Who Is Who In ELECAM?

Compiled by Kini Nsom and Daniel Gwarbarah with additional facts from Le Jour

Samuel Fonkam Azu'u
Born December 25, 1953, Dr. Samuel Fonkam Azu'u is a native of Pinyin, Santa Subdivision, Mezam Division of the Northwest Region.He did his primary education in Baforchu (Mbu), Bali, Batibo and Pinyin between 1960 and 1965.

He then proceeded to the Bilingual Grammar School Molyko where between 1966 and 1971, he obtained the BEPC and the GCE Ordinary Levels. Between 1971 and 1972 at CCAST Bambili, in a single year, he succeeded at the GCE advanced level.

Between 1972 and 1976, he enrolled in the University of Yaounde and graduated as the best student in his batch with a first degree in Law and Economic Sciences. From 1976 to 1980, he registered and obtained a Master degree of Laws and Doctor (PhD) of Philosophy in Law from the University of London.

And since 1980, he has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Yaounde II, where he moved up to the rank of Chargé de Cours. In 1986, he was appointed Head of Division of Minister Delegate in charge of Relations with the Assemblies at the Presidency of the Republic and in 1988; he was moved to the Ministry of Territorial Administration as Head of Division in charge of Relations with the Assemblies.

On June 26, 1992, he was appointed Technical Adviser at the Presidency of the Republic and in June 2003, he became the Assistant Secretary General at the National Assembly from where he was appointed member and Chairman of the Electoral Board of ELECAM last December 30.

He is a notable of the Pinyin Clan Fondom, Chevalier of the National Order of Valour since May 1994. In May 2003, he was decorated Officer of the National Order of Valour and in May 2008, he was again crowned as Commander of the National Order of Valour.
Before his resignation in the face of the appointment, Fonkam Azu'u was a CPDM Central Committee member. He is married and father of five children.

Njeuma née Effange Dorothy Limunga
Dr. Dorothy Njeuma was born in Buea on June 26, 1943. After her primary education in Cameroon, she proceeded to the Enugu Queen's School in Nigeria and later to the University College of London in 1962 and then the Providence Brown University in the United States. She is a holder of a PhD Degree in Zoology and upon her return to Cameroon in 1970, she became assistant lecturer in the then Federal University of Yaounde.

Before being appointed as one of the twelve members to manage elections in Cameroon, Dorothy Njeuma had occupied top administrative and political positions in the country such as the Vice Minister of National Education in 1975; Technical Adviser in the then Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research; Director of the then Buea University Centre; Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea; the Rector of the University of Yaounde, Member of the CNU and later the CPDM where she was incorporated into the Political Bureau of that party, amongst others.
She got married to Prof. Martin Njeuma and they are blessed with two off-springs.

Thomas Ejake Mbonda
After serving as Governor of the Centre and Southwest Provinces, Thomas Ejake Mbonda's last top function was the Inspector General in the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, MINATD. He will be remembered for the critical role he played during the 2005 strike action by students of the University of Buea.

His choice to use force to crush the strike aggravated the situation leading to violence and the shooting to death of two students. He is reported to have been sneaked away from an angry mob with the use of a helicopter. He was one of the representatives from the administration at the National Vote Counting Commission for the 2007 elections.

Abdoulaye Babale
Abdoulaye Babale was born in Maroua, the Far North Region of Cameroon in 1946. He did his primary and secondary education in the same region and then moved to Government High School Garoua where he obtained a series D certificate at the advanced level. Babale then moved over to the University of Yaounde where he registered, read and graduated with a first degree in law.

He has a higher diploma in private law from the Paris II Panthéon Sorbonne University and a year later, that is, in 1974, he grabbed a higher diploma in political science from the same institution. Apart from his Law and Political Science studies, he received training at the Paris National Higher Telecommunications School.

He was appointed into government as the Minister of Town Planning and Housing in June 1983 and in November 1986, he was moved in the same capacity to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Politically, he was a known supporter of CNU and later the CPDM.

His commitment to the CPDM gained him confidence from the party hierarchy as he was chosen to represent and defend the party at the National Vote Counting Commission for the July 2007 elections.

Cécile Bomba Nkolo
Former Minister of Social Affairs, Cécile is a trained medical doctor. As devoted militant of the CPDM, she was incorporated into the all powerful political bureau of that party in December 1996.

Jules Mana Nschwangele
Indigene of the Ocean Division in the South Region of Cameroon, Jules Mana is sixty-five years old. A retired Mathematics teacher, he is a Board Member of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation, SNH. A CPDM militant until his recent appointment into ELECAM, he was one time Principal of a High School and Mayor of the Kribi Rural Council.

Elie Mbonda
Born in 1949, Elie hails from Djebem in the Koung-Khi, West Region of Cameroon. After his primary and secondary education, Elie attended institutions of higher learning in France and Belgium. He is a medical doctor and specialist in paediatric neurology.

Professionally, he has worked in the Mbalmayo Divisional Hospital, St. Luc University Clinic, Mother and Child Unit of the Chantal Biya Foundation, the Yaounde Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and a Director in the Ministry of Public Health. He has equally been the Chairman of the Health Commission of the Pan African Parliament as well as an expert at the World Health Organisation, WHO, a function he held before his recent appointment.

Justin Ebanga Ewodo
A Barrister at Law and former Bar Council President, Ebanga Ewodo, is the only survivor of the defunct National Elections Observatory, NEO, who has succeeded to get into ELECAM. He served in NEO since 2001 until his appointment December 30 into ELECAM.

Mohaman Sani Tanimou
Mohaman Sani, 53, was born in Ebolowa, the South Region of Cameroon. He did his primary education in Ebolowa up to 1969 and later moved to Obala and then Lycée Leclerc in Yaounde where he obtained a Series A4 advanced level certificate in 1978. He did his higher education studies in the University of Yaounde where he came out with a first degree in public law in 1982 and later moved into cycle "A" of ENAM for professional training.

As a State functionary, he has been in charge of judicial affairs in the Ministry of Town Planning and Housing, Attaché at the Secretariat General of the Presidency of the Republic and Chargé de Mission in the Prime Minister's Office.

Before his appointment as the Director General of ELECAM last December 31, Mohaman was the Technical Adviser at the Presidency of the Republic. In February 2008, he was appointed the Board Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Board. He was a member of the National Vote Counting Commission of the July 2007 elections.

Comments

[DR TAN OF CAMEROON]

DEAR ALL
THESE , BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ATTEST TO THE FACT THAT , CAMEROON IS GIFTED WITH QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS. THESE PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY CAN BE THE PRESIDENT OF CAMEROON.
THEY WILL BE GOING DOWN IN HISTORY AS PIONERS,[GREAT MOTIVATION] OF ELECAM. AFTER , 2011, THEIR CVS WILL BE RICHER, FOR MR BIYA , TO RECCOMMEND, THEM FOR JOBS AT THE SIDELINES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS LIKE WHO , UNESCO, UN. MR BIYA IS NOT A FOOL. CAMEROONIANS NEVER RESIGN ANYTHING.
YOU OF THE POST, WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVATION FOR THIS PARTICULAR WRITE UP. PROMOTION OF YOUR CANDIDATES? SUBTLE WAY OF SELLING THEM TO THE MINDS OF CAMEROONIANS. YOU WILL SOON BE CHARGED FOR COMPLICITY?.
IF WE THINK THESE POSITIONS ARE GLORIOUS FOR OUR GLORIOUS RELATIVES , THEN I FEEL VERY SAD FOR ALL OF US.ESPECIALLY DR AZU. THEY DECIDED TO REMOVE HIM , FROM A BETTER POSITION[WHATEVER THIS MEAN], TO THIS TRAP. DONE DEAL. ALL OPTIONS ARE OPEN.?
ANGLO--- RESTO. ANGLO---RESTO.

DR THOMPSON AKWO NTUBA MD, Ph,D.

[red flag]

TAN YOU ARE A CONFUSED PERSON, YOU SPEAKS WITH BOTH SIDES OF YOUR MOUTH.
MIND LESS, IMAGINATION IS BETTER THAN KNOWLEDGE GOT FROM A PHD CURRICULUM.

WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY INDEPENDENT ELCTORIAL COMMISSION? ELECBIYA OR ELECAM
IS BIYA CREATION, AND AS YOU KNOW HE IS KING OF FRENCH CAMEROUN, NEVER ELECTED.
INCLUDING HIS, ILLEGAL ANNEXED PROVINCE OF
BRITISH CAMEROON. ASK YOUR SELF WHAT INTERST DO THESE SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS
SERVING, ? SOUTHERN CAMEROONS INTEREST OR
FRENCH CAMEROUN INTEREST?

THE ANSWER IS THEY ARE SERVING FRENCH CAMEROUN INTEREST, AND ARE JUST SLAVES BBEING USED, BY THEIR MASTER, SOO THEIR MASTER COULD CONTINUE HIS ILLEGAL PRESENCE IN A FOREGN COUNTRY (BRITISH CAMEROON)

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

Biya has really taken Cameroonians for children. This audacious ELECAM appointments shows how he views Cameroonians as a complacent lot who don't have the nerve to protest any wrongdoing and will forever remain unmoved by political malpractices as long as their constant supply of beer is readily available.

The opposition in Cameroon needs to take it up a notch. The SDF has lost its credibility and that power-hungry Fru Ndi needs to peacefully retire, retreat to London and eat all the money he has embezzled. Some people don't know how to exit the stage when there's still applause. The "old order" has "changeth" and it has to yield place for the "new".

[Fon.]

DR THOMPSON AKWO NTUBA,
I see it differently. The post is not advertising the candidates as you think.Instead,now, we have a clear picture about the Elecam members and their level of ties with the CPDM regime.

The analysis by the post is enough to provoke anger against dictator Biya. However, I once said that, Cameroonians are too docile to the level that if Biya orders them to drink his urine, they will still do it, even in tears; no revolt.
What Biya has done is enough provocation to trigger unrest, but it will never mean anything to Cameroonians.
Instead, they sit and blame opposition leaders. What do they want them to do? A political leader gets his or her powers from the masses. The population must be ready to die for their political leader; that gives the political leader courage to move on. This is not the case with Cameroon. Biya knows this and is making maximum use of it.
Don´t ask me why the Political leaders can´t initiate the unrest for the masses to follow, because if the political leader is arrested, normal life goes on.

Now that Biya has appointed staunch CPDM militants to organise elections, Cameroonians will simply respond by not registering to take part in the next election. But is that a solution? What will Biya lose if they don´t participate in an election?
The problem in Cameroon lies with the docile population and not with the opposition leaders.

[hanna]

Biya: A Ruler Who Is Out Of Touch

By Neba-Fuh

"We therefore immediately embarked on the process of constitutional revision in order to remove a hurdle which was looming over our political future in the medium-term. I believe that the majority of the Cameroonian people understood the meaning of this reform which, in any case, leaves all options open". - Paul Biya

Biya's ritualistic end of year speech to the people of Cameroun is a provocative piece incoherent with the spirit of political leadership even in its most pretentious state.
He exhibited extreme detachment from his populace in every sense of it.

What else could one expect from a ruler who spends that less time in the executive office of his Ahidjo-constructed-palace, as if his ghost still haunts him there?
What else could one expect from a ruler who spends most of the year in Western five-star-resorts, and attempts to visit the provinces or is it regions of his country only during election period?
No wonder, in his speech, he now refers to the 'rainy season' as 'summer'. Soon he will decree an 'autumn', 'spring' and 'winter' in Cameroun.

Seriously, Biya thinks limiting presidential terms to 7 years renewable once, was 'a hurdle which was looming over our political future in the medium-term'. He believes Camerounians understood the 'hurdle', that's why they 'pressed ahead' for constitutional reforms to delimit presidential term, paving him the right to rule till death.
If this kind of speech cannot provoke an angry juju to unmask, then I know not anything that can.

Biya hailed himself for finalizing the process of setting up ELECAM(Elections Cameroon)- a body conceived to 'strenghten' electoral process in Cameroun-, by appointing the following as President, Vice President and Members:
President
FONKAM Samuel AZU’U
Vice-President
EBANGA EWODO Justin- vice president

Members
NJEUMA, née EFFANGE Dorothy LIMUNGA
BOMBA NKOLO Cécile
SADOU DAOUDOU, née Lady BAWA
Abdoulaye BABALE
Adamou ALI
EFANDENE BEKONO Pierre Roger
EJAKE MBONDA Thomas
MANA NSCHWANGELE Jules
MASSI GAMS Dieudonné
MBONDA Elie.

These are the people who are expected to exercise impartiality in the Camerounian electoral process.
At a glance, Fonkam Azu'u is a CPDM parrot that has been caged in the Administrative section of the National Assembly for a long while now.

Njeuma Dorothy is one of Ahidjo's relics recycled by the Biya regime. Campaigned desperately for the CPDM over Radio Buea in Pidgin English during the 1997 elections campaigns while she was Vice Chancellor of Buea University. A member of the Political Bureau of the CPDM

Ejake Mbonda was once Governor of South West Province- Seasoned election rigger and also a member of the CPDM party!

Abdoulaye Babale- Diehard CPDM former Minister from the Extreme North of Cameroun.

Bomba Cecile Nkolo is a former Minister and a CPDM faithful; just to mentioned these few.

A friend of mine after glancing at the list jokingly told me that Biya still has to appoint the Opposition list of members of ELECAM!!!

Where is the impartiality, neutrality or integrity in this appointment? Does one need to go to Hyde Park Speakers Corner or hide under a pseudonym to criticize this?

Biya touched on the world credit crunch in his speech. He boosted of good economic performance this year, exaggerating their efforts in implementing the three year economic and financial program, while many Camerounians live in abject poverty. Some find it impossible to get even meagre credits to start off small businesses due to the endless bottlenecks involved. The Government is still to meet up with their expected yearly expenses of funds stashed away in the Central Bank under the HIPC initiative, due to inability to table developmental projects that are approvable. The few that a approved, government embezzlers line their pockets before the dregs reach the population to kick-start the projects envisaged.

Apart from the multinationals along with their billionaires who have greatly been struck by this credit crunch trickling down to the common man; another group of people dying in silence due this world economic crisis are African dictators. They have also lost some billions of their embezzled money invested in western companies or stashed in banks. Therefore, they need to replenish. That is why Biya in his speech, didnot waste time in preparing the minds of his people, envisaging economically difficult days ahead. There will be economic difficulties, but these economic difficulties will be exacerbated in Africa by the concurrent embezzlement of its autocrats, aimed at replenishing their accounts because of the billions they have lost, as a result of the world credit crunch.

The likes of Biya and his other African companions are a disgrace to African tradition of brotherhood- where the whole is always more important than the parts, and your neighbour's livelihood is as important as yours. A tradition where eating alone is as guilty as eating stolen food, and success or achievement is not glorified except the whole neighbourhood assemble at your doorstep for the celebration.
Today, we 'celebrate' phony Africans, who hoard billions of embezzled cash while the majority of the population is left with little or nothing to survive on.

copied from Voice Of The oppressed(nebafuh.com)

[rexon]

Despite government’s strong arm tactics to scare ACDIC, the NGO has now released the list of the senior Yaounde regime officials who misappropriated 60 Indian aid tractors destined for poor farmers across Cameroon

By Clovis Atatah

Government’s attempts for two weeks now to muffle ACDIC, the international NGO based in Yaounde that investigated the allocation of 60 Indian aid tractors, have failed.
ACDIC has gone ahead to release the names of ministers, senior government officials, MPs and army generals who received the tractors that were destined for farmers across the country. The Indian government donated the tractors in 2006.

The list was published in spite of a charge of illegal demonstration brought against ACDIC president, Bernard Njonga, to cow him to drop his campaign to expose corruption in government.
Two weeks ago, government banned an ACDIC press conference that was to disclose details about massive corruption in government and anti-riot police later broke up a peaceful demonstration in Yaounde to protest against this corruption.

According to the ACDIC list, the following persons, amongst others, received the tractors: Amadou Ali (minister), Atangana Mebara (then minister), Clobert Tchatat (minister), Amadjoda Adjoudji (ex-minister), Sadou Hayatou (ex-PM), Jean-Baptiste Beleoken (director of civil cabinet at the presidency), Gregoire Owona (deputy SG presidency), Louis Marie Abogo Nkono (then minister), Sale Charles (then minister), Essoni Francis Lin (paymaster general), Yaou Aissatou (GM SNI), Steven Njinyam (ex-minister), General Ivo Yenwo (director of presidential security), Mebe Ngo’o Alain (minister in charge of the police), Jules Doret Ndongo (SG PM’s Office), Paul Njie Meoto (director of cabinet PM’s Office), Ndion Ngute (minister delegate), Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana (minister), Polycarpe Abah Abah (then minister), Ferdinand Oyono (then minister) and Mebande Brigitte (MP).

The vice procureur of the supreme court, the GM of Ceneema and the secretary of state for agriculture also received the tractors.
Surprisingly, Amadou Ali, minister of Justice and Mebe Ngo’o, police chief, who are in charge of the government’s anti-corruption dossier, are also implicated in the misappropriation of the Indian aid tractors.
Also notable is the alleged involvement of the closest collaborators of Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni, notably his secretary general and his director of cabinet.

ACDIC’s investigations, which lasted 15 months, revealed that 49 of the 60 tractors did not get to farmers and 87.5 percent of the tractors are packed in the residences of Yaounde regime officials.
The tractors were given to Cameroon to for test use as a prelude to the setting up a tractor assembly plant in Cameroon.

Another investigation by ACDIC, released alongside the report on the tractors, revealed that the bulk of government subsidies to farmers over the years have been siphoned by senior agriculture ministry officials.
There have been growing calls in the press for the sacking or resignation of the minister of agriculture and all the people implicated in ACDIC’s reports.
The national anti-corruption commission, CONAC, has decided to verify ACDIC’s allegations.

[eyallow]

Hanna wrote

"The likes of Biya and his other African companions are a disgrace to African tradition of brotherhood- where the whole is always more important than the parts, and your neighbour's livelihood is as important as yours. A tradition where eating alone is as guilty as eating stolen food, and success or achievement is not glorified except the whole neighbourhood assemble at your doorstep for the celebration."

The above is just brilliantly said in my mind. For the first time, I really understood what makes me an African and why even when I cant eat, I still afford to send money back home and sometimes starve. Why we say the house can never be too full to take in one more person.

If we are truly that, thne Africa will be a standard of a true social structure that works, seamlessly.

However, Biya's idea of the brotherhood is thwarted. It is one with his cohorts and his tribe men, all those that share the brotherhood of ardent hunger for everlasting power.

It is this kind of brotherliness that makes our societies fragment. That ushers in favouritism, tribalism etc. The question, how do we retain this Africanness but take it beyond favouritism, tribalism, nepotism and all the other isms? How can we make it whole for everyone?

[red flag]

BIYA AS AHIDJO AND FRENCH-AFRICANS
ARE ALL MOTIVATED BY SELF -SERVING POWER.
AND HATRED FOR THEIR COUNTRYMEN. SOO LONG AS THEY GETS THE MONEYS, THEY ARE PREPARED TO KILL AND ENSLAVE THEIR OWN BROTHERS JUST TO GAIN POWER FOR THEM SELVES. THEY SEE THEM SELVES FIRST AS FRENCH MEN, SECOND AS BETI, EWONDO ,BULU
THEN LASTLY AS AFRICANS. WHAT USE IS SUCH A MAN TO SOCIETY?

[Atangha]

UnitedStateofAfrica:
This is what you said:
"The opposition in Cameroon needs to take it up a notch. The SDF has lost its credibility and that power-hungry Fru Ndi needs to peacefully retire, retreat to London and eat all the money he has embezzled. Some people don't know how to exit the stage when there's still applause. The "old order" has "changeth" and it has to yield place for the "new"."

Are you telling the world that if the SDF can't do it, it can't done by others? Are there not more than 200 or so political parties in Cameroon? Which is juicier, the chairmanship of the SDF or the presidency of the Republic? Do change to you means changing the chairmanship of the SDF or the presidency of the Republic? Who is older between Messrs John Fru Ndi & Paul Biya? While waiting for your answer, this is my advice to you: if you don't like the SDF or her chairman, you're free to join any other politcal party including the CPDM. The people who have a say on how the SDF is run are her members - they vote during an elective convention. They are the ones who decide on how the SDF is run, etc.

It irks me most when a man like you instead on focussing on the article talking about Biya naming CPDM members to run Elecam, you take delight in calling SDF & her Chairman all sorts of name? Are you here for a secret mission? Do you remember the infamous Mukete?

Brother, if you truly want a United Africa as your pseudonym supposedly insinuate, focus on the substance than chasing the shadow. If you focus & get rid of Biya, no one will be talking about Fru Ndi & the SDF but you. Remember what happened in DRC where Etienne Tshisikedi got lost when Kabila got rid of Mobutu. Up till now, no one knows where Tshisikedi is. You too can be our Kabila!

In my area, they say a if you want to see that eyes of a snail, you must bend down & look directly on the head. So, the problem of Cameroon is Paul Biya and not you and me or SDF and Ni John Fru Ndi.

Cheerio & happy new year!
Atangha

[tayong]

Atangha
We may had had personal discussions on some issues but let me reiterate to you in the open that statements like

----"if you don't like the SDF or her chairman, you're free to join any other politcal party including the CPDM"---- dont advance the course of the SDF.

The SDF has a mandate from their members, voters and sympathizers to deliver on their manisfesto. When these are not met, each and everyone of them has the right to voice his grievances with the direction of the party.

You seem to suggest a "leave SDF alone" and "Biya is omnipotent" attitude by stating that---- "the problem of Cameroon is Paul Biya and not you and me or SDF and Ni John Fru Ndi"----

Atangha,many teeth my gnash at me for saying this but let me state categorically in the open that the direction the SDF the main oppostion party in Cameroonis is drifting to is glomy abysmal and bleak.

Recent events atest to my observations. You might have read other headlines on this but hear it more from me.

Cheers
Tayong

[Fon.]

Tayong,
I reinterate the position of Atangha; change must not only come to Cameroon through the SDF.
Your respond to Atangha alone leaving out the buffoon called UnitedStateofAfrica, means your are satisfied with the trash that he wrote.
What has the appointment of Elecam members got to do with SDF here? Have you been told that these guys were appointed by the SDF? Are we suppose to unanimously condemn this shamely act of dictator Biya or turn against the SDF?
What kind of myopic thinking is that?

The problem facing Cameroonians now is voter´s apathy caused by the murderous regime in power. The appointment of Elecam members has come to make things worse.
People will simply not register to go and vote. That is what Paul Biya wants.
Is staying away from voting a solution? What do you want the SDF to do at the present moment? If the SDF calls for the docile masses to come out and protest against this provocation, the out come will be negative.
Cameroonians must be able to stand up as one man and fight for the necessary change that we want and not wait for an individual to bring change.

[tayong]

Fon
Im beginning to see a pattern in your thinking("your",as concerns SDF officials). There seems to be a fundamental misunderstaking of the concept of mandatory deomocracy here. Mandatory democracy means that you delegate power, votes, money,efforts,prayers etc for an organisation to fight for your aspirations based on a set of values commonly called manisfesto.

When you write things like----"What has the appointment of Elecam members got to do with SDF here?----- it implies either you decide to shy away from your responsibilities or simply dont know what these responsibilities are.

Fon:"What has the appointment of Elecam members got to do with SDF here?"
Ans:If you dont know the answer to this question then resign from the SDF

Fon:"Have you been told that these guys were appointed by the SDF?"
Ans:The question is childish and needs a childish answer, YES.

Fon:"Are we suppose to unanimously condemn this shamely act of dictator Biya or turn against the SDF?"
Ans: BOTH

Fon, I didnt need to respond to the Unitedstates,,, guy, , he raised legitimate concerns which you and Atangha dismissed as baseless.Its said that no question is foolish only foolish answers exists.He might have written gibberish but needed careful answers

Cheers
Tayong

[Klemenceau]

hahaha, I never knew Cameroonians were still hoping to get something from Biya. Hahaha, you guys don't know in Cameroon "Biya and his gang know that only those in his generation and circle can "save" Cameroon?
"The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born" Let's keep on hoping for the messiah. God willing

Shalom
Klemenceau

[mk the southerner]

Clandestine immigration:
Fonkam Azu’u implicated in forgery scandal!

But the new ELECAM board chair refutes all. He told this reporter that his signature must have been forged. But the immigration culprits claim they paid him three million francs each. The matter is with the police.

By Roland Akong Wuwih in Yaounde

Samuel Fonkam Azu’u, the newly appointed board chair of ELECAM, has more than one war to fight to keep his job. Having been appointed to a position that required a politically neutral person, the CPDM Central Committee member has multiplied public statements about his intention to resign from his party which hardly fulfils the requirements of neutrality.

But while the debate about the political neutrality of many other ELECAM members is in full gear, Fonkam Azu’u appears to now have to fight yet another battle, that of proving his personal integrity, which is also a requirement for his job.

Fonkam Azu’u in his capacity as assistant secretary general at the National Assembly has been involved in a forgery to facilitate the clandestine immigration of four Cameroonians.

The four were held at the Nsimalen airport from boarding a flight on their way to the United States. They presented mission warrants apparently signed by Fonkam Azu’u, pretending to be workers of the National Assembly travelling abroad on official duty.

This reporter confronted Fonkam Azu’u with the story which was carried by Mutation newspaper yesterday.

The new board chair of ELECAM vowed that he was not part of the scandal, and that if his name appeared on any such documents, it must have been a forgery.

He even challenged this reporter to verify with Assembly documents if he could find any duplicate of such mission warrants bearing his signature.

But the four men, Dominic Nkongho Ewang, Gana Franklin Ndaga Cyril Kpuye and JC Akina, held at the airport admitted in separate police statements that they had in fact been aided by Fonkam Azu’u who claimed three million francs from each of them.

The police have since taken up the matter which is now under investigation.

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

@ Fon,
it takes trash to know the smell of trash. By calling me trash, you have revealed yourself as trash. Welcome to the garbage can Fon-Trash. There's enough caked shit, fermeted garri and fish scales to go around. ENJOY!!

We already know that people like Fon are on Fru Ndi's payroll and will stoop as low as possible to defend the dying monarch. This however is a new low. How can you say that the appointment of officials into ELECAM has nothing to do with the SDF? isn't the SDF the main opposition party in Cameroon? are they not the ones who are suppose to be keeping Biya on his toes? instead, Biya has kept them in his pocket and on his checks. When Cameroonians start laughing at cries from the main oppostion party in the country, then the SDF should finally face the fact that something is terribly wrong with their "party". The SDF seem to have forgotten the very rule which once made them successful in the first place. You can't win a battle if you don't connect with the masses and have them on your side. They have alienated the masses and are now known as a "Bamenda" party. That dying monarch aka Fru Ndi is so power hungry and greedy, he won't leave that seat and channel all his efforts into revitalizing the party. He prefers to sit there and continue to hammer on old principles. Does he think that this is 1992? please!

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

@ Tayong

I like how you used FON-TRASH'S own words to expose his idiocy. Pseudo-intellectualism is killing some people on this forum...hahahahha. Wonders shall never seize!

[Fon.]

Tayong,
I can´t understand your bone of contention here.
Yes, the SDF is the main opposition party, tell us exactly what you expect her to do at this point. Don´t take please in any attempt to ridicle; be pragmatic.
I have said, normally, what the party would have done is to rally the people to protest against the appointments, but we all know the out come if that is done.
History tells us that no African dictator has ever being removed from power through the ballot. Hence don´t expect a miracle from the SDF to make this happen in Cameroon.
Cameroonians must begin to think of alternative methods to remove Biya from power as it happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other African countries where dictators have been toppled.
The Army in Cameroon should take the challenge as it just happened in Guinea Conakry.
I repeat, please don´t expect a miracle from the SDF. No African dictator has been removed from power through the ballot, except you have one example to quote.

[tayong]

Fon, The International Community seems to be the new opposition while sleeping dogs lie

YAOUNDE - 13 JANVIER 2009
© Jean Francis Belibi, Mutations

" Le Club des Gentlemen " demande une reconsidération de la désignation des membres du Conseil électoral et annonce une suspension de l'appui de l'Union européenne.

L'on n'a donc pas fini de dénombrer les réactions à la mise en place par le chef de l'Etat des organes dirigeants de Elections Cameroon (Elecam) les 30 et 31 décembre derniers. Après celles de la classe politique camerounaise et de la société civile, l'on a enregistré celle du Commonwealth à travers Lord Avebury, présenté comme le président du groupe de campagne pour le Cameroun. Dans une déclaration dont nous avons pu nous procurer copie, Lord Avebury indique notamment que " la Communauté internationale en générale et le Royaume Uni de Grande Bretagne ont demandé de mettre Elecam en place aussi rapidement que possible ". C'est ainsi que selon lui, " le 30 décembre 2008… après consultation des partis politiques comme le veut la loi, le président Biya a annoncé les noms des personnes nommées à Elecam ".

Il remarque ainsi qu' " Il n'y a aucun membre des partis politiques de l'opposition parmi ces personnes, et nombre d'entre elles sont de hauts cadres du parti au pouvoir ". Si Lord Avebury indique qu'il y aura certainement des recours en justice contre ces nominations, il ajoute que " le Commonwealth devrait demander au président Biya de reconsidérer ces nominations et parvenir à une liste plus équilibrée ".

Pour le représentant du " Club des Gentlemen ", trois des douze membres désignés (Adamou Ali, Pierre Roger Efandene Bekono et Mme Sadou Daoudou) n'ont pas d'appartenance politique connue, " même si au regard de la coloration politique des militants du parti au pouvoir qui y sont, il est probable que ces trois membres soient dévoués au Rdpc ". Dans le tableau de désignation des membres d'Elecam qui accompagne son communiqué, Lord Avebury indique cinq des douze membres sont des cadres du Rdpc (Dorothy Limunga Njeuma, Cécile Bomba Nkolo, Fonkam Samuel Azu'u, Jules Mana Nschwangele, Abdoulaye Babale), que l'un d'eux (Thomas Ejake Mbonda) est " un ancien gouverneur Rdpc ", que Elie Mbonda est un cadre de la Fondation Chantal Biya alors que Justin Ebanga Ewodo est un ancien membre de l'Onel " qui a démontré son incapacité à conduire le processus électoral ".

Le représentant du Commonwealth rappelle que la loi sur Elecam " requiert de ses membres qu'ils jouissent d'une grande intégrité ". Or il indique que " la presse a rapporté la semaine dernière que quatre personnes ont été arrêtées alors qu'elles essayaient de s'envoler pour les Etats-Unis avec de faux documents qui auraient été signés par Fonkam Samuel Azu'u et pour lesquels ils prétendent avoir payé d'importants pots de vins ".

Lord Avebury conclut sa sortie en faisant savoir que l'Union européenne (UE) a accepté de payer une partie du financement pour la mise en place d'Elecam. " Jusqu'à ce que les réserves émises ci haut soient prises en compte, le Commonwealth demande la suspension des paiements de ces subventions " conclut-il. On se rappelle à ce sujet qu'au cours de la 2ème session du Dialogue politique entre le Cameroun et l'Union européenne tenue à Yaoundé le 24 décembre 2008 Javier Puyol, le chef de délégation de l'Union européenne au Cameroun qui s'inquiétait déjà du retard pris dans la désignation des membres du Conseil électoral et de la direction générale des Elections, avait aussi indiqué que l'UE devait contribuer à hauteur de 15 millions d'euros (près de 10 milliards de francs Cfa) pour la mise en place effective de Elecam. Un financement qui semblait déjà hypothétique selon M. Puyol, en raison disait-il, du retard pris par le Cameroun dans l'introduction d'un dossier de demande dudit financement auprès des instances de l'Union européenne.

[Fon.]

Tayong,
You still failed to outline what you expect the SDF to do, given that if the SDF calls for a protest against the appointment of Elecam members, the out come will be what you and me know.
Paul Biya may bow to the European union simply because money is concern, else he will simply behave like his friend, Robert Mugabe. I am certain, he will even ignore the money and divert money from other budget heads to finance Elecam. His target is to stay in power.
Have you forgotten that in the last election which international observers boycotted, Paul Biya hired his own observers? What did the boycott do to him? If Cameroonians are waiting for the internation community to come and salvage them from the fangs of Biya, they should completely forget about salvation.
Let see what unfolds. But have no hope that Biya will be removed from power through the ballot.

[cameroon4eva]

Dear Tayong/United States of Africa,
Your Reference from Jean Francis Belibi's article in Mutation says it all in the second paragraph and i quote:

"L'on n'a donc pas fini de dénombrer les réactions à la mise en place par le chef de l'Etat des organes dirigeants de Elections Cameroon (Elecam) les 30 et 31 décembre derniers. Après celles de la classe politique camerounaise et de la société civile, l'on a enregistré celle du Commonwealth à travers Lord Avebury, présenté comme le président du groupe de campagne pour le Cameroun."

La Classe Politique Camerounaise includes SDF. This is their approach:

1 - Appeal to the Conscience of Paul Biya. This is an administrative process the francophones refer to as "Recours Gracieux"

2 - In the likely event that 1 fails move on to the court system that is likely to adjourn the case until after 2011.

Those are the only legal options SDF can take and this has been done already refer to Joshua Osih This Weekend on Equinoxe TV (10/11 January 2009).
Are you suggesting a military take over or a rebellion? Are you in Cameroon? Is your family in Cameroon?
Someone on this forum suggested we go the way of DR Congo, maybe if we visit Congo we can see for ourselves the effect of war.
War cannot be the answer, only the enlightenment of the masses can be effective.
Mahatma Ghandi defeated the might British not by might but by boycotting the interests of the British.
1 - Lets start by identifying all the business interests supporting the regime and boycott them. When they feel the pain in their pockets they'll think twice.

2 - Lets seize every opportunity to expose the hapenning in Cameroon to the international community att conferences seminars etc.

3 - TV Stattions and Radio Stations in Cameroon should be supported to broadcast online so as to give a sense to Cameroonians and other friends of Cameroon a feel of what is going on in Cameroon.

My 5 Franc Comments

[UnitedstatesofAfrica]

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[Mbokoman]

The newly appointed Chairman of the National Elections governing body, ELECAM has refuted reports that he signed fake mission orders to four Cameroonians apprehended as they were about to leave the country for the USA via Morocco.
The four Cameroonians who are presently in police custody, according to some sources, declared Dr Samuel Fokam Azu’uh, in his capacity as Deputy Secretary General at the National Assembly, signed fake mission orders to help them obtain visas.

News paper reports even claim these four did pay three million francs each for the mission orders. Dr Samuel Fokam Azu’uh has denied any wrong doing.

Reacting to the scandal, the Secretary General of the National Assembly, Louis Claude Nyassa argued that these are all false claims.

He stated that only the Speaker of the National Assembly has the powers to sign mission orders.

The Secretary General made clear that, contrary to News paper reports, Police inquiry at the National Assembly did, in no way, point to Fokam Azu’uh.

Sources say investigations have now extended to the Moroccan Embassy to determine the origin of the supporting document.

This scandal, it is worth noting, was made public shortly after the Deputy Secretary General of the National Assembly was appointed Chairman of ELECAM, the body charged with the organization and supervision of elections in Cameroon.

[Bela Primus Bebang]

The individual portfolio of this state guys is an indication that the Helm of the Nation knows best what he is doing.We are now in the 21st century and should stop taking Cameroonians as fools.In fact this a calculated attempt to stagnate our democritization process in so far as ELECTION is concern.The whole world is taken aback by this issue taking into consideration the infinite loyalty of this crew members to Mr Biya.Big bros! are never disgrace the say.so where is ELECAM heading to????God bless Pays!!

[red flag]

I ALWAYS ASK MY SELF, WHICH CAMEROUN
ARE THESE PEOPLE REFFERING?

PAUL BIYA AND HIS FRENCH CAMEROUN COMRADES SPEAKS NOR UNDERSSTANDS NO ENGLISH. 8M SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF PAUL BIYA COLONIALISM WANTS THEIR INDEPENDENCE, THIS SHOULD BE THE CONCERN OF ALL NOT SOME FAKE THING CALLED PRESDINTIAL ELECTION. WHEN BRITISH CAMEROONS IS INDEPENDENT AND FREE, FRENCH CAMEROUN WILL OWN ITSELF AND MANAGE THEIR SHIT THEY WAY THEY SEE FIT.

[red flag]

I ALWAYS ASK MY SELF, WHICH CAMEROUN
ARE THESE PEOPLE REFFERING?

PAUL BIYA AND HIS FRENCH CAMEROUN COMRADES SPEAKS NOR UNDERSSTANDS NO ENGLISH. 8M SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS WHO ARE VICTIMS OF PAUL BIYA COLONIALISM WANTS THEIR INDEPENDENCE, THIS SHOULD BE THE CONCERN OF ALL NOT SOME FAKE THING CALLED PRESDINTIAL ELECTION. WHEN BRITISH CAMEROONS IS INDEPENDENT AND FREE, FRENCH CAMEROUN WILL OWN ITSELF AND MANAGE THEIR SHIT THEY WAY THEY SEE FIT.

[Jenkins]

It just beats my imagination how tolerant and laid back the masses are...i was born when this man was in power and after 25 years, he is looking us in the face to run for another term, what madness!!!!!!!!!!We dont need a diviner to tell us that Paul Biya has over stayed his welcome and we have exhausted all our patience... NO MORE!!