Compiled By Francis Tim Mbom, Willibroad Nformi & Wamey Panky
Highly placed security sources have informed The Post that more blood would have been shed on Monday, March, 3 if anyone had dared to the continue with the strike.
The security officials who opted for anonymity said the Presidency had
signed and issued firm instructions for them to shoot at anyone who
would have come out on that Monday.
President Paul Biya's shooting
orders came on the heels of his February 27 declaration that he was
ready to use all legal means and institutions at his disposal to stop
any attempt by whosoever who dared to demonstrate again.
Policemen Auction Cars To Themselves
The Limbe Police Commissioner, John Ngale Makamba and his second in command, Clément Kossa Tseng, were beneficiaries of an auction of confiscated cars and motorcycles that took place at the Limbe Public Security yard on Thursday, March 6.
The Post gathered that seven cars that had been impounded for various reasons from individuals and several motorcycles were auctioned. While Police Commissioner, at the threshold of his retirement, bought one of the cars for an undisclosed sum, his colleague, Tseng, grabbed one for as little as FCFA 120,000.
The Post also learned that other bidders went home with cars for FCFA 50,000, while others bought off motorcycles for as low as FCFA 40,000. Among the auctioned cars and motorcycles were those confiscated from people who had committed traffic offences, others were as a result of accidents and so on.
Roads, Education, Northwest Topmost Hurdles
Bad roads and inadequate educational facilities have been identified as the most serious problems plaguing the Northwest Province. Added to this are the scorching poverty and communication difficulties where CRTV Bamenda signals have not been received in some parts of the Province for over two decades.
These and more are some of the problems that Abakar Ahamat, Northwest Governor, has so far identified since he began his maiden contact tour. Speaking in Kumbo after visiting Donga/Mantung and Bui Divisions, Abakar said the road infrastructure was not the best. He also admitted that many educational institutions lacked basic human and material resources for them to function well.
He
said his tour was intended to collect data on the problems and hoped
that together with the locals, solutions could be sought. The Governor
launched a fervent appeal to the population to invest in the education
of their children.
Priest Blames Strike On Hungry Electorates
Rev. Father Anthony Lawir, the Assistant Parish Priest of Nkambe Town Quasi Parish and the Principal of St. Rita's Technical and Commercial High School, has blamed the recent devastating nationwide strike on the attitude of hungry electorates. The priest was talking during a sermon at the main Catholic Church.
Rev. Lawir said that the strike was not necessary at all, given that during the last Presidential election Cameroonians had the opportunity to appreciate Paul Biya's regime and sanction him with their votes. He said the disgruntled citizens presented themselves as hungry people and Biya's sales boys bought them off with tablets of soap, cups of salt and miserable sums of money and they chose to approve in the ballot box for Biya to continue.
The priest said it was at the ballot box that they had to demonstrate their grievances and that they were fed up with the regime.
Files of same issues are stock piled at the Northwest governor's office for more than 30 years and nothing has ever been done and will never be done. Biya who said he was personally going to supervizie the construction of the Ring Road is still to come and live in the northwest to make it work; what can then a governor do apart from going round and encouranging people to support Biya and his fire party so that at last, they the governors are promoted to ministers. They go around collecting goats and food in the name of contact and economic tours.
Posted by: Delors | Monday, 10 March 2008 at 05:07 PM