Postwatch (Cameroon)

Arrest Warrant for Fru Ndi?

From Chronicle newspaper

Promo: Coming Soon, National Times newspaper...in the footprints of Cameroon Times

What was only a remote possibility nows seems a likelihood as it is now clear that the government of Cameroon is seriously considering interrogating and even arresting, the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front, John Fru Ndi for his role in the murder of Gregoire Diboulé, permanent secretary of the Yaounde office of the SDF on May 26^, 2006.  Top officials of the Ministry of Justice, the Secretariat of State for Defence (National gendarmerie on directives from the secretariat general in the presidency of the republic June 2, put on hold an from theState Counsel of the Mfoundi stating clearly that all those involved in the death of Gregoire Diboulé as well as their sponsors be arrested immediately.

The Doh Gah Gwanyin Saga: Lion in a Cage

By Ntemfac Nchwete Ofege

In his time, Doh Gah Gwanyin of Balikumbat suffered from delusions of his own grandeur. So much so that a kyrie of myths were created from the realities of the fellow’s deeds and misdeeds: the man murdered hapless villagers in Balikumbat; he shot and killed a gendarme officer and nobody cared; he trashed his own mother several times a month; he threw people down to their deaths from a precipice behind his palace in outback Balikumbat, etc.

Who needs the Fons? Reflections on the Murder of a Fon

By Joseph Chongsi Ayeah

A vile tyrant who in his less mercurial moment is a Member of Parliament cum mayor murders a cripple in broad daylight; some miles off another vile tyrant is torched besides his shallow grave. This publication has the story of another tyrant Fon, Ganyonga of Bali who torched some Mbororo youths. Ganyonga is still Fon of Bali. Postwatch Magazine commences a series of reports: Are the fons shooting themselves in the foot?

The assassination of the Fon of Kedjom

By Keku By Joseph Ayeah Chongsi

Kedjom Keku, popularly known as “Big Babanki,” is a tiny bourgade in Tubah Sub-Division, Mezam Division of the North West Province of Cameroon. On the 7^th of January 2004 the natives of Kedjom Keku dethroned their traditional ruler (fon), Vugah Simon II replacing him with his half brother, Vubangsi Benjamin Vutsibueng. The dethronement proper went peacefully enough but the fires smoldered between the ousted fon, the administration and the new fon.

The prevailing Situation

By Joseph Chongsi Ayeah

Since the dethronement of Fon Vugah and the installation of Vubansi a deep friction has been ongoing between the Kedjom Keku people and the administration of Mezam. The administration denounced the sacking of Fon Vugah but the same administration took no meaningful steps to address the situation. When peace returned to the village, the administration made attempts to re-enthrone the banished fon. On the 29^th December 2005, the Senior Divisional Officer of Mezam went to reinstall the banished fon but met fierce resistance from the villagers.

Observation of the Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy

In a reaction paper CHRAPA, the Bamenda-based Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy notes that “the docile attitude of the Mezam administration contributed greatly to the death of the ousted fon and related human rights violation." CHRAPA explains that from the time the people of Kedjom-Keku started complaining about the inhuman treatment meted on them by their traditional ruler, to the time the women held the palace under siege, the administration did nothing. A few meetings were called and resolutions taken.

Shot for Speaking English

By Chongsi Joseph Ayeah

Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights and Peace Advocacy (CHRAPA)

Yaounde- Anglophone teenager, Mbonde Mosima, is today sporting a neck scar and acute paralysis, the outcome of his encounter almost three years ago against a hate-filled Francohone gendarme captain. Until Saturday, October 19th 2002, Mbonde Mosima (then 18) was an upper sixth student at Mevick Bilingual College, Etoug Ebe, Yaounde. On that fateful day, Mbonde Mosima, native of Babanki of the North West Province, left their Chapelle Obili residence to attend a friend’s birth day party practically next door...

The Pictures that Shocked the World

A Police Inspector, Stephen Ngu, poured kerosene on a young man suspected to have stolen a bicycle in Kumba. The young man, Weriwo, sustained third-degree burns and latter died, while it was later found out that he did not steal the bicycle as it was later found. The policeman is allegedly detained.

The Buea township taxi drivers strike of August 1 was the second within one month due to police brutality. A week ago, barely a day after the Cameroon National Police boss, Pierre Minlo Medjo warned, while commissioning graduate police inspectors, that vices shall not be tolerated in the force, a poliice inspector, Joseph Nding, shot at a taxi driver, Felix Nyong Nkwelle in Victoria (Limbe) for refusing to stop at a check point and offer the usual CFA 500 francs bribe. The driver missed death as the bullet got him from the back on his right shoulder blade.

The Rey Bouba of Ndawara

ELHADJI BABA DANPULLO, member of the Central Committee of the CPDM and landlord of the vast Elba Ranch in Ndawara, Boyo Division has a long record of trashing the rights of the indigenous Mbororo people.

He uses the state prosecutors, gendarmes, police and prison authorities and his personal Alkali Court to deal with those he calls his enemies.