Politics

The buses were acquired to replace the over 2000 commercial motorcycles that have over the years, served as one of the main means of transportation in Bamenda town, and other neighbouring areas of the urban peripheries.

Despite Government heavy military artillery deployed to the various Regions to foil the planned protest march initiated by the Cameroonian Renaissance Movement, CRM, the party’s militants still took to the streets to vent out their frustrations for the Biya Government.

One of Cameroon’s main opposition political parties, the Social Democratic Front, SDF has said it will not participate in the recently announced Regional Elections because the elections will take place under precarious conditions.

Saturday, September, 5, 2020 will remain fresh in the minds of Great Soppo Village (Berlin) and Fako Community, as the day they communed with one of theirs, Ewumbue Monono Churchill who was recently appointed Cameroon’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representative of Cameroon to the AU and UNECA.

One week after alleged separatists beheaded Comfort Sirri Tumasang, the Director of Cabinet at the Prime Minister’s Office, Confiance Ebune, braved the security odds to Muyuka, Fako Division, Southwest Region, where he assured the victim’s family of Government support.

According to the Secretary-General of MINCOM, his ministry received FCFA 100 million out of FCFA 300 million they requested. Prof. Felix Zogo stated that the amount was raised to FCFA 420 million by a Prime Ministerial decree in relation to financial allocations to institutions concerned with Government strategy to fight Covid-19.

The Mayor of Kumbo Council, Dr Venasius Mborong, has in a tour in Kumbo, urged denizens to strive for a return to normalcy, for children to return to school, parents to resume their business and agricultural activities, so that Kumbo as a whole, can gain back its fame and prestige as the epicentre of Cameroon’s excellence in education.

Contractors charged with executing projects of the Public Investment Budget, PIB, in the Southwest Region, have been warned against using the on-going Anglophone Crisis, as an excuse, not to execute contracts awarded to them.

“I have seen the Government you people have formed in the diaspora, until you guys bring yourselves together, you are fighting a lost war. Your directives are not coordinated, Amba boys no longer listen to you… and when they do, your infighting abroad is transferred to the ground and Amba boys are killing themselves,”

The agreement follows a two-day closed-door ministerial-level meeting. The signing of the cooperation agreement on the modalities of coordination and joint action on cross-border defence and security comes on the heels of an in-depth exchange meeting held in Yaounde on June 29 on the importance of the agreement.