Up Station Mountain Club

The Chiefs Are Not To Blame

By Henry Monono

The Limbe City Council in its enthusiasm to celebrate the 150th birthday of the town has been caught in a cauldron of controversy. The causus belli or the reason for the war is once again financial as money and the love of it is the root of all evil. The expenditure has been pegged at the staggering sum of 150.000 .000 francs. By all means 150 brick is a lot of moola. This is what has incensed the chiefs and made them spoiling for a fight. 

 The chiefs in the Limbe 1, 2 and 3 have for long been meeting under an umbrella and association under the cognomen of Limbe Coastal Chiefs. The primus inter pares and chief spokesman of this group is the monumentally unflappable and outspoken Chief Ekum of Dikolo. Chief Ekum is a fearless, feisty royal with a chip on his shoulder.

CONAC and the Comedy of Errors

Henry Monono

A columnist or a writer is like a town crier. We are reminders and we have the advantage of looking back in time. When Mr. Biya appointed his twelve anti corruption apostles I wrote in this column that we should not expect much from them. One of them collapsed on the day they were slated to be installed and I said it sounded like an ill-omen.

   Time has proven that CONAC, (the National Anti-Corruption Commission established by presidential Decree No. 2006/088 (French), is just another incompetent non-performing organ set up by this government as a means of satisfying foreign donors that we mean business about fighting corruption. It operates only in Yaoundé the capital and does not have a national spread.