Some Northwest Elite Hate Me Because Of Elections - Ntumfor

By Joe Dinga Pefok

The Northwest member of the National Elections Observatory, NEO, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle, has said some Northwest elite consider him an enemy because he refused to condone election malpractices.

"The large majority of the Northwest population are quite appreciative of the work I have so far done since I was appointed NEO member. But there are others who wanted me to help them at elections and when I rejected their request to condone electoral fraud, they felt hurt," Nico Halle said.

Ntumfor Halle made this remark in an interview he granted The Post in Douala on October 31.

Facing Persecution

Ntumfor Halle told The Post that he has no apology for taking on those who rig elections. He said when NEO members were first appointed in 2001 there were cynics who hastily concluded that NEO was an empty shell.
 

"As far as I am concern, I will never have any regrets for having stopped some people from wanting to rig elections. Today, I am facing persecution, for having tried to do the right thing at elections because I refused to help them rig elections. They are using subterranean means to get me," he said.

Low Democratic Culture

Asked to comment on the very low turnout of voters at the October 26 municipal elections re-run in Douala V, Ntumfor Halle described the situation as disgusting. He also noted that there is no Law that obliges people to go out and vote, since it is for an individual to decide.

"I think the problem is more with our democratic culture which is still very low. Ours is a budding democracy, and we are evolving. May be as time goes on, people will come to understand the importance of taking part in governance, by choosing those who govern them. But we need a lot of civic education, especially by stakeholders in elections. In order to build our democracy, everybody has to be involved". 

OAPI Conference In Dakar

Meanwhile, Ntumfor Barrister Nico Halle left the country over the weekend for Dakar, Senegal, at the invitation of the African Intellectual Property Rights, OAPI, to attend a weeklong international conference that is scheduled to open November 3.

Ntumfor and another Cameroonian, Denis Ekani (former Delegate General of National Security), have been invited to the conference in their capacities as members of the seven-man Technical Committee of OAPI.

The conference, which will also bring together ministers from member states of the organisation, as well as representatives from similar structures in other parts of the world, will be under the patronage of the President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade.

Comments

[Delors]

Mr Ntumfor here is a question for you when you return from Senegal. For how long will take Democracy to evolve is Cameroon and do you consider a country like Ghana and other African countries that have been practising good Democracy country or countries of other continents or they belong to African continent. Thank you

[Fonngang]

Mr Ntumfor, Who are these people who wanted you to assist them in rigging elections? Are you not a criminal your self by concealing a criminal activity? Can you not help our country to rid it of these 'bad politicians' by letting the public know them? YOU ARE LYING, Mr. Halle Ntumfor or whatever you call your self.
Be a man and expose these 'bad people'. It will be a wonderful contribution to Cameroon. Hiding them tantamounts to assisting and abating crime. You are a lawyer you should know better. If you don't have anything to say please just stay quiet.The SDF has ben fighting even at times by applying physical force for any victory it registers in the province and beyond. That therefore keeps them out of your line of so called accused. That leaves the CPDM. Why don't you expose these people if you want to help Cameroon. You are more interested in portraying yourself as a saint while 'keeping secrets' that could save a whole nation. Shame on you for self aggrandisement.
Fon Emmanuel

[lunglueh]

FEN:

Me think you are very right with the 'self aggrandisement' label for our 'ntumfor'

ntumfor here - ntumfor there, ntumfor yesterday - ntumfor today - ntumfor tomorrow.

ntumfor don do this - ntumfor don do that ...
Nearly every edition of the post has a write-up on ntumfor!!!

Personality cult 4 cameroon go kill man! The Post should spare us some of these character embellishment write-ups.

[rexon]

Ntumfor,

What we need is that the CPDM leave our territory. We do not need anything from the CPDM. Before the soo called elections that you are invited to monitor, you knew that the results have already been dictated in Paris, yet you went forward with your rhetoric that you were monitoring elections. You should have refused to engage yourself into such a despotic group called election monitors. Cameroonians hate anyone who have anything to do with the CPDM and if you want to maintain your integrity, you need to distance yourself from that cult called the CPDM. They are nothing but criminals and except you are one of them, you do not need to identify with them. The more you continue to identify with that criminal group, the more you are hated by Cameroonians. A word to a wise is sufficient.

[Tekum Mbeng]

Mr Halle, you call Cameroon under Paul Biya a democracy? How can you have a democracy and a life President? Apathy reins because the top is truly rotten.