CamCCUL Resolves to Check the Phenomenon of Money Laundering, Terrorism, Others

The Annual General Meeting of the Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League-CamCCUL LTD holding in Bamenda at the Pastoral Center, Up-Station this 28^th Day of June, 2014, having discussed and deliberated on various issues featuring on the Agenda, hereby adopts the following resolutions.

1)    The various reports as presented are discussed and amended including the appropriation of the financial results for the year ended 31^st December 2013, the 2014 operational and investment (CAPITAL) budgets are hereby adopted. Quitos is thus given to the Boards, Management and Auditors on the said reports and their implementation.

2)    The CamCCUL network thanks H.E the minister of Finance and the Government of Cameroon for laudable efforts of the Director General of Taxes to resolve burning tax issues related to our sector. We again humbly appeal to government to create a specific and simplified tax regime for microfinance institutions. Management should ensure that Tax seminars and trainings are envisaged in 2014 going forward.

3)    In view of the urgent need to reorganize the CamCCUL network, from the affiliates through the chapters to the Apex organ, in line with current realities of membership, volume of transactions, financial weight of credit unions, geographical and compliance considerations, the Board of Directors (BoD) and Management of CamCCUL are mandated to fine tune a new organigram and putting in place a five year development plan (2015-2020) with the help of experts assistance.

4)    An Ad Hoc Strategic Reflection Committee is hereby created and placed under CamCCUL BoD whose assignments amongst others will be to reflect  on the five years development plan, the organogram, facilitate in the review of the various policies and also to act as Think Tank on various other important issues affecting the CamCCUL network.

5)    Following the growing delinquency in the CamCCUL network, the BoD and Management are mandated to take urgent measures to put in place new recovery strategies to curb delinquency in the CamCCUL network using available resources at their disposal. They are also required to organize more recovery sensitization and workshops within the CamCCUL Network.

6)    The delegates positively appreciated the finished work of the CamCCUL building at the Bamenda Commercial Avenue and urge Management of CamCCUL to take all necessary measures to get electricity and its accessories connected into the building to make the same fully habitable.

7)    The Board of Directors and Management are mandated to urgently ensure the restructuring/revision of some key policies of the network, notably in the domain of lending and recovery, the Internal Rules and Regulations, money laundering and fight against terrorism and risk management. In this vein and following the resolutions of the G37 meeting in Bafoussam in 2012, risk management rates are reduced down from 80 to 65 per one thousand.

8)    The CamCCUL network takes cognizance of the recent COBAC conditional approval for the entry of a new investor from South Africa into the capital and management of UBC. CamCCUL BoD is mandated to continue to negotiate with other shareholders/stakeholders of the bank, the new investor, COBAC, MINFI and other administrative authorities, taking necessary measures to protect the bank and our investments.

9)    Credit unions are encouraged to participate in the relevant international and national conferences especially those organized by WOCCU, PROXFIN, ACCOSCA etc and to sensitize their members and take adequate measures to participate massively during celebrations marking International Credit Union Day and other such events locally. It was resolved that the International Credit Union Day be celebrated this year in Bafoussam.

10) The CamCCUL network is appreciative of the kind gesture from our various partners, including SOWEDA, ADPAM, the German International cooperation(Giz), MINEPAT, CAT-CAMEROON, PADMIR, the AGRIFIN INITIATIVE and the Belgian Raffeisson Foundation (BRS) who have in the last few years supported CamCCUL intellectually, financially, materially and otherwise, to the upgrading of its internal processes.

11) The CamCCUL Board of Directors and Management are instructed to ensure that the necessary corrective measures recommended by the last COBAC controls are implemented in the entire network with emphasis on the network discipline as contained in CEMAC/UMAC/COBAC regulations on microfinance activities

12) The recommendations in the audit report of CamCCUL and the credit unions on issues and irregularities identified by the COBAC control and CamCCUL audits should be strictly followed up in order to ensure the proper functioning of the CamCCUL network.

13) The delegates take recognizance of the numerous applications presented for the affiliation into the CamCCUL network and mandates the BoD and Management to follow up these in line with the applicable procedures of CamCCUL. On the issue of disaffiliation, members resolve and reiterate that credit unions wishing to withdraw their membership should do so in strict respect of the various regulatory and statutory provisions and in particular the instructionof H.E The Minister of Finance vis-avis the disposition of the CEMAC/UMAC/COBAC regulations on microfinance activities.

14) In order to mitigate the various risks encountered by CamCCUL and its affiliates in the various aspect of their operations, the BoD should constitute a risk mitigation committee at CamCCUL and at the level of its affiliations, to help mitigate these risks.  

15) CamCCUL should lead a delegation to meet with mamangement of CDC in a bid to resolve the issue of non-payment of Receivables to CamCCUL affiliates.

16) Validates the election of Mr. Fongu Julius Atanga, President of Bayelle Cooperative Credit Union by the Bamenda Chapter in replacement of the vacancy in the Supervisory Board of CamCCUL.

17) Members note with dismay, acts of insecurity and organized blackmail against CamCCUL , its credit unions and officials. The BoD, Management and the Strategic Reflection Committee are hereby mandated to take all necessary legal and other actions against such individuals and their sponsors.

Done in Bamenda this 28^th day of June 2014

Sign:

Secretaries: Fombin Raphael,  Nzoupet Lemou Merlin

Scrutinners: Nzegge Joseph,   Guietang Bernard,  Nello Francios

Chapter Representatives: Bamenda, Fako, Kumba, Douala, Fundong, Kumbo, Nkambe, Mamfe, Bafoussam, Garoua

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AtLast FECAFOOT Chairman of Normalization Committee Speaks

Recent allegations of fraud around Cameroon 2014 FIFA World Cup three preliminary games, especially Cameroon vs. Croatia, as well of "the existence of seven bad apples" in our national team, do not reflect the values and principles promoted by our administration, in line with FIFA Code of Conduct and the ethics of our nation.

We wish to inform the general public that, though not yet contacted by FIFA in regards to this affair, our administration has already instructed its Ethics Committee, to further investigate these accusations. We are strongly committed to employ all means necessary to resolve this disruptive matter in the shortest delays.

In the meantime we legitimately request that any related information, unless brought before our federation and/or its Ethics Committee, be held for or treated as mere assumption.

We wish to reinstate that in fifty-five (55) years of existence, FECAFOOT has never been sanctioned for, involved in, or even linked to match fixing or any fraud of any kind. 

Yaounde, 30 June 2014
PRESIDENT
NORMALISATION COMMITTEE
JOSEPH OWONA

 

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Scores Feared Death in Maiduguri Bomb Blast

Scores of people are feared death in the rubbles of an explosion that took place in a market in

Maiduguri, Nigeria. Reports say the car bomb explosion at the central market, in Maiduguri, today, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 is suspected to be the handiwork of the Islamic Extremist group, Boko Haram. Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group whose birthplace is Maiduguri and which is accused of a series of recent bomb attacks and the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls. Eye witness say the bomb reduced the entire market place into dust. Cars, market sheds and other items have been shattered around allegation abounds.

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Boko Haram Leader “Babuji Ya’ari Involved in Chibok Girls Abduction Arrested

Nigeria's military said Monday it had broken up a Boko Haram intelligence cell and arrested its leader, alleged to have taken part in the abduction of over 200 teenage girls in April.

A defence headquarters statement said that troops have found a militants' 'intelligence cell' headed by a businessman "who participated actively in the abduction of school girls in Chibok," in northeast Borno state last April 14.

Of the 276 girls abducted, 57 have been found while 219 are still missing.

The businessman identified as Babuji Ya’ari, who was also a member of a civilian youth group that worked along with the military, popularly known as Civilian JTF (Joint Task Force), allegedly used his position as a cover to work for the militants, it said.

"The arrest of the businessman who is known to deal in tricycles has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists’ intelligence cell who are women," the military said.

The statement accused the suspect of spying for the Islamists as well as spearheading the murder of Emir of Gwoza in Borno state a month ago.

A grab made on May 5, 2014 from a video obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Islamist extremist g …

He has been coordinating several deadly attacks in Maiduguri since 2011, including the attacks on customs and military locations in the town, a hotbed of the sect, it said.

There is no independent confirmation of the military claim.

Boko Haram Islamists are blamed for killing thousands since 2009, but the first half of this year has been the bloodiest stretch of the insurgency, with more than 2,000 people killed.

An attack on churches on Sunday near Chibok blamed on Boko Haram gunmen killed 54 people, an official has said.

They hurled explosives into churches, torched buildings and fired on worshippers as they tried to flee, residents said.

 

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Abduction of Chibok School Girls: Men to March in Women's High Heel Shoes Against Boko Haram

Men/boys in women high heel shoes

In an attempt to bring to the forefront of public consciousness the plight of the 270 Nigerian Chibok Schoolgirls abducted by the extremist Boko Haram sect some two months ago, and as part of activities to mark this year’s Father’s Day in Cameroon, men from all tribes and backgrounds would converge on Bamenda city on Saturday July 5, 2014, to walk on women’s high heel shoes for a distance of 1.2km, an equivalent of a mile, in protest against the physical, psychological, and mental torture being meted on the captured female students, and an urgent call to action by the international community.

The ‘Men in Women’s High Heel Shoes’ protest march called for by A Common Future, a leading Bamenda-based organization working with men and boys to end violence against women, will act like a booster to the efforts already being undertaken on its side by the Cameroon government and elite forces to discourage the sect from using Cameroon soil as a hideout.

The peaceful and awareness-raising protest that starts from City Chemist Roundabout at 9 a.m to Bamenda’s Commercial Avenue Groundstand, shall see over 100 well-meaning men and boys throw their weight and compassion behind the affected families, especially parents of the kidnapped girls.

As fathers themselves, the men in women’s high heel shoes would be sending the message that child bearing is a challenging and delicate task and nobody should be allowed to use children as soft targets.

By marching in women’s high heel shoes, these men would be reminding the powers that be, especially member states of the United Nations that they make be taking all their time because the Chibok girls are not their direct off springs. If they were, they would have known how the shoe pinches. The pain that the men and boys wearing the shoes would go through as they protest, remind them and by extension the international community of the adage that ‘s/he who wears the shoes knows where they pinches’.

The men involved in the protest want to send a clear message that children bring fulfillment in fatherhood, reason why those who do not have them go the length and breathe of the world seeking them, even to spiritual churches. While in their homes, the Chibok girls looked up to their fathers to show them what men value in women and what it means to be a woman of dignity in future. Unfortunately with the Boko Haram abduction, the girls are today looking up for direction and survival from complete strangers.  

As part of this year’s Father’s Day activities, the protest march will reassure other girls in society that fathers are still their protectors and supporters. Children grow up with the understanding that no one is stronger, bigger, and capable to scare away monsters better than their daddy. To a child, the father is the intimate shield of evil, the guardian of safety, and keeper of comfort. The Chibok school girls held this to be true until the other men, unlike their biological fathers came calling.

This symbolic protest would be a venue par excellence where well-meaning father’s would be brought to show their dissatisfaction with the way society has disfavored girls in preference to boys to the extent that Boko Haram believes girls do not have a right to an education as they are property, good only for marriage.

Those taking part in the ‘Men in Women’s High Heel Shoes walkaton’ would be articulating issues of gender equality that ‘Men of quality do not fear equality’. They are proposing alternative models of masculinity that are not necessarily in opposition to models of femininity and that allow men and women to share sexual and reproductive health responsibilities, love, and above all, decision making as both men and women have a common future.

Your Support

If for any reason you cannot be part of this history making protest march that enhances the global ‘Bring Back our Children’ campaign, send us material and financial support to provide snacks and transport to the protesters who would be exhausted after the challenging experience.

The Men on Women’s High Heel Shoes Walkaton comes on the heels of the 4^th edition of A Common Future Human Rights Film and Arts Festival that holds in the North West from July 15-22, 2014, in community halls and schools under the theme: ‘Enhancing the Dignity of Women, Girls and Children; Promoting Internet Access as a Human Right’. This international and highly mediatized event which shall be streamed live on the newly launched web TV, Dignity Television, shall showcase most sort after box office films and documentaries from across the globe and shall address issues like violence against women, rape, trafficking in person, widowhood rights, HIV/AIDS, as well as men taking affirmative action to end all forms of discrimination against women in society.

For more information on the walkaton and festival, contact us at acommonfuture1@yahoo.com or 237 94 94 28 78. Our other activities could be sourced at www.freetocharities.org.uk/acf orwww.acommonfuture3.blogspot.com and www.dignitytelevision.blogspot.com.

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Camer Gossip: Mighty Storm to Sweep Lions, "FECAFOOD", Ministry of Sports

Country people, when I said sometimes ago that Popol is a man who springs surprises, some people said it was an overstatement. Have you heard that latest? Popol has given his Prime Minister Yang de Philemon only one month to give him a detail report on who did what in Brazil.

  Boum! Boum! World Cup fiesta! Na waoooo. I knew that these guys were going to bring us more controversies.  Oh poor Mbia! Have you heard that Stephan Mbia narrowly escaped being lynched by irate hawkers at the Avenue Kennedy? It is thanks to the timely intervention of the police that Mbia vamoosed. Massa Jo has also promised to tell his portion of the truth in a Press Conference. These guys are taking Cameroonians for granted.  I hear Massa Jo told his boss Adoum Garoua Bolaya (Minister of Sports) that he Massa Jo was minister of Sports, Adoum was Divisional Delegate for Sports somewhere in one of the enclaved area. Yet he wants to dish him lessons on sports. Have you heard Ghana has dismissed that country’s Minister of Sports after the poor performance in Brazil.

I wish Popol could behave like Nkwame Nkruma of Ghana, Robert Gue of Cote D’Ivoire or Late Mbobutu Seseko of Zaire. The story goes that in 1972, the late Nkwame Nkruma had to dissolve the national team for poor performances. Remember that in 1994, Zaire qualified for the World Cup and they suffered a 9-0 defeat from Yugoslavia, 2-0 defeat from Scotland etc. when the players returned to Zaire after the humiliation, they were picked from the airport directly to the military barrack to be taught lessons on patriotism. Those who never returned to Zaire are still in exile today. Mbobuto did not only dissolve the team but he also changed the lions of Zaire to the leopards of Zaire.

In 1992, the Elephants of Cote D’Ivoire won the African Cup of Nation. As winners, they automatically qualified for the 1994 African Cup of Nation. But they were humiliated by the low rated Togo national side. The elephants did not moved to the second round. On returning home, General Robert Gue, by then Head of state ordered they should be taken directly to the military barracks on grounds that they needed protection because the fans were angry. But it was until they got to the military barrack that they understood the importance of patriotism.

I am just recovering from the shock of the humiliation of the lions. I hope it has not been the same with you. When I told you that Cameroon doesn’t have a national team and that these guys were just a selection, some people cursed me that I am a pessimist yet it came to past that your Writtam-pen saw tomorrow. I hear Popol has vowed that heads will roll. I hope you all saw what transpired between Moukandjo and Assou Ekotto. I have been hinted that the two players have been admitted to participate in the upcoming wrestling champion at WWE-RAW for the Money in the Bank champion alongside John Cena, Shawn Michael and the Big Show. Alex Song on the other hand has qualified for the world championship and his first match will be against Randy Otton.

Poor Cameroon!

 While the players were displaying their new discipline in front of cameras, I hear Massa Jo and Adoum Garoua Boulaye were scattering dishes in one hotel restaurant over gombo. Yang de Philemon has no other option than to propose that the team should be dissolved. And that all the 250 delegates who chopped government gombo should pay back everything into the treasury. 

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PAPNCC-PNDP Partnership Convention to Combat Climate Change in Pic IIs

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PAPNCC-PNDP Partnership Convention to Combat Climate Change in Pics

Hon. Awudu Hands Convention to Vice President of National Assembly

PNDP Coordinator hands Convention to Vice President

Environment Ministr handing Convention to Vice Speaker

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Climate Change: Singing of PAPNCC-PNDP Partnership in Pics

Hon Awudu Mbaya-PAPNCC President

Madame Ngah, Coordinator PNDP

Extreme left: Hele Pierre, Minister of Environment

Vice President of the National Assembly receiving convention from the hands of Hon. Awudu

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Climate Change Mitigation: MPs, Mayors to Work with PNDP

The Pan African Parliamentarian Network on Climate Change has signed a partnership collaboration with PNDP to pass through council create awareness on the phenomenon of Climate Change. (ceremony in pics)

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