RIP Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel: White Man Mayor of Ako Council (Burial in Pics)

The burial of Cameroon's most love public figure Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel in Pics

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Time is the Suspect: Latest Gossips from Cameroon (Writam-pen Breaks Silence)

Country people, I am sure you must have been asking whether your Writam-pen also kicked the bucket like Ndinga Man, Charlo Ateba, Cathy Abene and others whose time the Almighty decided was the best on earth and they had to quit the scene for good. To be candid, your Writam-pen was really annoyed to the point that he decided to observe a month of silence. You know people are fun of observing minutes of silence but as for me, since I always like to make the difference, I went in for month of silence for the departed ones.

Do you know that rumours killed Garga Haman? Poor Garga! You know sometimes ago when the same rumours killed Popoul, he told Cameroonians that those who want to chop corn and drink mimbo at his cry-die will wait for 20 years to see it happen. Since Garga has been mute over the issue, let me tell Garga’s detractors that those who want him dead will have to wait for 50 years to see it happen.  It seems death has found Cameroon very fertile and doesn’t want to go anyway. “I beg die, leave Cameroon, w don over suffer for this two months”. Can you imagine that in two months Cameroon has lost over 13 great people? But what is happening? Can someone help? Just look at this lists: LAPIRO DE MBANGA, Pius OTTOU, Marie Thérèse ASSIGA AHANDA, Clément OBOUH MFEGUE, Robert MBELLA MBAPPE, Roger TCHOUNGUI, Adolphe PAPY NDOUMBE, ABANDA KPAMA, Jean Claude MPACKO, Charles ATEBA EYENE, Abel EYINGA, Catherine ABEN, Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel, DK Nfor, Bobe Yong, others. Is this country suffering from malice? John Ntarinkon was right that TB Joshua really needs to pray for this country. Cameroon needs cleansing. I mean thorough cleansing. Ndingaman became so annoyed with this country to the point that he willed that he should be buried in Uncle Sam’s land. Can we say that the deaths are angry with Cameroon? You remember that Charlo Atebe Eyene distorted this regime even when he was dead. You know he also distanced some people from attending his burial. Wow, Lapi this wey na traditional ruler for Mbanga. This country don catch fever true, true.

Have you ever witness a scene whether the hunter is being hunted. Oh poor Antoine Bikoro Alo’o. This man who masterminded the sacking and arrest of Zacheuss Forjindam has been dismissed from Chantier Naval. I was hinted that the doors of Kondengui and New Bell prisons are waiting for his footsteps. The talkative Atanga has been in the news. I hear Popoul is very disappointed with him. Newspaper reports indicated that his files on the CAMPOST scandal have been transmitted to the Criminal Court. Poor Atanga who said he was the hunter of John Ntarinkon has become the hunted like Antione Bikoro. Na same fate!!

These Chop People Dem Money Members of Parliament are really shits. I have always said that no one joins this chop people dem money party out of conviction. They do it out of two things: either they are after something or something is after them. You know thieves at times are even scared of their shadows. That is how these CPDM MPs behave. When parliament opened, Popoul got wink of the looming strike and trust Popoul when it comes to threats. He just called them at the congress hall and told them what they hate to hear. Kondengui, hup-hup the strike on the non payment of salaries to senators and MPs died naturally.  

Can you imagine that Cavaye was again elected as house-speaker of the lower house while Niat was also maintained at the upper house? This country is ruled by old people with poor reflection. Oh God help Cameroon, inspire TB Joshua, I got someone cried at the upper house.

Chop People Dem Money alias CPDM clocked 29 years yesterday, March 24, 2014. I saw the same crocks and white-collar thieves signing motions of corruption to President whereas they have abused this country. I mean these great liars who yesterday told another liar behind Popoul. A gang of abusers who all the time have been trying to stop me from speaking the truth. Let me now warn that I know no culture of silence.

Whenever I think of the type of people that surround President Biya and who have ruined this country with lies, it cripples me with shame and low self esteem which is deeply painful. I see now that people who abuse those who are telling the truth are just moral cowards and being cowards, fear is what guides their behavior. I see they’re not exactly happy living in that state, nor comfortable, but to feel sorry for them would be like going into a monster’s cave, seeing this slimey blob of a greedy little beast, a corrupt, evil, self serving, full of lies, without conscience beast.... and seeing that the monster is creating a living hell on earth for itself through its own greed and evil, but is just too ignorant to see that. So I see now that they are the ones to because time is the suspect and not me who is at fault, its those who lie and support evil and cruelty in the name of ‘‘Chop People Dem Money’’ who should be ashamed of themselves. Do you remember what March 24^th means to the CPDM barons? I mean those who tell lies to the head of state every year through motions of lies. The birth of the CPDM they say. I mean Chop People Dem Money Pary-CPDM. All these guys are crocks and hypocrites. They always pretend to be together whereas they not. As they sit on the same table everyone is suspicious of everyone around. Yet they will always rise to sing " Are we together? We are one...oh..oh..we are together, we are one". There is nothing like oneness in their minds these dirty thieves. I am sure Popoul will spill the beans again this week. The unexpected will send some of them off the line again i hear. 

I also see very clearly that what they’ve been giving out is about to ricochet back onto them.  Ooh...are they enslaving your consciousness, filling your lives with lies and untruthful promises? They are not creating super soldiers who can torture and kill you without a second thought. I see the look on so many of their faces when I mention the devastating impact and the collapse of a close fascist regime who own the state trasury, who grow more and more powerful. I watched some of them on TV and saw that they are so evil the look on their face. All they care about is their own greed, comfort and conveniences. They look so damned smug as they think to themselves how little they care about Cameroonians or what sort of country they’ll be creating with their selfishness because they’ll be long gone when 2035 comes. What? They’re too blind and stupid to see is there is no death; it will be them who come back to life in another human to experience Vision 2035 they have created for themselves.  If they never learn, if they continue down the path of evil and self serving, every single lifetime they live is going to get more and more difficult and agonizing for them. Not because some God decided they wanted to punish them. It’s just the world they have created…the one that they deserve.

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Thousands Pay Homage to Retired UN Worker, Mayor, Soldier (Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel)

By Fai Cassian Ndi

The Presbyterian Church Ako was jammed to full capacity by mourners, friends, colleagues and admirers of late Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel, a retired soldier (who served Nigerian and Cameroon Army, the United Nations Commission for Refugees, and the Ako Council as mayor.

Dr. Fuh Calistus Gentry, Secretary of State for Mines, Industries and Technological Development in his eulogy described late Emimi Emmanuel as a statesman, administrator and refined politician. He said the former mayor was a good example of a patriotic Cameroonian who had served the country and the international community in various capacities. To Dr. Fuh Calistus, the passing away of Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel was a great lost to the CPDM party, the Mbembe people and the entire Ako/Misaje Special Constituency as a whole.

Hon. Ntoi J.E.Kay testified to mourners that late Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel principally was his father, mentor, close friend and a reliable political collaborator. To Hon. Ntoi, the departed hero was a common denominator and a unifying factor that earned him numerous titles like “ICON, WHITEMAN MAYOR and UN” in Mbembe land, Cameroon and across the borders. He

added that the late mayor of Ako died as a devoted Christian, “infact a man whose generosity was vertical and horizontal with no bias to age, gender, tribe, political party, religion, poor and needy, colour etc. A political figure, who had a reserved affection for the CPDM party he supported”. Hon. Noti J E Kay in his concluding testimony emphasized that by human evaluation, late Emimi was an upright man and the rest and more important is left to the Creator, the Almighty God. “His death does not contradict God’s appointed time as the greater teacher Ecclesiastes reminds us in his 3^rd Chapter-verse 2:- “There is time to be born and time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot”.

On his part, Hon. Abe Micheal Ndra summed the life of the great man in three words: he was credible, transparent and trustworthy man. “He has left a vacuum that it will take the people of Mbembe time to fill. We will always feel his absence in the life of this municipality”.

In the more than 10.000 people who attended the funeral mass at the Presbyterian Church Ako, everyone had a story to tell about the retire UN worker. Those who knew him when he was mayor of Ako for close to 12 years 8 months had their own story while those who knew him when he was in the Nigerian Police, Army and the Cameroon Army also had a story to tell

about the soldier he was. His party colleagues also had their own story while the kids who always turn around him in his small store in his residence had their own story. Even this reporter who braved the road from Bamenda to Ako to pay his last respected to the Whiteman mayor as he was fondly called has his own story. In fact as Ntoi Victor puts it, Emimi was a man of few words but he was a man of action. He was a philanthropist of great magnitude who did not like to see anyone suffering when he could help.

Nveya Ernest, YCPDM Section President for Ako described late Emimi as a political giant. “When Pa Emimi was ill, you saw what happened, the CPDM lost elections in Ako. It was not because he did not deliver the goods but because he was the political strategist that was able to read and understand politics. Ako will live to remember him through his innovative ideas. He constructed the Ako Border market that is second only to that of Kioy-si and above all, he is on record to have constructed the first storey building in Ako town (our council chambers)”.

Njoh Jonathan, former Secretary General of the Ako who worked with the late mayor for over 10 years described late Emimi as an exemplary politician and municipal administrator. “He was very strict but compensated hard work, transparency and truthfulness. I learned a lot from him. He was a man of exceptional charm that pulled people because of his way of living, kind and full of humility. Since I started working with him, I never saw him in any staff’s office and above all a man of the people, father who would always give advice to the youth”.

Everyone that knew him was in Ako today March 23, 2014 to pay him the last respect. VIPs present during the ceremony included amongst others, Dr. Fuh Calistus, Secretary of State for Mines, Industries and Technological Development, Ngone Ndodemesape Bernard, SDO for Donga Mantung Division, Hon. Abe Michael, MP for Ako/Misaje Special Constituency, Dr. Ngomfe Loma-David, mayor of Nwa, Bunyui Jonathan, Mayor of Ndu, Martin Fon Yembe, 1^st Deputy Mayor for Ndu Council, Ngabir Paul Bantar, Mayor of Nkambe Council, Sammy Mbgata, mayor of Misaje Council, Akio Augustine, Mayor of Ako and his deputies, Ngi Christopher Alternate Senator for Donga Mantung Division, the Sub Divisional Officer Ako, former Mayor of Zhoa council, Dr. Tamo-CPDM resource person for Misaje, Divisional and sub divisional delegates, service heads, buyam-sellams, achaba riders and thousand others who were buried in the crowd.

Emimi Nnekwe Emmanuel Whom I knew

Every time I think of the “Whiteman Mayor” of Ako alias UN, I always take my memory back to the day of his installation when he was elected as mayor for the first mandate. Former SDO for Donga Mantung Division Mboki Godlive Ntua who performed the installation rite said he was flattered by Emimi taste for beauty. Unlike others who would go extra miles using obnoxious practices, late Emimi Emmanuel was a popular choice of the people. As Nveya Ernest confirmed it, late Emimi was a choice of the people of Mbembe both at home and outside given that he was a special friend to everyone, civil servants, administrators, fons and even children.

Born on June 15, 1935 in Ako of father Nnekwe Turura and Gimbiya Yarafa, young Emimi attended primary school at Abong Nigerian border village and Takum still in Nigeria where he obtained his Standard Sixth Passed Certificate. In 1951, he enrolled at the Government Secondary School Katsina-Ala (Nigeria) and due to his job ambitiousness; he obtained brilliantly the entrance into the Nigerian Police. While in the police corps, he obtained entrance into Ikeja School of Post and Telecommunication where he graduated with an International Senior Certificate as a wireless operator. In 1956, he requested that he should be transferred to the Nigerian Army and it was accepted. In 1960, served with the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in the then Congo Leopole Ville, Kingshasa during late Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and TSOMBE Crisis. He was one of those who campaign for reunification. When it finally happened, Emmi Nnekwe was transferred in 1961 to the Cameroon Army. From 1966-1980, he served as Chief of Transmission Center in the following military sectors, Bafoussam, Douala, Ebolowa, Bertoua and Buea where he retired on December 31, 1980.

In 1981, obtained another lucrative job with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees,

Cameroon Branch office where he served as Chief of Service for Telecommunication for Central Africa. In 1992, he requested for anticipated retirement with the UN and was granted pension with the UN diplomatic status.

Back in Ako, he was the first CPDM sub Section for the entire Ako Sub Division from 1993-1996 and from 1996 up to March 21, 2013 when he died; Emimi was the Vice CPDM Section President. In 2002 the won the Ako Council and he was elected mayor. In 2007, he was again reelected for a second mandate which he served up to 2013 when he fell sick.

Pa Emimi aka Whiteman mayor has received many distinctions and decorations. He was decorated with the Public Force Medal and the Cameroon Order of Merit. He was happily married and had 9 children and 12 grand children. He was perfectly bilingual. 

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Ako: At CPDM MP’s Homecoming, SDF Mayor Creates the Unpredicted

By Fai Cassian Ndi

Hon. Abe Michael Ndra

When CPDM Senator for Bui Division Eno Ema Lafon staged her homecoming in Kumbo last year, she was received by the mayor of Jakiri, Shang Lawrence. The reason was that the Mayor of Kumbo Council, Njong Donatus was of the opposition Social Democratic Front-SDF. Shang Lawrence then CPDM Mayor for Jakiri was preferred to deliver the welcome speech. In Nkambe Central, when the population organized a civic reception for Hon. Awudu Mbaya, SDF Member of Parliament for Donga Mantung Centre Constituency and Questor at the National Assembly, the Mayor of Nkambe Council boycotted the event. The raison d'être of the boycott was vivid given that the Mayor of Nkambe is of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement-CPDM while the MP is of the opposition SDF. The above two cases are just a few in hundreds of cases that demonstrate how much the political divide has chopped into the minds of politicians especially in the North West Region.

However, the SDF Mayor of Ako Council in Donga Mantung Division, created the unexpected today March 22, 2014 when he and his deputies stormed the Ako Grandstand to receive Hon. Abe Michael Ndra, CPDM MP for Ako/Misaje Special Constituency. When Akio Augustine and his deputies stormed the ceremonial ground dressed in official sashes, promoters of political hatred went short of breath. Some of sank onto their chairs as if the world has suddenly come to an end. The euphoria that saluted his entry into the ceremonial ground was indicative that the population was disgust with divisive politics. Hon. Abe Michael Ndra and Akio Augustine though from different political parties have demonstrated that politics is aimed at fostering development and not to divide people, says CPDM militant whose name I got as Jacob. In his welcome speech, Akio Augustine told the population that he is not the mayor of the SDF party but mayor of Ako Council. He also reminded the population that Hon. Abe Michael Ndra is MP for Ako/Misaje and not for the CPDM. “Eventhough we are from different political parties, as elected officials we are bound by our positions to work together for the interest of the population”, he continued. “I had tried getting to the MP but certainly blocked by those who think we are enemies whereas our objectives are the same. And if I shy away, how then can we develop this municipality. The MP is for the Nation and I am on the spot, so we have to work as a team to succeed”. The traces of sadness and despair that was visible on the faces of political monsters disappeared suddenly as the mayor argued that time for campaigns are over and it is now time for them to work for the betterment of all.

MP and Mayor burying political hatred they almost inherited

On his part, the Member of Parliament for the Ako/Misaje Special Constituency accepted the hand of fellowship extended by the opposition mayor. In his speech, Hon. Abe Michael Ndra said it is high time to set aside political leniency and work for the common good of everyone. “Politics is to bring development and not for self-aggrandizement”, he echoed. Hon. Abe Michael also called on the population to support him and the SDF Mayor so that they can succeed in their objectives which is to foster development. “If I am not in talking terms with my brother the mayor, how do you expect us to bring development? You need to support us and encourage us because if tomorrow we fail in our duties, the blame will go to all of you and if we work in disperse ranks, development will suffer”. He also promised that with the collaboration of the mayor, they will set up a community library which will serve the entire municipality. Hon. Abe also told the population that during his first 100 days in Parliament, he was making a micro-project. “I have already started giving out support to nursery and primary schools and I know that no sector will be left” he emphasized. As a reminded, he said that the job of the MP is to vote better laws. “I am expecting to get contributions from you people so that I can better present a picture of our needs to government, know where to lobby for what and when?”

Hon. Abe Michael and Mayor Akio Augustine

CPDM Sector President Hon. JK Ntoi on his part thanked the living forces of Ako/Misaje who voted Hon. Abe Michael to go to Parliament. He called for all political parties in Ako, CPDM, SDF,NUDP and ANDP to be totally united in the purpose of development. Hon. JK Ntoi also used the opportunity to thank President Paul Biya for the lift he has given to Ako Sub Division in terms of development. He called on Hon. Abe Michael to transform the various sectors of the sub division so much so that he can check poverty, hunger, illiteracy and diseases. He reminded the MP that he is married to two wives, Ako and Misaje and that he should keep the two jealously to avoid any problem. As a link to government, the CPDM section President called on the man who just entered his shoes to seek solution to the following perennial problems:

Farms to Market Roads: The sub division should be totally disenclaved considering the risk as a border location.

Education: Existing Basic and secondary schools be adequately staffed and necessary infrastructure provided by government, science equipment be provided at GHS Ako and also raise it to a Bilingual high school.

Administration: With its vastness, Ako sub division be raised to a full fledge Division with accompanying sub divisions in Kuta, Lower Mbembe, Upper Mbembe and Pooh Akooh.

Land disputes: Our municipality has protracted unrsolved land cases with Misaje sub Division at Tumbo in Akwenko and Nkamb Central Sub Division at Tungande and Tumbo in Akwaja.

Agriculture: Considering that the population of Ako is mostly farmers, more staff be posted to the various agric posts.

Health: The District hospital Ako and existing health units of Kuta, Jevi, Berabe, Akwaja, Buku and Abuenshie be properly staffed and equipped. Government should build a health unit at Assa village and environs.

Housing: Governmeent should build befitting structures for the veterinary centre Ako and Costumes Abuenshie.

Service Vehicles: These should be provided for the district hospital Ako, Frontier police Ako AND Inspectorate of Basic Education, GHS Ako and GTHS Ako.

Unprotected Timber Exploitation: Timber in the forest of our border villages with Nigeria is being illegally exploited and taken to Nigeria unchecked.

Farmer/Grazier Problems: Farmers every year are victims of destruction to their farms caused by cattle rearers on transhumance. This has persistently remained unchecked.

Security: Because of the porous nature of our borders with Nigeria, more elements be posted to the police, Gendarmerie and BIR.

Fanfare at Hon. Abe's homecoming

Identification Post: These should be creatd in Ako town, Upper Mbembe and enclaved Kuta. Lack of this results to low voters registration. 

Political commentators are of the opinion that the unexpected created by the mayor of Ako and the MP for the Ako/Misaje Special Constituency is a lesson to many a politician in the North West Region. A school of thought holds that a new breed of politician with character and conscience has seen the day in Ako and the yesteryear's political divide has been buried for good. 

Coming up: Pictures of the Homecoming and the symbolic decoration of Hon. Abe Michael

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Celebrating World Water Day with Drops of Water

By Fai Cassian Ndi

The 2014 Water Day is being celebrated in many part of Cameroon amidst water scarcity. The situations in major cities like Yaounde, the capital, Douala, the economic capital and Garoua

When Water becomes a scarce commodity

are very pathetic given the growing population. However, in the rural areas, access to potable water has reached crisis level. In some localities, the population goes for weeks and even months without potable water. Donga Mantung Division in the North West Region has been hit by water scarcity. If water as they say is life, then Nkambe and Ndu towns in Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region of Cameroon may perhaps eventually be lifeless. This is so due to the scarcity of water. Since November 2013 up to date, Nkambe, Ndu and Ako towns with the fast growing population have been in water crisis. This wobbly situation is having diversified interpretations. Environmentalists are of the opinion that the scarcity of water has been orchestrated by the changing climate while some development experts on the other hand say it is due to the abusive cultivation of eucalyptus trees in and around water catchments. Yet traditionalists on their part are convinced that the gods are angry. It is common to see a traditional ruler pouring libation at a stream calling on the gods to bring back water. The situation is such that taps regularly run dry; some small springs have dried off while others have lost their sizes. Water has been tagged as a rare commodity given that to get water especially at this period of the year is as complicated as a journey to Mars. Access to water is a major predicament and gradually it has reached a crisis level.

In Ndu town, the council has adopted rationing strategies with the Ndu Water Authority to meet up with the pressing water problems. Talking to this reporter, the Mayor of Ndu Council Bunyui Emmanuel Nyugap says apart from the fact that water is now rationed in Ndu town, the council has also embarked on mitigating the crisis to avoid any out break of water borne diseases. The population he said is being sensitized and it is an ongoing process. He also mentioned that the council has also embarked on the eradication of eucalyptus trees in and around water catchments and in the months ahead Ndu council intends to construct an additional water pumping station as an immediate package aimed at providing a temporary solution to the crisis. He also observed that there is an urgent need to empower the rural communities on the sustainable natural resource management.

In Nkambe, the situation is becoming very precarious. Former mayor of Nkambe, Mangoh Jones says from 2010 to 2013, the council eradicated over 20.000 eucalyptus trees in and around and has planted over 32.000 environmental friendly trees at the main water catchmentwith support from the Ministry of Forestry and Faiuna, Mangoh Jones. Nkambe town has three watersheds, but they have been invaded by eucalyptus trees. Mangoh Jones Tanko said that the first water crisis emerged in 1999, when the population of Nkambe town went for almost two months without potable water. “Last year, the council supported the communities of Binju, Ngwanyuh and Mansoh to construct some springs that could serve these quarters during the months of January, February and March but it is pathetic that the springs usually run dry due to severe harshness of the dry season”.   

He observed that the situation is very critical as families move over 10-20 km everyday to get water. He blamed the population for setting watersheds on fire as well as the abusive planting of eucalyptus trees in and around water catchments. It should be noted that more than 85% of all the water catchments in Donga Mantung and Bui are invaded by eucalyptus trees. Experts say a mature eucalyptus tree consumes a minimum of 400 liters of water per day. Besides, if there are still little drops of water in Nkambe town, it is thanks to Mangoh Jones Tanko the former mayor of Nkambe who took the challenge to launch a fierce less war by replacing eucalyptus in water catchments. Yet, approximately half of the trees planted were all consumed by bushfire this year. To cut the story short, indicators are rife that more than 92% of the watersheds usually get dry during dry season. Some of the streams even dry off completely. It is common to see children digging at the watersheds to find water.  Uncertainty looms large as it is feared that this could lead to an outbreak of cholera or increasing water borne diseases. Of late, it has been observed that the number of typhoid cases in Ndu and Nkambe have increased geometrically. Farmers on the other hand have been complaining that weather patterns have changed and it is resulting to poor crop yields. Yet the same farmers hardly keep to the instructions of avoiding “slatch and burnt” commonly known as “ankara” in their farms. Cattle grazers on the other hand for wanting fresh grass for their cattle have gone on a periodic folly of setting the bushes on fire. 

In Ako, Hon. Abe Michael is of the opinion that it is the deforestation of the Mbembe forest that is producing the negative effects. And that the water scheme in the town needs to be reconstructed.

Hon. Awudu Mbaya Gives Hope

Hon. Awudu Mbaya, Questor at the National Assembly and Executive President of Pan African Parliamentarians Network on Climate Change says there are prospects that by next year the situation will be better. According to Hon. Awudu Mbaya, he has lobbied and obtained some funding to improve on access to potable water in the three municipalities. He revealed that 120 boreholes (stand-taps) will be provided for the three council areas by the end of 2014. The borehole (stand-taps) will reach the needy villages as well. “Technicians are just back from the field where they conducted surveys in all the selected villages and spots in the various towns. Each municipality, he added will benefit from 40 boreholes. This according to Hon. Awudu is part of his strategy to improve access to water in the Division. 

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100 Days of Ngabir Paul as Mayor Nkambe: Will the Population Regret Choice of Mayor?

On March 24, 2014, the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement-CPDM in Nkambe will be celebrating the 29^th Anniversary of the birth of the party. One of the key points of that celebration will be the speech of the mayor of Nkambe council, Ngabir Paul Bantar. It is expected that the CPDM mayor of Nkambe will give a clear balance sheet of his 100 days in office. This is so because the first 100 days of the mayor are very crucial given that he is the guarantor of development. Yet speculations as to what Ngabir Paul Bantar, CPDM mayor for Nkambe will give as his balance sheet abound high. During the September 30, 2013 Municipal Elections, the CPDM made some political pledges amongst which were the improvement of access to water in Nkambe town, the putting in place of street lights, the construction of the Nkambe main market just to name the few.

Expectedly, the population of the municipality and especially Nkambe town have been looking forth to the CPDM mayor to swing into action immediately if not set the pace during the first 100 days. Whether this has been the case or not remains another mystery that only the mayor, his deputies and councilors will tell the population. From what we observed, Nkambe town is still begging and waiting for the day that it main street shall get the taste of the political promise. As for the issue of water, access to potable water in Nkambe town is entering record books as the population would go for days without little drops. As for the Nkambe market, it is seemingly begging for a municipal clemency. The question which abound high in the lips of everyone in the municipality is whether the mayor would make another promise. But will Ngabir Paul Bantar even care to justify to the population why the sing-song slogan of electrifying streets in Nkambe could not happen within his first 100 days? Will he also care to tell the population why he has not been able to hold just a single staff meeting with council workers, just for acquaintance sake? And what will he tell those who have submitted documents for recruitment at the Nkambe council on grounds that they too need compensation for political leniency as well as the drivers who refused to pay council levies on purely political grounds. These and more other questions will find an answer on March 24^th when the mayor of Nkambe will present his balance sheet. A suirve

(Coming Up: Untold Facts about Ngabir’s 100 Days at the Helm of Nkambe Council and Population Rating of his First 100 Days)

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Chantier Naval: Antoine Bikoro Sacked

History, they say repeat itself in strange ways. The real Chantier Naval which Forjindam left behind is a shattered dream today. When Antoine Bikoro like a poker player arrived Chantier Naval, the place was booming. He thought he would play the poker to defeat the long established conventional wisdom that the same causes produce same effects as well as eradicate the fact that those who destroy others in order to rise will meet the same fate at their destinations. But little did he know that poker is a funny game. You can be winning all night long and then comes the final time. You get overconfident, so you bet the pot on four kings. It is virtually a sure winner, like Bikoro you tell yourself. Suddenly, the dealer smiles at you and says he wants another card. Right before your eyes he draws a card from the bottom of the deck and lays his hands on the table: four aces. Antoine Bikoro, the man considered as the brain behind the anarchic arrest of Zacheusse Forjindam has lost his shirt at Chantier Naval. Antoine Bikoro Alo’o who thought he would bet on four kings in the Chantier Naval poker house has finally resigned himself to the four aces. This is so because in the Chantier Naval poker when he thought that pot was at stake that was when the rules went out through the window. Remember that Antoine Bikoro Alo’o appeared in Chantier Naval like a rock star. But his poor managerial skills left him in the midst of the game he thought he could mastermind. The only rules that remained were those hunting him which was no rules at all. Bikoro has been topped with four king aces, which he could not pull from the bottom of the deck. It is no more news that last week, he was sacked but as to what treatment he deserves, classified sources say government is preparing to tell him sooner or later that in poker, the sheriff is own by the state. Which way takes him either to Kondengui or New Bell.

While some high profile prisoners recently graduated from the Kondengui and New Bell prisons thanks to the Presidential clemency, the doors of these prisons have been flanked open to receive new inmates. It is uncertain that one of those who New Bell awaits is Antoine Bikoro, a classified source at the Presidency hinted. It should be noted that Biya recently decided to stop the cacophony at Chantier Naval. When he pulled a sheriff on Antoine Bikoro, he appointed a foreigner at the helm yet it did not work. Finally, he has flanked the door open for Bikoro to quit the poker house (declaring the game over) and putting in two other Cameroonians to make an attempt to rescue the sinking ship. The problem at Chantier Naval started on May 27, 2008 which Bikoro pulled a fast one on Forjindam. Forjindam was dismissed, arrested and was later sentenced with his belongings confiscated. The early morning poker player was catapulted and hailed by workers. But this was short lived. Barely few months, workers were already on strike. Revenue started dwindling and President suspected something ugly and appointed Korean Moon Kwi-Ho General Manager Delegate. Ceaseless strikes could not permit Moon to produce the expected results. Two years after, another Korean by name Seoung Rok was appointed. After witnessing three workers stikes, Rok resigned abrely a year after. As a remedy, President Biya a week ago appointed two Cameroonians to lord over Chantier Naval. Bernard Biyaha’a cadre at SNH and Roland Maxin, another cadre at MINEPAT are the ones to manage the structure. By the appointment, Biya also dismissed the almighty Antoine Bikoro. News about Bikoro meeting Forjindam who he plotted his down-fall looms large. But would he apologize to Forjindam?

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Meet Eldad Umenjoh 2014 2degrees Champions Awards Nominee

Eldad Umenjoh hails from Ngie in the North West Region of Cameroon where palm oil production is one of the most reliable source of income to approximately 85% of the population. Being a young man who knows the importance of "black gold" palm oil as it is commonly known, Eldad started building the capacity of youths and women in sustainable management of natural resources. As environment advisor to the Anjong Young Farmers Group, he introduced a program to change the mindset and the attitude of farmers to learn best sustainable environmental practices in production, processing and transformation of palm oil and its by-products. As a matter of fact, Eldad believes that the peasant farmers in Bonambufie village could increase their income if they practice clean production of palm oil from durra wild palm trees. He says oil palm production could be professionalized through sustainable management of palm oil by product by instilling zero waste natural resources management of palm oil waste products. This particularly measures he says will generate eco-friendly by-products such as animal feed and soap, bio diesel and organic manure, from oil palm kernels which are wasted.

Why You Need to Give him Your Votes

The overall benefit is that by voting this project, it will improve on the quality of palm oil being produced both qualitatively and quantitatively. It will produce a spillover effect in the community given that it will lead to the putting in place of practices that will sustain the natural environment. Your vote will equally stand the taste of contributing significantly to improve the livelihood of the rural poor.

The income of farmers the other members of the communities increases, beside that they spend less on energy because they making use of manual mechanical hand presses for production of palm oil. These mechanical hand presses are environmentally-friendly because they do not use energy and are pollution-free besides clean air, less encroachment into the forest by farmer, more endangered species of trees and flora and fauna protected.


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Breaking News: Possible Debris from Missing Malaysian Airliner Captured

Satellite image released by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority shows possible debris from missing Malaysian jet'. According to latest information that debris were located about 1,400 miles off the coast of Perth. 

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Bamenda II Council: Obnoxious Plans by Outside Agitators Against Mayor Balick Unmasked

By Baweson Ndi

Mayor Balick Awah victim of blackmail or political anarchy?

Thomas Hobbes, the 17^th Century English Philosopher in his classical work Lorianthan wrote that whenever a city is caught between the evil of people who do bad for the sake of it, it results to hatred and victimization. In such a situation Thomas Hobbes emphasized that men will spare at nothing to give a dark impression of others creating a “state of nature” where everyone is enemy to every person. “There is no place for growth because the fruit thereof is uncertain and consequently no culture of the earth, nastiness and worst of all, fear, poverty, character assassination and terror” he lamented. Hobbes who at the time of his writing was more concerned with the chaos human behavior would create to destroy others believed that it is the duty of the state to intervene in order to curb Frankenstein monsters –like from ruining society.

Bridge allegedly not back-filled yet this picture shows that the job was completed

I do not know whether the Bamenda II council area where Balick Awah Fidelis is a perfect Hobbesian jungle, it is probably the closest description to it that exists in Cameroon.  Funny municipality! But what lesson of this? Almost certainly, the onslaught backstabbing to assassinate the character of Mayor Balik Awah Fidelis can only be captured through his trappings that have gave his detractors sleepless nights. While today the word Balick evokes images of a transformed Bamenda II municipality, something quite different and something almost honest and gentle, his political detractors have swung into action inviting CONAC. The spirit of honesty that was applauded by FEICOM Director recently given the mayor’s efforts of putting in place a befitting council hall for Bamenda II could be seen as the bone of contention. Yet the man who is governed by the Levantine spirit of Mankon and nation building is being backstabbed simply because he ignored the call that men could be broken from others. This is Bamenda II municipality at its best-a plural society where a group of misguided individuals want to excel in the trade of backstabbing and blackmail. While Mayor Balick is working hard for the municipality to grow and jointly emerge with Cameroon by 2035, prophets of doom “outside agitators alias petition writers" wielding the butchering knife want to take him from behind. “Whenever I think of the trappings of our mayor, I am reminded of the improvement of the road network in the municipality. But what I read in a newspaper on an alleged complain to CONAC about the roads we praised our mayor severally during council sittings was shocking. I am tempted to say that it is a form of political sabotage that we need to chisel out from under the scar” remarked a councilor of the Bamenda II Council. It is said that some men are born to time that they cannot change. Ironically, Balick Awah Fidelis from what we gathered from the inhabitants of Bamenda II council is a good man born in a very bad neigbourhood. In fact, an optimistic soul born to a bad time which is characterized by backstabbing and blackmail which he (himself) cannot change. Yet his optimism towards society has been directed towards his work as Mayor of Bamenda II Council in the city of version. Yet, a visit to some of the projects which the mayor’s detractors described as uncompleted portrayed that the present state of nature has transformed the municipality into weed and not flower. Give it just the slightest ray of sunshine and the thinnest drop of water like what Mayor Balick is doing and it will shoot up and multiply between the cracks of Bamenda rubbles.

Ntatru road (mile 8 mkt) road well graded

The Eye is aware that all the road rehabilitation projects in the Bamenda II municipality were a resounding success. A newspaper report insinuating the CONAC has been invited to investigate the rehabilitation of some roads in Bamenda II was an embarrassment to the inhabitants. Allegedly, Bamenda II mayor had received congratulatory messages from various quarters including the management of Step by Step (Step by Step-Matgenie road) for rehabilitating their road. In our investigation, we visited the Musang-Mankon road, Ntatru-Mankon, Backfilled Bridge behind Radio Hot Cocoa and Nitop I neigbourhood. The most intriguing thing is that the purported complaint against Balick Awah indicates that the mayor had issued fake contracts to fake companies that exist only on paper. This is intriguing because fake companies don’t execute contracts yet the same complaint indicates that some of the projects were not completed. The question therefore of fake is nullified.  However, all attempts to get to the mayor for his own side of the untold story were fruitless. Yet The Eye gathered from reliable sources that Mayor Balick is a victim of the Mbachongwa factor and seemingly scape-goated on grounds that he is a stumbling block to the emergence of the Mbachongwa council reasons why the scheming has resurfaced after the first attempt flopped woefully. It is even alleged that during the senatorial election, a politician in Bamenda II (name withheld) stormed the council to check in proxy by one councilor who had flown out of the country. The same fellow was already on treetops accusing Balick Awah of fake signature etc. It is also aired that the false alarm was raised by a handful of petition writers who see nothing good in any thing except in the form of bread on their own tables.

The Bamenda II council as indicated has been transformed by outside agitators into a sinkhole of character assassination. 

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You Are the Winner, Here is the Secret

It is no more news that The Eye Newspaper is Finalists of the 14th Annual Weblog Awards, Bloggies 2014. In fact our success story depends on you. As a matter of fact for The Eye Newspaper blog to emerge winner, we kindly solicit your votes. It is a very simple process. Just follow these steps to vote your favourite Weblog (The Eye Newspaper) Your Vote is what will make the Difference.
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Missing Airliner’s Route Reportedly Changed by Computer Entry

A new report suggests the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 made its first off-course turn to the west after a heading change was entered into the aircraft’s flight computer, a move that requires advanced knowledge of the plane’s flight systems

The New York Times has revealed that the missing Malaysia Airlines airliner first deviated from its set flight path following an entry into its flight computer, according to a new report.

The New York Times, citing “senior American officials,” reports Flight MH370’s first unexpected turn to the west was made “through a computer system” in the aircraft’s cockpit. That revelation is significant because changing the aircraft’s route via the flight computer requires a more intimate understanding of the Boeing 777’s flight systems than manually manipulating the control yoke to change heading.

According to The New York Times, commercial jets and other large aircraft typically travel the skies via a system of waypoints, each identified by a five-character code. Those waypoints are manually entered into an aircraft’s flight computer so the airplane’s autopilot system can fly the desired route. Pilots can insert new waypoints into an aircraft’s flight computer to change the aircraft’s course midflight if asked to do so by an air-traffic controller or for other reasons.

The Times report suggests that someone on board the aircraft did indeed enter a new waypoint into Flight MH370’s computer. However, it remains unclear whether the waypoint change was made before or after the flight began.

The Wall Street Journal reported last week that data from the aircraft indicated “someone made a manual change in the plane’s direction.” That report, though, didn’t specify whether someone on board the plane had made a change in the aircraft’s flight computer or used the aircraft’s yoke to change its direction.

Flight MH370 has been missing since disappearing from radar screens on March 8, triggering a huge search operation that currently involves 26 nations. Many theories have been considered to explain why the plane would go so drastically off course in the absence of much solid evidence.

Courtesy: The New York Times

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The Eye Newspaper is Finalist of 2014 Bloggies Awards

The unexpected but not hidden breaking news is that The Eye Newspaper has been voted

as one of the five finalists for the Best African Weblog in this year’s 14^th Annual Weblog Awards. In fact it is with joy and ecstasy that we are breaking the news. That The Eye Newspaper is finalists in outstanding GLOBAL contest is indicative that little drops of water can make an ocean. When we got the breaking news yesterday, emotions were high that The Eye Newspaper could emerge among the Best Five African Weblog of the year. This is so due to the fact that this weblog which started just two years back is already attracting global admiration and recognition. The success story is not only ours at the level of The Eye newspaper. It is thanks to you out there who nominated us, who voted us and who will still vote us to emerge victorious. And it is thanks to you all who have been visiting our weblog on daily basis and making critical contributions. You have made us proud and we are proud of you as well.

This is not only a locomotive to the little we have been doing for the past two years to inform the world on happenings but a  steam which indicates that there are people out there who have been watching us on the web. The stumbling block as you all know is that access to internet is not a given in Cameroon. We had to sacrifice our little earnings to keep our readers connected.  As voting continues, we look forth to your support and votes which could make us emerge winner.

However, it should be noted that winners will be announced on Monday, March 31 from 8:00-10:30 pm EST (UTC-5) on the bloggies’ Twitter feed and Facebook Page. For more information go to the Bloggies Website: http://2014.bloggi.es

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Camasej North West: The Tale of Money Teller Machine Hook by Old Banknotes

By Fai Cassian Ndi

Choves Loh                                       Comfort Musa

The North West Chapter of the Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists-CAMASEJ, a one-time enviable and vibrant journalist’s association is wallowing in the gutter and in self skirmishes. Last weekend, the unknown but not hidden agenda to revive that association emerged like the Levantine spirit to push aside the Comfort Musa led Executive. Whether the Comfort Musa led executive has failed or whether it was the presence of the same Levantine spirit that could not allow them to excel remains another question that could only be deciphered by psychologists. The story is seemingly that of a money teller machine hooked by the presence of old banknotes. The truth is that CAMASEJ North West contentiously sang into the doldrums. Everyone saw it going yet nobody was complaining. Obviously, CAMASEJ National President Tricia Oben was aware that the association had lost its dynamics yet she was mute. 

However, if there is one sentiment that tied together everything the Musa Comfort led executive did right in CAMASEJ North West and everything they did wrong, it was the naïve, innocent optimism. It showed itself right from the beginning when they inherited an epileptic association from the Tanteh Vitalis led executive where Comfort Musa was formerly Secretary General. Yet none of them had the inkling of how soon they would put back the one-time dynamic association on rail. Collective interest turned individuals. Group dynamics was eclipsed. The rationale was then formulated over seminars and who would attend and who would not as well as media coverage. The last song that the Wimbum mafia took CAMASEJ hostage died naturally and new claims of emerged from the wilderness. Those who could have advised were on treetops castigating how the association was bestowed into the hands of a little school girl. But who take the blame? Everybody!!! The failure of CAMASEJ old brooms to look into the mirror of time rapidly remains another pulse that hooked the machine. 

The impulse underlying the muscular intervention of Choves Loh and others to revamp the epileptic association is quintessential given that the action came out of something very deep in the psyche of the die-hard members. The impressive turnout at last CAMASEJ meeting indicated a can-do optimism hanging on the face of Choves Loh who had the conviction that every problem has a solution if people will just be reasonable, some sort of a normalization strategy by Choves Loh, National Vice President of CAMASEJ. Having stepped into CAMASEJ with the conviction that everything was possible and everything made sense, Comfort Musa and Co may hence be wise enough to understand that in CAMASEJ nothing was possible and nothing made sense. 

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Breaking News: Malaysian Plane Crashed in the Golf of Bengal (Sentinel)?

Could the mystery surrounding flight MH 370 of the Malaysia Airlines finally be solved? This is the question many have been asking ever since information started circulating on the net that some satellite images pinpoint an explosion on the Island of Sentinel in the Bay of Bengal.  According to the latest information, the Indian authorities have stopped research while according to satellite images; there would have been a big explosion in the Sentinel Island in the Golf of Bengal, India. Allegedly, a huge fire ensued which indicates it could have been the plane. The question is whether it was a plane crash or something else. What was it?

Sentinel Island, located in the Golf of Bengal, has everything a paradise: turquoise waters, white sandy beaches, lush vegetation ... However, this land is one of the most dangerous in the world, and anyone who has tried to set foot there almost died. For the people who live there, nothing is welcoming and will do anything to keep her unspoiled island. It is alleged those who live there are blacks who still move naked and they are not welcoming to strangers. It (the population) could have been consumed survivors as they are considered a cannibal.

The mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 Malaysia Airlines causes chronic molt. Indeed, four days after the disappearance of flight MH370 patent is approved by the Patent Office. 4 of 5 individuals of the patent holders are employees of Freescale Semiconductor in Austin, Texas. The patent has been divided into 5 parts of 20% for each holder, the broken-down is as follows:

Peidong Wang, Suzhou, China (20%)

Chen Zhijun , Suzhou , China ( 20%)

Zhihong Chen, Suzhou, China (20%)

Li Ying, Suzhou, China (20%)

Freescale Semiconductor, United States (20%)

Between the argument that the aircraft has been hijacked or taken away by a giant UFO seems not to be tenable at all. The world is now left with one option, which is the island of Sentinel. But who has the courage to go there, unless it is an army that will fight fiercely or destroy all its inhabitants, to approach the wreckage of the plane?

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SOCAM Saga: Supreme Court Vindicates Ama Tutu Muna

Ama Tutu Muna

The tussle as to who is the Board Chair of Cameroon Music Corporation SOCAM has partially been laid to rest. This is so because the lawsuit filed by ace Musician Ndedi Eyango requesting on the Supreme Court to overrule a decision by Arts and Culture Minister rejecting his election as Board Chairman of SOCAM was thrown out of court. The decision which many thought would quench the brouhaha between Arts and Culture Minister Ama Tutu Muna, and ace Cameroonian born musician Ndedi Eyango is seemingly a partial antidote to the crisis. Purportedly, Ndedi Eyango’s lawyers have vowed that they will not take the decision down low. Classified sources hinted at weekend that Ndedi Eyango has also vowed that the matter is yet from over. Allegedly Ndedi Eyango says he will seize the competent jurisdiction that has the competence to hear the matter pertaining to nationality. It should be recalled that Ndedi Eyango was voted Board chair of SOCAM in November but on December 23, 2013, Ama Muna signed a decision in which she declared Ndedi Eyango was not a Cameroonian. Yet, Ndedi Eyango hammered that Ama Tutu Muna did not have the loco standi on his nationality. Minister Ama Muna went ahead to set up a normalization Committee headed by San Fan Thomas. Since then, dark clouds have been hanging over who is the Board chair of SOCAM. 

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