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Troops and other security agents on duty at the Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board, GCEB, Head Office in Buea, were caught napping when a mysterious fire broke out and ravaged part of the building.
The incident, which happened in the early hours of Sunday, May 21, caused panic at the Board as the Communication Department was partially razed.
Following a tip off from a source, The Post rushed to the scene to establish the cause of the fire outbreak and the extent of the damage on the public building.
 But these reporters were denied access into the Board’s premises, which was now teeming with additional troops, drafted in to contain the fire.
From outside the gate of the Board’s premises, one could spot thick cloud of smoke that bellowed remorselessly out of the windowpanes, as the troops now joined by the staff of a filling station adjacent the Board grappled to put out the flames.
With the help of fire extinguishers from the filling stations, the fire was finally contained, but the smoke-darkened wall above the windowpane of the Board’s Communication’s office bore the residues of the fire.
Unlike other offices facing the road, the window curtains of the burnt office were not there. The curtains had apparently been consumed with other items by the fire. This made the partially razed office stand out from the other offices that were unaffected by the fire.
Speaking to The Post, a staff of the GCE Board, who refused to be named, said “the fire was caused by the explosion of the Air Condition, AC, in the Director of Communications office.
From what we saw, the Communications Director, Mathew Takwi, left his AC on and went home. We are suspecting that after working all through the night, the AC got heated and then exploded.  Unfortunately, after the explosion, the particles failed on another colleague’s chair and caught fire. The fire spread to the curtains and started engulfed other items in the office. It is thanks to the police that were on guard that saw the smoke circling in the building that they raised and alarm before we rushed to the building to put out the fire.
When we got into the building, we had difficulties containing the fire because there were no fire extinguishers in the building, we were only rescued by the staff of the filling station across the road, who helped us with their fire extinguisher,” our source recounted.
He further asserted that this is not the first time in recent weeks that there has been a fire incident at the GCE Board premises. According to our source, a taxi recently caught fire in front of  the Board by 3:00am and it only took the vigilance of the night watch man  to contain the fire.

GCE Board Registrar, Workers Denied Access To Burnt Room

Meanwhile, our dependable source further asserted that in the wake of the fire incident, the GCE Board Registrar, Dr Humphrey Ekema Monono, was denied access to the burnt room by the security officers, who were drafted in to control the situation.
Some workers of the Board were even denied access into the building.  The Police office said it was unwise to let people into the building because they may come in and complete the job, since they were still unable to ascertain the origin of the fire.
It only took the intervention of the Board Chair before they were granted access into the premises for an extra-ordinary meeting.

Stormy Meeting After Fire Scare

Meantime, our source said after the fire incident, Dr Ekema Monono quickly convened and extra-ordinary meeting with the staff in which he advised everybody to be vigilant, especially during this period when the Board is administering the GCE exams.
According to him, the Board is becoming more and more unsafe. Dr Monono advised all the staff of the Board to remove their private documents in the office to avert  

The troops deployed to the scene dispersed the few persons around the vicinity, in the bid to prevent the incident from creating a scene, and making more people aware of the fire incident.
The burning of public buildings, especially schools have recently increased, as the examination period draws near. Some buildings and schools, especially those that are government-owned have been the target of the arsonists.  For now, with the information hoarding habits of state personnel, The Post cannot make out whether the GCE board fire incident is an act perpetrated by the arsonist group, or whether it is a natural fire incident caused by an internal electric fault inside the building.

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Andrew Nsoseka

22.May.2017

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Population turns out massively to take part in this year’s edition of the open door day at the Mvan military center in Yaounde, with thousands of people present.

The open door day of the Mvan Military centre in Yaounde, is one of those activities which culminates with the 20^th May celebration in Cameroon every year. It holds on every eve of the National feast.

Prior to the afternoon activities, as early as 7:00am individuals could already be spotted in the military base’s premises. With smiling faces, probably depicting the anxiety in them, they loitered outside the gate as everybody had to be searched before they got in. This was to avert the security threats that Cameroon has been facing lately.

Those who came earlier got nice seats or positions from where they could have a better view of everything that was going on, most especially the display of the soldiers with their aircrafts.

Considering the resoluteness of the population, not even the scorching sun or standing up for long periods could deter them from waiting to watch the spectacular show by the military, which could at times be turned against them by the regime. The spectacle only commenced later in the afternoon after the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, Joseph Beti Assomo had arrived.

No aircraft display caught the attention of the onlookers as that of parachuting, especially the case of a soldier who escaped the claws of death, when he almost landed on high tension electrical wires. Due to the windy nature of the weather, his parachute pulled him towards the wrong direction despite his efforts to control it.

This proves how the gangster regime transforms its military to the extent that they are ready to sacrifice their lives in demonstrating the prowess of the regimes armed forces.

 

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Pavel Joseph Nyuysuliy

20.May.2017

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The most parroted unity and indivisibility of Cameroon by President Paul Biya and his political puppets and cronies is experiencing a backlash as massive boycott of today’s celebration looms.

When the SDF first expressed its intention to boycott this year’s national day celebrations on grounds that it militants cannot be celebrating a so called unity, when one part of the country is in pain, Biya’s political gadflies took to the media, raining insults on the party and its Chairman and accusing the party of financing and promoting secessionist tendencies in the country.

Pages of pro-government newspapers were replete with derogatory write-ups about Fru Ndi and his SDF party and airtime on radios and television stations was conveniently filled up to by agents of the regime to convince Cameroonians why they must celebrate the National Day.

After the bashing of the SDF and it leadership, other political parties began taking their turns to crusade for a massive boycott of the event.

 The next party to advocate for a boycott of the event was the Cameroon People’s Party (CPP) of Edith Kahbang Walla.

According to the CPP National President, her party cannot take part in this year’s National Day celebrations because of the callous management of the Anglophone crisis by the Biya Government.

“We cannot participate in official festivities when we do not agree with the current management of the Anglophone Crisis. No celebration of national unity in exclusion, violation of fundamental rights and repression,” Kah Walla asserted.

She, however, warned the party’s militants that the national unity which Biya’s apologetics were singing was just an illusion, while the country was gradually sinking into the abyss of civil war because of bad governance.

She advised Cameroonians to use this year’s National Day to reflect on the way forward.

“Instead of participating in this superficial ceremony that increasingly resembles a personality cult, we should instead come together to define ways to build a nation truly united, strong, just and prosperous,” Kah Walla said.

Even though the Government, through her propagandist arm (CRTV) tried to penetrate the CPP and cause rancour between the party’s officials, the party hierarchy was able to quickly bury the hatchet and moved forward.

Another party that has declared her intention to snub this year’s National Day is the Popular Action Party (PAP) of Honourable Justice Ayah Paul Abine.

The militants are aggrieved by the unjust arrest and detention of their National Chairman.

Others political parties like United Socialist Democratic Party (USDP) of Prince Michael Ekosso, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) and the Patriotic Party of Jean De Dieu Momo, are all calling for a boycott of the event.

Meanwhile, Government henchmen in the Regions like Governors, Senior Divisional Officers, Divisional Officers and others have already devised strategies to ensure that today’s vent shouldn’t fail.

Prisons doors will be opened for prisoners to go and match to give a semblance of national unity like what happened in the Southwest on February 11, when Governor Bernard Okalia Bilai, let loose harden criminals to go and march as youth of the Region.

The criminals used the opportunity to gain their freedom by escaping after march-past.

This time around, Okalia Bilai has instructed security officers to restrict private television

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Rita Akana

20.May.2017

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Part of Kumba Grand stand razed to "frustrate" National Day but Government Delegate insists the event must hold Unknown arsonists are belived to have set the back section fo the Kumba grandstand ablaze. The incident which the Government Delegate says was targetted at frustrating National Day affected the roof and pillars.

A manhunt has been launched to fish out the person or persons behind the act, the City's Manager Victor Nkele Ngoh reveals. The Government Delegate has denounced in strong terms attempts by these persons to thwart the National Day which appears to be going "hitchfree" as he says.

The incident which occurred on the night of Wednesday breaking Thursday has brought to light the neglect of the ceremonial ground by municipal and administrative authorities.

During the heart of the anglophone crisis, various social networks showed the hoisting of the SCNC flag at the grnad stand.

The facility is gradually becoming a hideout for men of the underworld who consume marijuana and even mess it up with faeces. In the meantime, repairs are being carried out on the damaged section while elements of the Rapid Intervention Battalion , BIR are guarding the grand stand ahead of Saturday's showdown.

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Rita Akana

19.May.2017

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Sweden’s director of public prosecution, Marianne Ny, says she has decided to discontinue the investigation into WikiLeaks founder.
Swedish prosecutors said on Friday they would drop a preliminary investigation into an allegation of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, bringing to an end a seven-year legal standoff.

“Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny has today decided to discontinue the preliminary investigation regarding suspected rape concerning Julian Assange,” the prosecutors office said in a statement. 

Assange, 45, has lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, after taking refuge there to avoid extradition to Sweden over the allegation of rape, which he denies.

He has refused to travel to Stockholm, saying he fears further extradition to the US over WikiLeaks’ release of 500,000 secret military files on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Rita Akana

19.May.2017

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The African Development Bank (ADB) has declared it willingness to finance the tarring of the Kumbo-Nkambe stretch of the Bamenda Ring Road.

This information was made public by the Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, Tuesday, May 16, in Santa, while launching reconstruction works on the 35km Babadjou-Bamenda road.

During the occasion, Minister Nganou Djoumessi said; “while promising that the remaining portions of the Ring Road will continue progressively, I want to assure the population of this Region that the African Development Bank (ABD) has already declared it willingness to finance the tarring of the Ring Road from Kumbo to Nkambe.” 

If this portion of the road is effectively tarred, it will bail President Paul Biya out of his own lies to the Bamenda people concerning the road.

During one of his epicurean trips to the Northwest Region close to three decades ago, President Paul Biya promised the people of the Northwest Region that he was going to personally supervise the construction work on the Ring Road.

However, for close to three decades, the Northwest people have been living under a presidential lie as they watch day and night as their loved ones perish on the road, their farm produce rot on the way before they get to the market, while the people are subjected to exorbitant transport fares, yet they spend days on the road before reaching their destinations because the roads are impassable.

However, during political campaigns, some political hand clappers and the regime’s marionettes swim in the mud  or dust to go and canvas for votes for a President that has mortgaged them for over 34 years.

In his welcome address, the Mayor of Santa, Moses Khan, said the road will spur economic development between the West and the Northwest Regions and thanked the Minister for compensating those whose crops and houses have been earmarked for destruction, because of the rehabilitation work on the road project. 

Meanwhile, the World Bank Country Director, Elizabeth Huybens, maintained that the Babadjou-Bamenda road construction is part of the transport sector development project approved by the World Bank Board of Directors in October 2016, to the tune of $206.7 million.

 

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Abeh Valery

19.May.2017

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