MTN CAMEROUN and ENEO CAMEROUN Watchword Should Be Everywhere People Live And Work; The Energy Of Cameroon Everywhere People Live And Work Respectively To Support Realized H.E. Paul BIYA’s 2035 Emergence Vision

By CONI T. TAWONG 

On one occasion at Bambui – Tubah, I participated in the reception ceremony at the Palace to the visit of a US philanthropist/humanitarian Dr. John David Arnold, founder of Portable Practical Education Preparation incorporated (PPEP Inc.). Among the things he offered Bambui village were a grant for microfinance scheme, corn mills etc.

ICT available consuming the energy of Cameroon with no user at ENEO office

This brought back to memory what I once lived during my primary school days and this writeup. When I was a little boy in primary school in the village, one of the worries that gave most of us sleepless nights was when we would travel the next day to grind corn. My village Tabenken is situated in a valley between Ndu and Nkambe in the Donga Mantung Division, North West Region of Cameroon. We lived in Kieku quarter in the middle of the village. There were two grinding mills in the entire village of about 17.000 inhabitants in those days – one at Njilah quarter owned by one Mr. Bambo alias “money miss road” and the other at the Old Catholic Mission yard in Mulah quarter above the Palace in Tabenken owned by the Catholic Church. Either corn mill’s distance from our house was about four kilometers. In the village, every family’s staple food was corn fufu, eaten from the 1^st of the month to the 31st morning and evening. We would program grinding on a Saturday or stay away from school to go and grind depending on the necessity of food. On the grinding day, we would get up very early in the cold morning and go to either grinding mill to take our lines. They would be long lines of corn for grinding and we would spend that whole day just for that exercise.

MTN Mobile Money Kiosk at ENEO head office Bamenda empty

The troubles we faced during our days like the fetching of water, firewood etc were minor but still we covered distances. Now when the first pipe borne water was constructed in the village, we were privileged to have a stand tap just above our vicinity. We were happy and appreciated this most not because it was good clean water that has come but because it shortened the distance we covered fetching water.

What continued to give most of us a lot of headache when it came nearer was the corn grinding mills. The first one that was installed nearer our house would get spoil often. It used diesel engine oil, the breakdown would be attributed to witchcraft and our worries of going further to grind corn would continue. They were no expert technicians for grinding mills and so breakdown was blamed on witchcraft. When I saw a US humanitarian/ philanthropist addressing this problem I have always hope addressing, I imagined whether in the US they suffered as children like us grinding corn or otherwise how could he have known that to be a good thing to offer to quarters in Bambui village.

If you read this and was affected in the same, touched or not but would like to join solve this problem in other remote quarters in Tabenken, you would be highly welcomed. This would solve for the younger generation the same problem we encountered.

The crowded ENEO office with consumers idling to pay their bills

Now grown up, there are many of such problems I put here to inform the society in Cameroon about and suggesting solutions. Ever since I entered secondary school, one of the dreaded errands I hated running was to go settle electricity and water bills.  What used to happen long ago I still met in one of the offices yesterday at Cow Street Nkwen-Bamenda. It was still the crowded and dreaded place I hated since childhood to go stand idling to pay a bill. Look at the crowd on the picture sitting to pay their bills at the counter. Hundreds of people gather just to pay bills and sometimes one person perhaps spends more than an hour just to do that. Considering that the minimum wage of a Cameroonian is 36.000FCFA per month, the more than 1.000 people daily wasting an hour each to pay an electricity bill would mean that each person losses 36.000/160hrs = 225FCFA. This times 1.000 people will give 225.000FCFA, money which would pay about six minimum wage earners in the country for one month.

I again observed the MTN Mobile Money Kiosk placed in front of this office to facilitate the bill payment service. There were very few persons using this. I have also seen ORANGE Cameroun advertising Orange Mobile Money when I was at the Police Cooperative Credit Union to do transfer of money to Mbot Village. All these transfers with mobile companies require procedures to be followed on your mobile device and certainly  will be done well by one who is versed with ICTs.

Now the big question is why is MTN Cameroon, Orange, Nexttel, ENEO (The Energy of Cameroon) etc not encouraging by way of ICT education the emergence vision of H.E. Paul BIYA by 2035?  They should support teachers from higher teacher training schools and universities by offering them do internship with them so that they can take the knowledge back and teach this generation practical ICTs.

Looking at the bill paying exercise again yesterday 2/2/2015, it remained the same way that would give me a running stomach when I was young some twenty years or more behind because of the crowd, one would question whether when making money we shouldn’t serve properly. When service providers make money their priority one questions whether if the minters decided to keep all the minted and printed money how would the world look like.

 #ALL IS NOT MONEY is what the government should signal to national service providers.

MTN of late was doing payment of fees in all state universities, publication of GCE results and at moment the National Police Examination. Is the company here just to make their money? Why can they also promote Computer/ICT education in these universities? I think that making the money is good but they should know their customers can be satisfied if they are provided with the skills to use their services well.

The teaching of gambling is common with these mobile companies. I once was victim and spent about 9.000FCFA answering questions rightly thinking that I will in the end win some handy gadget but nothing finally came to me. Suggesting gambling to subscribers should be avoided and perhaps useful lessons on Computer/ICTs uses promoted.

THE MAFIA OF SANTA

BY PETER ESSOKA

 I would this morning like to get a little into the philosophy of the Dalai Lama and try to relate it to the political rivalries in Santa. We have spent the past few days of this programme in telling our listeners about who the Santa people are and what they represent in the political landscape of this country.

Peter Essoka

We have some prominent names of Santa people, I mean those of the Sub-Division who have been famous and notorious when it comes to politics, and we have usually referred to their involvement in politics as the mafia of the Santa people.

Think of Senator Achidi Achu. He has been Prime Minister, Minister in several ministries and a very influential personality in this country and now Senator.

I am referring here also to Ni John Fru Ndi, the charismatic and no nonsense political guru who for some time now has dominated the political scene with his enigmatic but sometimes controversial ideas. He has always been in politics even when it was just a one-party system. He is outspoken, never mincing words.

In time past, there was Sam Mofor, “the man you have hear of.” He was like an effective comedian in the world of politics especially in the Southern Cameroons’ days. He acted spontaneously and very sporadically too. No one could determine his attitude at anyone time but he was one who did not mind what he did or how he did it in order to achieve a purpose. He was not the best of intellectuals but his intelligence was of belligerence, aggressiveness and sometimes frivolous.

We are talking of the Ngu family from Baforchu whose dominance in politics earned them the appellation, the “Baforchu mafia.” There was a time they seemed to have been everywhere, and who would blame them? They were intellectually apt and used their acumen to dominate both the political and intellectual class. They were ministers of government, they were university professors to the rank of “emeritus” if that should be considered a rank. They are renowned architects and prolific economists.

We have rubble-rousers like Nico Halle, one who seems never to leave a stone unturned. He digs into the morality of his people in particular and the nation at large. He is considered the crusader for moral justice.

Fonkam Azu’u has been prominent in the political world. Although he does not seem to be directly playing politics today, his role as President of Elections Cameroon, the first ever, is very exacting.

Yes, in Santa, you have the good ones, you have the bad ones, you have the ugly ones. They are a blend and that’s what makes their nature very complicated and has earned them the mafia nomenclature.

The Dalai Lama when asked what surprised him most about humanity, his answer was “Man”. He said, “man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present, the result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”

How true of many, if not all of us! But much of this is so evident with the man from Santa. When one cites all the names of great men and women of this entity in the North West Region, one would think of a bustling populace. This is somehow true when one gets to see the physical display of these people – the economic, intellectual, political, and social prowess. Unfortunately there are some undercurrents that make one questions whether their origin is not Italian. They can in playing politics be brutal opponents. Brothers have become enemies. Some who dipped their hands in the same dish have become traitors of themselves and at one point the animosity was so rife one would think daggers would be drawn.

Think of the days the SDF was launched. At the helm was Fru Ndi (Ni John). His greatest and virulent opponent was someone he called his own brother – Achidi Achu. And that was the real political mafia. But what was it all about? Was it money, health, or the anxiety about the future which made them not enjoy the real life of the present? How much of the present or the future do they live? In their struggle, one would think they would not die. After all, Ni John was considered a mystic for he was able to avert death threats. Achidi Achu escaped death when his houses were burnt down to ashes in the name of politics. Remember, we shall all die perhaps never having lived life.

I am glad we could have some of these great men on the set together. Perhaps it is an indication, the mafia is taking a turn for the better and with Nico Halle’s voice crying like John the Baptist in the wilderness, the way shall be prepared and paths shall be made straight for Santa and eventually the nation, to receive salvation from treachery, bad faith, discrimination, injustice and nepotism. That way there shall be no more mafia inclinations but the welfare of each and sundry.

Barrister Jackson-Francis Ngnie Kamga elected BAR Association President

The Cameroon Bar Association has elected a new President following the end of the two-year Mandate of Barrister Sama Francis.
The new BAR Association President, Barrister Jackson-Francis Ngnie Kamga was elected during the Ordinary General assembly of the Cameroon Bar Association in Yaoundé over the weekend
The proclamation of results of the election of a new president of the association was the climax of the event that continued into the night.
Barrister Jackson-Francis Ngnie Kamga won the election in which four candidates were on the starting line. Upon his election, the new president appreciated his colleagues for the confidence bestowed on him. He said his executive will capitalise on training and capacity building.
Besides the election of the President of the Bar Association, the 15 members of the Bar Council were also elected. Some 60 candidates were vying for the 15 places.
The elections of both the President of the Bar Association and members of the Bar Association and Members of the Bar Council were hotly contested.
There was much lobbying and negotiations that dragged until late in the night each day.
At the end of the elections were conducted hitch-free.
When proclaiming the results, the President of the General Assembly, Barrister Nico Halle affirmed that the elections were transparent.
The President of Cameroon Bar Association and Members of the Bar Council have a mandate of two years.

UPC Party Officials Visit Far North Region

Some 12 members of the Executive Bureau left Yaounde on Thursday, January 29, 2015, to see the situation on the field created by Boko Haram attacks.

The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) party has expressed its determination to be a frontline actor in the mobilisation of all shades of opinion or political ideology against cross-border incursions by the nebulous sect, Boko Haram. A delegation of 12 members of the party’s Executive Bureau set sail for the Far North Region yesterday, January 29, 2015.

Speaking to Cameroon Tribune shortly before departure, the Executive Secretary of the UPC party, Basile Louka, explained that the purpose of the trip was to assure the Cameroonian Armed Forces of their total support and acknowledgement of their bravery in repelling incessant attacks from armed groups belonging to the criminal sect, Boko Haram. “Our first stop will be in the city of Maroua where we intend to meet military, municipal, traditional and administrative authorities in order to get the pulse of the battlefront. We will see how close we can get to the soldiers to express our support,” disclosed Basile Louka.

Members of the UPC delegation that left Yaounde yesterday, were also aware of the ordeal experienced by an increasing population of the divisions bordering neighbouring Nigeria. UPC’s Executive Secretary stated that the UPC delegation will show solidarity with the population in the affected areas and reassure them of the constant worry by other Cameroonians about their well-being. The tens of thousands of refugees from Nigeria inhabiting the camps dotting the border areas, will not be left out as the UPC delegation will visit some of the refugee camps to express Cameroonians’ sympathy as well as hope that the Boko Haram threat will soon be eliminated for them to return to their homes and loved ones.

Disappearance Of Tools From Bamenda Central Prison Reformatory School

Prince Charles of Wales and Princes Diana (1981)

The Visit of Prince Charles of Wales and Wife (Late) Princess Diana To Cameroon And Particularly To The Juvenile Reformatory School Central Prison Bamenda.

Prince Charles and wife (late) Princess Diana came to Cameroon to inaugurate the workshop of the Juvenile Reformatory School Central Prison Bamenda with its multiple tools.

The mechanical, carpentry, electrical and building construction tools they offered were stocked at that Juvenile Reformatory School workshop worth millions: even you are what kind of a person, you would not spare these Cameroonians who had authority over the prison during the days those tools existed and vanished because the tools are not in this workshop any longer.

We called this wickedness of those who neglected the beautiful gifts of this important personality – Prince Charles of Wales, to the incarcerated boys. The prisoner insists that to the best of his knowledge, the disappearance or the “transfer” of those tools infuriates mostly, those who consider seriously biblical counsels”.

Juvenile Reformatory School Central Prison Bamenda was stocked with books from Our Lady of Lourdes College and Sacred Heart College Mankon respectively. The school had a nice canteen and a well programmed timetable for activities like sports after book work. There were clubs with beautiful names like – Santos, Lions etc; to encourage in many things…the trophies were nicely placed, in a nice glass cupboard. The juvenile delinquency school library had books for those who understood the use of a library.

 The idea of bringing value to reformation initiated by useful minds is jeopardized because of transfer of tools by administrators who happened to meet the workshop with every tool but helped to jeopardized.

Juvenile Reformatory School, being a school with a “big” plan on mechanical, carpentry, electricity or electrical and building construction; although frustrated can these days, follow modern trends with its many advantages reason for this mobilization.

Many inmates or prisoners have graduated from here and despite people’s efforts nothing seem to show progress due to unscrupulous personalities that prove wicked destroying the gifts of a perfect model Prince Charles of Wales, and even these days most of them, they don’t respect efforts of those who know the details of that workshop and the needs nor problems of inmates like us.

There were rabbits and the struggle made by Heifer Project International to take the school as their priority, visiting and instructing those assigned to take care of cows; never received any honour. Can I say, that was a simple way of deviating wrong ideas from Juveniles to reason natural and fear doing wrong of any dimension?

I will suggest that the album of Prince Charles of Wales and Lady Diana be investigated, from the houses of those that have administered in Bamenda Central Prison.

I can’t imagine the visit of a high profile personality like Prince Charles to be allowed to disappear when I personally know it existed…the presence of the album for me, is important since it can encourage the students or the incarcerated ones.      

General Ivo Yenwo who is in charge of security at the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon is a witness to that visit. He personally guided the guest being a colonel that year.

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