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SDF Councillors of  Mbanga in the Moungo division are now caught between party discipline and respect for national laws following a decision by the Divisional Officer of the locality insisting  that SDF militants must be  part of the national day celebrations.

Following the May 7 circular signed by party chairman John Fru Ndi, Irene Tedjouteu councillor in the Mbanga municipality sent a correspondence last Tuesday to the D.O informing him of the decision from his  hierarchy.

 But the "chef terre" turned down the move insisting that SDF councillor,be present and mobilise their militants for Saturday's  showdown.

The D.O argued that law No 76-424 of 16 September 1976  prescribes that political parties have a republican obligation to take part in public celebrations . He told the people's representative, " Your obedience to your party should not undermine your republican engagements as representatives of the people"

 He has threatened to sanction any councillor who does not appear at the Mbanga ceremonial avenue on the d-day.

The move by the civil administrator has sent fright to many SDF representatives at the Councils, National Assembly and the senate nationwide who think other administrators could "arm twist"  the law to force them to be present at ceremonial grounds on May 20.

Contacted by phone this morning, Jean Michel Nincheu , the SDF chairman in the Littoral region has urged councillors of the Moungo to stand their grounds and boycott the event as ordered by their party chairman.

 He has described the administrator's move as suppression of expression, wondering why the same man who has been a thorn on the flesh of the SDF in Mbanga should be so concerned by the free will decision of the party to stay away from the National day.

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Rita Akana

18.May.2017

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The new French president may just be 39, yet he has a lot to teach the old regime in Yaounde.

The first step President Emmanuel Macron has taken has revealed the gap between France and Cameroon.

Unlike the populous government in Yaounde, the Macron team comprises just 18 ministers and 4 secretaries of State.

Mr Biya’s government is made up of more than 60 ministers, secretaries of State, and minister delegates.

And shockingly, Cameroon is neither richer, nor more developed than France. Much less more populated than France.

The total pollution of Cameroon is less than 26 million meanwhile France’s population is over 60 million.

France has been a developed nation for decades now. Yet Cameroon is “poor” and heavily indebted, with questionable emergence ambitions by 2035.

The average Cameroonian lives far below $2.

And most shockingly each of these ministers is entitled to special benefits and services, including lodging and transportation; all to the detriment of desperate taxpayers.

So you can understand why ministerial appointments are always accompanied by extravagant feasting, beginning from the regional level descending down to the divisional and sub divisional levels and finally, to the village level.

Certainly wisdom does not require time to manifest itself. Longevity may only confidently bring experience but necessarily wise decisions.

Is not possible to avoid redundancy by reviewing the structure of our government? The Ministry of Secondary Education, Ministry of Basic Education and Ministry of Higher Education could be brought down to just one ministry: The Ministry of Education.

Why must there a vice-prime minister, especially when there is no vice-president?

 

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Tasha Seidou

18.May.2017

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At least 10 candidates taking the ongoing GCE practicals at GSS Buea town have been hospitalized after mysterious bees took the school
The incident set the atmosphere in a state of pandemonium as students, examination officials and even security officers took to their heels  from angry bees whose origin is unknown.  We are reliably told the 10 candidates have been ferried to the Buea Regional hospital where they are receiving medical Attention.

Authorities have been trooping in to put the situation under control but fear has gripped the candidates making it difficult for today's session to hold.  

In the meantime, GBHS Bonadikombo in Limbe has been hit by fire this morning. The fire which ravaged the administrative block of the school has also affected parts of the library. Computers and other important data were consumed by the inferno.

Contrary to information that GCE papers were lost to the flames, Camcord has been reliably informed that the centre is not hosting the practical session and that the incident will not affect the GCE. These incidents come a day after 5 classrooms of Government primary school Atuakom were razed by yet to be identified persons.

Though the cause of these incidents has not been established there are strong indicators if is linked to the socio political stalemate in the anglophone regions . Lately there have been an aggressive campaign  from some quarters to "sabotage" the GCE over the prevailing heat in the anglophone regions. The government is being blamed  for forcing the Exam down the throats of students in the anglophone regions who have not been to school for 6 months now. Recent measures by the Ministry of Secondary Education towards a hitch free examination have been welcomed with criticisms.

It is feared that some students might give up taking the exams with the disturbing developments surrounding the  exams in the North West and South west regions.  

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Jerome Ngwa

16.May.2017

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Recently the short-sighted government of la republique du Cameroun, has promised to carry a number of reforms to appease the disgruntled and marginalised Anglophones.Amongst these measures include the laying of the foundation stone of the University teaching hospitals of Bamenda and Buea.

The NW and SW Regions have become tourist destinations for the ministers of basic and secondary education who spend time preaching back to school sermons to parents. the recruitment of contract teachers, allocation of funds to support private schools amongst others in the education sector.  

More to that, the decaying and obsessed government of mr Biya has also deceived Cameroonians that it will carry out the redeployment of French speaking magistrates from English speaking regions back to their francophone regions, the creation of a common law bench at the supreme court and the department of common law in the highly corrupt national school of Administration and Magistracy, known in its French acronym as ENAM. All these mouth watering reforms are mere promises which have as objective to lure Southern Cameroonians to drop their struggle for independence.

The people of the Republic of Southern Cameroons have come to understand that you can fool a people for long but not for a life time. Forerunners of the Anglophone battle for restoration have cautioned all Ambazonians not to hit or fall prey to the seductive and deceitful promises of la Republique.

Many Anglophone sympathizers have asked the question; why all these measures now? Meanwhile at the start of the upheaval, some slaves of the Biya regime like Paul Atanga Nji and other francophone ministers took to the media to say there is no Anglophone problem in Cameroon.They were disgraced by their master, the 84 year old president who acknowledged later on that there is actually a problem.

The Anglophone crisis has taken a drastic turn of forward forever and backward never despite the counterfeit reforms announced by the crafty and centralised Yaounde government.  

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Rita Akana

16.May.2017

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The Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, accompanied by the Secretary of State in charge of roads, Louis Max Ayina, will today, Tuesday, May 16, lead an unending convoy of State fund predators to Santa in the North West Region to launch reconstruction works on the 35km Babadjou-Bamenda stretch of roads, which has become a death trap in recent months.

The political razzmatazz that will accompany the ceremony in Santa will even be greater than the job which the Minister is expected to deliver to the people of the North West Region.

Political song birds will sing praises to President Paul Biya, for having decided in his magnanimity, to reconstruct the stretch of road, which has claimed the lives of many Cameroonians, since it deterioration.

CPDM militants clad in their paraphernalia will outnumber the equipment pool of the contractor who is expected to execute the project and motions of supports will pour to Yaounde like the tar that is expected to be used on the road.

Despite the huge Government mobilisation and the anticipated high sounding speeches that will be delivered at the ceremonial ground, the Babadjou-Bamenda stretch of road is in fact being financed by the World Bank to the tune of  60 billion, 700 million and not the Government of Cameroon.  

During his stay in the North West Region, Minister Nganou Djoumessi will also launch the 5km run-around track of the Bamenda entrance cliff and the 12km urban section of the city.

Other projects to be carried out in the city include the construction of a weighing station, two rest areas, a toll station, markets,  mini potable water system and the tarring of 50km of secondary roads to open up farming areas.

The Minister and members of his delegation are also expected to visit some road construction sites, including the construction of the Babessi and Ndop-Kumbo section of the Ring Road.

This may be one area Nganou Djumessi may encounter problems, given that, it is close to three decades since the Government led by President Paul Biya pledged to personally supervise the construction of the road.

Like other promises that are made by the Biya Government, the ring road is still at it promised stage, despite having ruled for over three decades.

Meanwhile, the Minister would round-off his visit with an enlarge meeting with all the stakeholders of the Ministry of Public Works and related services.  

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Abeh Valery

16.May.2017

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Officials of the Cameroon General Certificate of Education (GCE) Board have been plunged in total confusion, following the unprecedented commencement of the practical phase of the exams today.

The officials are battling between registering students for the exams and administering the practical phase of examination to already registered students, according to the directives of the Minister of Secondary Education, Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe.  

Minister Ngalle Bibehe on Saturday, May 13, stunned education stakeholders in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon, when he averred that candidates, who have registered for this year’s examination, have the latitude to change their centres and write at any centre of their choice.

As if to add salt to an already excruciating sore, the Minister further instructed that even candidates who have not registered for the exams should be allowed to do so and sit for the exams on the same day.

The Minister’s instructions have met firm criticisms from pedagogues of the Anglo-Saxon System of Education, who see it as carnage on the most cherished and orderly organised GCE exams. 

According to one of the pedagogues who spoke to Cameroon Concord on condition of anonymity, “the Minister’s instructions are going to create more problems than solve them.

“With such  a method, the GCE Board would not even know how many candidates are supposed to sit for the exams in the O or A Levels, how many candidates will write in a particular examination centre, the number of question papers to be printed and the number of invigilators to send in a particular centre,” the Pedagogue said.

According to him, such haphazard manner in organising an exam can only breed ground insecurity and examination malpractices.

“The GCE exams are often well organised, after registration, candidates are issued students’ slips by the Board to ease identification and avoid impersonation, but with the current chaotic registration method, fraud and impersonation will be rampant,” our source stated.

Since Anglophone teachers downed their tools on November 21, 2016, in protest of what they termed the bastardisation of the Anglo-Saxon System of Education, Government has been making frantic efforts for pupils and students to go back to school.

Minister Ngalle Bibehe’s move is to accomplish this task in other to avert a blank academic year.

 

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Rita Akana

15.May.2017

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