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724 Patients Consult Convention Health Centre  

At about 5 pm towards the close of the SDF NEC Convention in Bamenda on May 28, some 724 patients suffering from various ailments had consulted the health unit that had been put up at the Congress Hall.

Suffering from stomach disorders, abdominal discomforts, gastritis, general malaise and other common illnesses, the hundreds of patients had thronged the centre through the weekend, attended to by four medical doctors and eight nurses.

The SDF authorities had to part with FCFA 100.000 for a militant delegate to the Convention from Lebialem Division, Isaac Tafeh, to be operated on. Tafef collapsed at the Bamenda Congress Hall on the second day of the Convention from what doctors described as strangulated hernia.

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He was rushed to the Bamenda General Hospital. As we went to press, the Chief in charge of the Health Unit at the Convention, Anthony Tantoh Ndi, said Tafeh was responding to treatment.

SDO Warns SCNC Against Disturbing The Peace 

The Senior Divisional Officer, SDO, for Donga-Mantung, Godlive Mboke Ntua, has warned the Youth League of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, against the recently publicised recruitment of militiamen from all the regions of the Southern Cameroons.

He said such a move was frightening and would jeopardize the cherished peace prevailing in the country. The SDO prayed that ministers of churches should continue spreading the message of peace, unity and an indivisible Cameroon.

The SDO was speaking to Christians as well as non-Christians recently in Nkambe, Donga-Mantung Division where PCC Moderator Rt. Rev. Nyansako Ni-Nku was dedicating the PCC church house in New Town, Nkambe.

The Prefect also denounced the rampant drinking of the locally brewed "shah". He said it was a sign of irresponsibility especially on the part of the men.
By Wamey Panky

Six Detained For Stealing Carcass   

The Nkor gendarmes in Noni Sub-division recently arrested and detained a man called Jonathan Lon and five others in connection with the disappearance of the carcass of a cow.

Lon was arrested with one Dairu who was caught with the liver of the carcass. According to reports reaching The Post, Lon is alleged to have bought the cow from one Ardo. He then slaughtered it and transported the carcass to Nkor to sell it.

On arrival at the market, the Sub-divisional Delegate of MINEPIA, Noni Sub-division, is reported to have seized the carcass and recommended it for interment, for it had been killed without a veterinary officer inspecting it.

It is said a pit was dug for the carcass but heavy rains set in. But when the rains ceased the carcass was nowhere to be found. Lon was suspected and arrested for the alleged theft of the carcass and detained.

Then followed Dairu, who disclosed the names of four others who apparently also stole parts of the carcass. They have since been remanded in the Kumbo Principal Prison.
Peter Adi Fonte

Bamenda Gets Pioneer Olympic And Sports Committee Exco   

The pioneer executive of the Olympic and Sports Committee will be installed in Bamenda on Tuesday, May 30. The occasion will take place in the Conference Hall of MIPLADAT chaired by the Governor Northwest Province Koumpa Issa.

The National President of the Olympic and Sports Committee, Colonel Kalkaba, and his entourage, who are currently on an installation tour in the other provinces, will attend.

The five-man team that will be installed for a term of four years are: Bobe Francis Yong who doubles as Proprietor of Yong Sports Academy as President, Peter Atamson Ngu and Mrs. Shube Mary Asanji as Vice Presidents, Choves Loh, ProvincialChief of SOPECAM as Secretary General and Charles Awemo Divisional Delegate of Transport Boyo as Treasurer.

The new executive would instil the sense of fair play in the Northwest Province as stipulated by the World Football governing body, FIFA. Born in 1963, the Olympic and Sports Committee aims at building a bridge among world athletes following Pierre De Courbertin's vision for sports where he said, "It is better to participate than win at all costs."
By Loveline Mbori

DMO Decries Cut Of Water Supply 

The District Medical Officer, DMO, for Kumbo East Health District, Dr. Lawrence Vola Sama, has expressed disappointment with the local community for cutting water supply to the health centre for the past three months.

Dr. Vola was speaking at the occasion when the outgoing Chief of Health Post, Mbam, Mrs. Florence Lenjo Berinyuy, was handing over to the incoming Chief of Health, Genevarius Yinkfu Ngoyi.

Dr. Vola said it was wrong for the community to ask the health centre to contribute towards the community water supply project, for which the centre had already paid FCFA 100,000. He called on those who took the decision to revise it as a health centre cannot operate without water.

He also explained that sending more workers to the Mbam Health Centre would greatly depend on the increased number of people who use the services there. Vola took the opportunity to inform the population that mosquito nets are treated free of charge and that the Mectizan drug is being distributed to prevent river blindness.
By Peter Adi Fonte