to kick-start plans towards putting in place a new executive for the riders union in Kumba I.

However, deliberations came to a head following disagreements among the riders over the constitution which the DO had in his hands.

The Post gathered that while the DO was still explaining issues, some riders started abusing him and other security officials.

Some are said to have accused the administration of conniving with political party leaders to polarise the union.

It was reported that a copy of the constitution the DO received from his hierarchy puts the mandate of the riders’ union presidency at two years renewable.

Contrary to that section, a majority of the riders are said to be fuming that their constitution talks of a two-year mandate renewable once.

Reports hold that the DO explained to the riders that in case of any worry, their doubts should be addressed to the cabinet of the Senior Divisional Officer, SDO. 

Meanwhile, the SDO reportedly asked the DO to hold the meeting with the riders to prepare ground for elections.

It would be recalled that a few months ago, the SDO, David Koulbout Aman, dissolved all the riders’union in the sub-divisions of Kumba following repeated actions of mistrust and incoherence. The suspension was pending fresh elections.

In the face of the new developments, there are fears that the bendskins may take to the streets again to protest over the union’s constitution.

The same meetings are expected in the days ahead in Kumba II and III Sub-divisions.

Some riders are already accusing the incumbent presidents of using illegal means to doctor the constitution for life presidency.

In 2016 alone, thousands of bendskins have taken to the streets at least on four occasions.In February, they took protest over a controversial park fee of FCFA 1,500 which Kumba City Council introduced.

They argued and had their way with the backing of the Meme SDO. The administrator had asked the City Council to suspend the tax pending fresh elections and to maintain public peace.

Before the SDO’s intervention, the bendskins had chased gendarmes and dismantled road blocks that revenue collectors of the City Council had erected.

On July 1, the bendskins blocked traffic in Kumba for over five hours. On that occasion, the trouble was that of recovering the motorcycle of one of theirs who had died in a caterpillar accident.

In that process, the bendskisn abandoned a corpse adjacent to the Central Police Station for hours.

Traffic only resumed after 7 pm following an offer of FCFA150,000 from the CPDM Section President for Meme IA, Lawson Tabot.

Reacting to the attitude of the bendksins back then, Tabot had promised to urge the administration on the need to restructure the commercial motorcycle sector in Kumba.

Tabot has asserted that the bendskins had become a threat to public peace.

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03.Sep.2016

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Massa tok tok (Krys Thobie) resigns from Equinox after more than 10 years of service.Krys Thobie, Popularly Known as Massa Tok Tok or better still Eze Ekuleku, is a Douala-based journalist who champions not only as a Pidgin broadcaster, but has cut a niche for himself as far as proximity broadcasting is concerned. 

He moderated the shows, Pidgin News (from Monday to Friday, 8am and 1pm) and Pidgin Debate (1pm on Saturdays and 8am on Sundays) which won the hearts of thousands of viewers, especially the people at the grassroots.This is definitely thanks to the human interest approach and the use of pidgin. “You can only address their problems if you use the language they understand best,” he says. Massa Tok Tok continues: “The human interest approach seeks to distract people of the lower social class from the sometimes boring institutional news, much of which does not have a direct positive impact on their lives.”

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03.Sep.2016

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