North West Livestock Development Fund Gets New Director

Fai Cassian Ndi

Mbah Shupong Michael is the new Director of the North West Livestock Development Fund commonly known by its French acronym as CDENO. He replaces Mokom Daniel Njawa who has left an indelible mark of greatness in fostering livestock activities in the North West Region. The award winning former Director is accredited for setting up a feed producing factory to boost livestock activities, construction of animal crushes, dips and development improved pastures. Before taking retirement, Mokom Daniel also entered into history for the distribution of vaccines for small ruminants and cattle.

However, a Presidential decree signed on January 17, 2014 catapulted Mbah Shupong Michael, formerly CPDM Parliamentary candidate for the Santa Special Constituency to replace Mokom Daniel going on retirement. But public opinion is aghast that a teacher of economics was appointed to head a livestock development service. More so, another school of thought holds that seemingly, MIDENO and CDENO are reserve only for the indigenes of Santa Sub Division. This is so because Mokom Daniel Njawa hails from Santa while Mbah Shupong Michael hails from the same area. But who is this economics teacher who has been appointed to head a livestock development fund? Mbah Shupong Michael we gathered was born in Awing on December 22, 1967 and formerly an educationist at GBHS Santa. After his secondary education, he got admission into the University of Yaounde and later ENS Yaounde where he obtained a post graduate diploma in Science of Education. He has a wide experience in associative life given that he had served as Vice President of the Santa Central Cooperative Union, served as elder and congregational secretary Presbyterian Church Santa, Secretary General of Atualah Awing Development and Cultural Association, treasurer of the same association and President of Santa Central Cooperative Credit Union LTD and chairman of the Supervisory Committee of CamCCUL amongst others. As a politician, he served in various capacities notably as the Vice Section President to JB Ndeh.

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Horror at University of Bamenda, Two Killed Instantly

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Tongues are still waging at the University of Bamenda following the stabbing and killing of a level 4 female student of the Higher Teachers Training College-ENSIET. The story goes that at about 8:45 on Monday January 20, 2014, Mangwe Yadjuo (23 years old) was stabbed from behind by a taxi driver from Bafoussam (West region) by name Yenjuo Kwitchuo. Eyewitness accounts say Yenjuo Kwitchuo approached the former lover from behind and butchered her with a cutlass, killing her instantly.  Yenjuo we gathered after committing the barbaric act also drank acid he brought along with him.  There was confusion and horror at the university Campus. Tension escalated and the 28 years old Yenjuo Kwitchuo was also stoned to death by angry students. The two we gathered hail from the West region and it is alleged that the former boyfriend traveled from the West Region to commit the terrible act. The 23 years lady murdered in cold blood we gathered had a seven months old pregnancy. Yet the story has had diversified interpretations on the extravagant life some university girls live. The Eye is aware that at the University of Bamenda, the competition among girls is so stiff that it pushes them to have many boy friends to whom they all promise to get marry to. Those who might have invested their future in some of them and later to discovered they are being duped “mogos” ends up committing such barbaric acts. However, an atmosphere of gloom now looms large at the University of Bamenda. The terrible incident we learnt is coming barely a week after the newly enthroned fon of Bambili recently appointed the Vice Chancellor as a quarter head.

However, waked-whispers at the University Campus abound that Magwe had told the taxi-driver of late that she would no more marry him. Her worth was above the standards of getting married to a common taxi man.  And that the parents of the girl were in Bambili to caution her given that she had been receiving threats of life from the 28 years old taxi driver. The same waked-whispers have been telling everyone who cares to listen that her house-rent was being paid by four different guys including the taxi driver and that why the parents were paying for her house-rent, four others had keys and had as well been paying for the same house rent.

The Uba barbaric incident has come to add to the one which of late, taxi drivers butchered her former wife and daughter to death before killing himself at Mile 3, Nkwen.

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New Year Message from National President of BICUDA, Shey Richard

Shey Richard: BICUDA President looking to the stars as the limit

My Dear Brothers and Sisters

My Dear Mums and Dads, fellow Binju Sons and Daughters at Home and the Diasporas

It is with great respect and honour that I am wishing you all a Happy New Year 2014 as I call on God Almighty to bless you, santify you and help you fight your spiritual battles, for this year to be that of success, progress, prosperity and good health to you all.

The year 2012-2013 were the years we all concieved ideas, this year is the practical year so that by the end of it we must have attain our objectives and that big word-"WE WILL IN A BIG WAY".

I am proud of you all for your unconditional support to me in partical and BICUDA in general, most especially for your weight behind the laying of the mighty "FOUNDATION STONE" of our dream project of December 21, 2013 for the construction of the BICUDA MULTI-PURPOSE HALL-"AU MBOA".

I have all the reasons to be proud of youall; after all "a Binju man is a proud man" as the saying goes. I will relent no efforts to make you to be proud of yourselves. 

2014 is Our year of Action and the time to act in a "Big Way" is Now!

 I am confident  and I know we are going to make it in a big way. However, i just want to remind you of our spirit of "UNITY" and "LOVE" for all so that we all build a strong and beautiful Binju.
God will provide abundantly for you all.

Long Live BINJU
Long Live NKAMBE
God BLESS YOU ALL
National President
Shey Richard-alias Tang-mbu
Tel: 74 66 04 25

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Purported Warning Letter by University of Buea Student Defence Council

A letter purported to have been written by the University of Buea Student Defence Council-UBSDC has been circulating on the internet. Here below is the warning letter:

We the Governing Council of UBSDC that has been fighting the barbaric actions of the university authorities towards our UBSU government that lead to the imprisonment of our classmates, colleagues and friends, do hereby calls:

  -For the immediate release of all detained and imprisoned student to be released immediately and unconditionally;

  -On all parents have their children studying at UB should advised their children to stay away from any on-campus celebrations;

  -For the immediate withdrawal of all CENER, BIR and war looking police and military off our campus;

-The Vice Chancellor to again table the petition of some 40 Anglophone MP’s on Educational Sector to Paul Biya.

The UBSDC declares that:

§  The decision to Honour President Paul Biya with PHD in Political Science will be foiled even with our blood.

§  The time has come to say Enough is Enough.

UBSDC WARNING:

The under mentioned are herby warned that we know where they live and we'll be coming for them and their respective families. You might place as many security guards outside your home as you like but the tsunami will be right at your doorsteps.

1.     Vice Chancellor - Dr.  Nalova Lyong

2.     Deputy Vice Chancellor - Professor Julius Ngoh

3.     President of the Buea Court of First Instance - Magistrate Mrs. Beatrice Ntuba

4.     Dr. Ernest Molua

5.     Dr. Kingsly L. Ngange

6.     Dr. Ekoka Molindo

Signed:

Delegate Elangwese

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Open Letter to National Communication Council-NCC

I imagine President Paul Biya having a good laugh at you for using the little power he bestowed on you to strike a fly with a hammer; he who even with the full arsenal of the State apparatus of dissuasion – army, police, gendarmerie, secret police, etc and perhaps the courts – often looks away when he is lampooned in the press.
You slammed three-month suspensions on “The Guardian Post” and “Ouest-Littoral” for incivilities towards some of you, members of the National Communication Council (NCC): Charly Ndi Chia, Peter Essoka (vice chair) and Bishop Joseph Befe Ateba (chair). It is true “Ouest-Littoral” also came under your hammer for incivilities towards unnamed personalities of the State and you booked a couple other news organizations for no personal issues. Yet, many in the press corps have concluded – rightly or wrongly – that you were settling scores with your personal critics. Some even say Ndi Chia, Editor-in-Chief of “The Post”, top English language newspaper, was thus shutting out a supposed rival – “The Guardian Post”. Hmm!
That is what happens when justice, even when done, is not shown to have been done. On the whole, among Anglophone colleagues who understand the real issues and the depth of the matter in the case of “The Guardian Post”, few tears have been shared for its Editor, Ngah Christian. I understand you acted from your knowledge of the man, satisfied that any sanction short of a death sentence would be considered lenient seeing the myriad and nature of complaints some of you say have been thrown on your laps by supposed victims of Ngah Christian. But as a matter of principle, your methods have been criticized because, justified as they may be, your action did not seem to have followed due process. It was seen to have been a kangaroo trial, if trial there was: the accused was not heard and judgment fell the day after a complaint was lodged against him, an apparent violation of your own working rules. Some of your fellow members base this argument on the 10-day requirement for summoning the Council and claim that complaints must accompany invitations to sessions. I would pardon you, members of the Council for your procedural lapse and lay the blame at the doorstep of the legal expert put at your disposal, your Secretary General, who ought to have known.
Your celerity to sanction under no known compulsion or urgency left your Council looking suspect, and in the case of “Ouest-Littoral”, though its Editor Benjamin Zebaze was heard, your action looked like an attempt to silence a critic of the regime. (The tone and insinuations in his writing are subject for another conversation, though.)
Zebaze was an early day crusader for freedom of the press. At a time in the early 90s when the government-owned Sopecam would withhold printing of newspapers critical of the regime, Zebaze braved it and started Rotoprint printing press in Bonaberi, Douala – a relieving outlet for the critical private press. Zebaze also took an unapologetic anti-Biya line in his paper then, Challenge Hebdo. Truth be told, Ngah Christian is no Benjamin Zebaze. But sympathizers of Zebaze’s apparent persecution and those wrapped in the reasoning that you were settling scores or persecuting critics, have wholesomely come to the defence of both Editors and placed Ngah under Zebaze’s blanket without any consideration for the special case of “The Guardian Post”.

Because you have not communicated sufficiently, few people remember that far from his recent personal attacks on you, Ngah’s first suspension came from a press offence, not a personal problem with Council members. We know Fru Ndi once lodged a complaint against Ngah who had been heard by your Council in another matter brought before you by another politician – a business tycoon in Douala. There was also Ngah’s sms palaver with Rose Abunaw… I’m not trying to enumerate. Yet, I pray you to reconsider the sanctions, hoping the suspension deterrent will make him sit up henceforth. “The Guardian Post” has benefitted, somewhat undeservedly, from press corps solidarity, yet Ngah Christian must be told some home truth now that the occasion is here for the sanity of our cherished profession.

Franklin Sone Bayen

Renowned Cameroon Journalist and Blogger

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Cabinet Shakup: Here is the Leaked List of Sacked Ministers

According to classified sources, President would announce his new government soon. It is alleged that some Ministers appointed on December 9, 2011 would be sacked. Here below are the names that classified sources say they were to be shown the way out of government last Friday. Yet another source hinted that President Biya left for Mvomeka, his village this week and he is allegedly having a calm head to prepare the next government reasons why those cited below were not sacked last week. They are:

 
- Robert Nkili, minister of Transports.

- Jacqueline Koung à Bisséké, minister of state properties and State Domains

- Ama Tutu Muna, minister of Arts and Culture.

- Catherine Bakang Mbock, minister of Social Affairs.

- Youssouf Adidja Alim, minister of Basic Education.

- Abba Sadou, minister delegate at the Presidency Incharge of Public Contracts.

- Emmanuel Essimi Menye, minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

- Dr Taïga, minister of Livestock and Animal Husbandry

- Zacharie Perevet, minister of Employment and Professional Training.

- Jacques Fame Ndongo, minister of Higher Education

- Pierre Hélé, minister of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development.

- Ngole Philip Ngwese, minister of Forestry and Fauna.

- Emmanuel Bonde, minister of Mines, Industries and Technological Development.

- Pierre Ismaël Bidoung Mkpatt, Minister of Youths and Civic Education.

- André Mama Fouda, minister of Public Health

- Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development.

- Fernand Adoum Garoua, minister of Sports and Physical Education.

- Jean Pierre Biyiti bi Essam, minister of Post and Tele-communication.

- Patrice Amba Balla, minister of Public Works.

- Jules Doret Ndongo, Minister Delegate in the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization In-charge of Local Collectivity.

- Clémentine Antoinette Ananga Messina, Minister Delegate in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development In-charge of Rural Development

- Abdoulaye Yaouba, Minister Delegate in the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development

- Mefiro Oumarou, minister Delegate in the Minister of Transport.

- Nana Aboubakar Djalloh, minister delegate in the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development.

- Hans Nyetam Nyetam, secretary of State in the Ministry of Public Works.

- Marie Rose Dibong, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Urban Development

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At Public Presentation of Njap Fon: Fru Ndi Tells Wimbum People to Stay Off Political Divide

Ni John Fru Ndi and Hon Awudu performing the gun shooting culture

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front-SDF has urged the Wimbum people of Donga Mantung Division to be very careful with traditional rulers who want to destroy their tradition with political intrigues. Ni John Fru Ndi, SDF chieftain made the statement on January 12, 2013 during the public presentation of the newly enthroned fon of Njap village, HRH Chifu Stanley Tumi. Chairman Ni John Fru Ndi also told the traditional rulers that “we make you fons and you go to make others fons”. In the grass field tradition, “we did not make you fons to go and crown others fon”, he warned.  He lamented that some fons have allowed themselves to be manipulated by tradition and that it is pathetic that such a scenario is gradually taking roots in (wi) Mbum land. He added that he didn’t come to Njap to address a political rally but would not spare an inch of his efforts to congratulate the (wi) Mbum people for their steadfastness during the last Municipal/ Legislative Elections. “I am aware that the battle field during the last elections was Nkambe”, he continued. According to Ni John Fru Ndi, those who claim to have won the council did it obnoxiously”. He also promised that he would personally leave Bamenda to come and stay in Nkambe to see for himself how the same rigging machinery will operate for a minute. He mocked at the Prime Minister Yang Philemon for parading polling stations on polling day to corrupt voters in Donga Mantung Division. Fru Ndi disclosed that on polling day Prime Minister Philemon Yang was spotted in Nkambe and Misaje. “What was he doing in Nkambe and Misaje on polling day” he questioned. To Ni John Fru Ndi, the Prime Minister should be appointed base on competence and not on his capability to rig elections. Harping on the cultural aspect of the Njap people, chairman Ni John Fru Ndi said that he watched every step and said in his mind that anyone who ever thinks of destroying such a culture should be considered as being in a state of sin. “Njap” he said means a lot to him. “In the Baba I dialect Njap means the the black achu soup and this is the first food I tasted when I was young. I still eat it today. That is why I fell in love with the people of Njap. The departed fon was a great friend and I could not stay indifferent. I am here to shot my gun as North West tradition demands, gun shooting is part of our culture”, he concluded.

On the other hand, the former mayor of Nkambe council Mangoh Jones Tanko castigated the intention by some traditional rulers to politicize the (wi) Mbum culture. This he said could lead to the destruction of the tradition which remains the identity of the people. The Paramount Fon of Warr Clan, HRH Fon Mbunwe of Mbot warned that “a cry-die is like njangi and when you do not come to visit your brother when he is in trouble do not expect him to visit you when you are in a similar situation”. He re-echoed that some palaces may end up with empty seats if he is the one to enthrone their successors given that they boycotted him in the name of politics.

The traditional salute

Mother of Wimbum Culture Exhibited at the Public Presentation of HRH Chifu Stanley Tumi

The euphoria in Njap was splendid when the HRH Fon Chifu Stanley Tumi and the Ma-Yaah emerged from the palace to the palace court yard. Singing and dancing, masquerades display took the central stage. There was silence safe to the little bird who was making a mark from the near by forest. The signal was the announcement and the entry of the highest traditional authority of the land. The “Ye-nwarong” the lone masquerade that presents the new fon to the public. Even little children who are fun of crying could not. Everyone was up. No one could sit on the chair. The message from the ancestor was clear, that “The Fon is Back, Long Live the Tiger”. Every step of the fon as he moved round the court yard as approved by a gun-shot. Two distinctive personalities were charged with that responsibility, Hon. Awudu Mbaya and Mangoh Jones Tanko. The message from the Nwarong secret society warned the youth against societal ills, the widespread of HIV/AIDS, poor dressing and witchcraft. It was also a moment to sound the last warning that blackmail, backstabbing should stop. That it can sink people. At the end of the presentation, the gods were honoured with the slaughtering of a goat, which as prophesized, the ancestors have accepted and the gods are happy.

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