Here is the Complete List of Parliamentary Candidates Approved by ELECAM

Election Cameroon (ELECAM), the body organising and managing elections in Cameroon have rejected 111 lists from political parties vying for a place in the coming parliamentary and municipal elections on September 30, 2013. Political parties whose lists have been rejected in the legislative elections have 48 hours from the date of publication of list to file an appeal and 5 days for the municipals.
ELECAM’s Electoral board met in a session as of right from the 29 to 30 of July, 2013 to examine the various candidature files from various political parties. After the two-day scrutiny, Elections Cameroon revealed the following on Thursday August 1, 2013:

LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS (In the entire North West Region, only the List of CPSJ of Rev. Bertin Kisob has been rejected)
Number of political parties: 38
Number of lists submitted: 250
Number of List Accepted: 202
Number Rejected: 48

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS (Out of the 68 lists rejected, the CPDM list has only been rejected in Tiko)
Number of political parties: 35
Number of lists submitted: 787
Number of List Accepted: 724
Number Rejected: 63 

PARLIAMENTARY : NORTH WEST REGION
Constituency						Number of Seats				Number of Lists Accepted	Name of Political Party
BOYO						02				04	CPDM, SDF, UDP, UNDP,
BUI- CENTRE						02				02	CPDM, SDF
BUI -WEST						01				02	CPDM, SDF
BUI-SOUTH						01				02	CPDM, SDF
DONGA MANTUNG- CENTRE						02				02	CPDM, SDF
DONGA MANTUNG – EAST						01				02	CPDM, SDF
DONGA MANTUNG - WEST						01				03	CPDM, SDF, UNDP
MENCHUM-NORTH						01				02	CPDM, SDF
MENCHUM-SOUTH						01				02	CPDM, SDF
MEZAM-CENTRE						01				04	CNC, PAP, CPDM, SDF
MEZAM-NORTH						01				02	CPDM, SDF
MEZAM -SOUTH						01				03	CNC, CPDM, SDF
NGO KETUNJIA- NORTH						01				03	MNPC, CPDM, SDF
NGO KETUNJIA-SOUTH						01				03	MNPC, CPDM, SDF
MOMO-EAST						02				02	CPDM, SDF
MOMO-WEST						01				02	CPDM, SDF
WEST REGION
Constituency					Number of Seats				Number of Lists Accepted		Political Parties Concern
BAMBOUTOS					04				02		CPDM, SDF
HAUT -NKAM					03				04		MCNC, CPDM SDF, UFDC
HAUTS- PLATEAUX					02				03		CPDM, SDF, UFDC
KOUNG-KHI					02				04		MPC, CPDM, SDF, UNDP
MENOUA					05				03		PADDEC, CPDM RDPC, SDF
MIFI					02				07		MRC, OPDC, PSU, CPDM, SDF, UNDP, UPC
NDE					02				02		CPDM, SDF
NOUN-CENTRE					04				02		CPDM, UDC
NOUN-NORTH					01				02		CPDM, UDC
SOUTH WEST
Constituency	Number of Seats						Number of Lists Accepted			Political Parties Concern
LEBIALEM	01						02			PAP, CPDM
FAKO-EST	02						01			CPDM
BUEA-CENTRE URBAN	01						03			PAP, CPDM, SDF
FAKO-WEST	01						01			CPDM
MANYU	03						03			CDP, PAP, RDPC
MEME-WEST	01						04			ANDP, PAP, CPDM, SDF
KUMBA-CENTRE URBAN	01						03			ANDP, CPDM, SDF
NDIAN	03						02			CPDM, SDF
KOUPE MANENGOUBA	02						01			CPDM
CENTRE
Constituency				Number of Seats						Number of Lists Accepted	Political Parties Concern
HAUTE-SANAGA				02						01	CPDM
LEKIE-WEST				03						01	CPDM
LEKIE-WEST				02						01	CPDM
MBAM ET INOUBOU				03						01	CPDM
MBAM ET KIM				01						02	CPDM, UNDP
MEFOU ET AFAMBA				02						01	CPDM
MEFOU ET AKONO				01						02	CPDM, UNDP
MFOUNDI				07						02	CPDM, UPC
NYONG ET KELLE				03						02	RDPC, UPC
NYONG ET MFOUMOU				02						01	CPDM
NYONG ET SO’O				02						02	AMEC, CPDM
Littoral
Constituency		Number of Seats						Number of Lists Accepted		Political Parties Concern
MOUNGO-NORTH		03						04		FUC, MDP, CPDM, SDF
MOUNGO-SOUTH		03						02		MANIDEM, CPDM
NKAM		01						02		CPDM, SDF
SANAGA MARITIME		03						04		MLDC, CPDM, SDF, UPC
WOURI-CENTRE			03					06		MANIDEM, MP, MRC, CPDM, SDF, UDC
WOURI-EAST			04					04		MP,  RDPC, SDF, UNDP
WOURI-WEST			01					05		MP, MRC, PURS, CPDM, SDF
WOURI-SOUTH			01					06		ANDP, FPR, MP, CPDM, SDF, UDC

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Yaah Patience Tamfu: The Woman Emancipator

Yaah Patience Tamfu

 If there is any area in Cameroon where the Beijing platform can be assessed, it is how women have evolved in the participation of the political and economic sphere which was formerly a no go zone for the woman. Yaah Patience Tamfu  has demonstrated that women in leadership could mean a lot to Cameroon. Ever since this daughter of the great statesman, late Hon. SN Tamfu became the sparkling flicker, the ever first woman to strengthen the CPDM party in the United State of America she became a symbol what women in leadership position are capable of doing. She demystified politics which years ago was hitherto considered reserved only for me. Yaah Patience Tamfu has not only dismantled the male barriers constructed round politics but has more importantly served as a woman emancipator in the USA and Cameroon. And that she is the WCPDM President in the USA is a fact and that evidences are rife that she campaigned tirelessly for President Biya to win in Diasporas during the last Presidential elections.
Since her election into the national Bureau of the CPDM, Yaah Patience Tamfu has helped a great deal in transforming President Biya’s policy of greater ambitions to greater achievements in the Diasporas. Even though she lives in the USA, she remains approachable. She talks and acts with dogged friendliness reasons why she is loved and appreciated by all the young men, elders and young women in Mbumland.
Yet, it is these qualities which incalculably complement her multifarious roles in Mbum land, Donga Mantung Division, North West and Cameroon as a whole. This is so because she is a bulk of talent, intelligent and a woman who lives in every other person’s problem. Hard work and efficiency have continued to be the qualities that define her actions. Whenever you meet her for the first time, you are taken by her mastery of issues.  Take it as arrogance and you are right for this is positive arrogance because she masters issues and happenings within and without her vicinity. Notwithstanding, she has the drive and dedication that defies any facile explanations. Born into the family of late Hon. SN Tamfu, she was brought up in close knit family in the fear of the God. In later life she could not escape to be a workaholic or become a politician par excellence reasons she gets public admiration for doing great things. The Eye Award is not the first to be received by Yaah Patience Tamfu given that Cameroonians based in Atlanta Georgia-USA also nominated her last year and gave her a similar award but theirs was an award for outstanding dedication to serve Women and the Cameroonian community. On the hand Cameroonian women in the USA also gave Yaah Patience an award for Excellence in Leadership in 2010.she was also nominated at her job as a star Employee and was given an Award in recognition of services to patients which exemplify the highest standard of excellence presented by the Administrator of Roland Park place Baltimore Maryland. In 2010 Yaah Patience Tamfu was decorated with the Night of merit medal from Cameroon.

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Sally Gentry: The Woman with a Difference

Sally Gentry flanked by Dr. Fuh Calistus during distribution of scholarship

 If the Fuh Calistus Scholarship fund is breaking grounds in Donga Mantung Division, it is thanks to Sally Gentry. This is so because she has never failed to accompany her husband every time he is out for a philanthropic trip. Last year, she mobilized Misaje women based in Yaounde and raised funds to acquire benches, textbooks, and other didactic materials which were donated to schools. Breed in a purely Christian political background, Sally Gentry sees philanthropy as the art of being serviceable to the community as virtue that should be passed on to generations to come. Early this year, Sally Gentry took the Christian Community of Misaje sub Division aback when she donated tons of religious books including Bibles to all the denominations. Like Mother Teresa, she looks beyond the common boundaries to make a significant contribution towards changing lives. Her devotion to support the promotion of the education of the girl child is being applauded. This is also where she has proven her dexterousness.
And being a God fearing person, her inspiration has often come from Genesis 1:28 which states that: “replenish and subdue it”.  It is therefore a noble sentiment that she has not only replenished the earth but has been subduing it.
While others in her position will certainly wear arrogance and snobbishness, she remains down to earth and accommodative. And shel goes beyond what she does for others  to make work the divine with humanity as she believes God makes Himself in all the things. Her successful departure from the madding crowd is what has earned her an award as Donga Mantung Women of the Year. She is therefore one of those celebrity wife of the Division that everyone young girl continue to admire as a role model. If all the women were doing same, life would have been different in rural areas reasons why she deserves to be congratulated.
In life there are three categories of people, those who make things happen, those who observe things happen and those who comment on the way things are happening. However, a right person falls within the rank of those who make things happen, this is where Sally Gentry finds herself.

There is a common saying that beside successful man is a found a  powerful woman. Sally Gentry is more compounded by the fact that her desire to extend a hand of fellowship to the needy goes beyond the kitchen. Reasons being that she has a soft-spot for development.  She is the kind of woman that thinks globally and acts globally. Welcome Sally Gentry who is a mark departure from the madding crowd because she thinks globally and act locally. As a woman she has shown proof of being an out of box systematic thinker.

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Christelle Bay C Nfor: The Pictogram Behind the Successes of HOFNA Cameroon

Accompanying rural women through support has been her line of action in fostering women empowerment. And providing scholarships to orphans as well as encouraging the education of the girl child is what has made HOFNA Cameroon the Best of the Best in Child result orientation. What makes her dissimilar from others is that she does uncommon things in a very common manner.
With the collaboration of funding partners and with donations from members, HOFNA has reached out to over 500 primary schools pupils in the North West Region through the support of didactic materials. In her move to encourage communities realize their worth through the education of the girl child; HOFNA has offered scores of scholarships to little intelligent girls in the region. The most recent was the scholarship she offered to one brilliant girl at CS Ngwanri in Nkambe Central. This she said is a way to raise hopes in communities and build a better future for the next generation. Coming closer to Christelle Bay Nfor is discovering a pictogram in child welfare and an advocate for the right to education for the girl child. As a matter of fact, she is putting and has been putting HOFNA Cameroon on the ladders of the trusted NGOs that Cameroon needs to achieve the Vision 2035. HOFNA Cameroon from all observations inspires hope given that her devotion to work for a sustain future is what is making her to think of moving climate change issues from workshops and symposium to the classrooms for children to be informed and empowered on mitigation strategies

Christelle Bay Nfor is a woman of extraordinary qualities and abilities. Her educational background coupled with her devotion to be perfect has made her to transform the principle of education for work into the principle of education through work. Reasons why initiated, nurtured and brought to limelight Hope for the Needy Association -HOFNA Cameroon to cater for the basic needs of the needy. She is of the school of thought which holds that if children and needy communities are empowered through education, development will be sustainable and also believes that by empowering the rural women and youths she would be an avenue par excellence to change lives through work. As a Christian, she believes like Martin Luther King that “working is praying”. One prelate once said that every human natured person is made up of the human and the divine and that when the divine overrides, the human one becomes closer to God. In fact, there is no doubt that this statement is meant for HOFNA Coordinator, Christelle Bay Nfor who goes beyond that by making work the divine with the human as a pairs.It is for these reasons and many more that HOFNA Cameroon was voted as "Best Child Result-Oriented NGO" in Cameroon by Readers of The Eye Newspaper.

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Minister Rejects Royal Gift from NW Fons

 By FC Junior

The manner at which some traditional rulers seek for notice in public ceremonies is alarming. In fact the state of nature and the manner at which they dish out royal gifts has finally confirmed the long established notion of Fokum Kehbila’s “Royal Beggars”. The population was again taken aback on July 21, 2013 at the official handing of the Bamenda Parcour Vita to the Bamenda City Council.

After official speeches, the Master of Ceremony-MC announced that the Minister was to receive a gift from North West Fons Union-NOWEFU. Senator Fon Teche Njie, NOWEFU President moved to the microphone and ushered other fons to join him. Yet HRH Fon Angwafo III of Mankon was unperturbed. An indication that he is not and would never be part of the distribution of royal gifts in public ceremonies.

Senator Teche Njei in a bid to show gratitude to Alain Mebe Ngo’o, Minister Delegate at the Presidency in Charge of Defence for job well done coupled with the expertise with which he managed the celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the military in Bamenda in 2010 presented a royal stool. In handing over the royal stool, Fon Senator Teche Njie told the minister that  “each time you are faced with a problem in your daunting task, just sit on this royal chair and the gods of the North West would provide solutions to the problems.” It must have dawned on Minister Mebe Ngo’o that Catherine Abena, Louis Paul Motaze, Atangana Mebara, Forjindam Zacheus and a host of other top government officials picked up ill luck from royal titles and gifts from the NOWEFU. Since it was in public, if Mebe Ngo’o was aware ahead of time he won’t have accepted. This is so because even Prime Minister Yang Philemon did reject a royal decoration at Bamenda congress hall on his first visit to the North West Region as Prime Minister, Head of Government.

 As envoy of Biya who is Fon of Fons, Alain Mebe Ngo’o outsmarted NOWEFU Fons saying that “I would convey the royal stool to your colleague Fon of Fons and if the Head of State thinks that I am worthy to keep it, only then I would do.” By so saying, he rejected the offer from the fons to sit on the royal stool.

Last July 19^th incident has left North westerners wondering whether NOWEFU has not learned after the appointment of “Special Envoys” that they are been reduced to beggars every time such an incident happens.

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