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45th National Day: reassuring military prowess on display

The population of Yaoundé, invited guests to the National Day celebration were marveled by the show of force displayed by the Cameroon defence forces during about an hour of match past. Photo de: 45th National Day: reassuring military prowess on display The canine unit of the Presidential Guard matching with dogs that have the capacity to detect explosives, drugs, weapons and ammunition was a major attraction. Other forces including the police also paraded their own canine units which are attached to the anti terrorist detachments.The military dogs are currently invovled in the Far North region in the fight against terrorism. The Special Rapid Intervention Group of the Gendarmerie that is specialized in fighting crime especially highway robberies and terrorist styled offences matched in the new uniform for first time since they began using brown uniforms...More

Enow Abrams Egbe Appointed Chairman of Cameroon Election Board

By Maybelle Ekukole

The former Governor was appointed yesterday April 25 by a Presidential decree in replacement of Dr. Samuel Fonkam Azu. Enow Abrams Egbe is now the Chairman of the Electora Board of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM). He was appointed yesterday April 25, 2017 by the President of the Republic, Paul Biya to replace Dr. Samuel Fonkam Azu’u at the helm of the election management institution. The appointment of the Senior Civil Administrator, a graduate of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM) comes just one year after he was appointed electoral board member of Elections Cameroon on April 21, 2016. Born on December 30, 1960, Enow Abrams Egbe before his appointment into the Electoral Board last year, was Inspector General for Elections in the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation since October 2012. The native of Upper-Bayang Sub-division, Manyu Division of the South West Region, has been Governor of the then South Province and later staged a come- back as Governor of Adamawa Region in 2010. He had also served as Senior Divisional Officer in some parts of the then North West Province.//Cameroon Tribune

Cameroon Anglophone Rebellion versus Law and Order

President Biya Proves to be a Man of Peace and of the Institutions

By Sakwe Eric Nageri

When in our backyard Nigeria revved its muscles in the 1990s to seize the Bakassi Peninsula by force, President Dr Paul Bathelemy Biya of Cameroon gave the ruthless Major General Sani Abacha – the no nonsense brute soldier who had just executed Ken Saro Wiwa for sectarian dissent - a lesson of peace and governance. Unrivalled in Africa, unknown in a continent in turmoil where superior military powers have turned Africa’s backyard into their testing ground for weapons of mass annihilation – cry the beloved Southern Sudan, Dafur, Somalia et al! Cameroon filed a case at the UN Court in The Hague, and came out victorious with the famous Green Tree Accord of former UN Secretary General, Koffi Anan. Then, fast ward into recent days, with a domestic opportunity in the English speaking regions of the country, products of colonial subjugation and slavery, where the President has one more effort to demonstrate his magnanimity as a statesman, unrivalled in the continent of Africa. A statesman respects institutions and with political maturity exhausts all options for peace before plunging into war as the grand finale in a theatre of bold and ‘big-balled’ men; where even Benito Mussoloni the Fascist Il Duce on hearing WWII had broken out would look up into heavens and thank the Lord for being a participant.

Youth-day Celebrations in Bamenda and North West Region Captured by Ghosts of Evil

Prime Minister Philemon Yang is Disgraced, Awaits Sacking

By John Ndiba

Cameroon's Secessionist forces called for abandonment of the tradition of celebrating 11 February 2017. This call was heeded in Bamenda, the bastion of separatist movements. The ghost of abandonment visited Bamenda, the Heaquarters of the North West Region of Cameroon, disgracing Prime Minister Philemon Yang who hails from the region. The Prime Minister has clearly lost political support putting his job in jeopardy. Sources close to the Star Building indicate mournful demeanor amongst his staff when information trickled on the success of the ghost town movement in his home region. The people of the Northwest had in recent days shown disdain for the prime minister and his government. Unimpeachable sources indicate that a cabinet reshuffle is close, and its all but certain that he will be replaced with a more daring forceful English-speaking Prime Minister from another region. Political voices from the region had nurtured hopes and acted to actualize a vain political expectation to redefine the form of the state. In all major towns in the north west region, the call was heeded to confirm their embarrassment of Philemon Yang and uphold their spirit of chaos. In Buea, the celebrations were excellently tranquil with Secondary school pupils marching to the rhythm of the bands of University of Buea, Buea Municipal council, Lycee Molyko and ENAP Buea.

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Buea Celebrates February 11, 2017 Youth day in Pomp and Pageantry

By Sirri Alette Ngwa

The people of Buea and the South West Region have celebrated with pomp and pageantry the 51st Youth day celebrations. Buea on February 11, 2017 witnessed the convergence of youths of a walks of life to celebrate a day ordained by the state to mark youth affairs. This day is historic in the country's political anal, as the founding fathers embellished the 1961 plebiscite with the dynamic spirit of the youth. Cameroonian youths in all ten regions of the country celebrated this day. However, the youths of Buea made a sure of it, following calls for boycotts by Cameroon diaspora and its surrogates in Cameroon. At the end of the ceremony, the Governor of the South West Region was visibly excited and called on all detractors to reconcile their souls with the spirit of what their ancestors fought for.

 

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Budding Journalist Atia Azohnwi Tilarius of the Sun Newspaper Arrested

Caught with subversive materials and fire-arms

By Polycarp Ashu

Character is fate. Fate is character, discuss! These are interesting days for Cameroon. The Government is on a massive crack-down. Its security services have up-their-game. Facilitated by the naivety of excited amateur revolutionists, trove of subversive materials and evidence are being uncovered daily. Atia Azohnwi Tilarius, a journalist with the Limbe-based Sun Newspaper has been arrested. He was arrested on Thursday February 9, 2017 in the Molyko neighbourhood of Buea, bastion of congregating rebellious youths of the so-called Anglophone secessionist movement. Mr Atia with a 5-year journalistic experience was accosted with other journalist colleagues with a bag full of Southern Cameroon’s Secessionist flyers, tear-gas canisters, explosives, laptop computer and flash-storage discs. On examining the laptop computer and flash-disc batches of documents were uncovered that were not merely journalist manuscripts, but correspondences and manuals with detail directives from a list of persons based in Cameroon and abroad on how to topple the Cameroon government and ensure the agenda of the separation of the North West region into a separate Ambazonian Republic. From the materials uncovered, the police have compiled a list of names of scores of accomplices in Cameroon and abroad. Some of these are former University of Buea graduates who were members of the banned University of Buea student Union (UBSU), some of whom have recently regrouped in Molyko receiving monies from abroad and threatening students and lecturers from resuming classes.

Message of H.E. President Paul BIYA of Cameroon on 51st Edition of the National Youth Day

My dear young compatriots,

In recent years, I have continually urged you to spare no effort to overcome the obstacles that could stand in your way.

I also encouraged you to use your resourcefulness, your creativity and your courage, to secure your future.

I think I have been understood by many of you, like our dear INDOMITABLE LIONS, whose remarkable victory at the recent Africa Cup of Nations brought great jubilation to our people.

The new feat achieved by the Indomitable Lions barely a few weeks after the equally remarkable performance of our Women’s National Football Team in a similar competition, confirms the vitality of our youth and demonstrates to the world that “impossible is un-Cameroonian”.

During these two competitions, we all admired the talent, courage and patriotic commitment of our young footballers, as well as their capacity to unite in order to defend the national flag.

This determination to serve the Republic is also celebrated day by day among our defence and security forces, as well as vigilante groups which are fighting in unison to protect our country from the Boko Haram terrorist sect.

My dear young compatriots,

Your enthusiasm to join the defence and security forces at this moment bears eloquent testimony to your attachment to the peace and stability of our country, as well as your burning desire to serve your fatherland.

You demonstrate similar commitment in your various activities which contribute to our country’s inexorable march towards emergence.

I would like to congratulate you on that.

Anglophone-Francophone Political Collaboration and the Making of Multipartism in Cameroon II

By Emmanuel Konde, PhD

In December 1989 Albert Mukong left Bamenda for Douala for a meeting with Yondo Black. Vincent Feko accompanied Mukong to the meeting at which the latter briefed Yondo Black on the project he was working. Mukong’s goal, according to Feko, was to persuade the Yondo Black to join him in founding a new political party. At the end of Mukong’s presentation, however, Feko recalls Yondo Black pausing for a moment to reflect on what Mukong had divulged. Then, “embarrassingly, [Yondo Black] turned around and tried to sell us the same commodity which we had proposed to him a moment earlier.” Yondo Black told Mukong and Feko that he was heading a group that was working on a similar project as theirs and called on Mukong and Feko to join them.

Two Cameroonians, it seems, had been thinking about and working toward forming a political party at about the same time. Both, it seems again, had been responding to the same untenable political conditions that prevailed in their country under the one party system. From all apparent indications Albert Mukong and Yondo Black were searching for ways to alleviate the political domination of the CPDM and to open up Cameroon to political pluralism. This development was a good thing.

South West Declares its Political Destiny

By Polycarp Ashu

Thursday, February 2, 2017, was historic in the Republic of Cameroon. All living forces of the Southwest region converged, from all the nooks and crannies of the country and continent of Africa onto the foothills of Mount Cameroon, horde of one of Africa’s most active volcanoes. The venue was the historic and prestigious Mountain Hotel in Buea, the Capital of the South West Region and the German Colonial Capital of Kamerun. Attended by more than ten thousand patriotic men and women of all works of life, the sole agenda was the making of the Buea Declaration on the fate of the South West Region in Cameroon’s political dispensation. Speaker after speaker; enumerated the ills that have befallen the region evils wrought on it by occupying forces from far afield, attracted by the economic magnets evidenced in the potentials of the region. Despite the hospitality of the people of the region, speakers including the former Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge, Chief Dr Atem Ebako, Chief Tabe Tando, Chief N.N. Mbile, Professor Nalova Lyonga, Tata Nnoko Mbelle Kevin, Chief Professor Agborbechem, Senator Charles Mbella Moki amongst others, reiterated in clear terms the urgent need for the region to re-state carefully its political and economic destiny. This was then elucidated in the Buea Declaration, for the South West to operate as one of ten or more autonomous regions in the Republic of Cameroon. The people of the region warned sternly, proponents of an evil process to entangle the South West region to the North West Region, either in a Two State federation or the abhorrent tragedy nicknamed Abazonia. ‘The North Westerner, migratory descendants of the Tikar in Cameroon’s present day Adamawa region, would be better-off vying for a union with that region,’ opined a civil society activist present at the Forum. LISTEN TO THE BUEA DECLARATION Download Buea Declaration_02022017

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Dr James Arrey Abanga hides on tree-tops, to escape arrest

By Sirri Alette Ngwa

The hunter has become the hunted. The President of the defunct University of Buea Branch of the Higher Education Teachers’ Association (SYNES-UB) has once more eluded arrest from law enforcement officers. Dr James Arrey Abangma has ignored convocations to report to the Judiciary Police to provide information on his subterranean role in the current Anglophone imbroglio in Cameroon. Dr Abangma was one of the trade unionists who signed tracks of papers calling for teachers in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon to go on strike on November 21, 2016. Dr Abangma has been spotted in many hideouts; however, his itinerant movement is carefully orchestrated to evade arrest. Recent attempts to cross the border into Nigeria have been thwarted. Sources say he is now wondering in the bushes. A tip off to the law enforcement services failed to net him as the university professor now hides on tree tops. He has been reduced to a bushman wondering in the wilderness to escape arrest. The teacher demands have since metamorphosed into political demands to change the form of the Cameroon state, disrespect of public authority, making of public pronouncements disrupting public peace and order, abuse of cyber-space and provocation of a civil war in Cameroon. The Secretary General of SYNES-UB, Dr Neba Fontem, was arrested on Tuesday, January 16, 2017 and is awaiting trial in Yaoundé in Cameroon’s Military Tribunal with a host of co-conspirators. The charges levied against them carry the death penalty.

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