Recruitment Into The Police, A Fraudster Arrested In Bertoua

He has been locked up at the Regional Delegation for National Security Bertoua since January 26, 2015.

Hervé Nale Mbombe was willing to be part of the body of the National Police corps. This, through an unorthodox way. In his efforts, the young 19 year old from Belabo, fell into the net of Njoya Mounchili Abdel Abba, 35, an alleged fraudster. It was proposed to Hervé that he will make him join the National Police corps against a sum of money. The first contacts were made in the month of November, just days after the launch of the entrance examination into the police force.

Afterwards, Njoya Mounchili Abdel Abba showed Hervé the practical arrangements to be observed in order to change his file in Yaounde. He managed to extort a whopping 130.500FCFA which, he said, represented the costs relating to the composition and monitoring of files; which files had to be transmitted directly to Yaoundé with his "powerful networks" in the General Delegation for National Security. To coax the candidate, he said that the members of the network do not need money, but gifts. Thus the young man went to buy two cocks and goats supposed to be sent to Yaounde C/o Njoya Mouchili Abdel Abba.

Everything got spoiled when Mounchili told his "client" his supposed members of the network do not receive calls anymore. Moreover, he said, they now reside in Ngaoundere. Assertions that brought the victim to ask a thousand questions. Having had no response to his concerns, he went and reported Mouchili to the elements of the Regional Delegation for National Security in the East, in Bertoua. On January 26, 2015, the famous fraudster fully confessed. Moreover, he mentioned the names of the members of his network. He is now languishing in Police custody at  the Regional Delegation for National Security Bertoua. An investigation has opened to unmask the members of this network.

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Precision Medicine Is Already Working to Cure Americans: These Are Their Stories

During his State of the Union Address, President Obama announced that he is launching a new initiative that will help deliver the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. Precision medicine gives medical professionals the resources they need to target the specific treatments of the illnesses we encounter, further develops our scientific and medical research, and keeps our families healthier. As the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome, America is well-positioned to lead in a new era of medicine.
While most of today's medical treatments have been designed for the average patient, precision medicine allows us to be more effective than a "one-size-fits-all" technique. It's an emerging approach to promoting health and treating disease that takes into account individual differences in people's genes, environments, and lifestyles. This makes it possible to design targeted treatments for cancer and other diseases. As the President noted in his speech, this revolutionary approach has even reversed cystic fibrosis, an illness once thought unstoppable.
This approach is already saving lives, giving those in the medical field better options, and helping keep families healthy.  Read a few of their stories:

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William Elder Jr. 

William Elder, Jr. was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of eight, when the life expectancy for CF patients was very low. Now at 27, Bill is alive thanks to Kalydeco, a treatment of a particular form for his cystic fibrosis and a remarkable drug that treats the underlying cause of his CF, rather than the symptoms.
At a congressional briefing in 2013, Bill told members of the U.S. Senate that just knowing that there were individuals who were researching his condition gave him hope and the strength to continue his treatments and work to be healthier every day. Bill described waking up in the middle of the night after taking his new treatment for the first time. “I sat on the floor of my room for a while slowly breathing in and out through my nose, and then I realized that was it. I had never been able to easily breathe out of my nose before. This was something profound,” he said. He recalls telling his parents, "For the first time in my life, I truly believe that I will live long enough to be a grandfather.”

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Emily Whitehead 

At age six, Emily Whitehead was the first pediatric patient to be treated with a new kind of cancer immunotherapy and was cancer free only 28 days later. “If you didn’t know what happened to her, and you saw her now, you would have no idea what she has been through,” says Emily's Mom.
Her parents decided to enroll her in a pioneering cancer immunotherapy trial at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Emily’s T-cells were collected from her blood and re-engineered in the lab to recognize a protein found only on the surface of leukemia cells. Those T-cells were then infused back into Emily’s blood, where they circulated throughout her body on a mission to seek and destroy her leukemia. Knowing how to turn these T-cells into what Emily called “ninja warriors” required big investments in basic biomedical research. In fact, Science Magazine named it a 2013 Breakthrough of the Year -- Emily's family couldn't agree more.

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Melanie Nix 

Melanie Nix's family has a history of breast cancer -- a history that Melanie couldn't escape when she tested positive for the BRCA gene mutations linked to breast cancer in 2008. After 16 rounds of chemotherapy and breast reconstruction surgery, she had to have both ovaries removed to further reduce risks of cancer in the future. But Melanie is now cancer free thanks to precision medicine.
Melanie's positive test results for the BRCA gene mutations instantly concerned her medical team. BRCA gene mutations are linked to breast and ovarian cancers. Further tests confirmed that she had triple-negative breast cancer, a very aggressive form of breast cancer that disproportionately affects African-American women. Her best chance for cancer-free survival was to have a bilateral mastectomy. Melanie says that this type of tailored treatment gave her hope. "Precision medicine offers the hope that by the time my daughter is at an age when she considers genetic testing, new, targeted treatments will be available to give her additional choices for preserving her health," she said.

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Hugh and Beatrice Rienhoff 

Beatrice Rienhoff's eyes were spaced wider than usual, her leg muscles were weak, and she couldn't gain weight. Her father, a trained clinical geneticist, took notice and wanted to help. After six years, he and his team of scientific volunteers identified the cause of her condition.
Beatrice's original medical team had thought her condition resembled Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that can cause tears in the human heart. It's typically a fatal syndrome. However, the doctors couldn't fully diagnose Beatrice with Marfan -- or any other known disease. Acting as "Super Dad," Hugh lead his team to identifying a variant responsible for his daughter's condition and this research gave rise to the description of a whole new syndrome. The team continues to use precision medicine to learn more about the new syndrome and further study genetic variation to help those like his daughter. Today, Beatrice is living a full life.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 

Six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was diagnosed with a form of leukemia in 2008. Known to be lethal, leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. It caused the basketball great to slow down, fall ill, and worry. A few years later, he credits precision medicine for helping him to be well today.

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Keith Yamamoto 

Keith Yamamoto has dedicated his life to medicine and research. Well-known for his molecular biology and biochemistry research, Keith leads a major precision medicine effort at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He continues to be a leader in the precision medicine field.
Keith currently serves as the Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Vice Dean of the School of Medicine at UCSF. He also continues to teach, allowing younger generations to learn from his research. While promoting up-and-coming methods for targeting the specific treatments needed to help patients, Keith also chaired the 2011 National Academies Report on Precision Medicine.

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It changed My Life, It Could Change Yours

Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma.
It's not a term that any kid typically knows, or should ever have to learn first-hand. But when I turned 12 years old, that was my diagnosis -- and it became a defining part of my life.
It's a specific kind of liver cancer that affects children. It's rare -- you don't see it in your average patient. So I knew, even then, that it would take something more than a generic treatment to cure this unique disease.
So I got to work. And thanks to incredible technological advances and the help of a community of scientists and fibrolamellar patients like me, I was able to identify the change in the DNA that leads to this kind of cancer. Rather than focusing broadly on all liver cancer, I examined a precise patient group -- which allowed for such a precise discovery.
Today, I'm 19 years old, in college, and in remission.
There's a name for the approach we used. It's called "Precision Medicine" -- an approach that uses data-driven treatments that are unique to your own body. It's a proven way to treat more difficult diseases. And it's a field of medicine the President's 2016 budget is investing in.
More about the President's Precision Medicine Initiative and why these tailored treatments are going to be more successful.

The Precision Medicine Initiative: Data-Driven Treatments as Unique as Your Own Body

 Watch Jo Handelsman, Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, explain the Precision Medicine Initiative and its significance.
The President's 2016 budget includes investments in an emerging field of medicine that takes into account individual differences in people's genes, microbiomes, environments, and lifestyles -- making possible more effective, targeted treatments for diseases like cancer and diabetes. That's incredibly significant, and this is why:

Right now, most medical treatments are designed for the average patient.

But one size doesn't fit all, and treatments that are very successful for some patients don't work for others. Think about it:

• If you need glasses, you aren't assigned a generic pair. You get a prescription customized for you.
• If you have an allergy, you get tested to determine exactly what you're allergic to.
• If you need a blood transfusion, it has to match your precise blood type.

Enter Precision Medicine: health care tailored to you.

Precision Medicine is already leading to a handful of highly effective treatments tailored to individual patients. Here are a few Americans whose lives have already been changed by these treatments.
Take a look:

• The drug ivacaftor treats the underlying cause -- not the symptoms -- of a particular genetic variation of cystic fibrosis.
• A variety of cancer patients are now routinely undergoing molecular testing as part of their care -- and their doctors are choosing treatments based on this information.
• Physicians at the University of Michigan 3D-printed a personalized tracheal splint that saved the life of a critically ill infant with a weak trachea.

Translating these successes to a larger scale will require a national effort.

And that's exactly what the President's budget invests in.
To push this effort forward, we’ll need all hands on deck, including patients, hospitals, industry, philanthropies, researchers, privacy experts, and others. Learn more about this exciting initiative here.
Think about it: If you need glasses, you aren't assigned a generic pair. You get a prescription customized for your eyes. If you need a blood transfusion, you get one that matches your precise blood type. Treatments for diseases like cancer, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes should be no different.
Thanks to the Precision Medicine approach, my colleagues and I are developing the first diagnostics tests and new clinical trials for fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. I showed the President our progress when I attended the White House Science Fair last year. And I was proud to stand with the President when he appealed to Congress to help medical professionals translate the success of Precision Medicine to a larger scale.
It will take all of us -- patients, hospitals, industry, philanthropies, researchers, privacy experts, and congressional leaders -- to take the lead in the future of medicine. The President's budget investments in Precision Medicine is the first place to start.
Learn more about this exciting initiative and then share the news with your friends and families.
Because this new way of looking at care -- and cures -- could change your life. It certainly changed mine.
Thanks for listening,
Elana
Elana Simon
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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.

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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.