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A Presidential decree signed on Wednesday, February 23, sacked the General Manager of Cameroon Airlines, CAMAIR, Thomas Dakayi Kamga, replacing him with Paul Ngamo Hamani as the Provisional Administrator.Dakayi’s sacking came barely a day after the Minister of the Economy and Finance, Polycarpe Abah Abah, announced government’s plan in Douala to partially liquidate CAMAIR and pave the way for its eventual privatisation.
The Administrative Bench of the Supreme Court, February 23, once more adjourned the case of the 1992 post election violence victims. The victims, who are all militants of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, lost their property to acts of violence when President Biya was proclaimed winner of 1992 Presidential election.
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An ad hoc commission set up by the Cameroon National Medical Council, CNMC, to investigate into the controversial Tenofovir AIDS drug trials on sex workers in Douala has concluded that the promoters violated ethical norms.The findings of the commission, headed by Prof. Tetanye Ekoe, contradicted that of the audit commission set up by the Minister of Public Health that did not find any ethical problems with the clinical trials.
A Yaounde-based anti-torture organisation, the Trauma Centre, has expressed dismay at the horrifying torture methods used by gendarmes that recently led to the death in Douala of a bank official, Emmanuel Moutombi.The Director of the Trauma Centre, Peter Kumche, told The Post, February 23, that they learnt with dismay the death of Emmanuel Moutombi, a bank official accused of swindling, after he was subjected to torture by gendarmes.
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The Mayor of Bonaberi Municipal Council, Gabriel Fandja, is at odds with the inhabitants of his area following his decision to demolish some houses, including many stalls in Bonaberi.While the Mayor holds that the affected people had been warned several times to quit the area, which he said they were occupying illegally, the people, on their part, are swearing that the Council never, at any one moment, asked them to leave those areas.
His head is usually buried in numerous refrigerators and freezers, despite his imposing seize. Always bent over, Livinus Nji, a graduate from the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Department of Economics, University of Buea, UB, has pitched his tent in Molyko, Buea. His small workshop, styled Njikang and Sons Central Cooling Centre, was bustling with activities when your correspondent approached him.
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Yours sincerely has followed with keen interest the debate that was triggered as a result of the suit filed by Barrister Stanislaus Ajong. According to what I have read so far, Barrister Ajong wants the University of Buea to have the same English-language proficiency admission requirement for both Anglophones and Francophones, as opposed to what obtains now. That sounds fair enough. However, as the debate has taken different angles, I would like to give a little testimony as an alumnus of that school.
Barely a few days to the 10th edition of the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope (Sunday, February 27), the Mayor of Buea Rural Council, Charles Mbella Moki, is not very comfortable with the state of preparations. In a chat with The Post's Walter Wilson Nana, Mbella Moki blames the National Athletic Federation for coordination inconsistencies. He also advocates the coming back of Guinness Cameroun to manage the event.
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Douala Maritime Port
Authorities of West and Central African Ports, which are all members of the sub-regional economic organisation, Port Management Association of West and Central Africa, PMAWCA, have since February 17, in Douala, been talking cooperation through sharing experiences, especially in the domains of port security and safety.The port authorities are in Douala for the 28th Annual Council meeting of PMAWCA, which is being hosted by the Port Authority of Douala, PAD.
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SDF Chairman, John Fru Ndi, has said President Paul Biya is virtually a foreigner in Cameroon.Fru Ndi, who was speaking at a press conference in Yaounde last week, said President Biya's analysis of situations in Cameroon are usually inaccurate because he is apparently not conversant with the realities of Cameroon.He was particularly disappointed with President Biya's very positive analysis of the last October 11 Presidential election.
The new Fon of Talla village in Donga Mantung Division, Northwest Province, HRH Fon Simon Nfor Kwe, who was enthroned some two months ago, died in Yaounde on Saturday, February 19. Fon Simon Nfor, who is also clan head of the Tang people, died in the evening while on a visit in Yaounde at the invitation of the Wimbum people resident in the nation's capital and its environs.
Ahead of the Provincial Conference billed for February 26 in Bui Division, to elect a new Chairman for Northwest SDF, there are allegations of money changing hands to influence the outcome of primaries. An example is that of Ngoketunjia Division, where Bernard Tabali, former Ndop Rural Council Mayor, was pitted against Sidiki Mohnkong, campaign manager for Hon. Emmanuel Yoyo during the last Legislative elections. The primaries held on February 15.
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The Secretary General of the Union des Population du Cameroun, UPC, Augustin Frederic Kodock, has said his enemies are mounting a smear campaign to paint him black in the eyes of President Paul Biya. "Somebody I promoted in the Ministry of Agriculture wrote a petition to President Biya, claiming that I embezzled money for rice brought in by Americans. He also said I sold vehicles and embezzled the money," Kodock told journalists at a press briefing he organised at his party headquarters at Essos in Yaounde on February 18.
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Promoting Culture By Exclusion
The first musical tour to his fatherland (Cameroon) by France-based Yannick Noah, which was organised by the French Cultural Centre and sponsored by PMUC and Orange Cameroun, left a bitter memory in the minds of the impoverished Douala fans. In Douala where Noah went on stage for three consecutive nights from February 11-13 at Cinéma Le Wouri, the gate fee of FCFA 15.000 was certainly beyond the reach of the ordinary Cameroonians, especially students.
The Bureau of the National Assembly, February 14, voted to lift the immunity of Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin III to face trial for the murder of the late Balikumbat SDF District Chairman, John Kohtem, in August last year.Meeting under the chairmanship of National Assembly Speaker, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, 16 members of the Bureau voted in favour of the lifting of Fon Doh's immunity, while two voted against.
Out of the 23 members of the Bureau, 18 attended the meeting. Of the 18, 15 are members of the ruling CPDM party, like Fon Doh, while three are of the opposition SDF.
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Angry villagers in Banga-Bakundu, Meme Division, recently burnt six houses leaving 37 people homeless, on allegations of witchcraft. Some of the inhabitants of Banga Bakundu, told The Post that one Ephraim Anjah and Lucas Akwe, who had lived in the village for 30 years, were accused of killing his brother's wife, while Akwe was accused by two people from Kumba, Victor Abah and Pauline Abah, of killing their father. They said it was on the basis of these that in November 2004, the people of the village decided to eliminate the two suspects. They said their actions were precipitated by a letter they received from the Chief of Bako village in the Northwest Province, who testified that Anjah and Akwe were "nyongo people."
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The Fako High Court, Wednesday, February 16, adjourned a case Barrister Stanislaus Ajong of Tiko brought against the University of Buea, UB, over the institution's admission procedure to March 9. Justice Bartholomew Fonjock adjourned the matter because lawyers for the plaintiff, led by Barrister Thomas Yegha, objected to the admissibility of a document empowering the UB's Chief of Service for Administration and Records, Mr. Njabah, to represent the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Mrs. Dorothy Njeuma. 
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