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By Martial Gnoukapasir Photo credit: Civiclens General Scatter confessing to the PM At the Bamenda commercial grandstand Wednesday October 6th, marking day two of the prime minister- Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute's stay in the North West region, some 13 young men in their early 20's were presented as seperatist fighters who are just from dropping their weapons. One who identified himself as "general scatter" confessed that they're just from handing over 2Ak's, a Pop action and two Dane Guns to the military before showing up at the grandstand. In pidgin-english he said: " Ma name na general scatter, a sure say wunna don di hear about me, we Don just hand over 2Ak, 1Pop action and 2 Kontri gun for the military before we kam for hear" He also confessed that the 13 of them realized that picking up arms against a state they were suppose to help develop and protect was wrong and have come to their senses. 12 Other ex combatants who laid down weapons The PM wh...

By Martial Gnoukapasir Tubah Council building The municipalities of Tubah and Bafut, together with the mayors of the two sub divisions, have been hailed for executing more than half of the projects awarded them under the 2021 investment budget within a duration of 7 months, despite being in areas many has termed ' hot zones ' since the escalation of the conflict in the North West. At the 2nd quarter 2021 technical physico-financial evaluation follow up session of project execution in mezam, the divisional delegate of the economy, planning and regional development Evelyn Mawong alongside chairperson of the commission, saluted the two councils for realizing a majority of their projects for 2021 on time as compared to councils that are in relatively calmed areas. Mezam PIB follow up commission stakeholders in session Tubah Council benefited a total of 10 projects amounting to FCFA 258,210,000 under the public investment budget for 2021. As at July 15th the council had executed 6 o...

By Martial Gnoukapasir Mr Ngong Justin talking to the press The youth centered organization which focuses on the sexual reproductive health and rights of mostly teenagers and adolescents in Bamenda has started training youth champions who will via the media and other mediums, engage their peers on issues of reproductive health within this summer holiday period. The campaign program titled; " Abortion free summer holidays for teenagers and adolescents" by the Youth2Youth organisation according to the project coordinator Mr Ngong Justin, has been motivated after disturbing statistics revealed by UNFPA for sub sharan Africa indicates that 50% of pregnancies amongst adolescents are unwanted and about 50% of these pregnancies end up in clandestine abortions. SOGOC- ACAC statistics on abortion as presented " We initiated this project because there's been an increase in teenage pregnancy as a result of the crisis and non effective running of schools. We're happy with ...

By Martial Gnoukapasir Trimmed Spee arts gallery & cultural centre Spee Arts Gallery and Cultural Centre, located directly opposite the Baptist church and school in Nkwen Bamenda, is one of those structures recently trimmed by the city council following an ongoing road stretching project being sponsored by the world bank. In a meeting to discuss the future of the centre, a good number of artists who converged at the partly trimmed structure Wednesday June 30th resolved that, it's either the council relocate the centre to a new site or compensate financially like it's done with others whose properties have also been destroyed in the road construction process, so they can give the centre a new facelift. Spee Arts gallery and cultural centre was founded by Nzante Spee of blessed memory, around 1985. Atists protest the partial demolition of the centre without compensation His son Nzante Tracey is an artist. Talking to Mnews237 he said the city council didn't and has still ...

Story & Images Culled from @Bafut Council Official , investigated and edited for Mnews237 by Gnoukapasir Martial First published on June 14th @7:am Bafut Mayor Ngwakongoh Lawrence dancing to the sounds and rythmz of Bafut The Mayor of Bafut - Ngwakongoh Lawrence, who doubles as National Chairman of the Bafut Language has called on displaced indigenes of Bafut residing in Buea, to uphold and preserve their cultural Identity. " Our language, our identity " Bafut Mayor tells Bafut people in Buea The Bafut language called "Fut" stands tall as one of the cultural identities of the Bafut people. Both to those at home and abroad, "Fut" is part of their daily life. Mayor Ngwakongoh facing the press Given the displacement of many sons and daughters of Bafut as a result of the ongoing socio-political crisis in North West and South West Regions of Cameroon, the need to preserve the cultural identity of the Bafut people is more compelling. It is on this premise t...

By Gnoukapasir Martial Barrister Nico Halle Ndessi Former president of the Cameroon Bar Association who served the legal structure for close to four years, a member of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism (ncpbm) has said the time for lies telling and feeding the head of state Paul Biya with false information is over. He made the statement while responding to an assertion made by North West regional bereau chief of the Post newspaper Chris Mbunwe, on what he thinks are the drivers of hate speech and xenophobia fanning the flames of the crisis in the two english speaking regions. Ntumfor Nico Halle who described himself as a non people pleaser, asked a plethora of rhetorical questions  " what has happened to the elites of these regions being destroying by this crisis? Have they told the head of state the truth? If they've done so, have there been any follow up? For four years running we expected them to have said the truth. Truth sets u...

By Martial Gnoukapasir campaign against hate speech and xenophobia at NW RD Minepat The national commission on bilingualism and multiculturalism has rounded up a 3-day communication campaign in the North West region against hate speech and xenophobia. Commission member David Abouem A Tchoyi, one time governor of the North West and South West regions, led the  campaign organized under the distinguished patronage of  Cameroon's head of state Paul Biya. Moderated by commission member -  Barrister Halle Nicodemus Ndessi, discussions on the two cankerworms said to be fueling the flames of the ongoing conflict at the ' No Taboo Subject'  session bringing together state actors, security bigwigs, humanitarian, youths, Civil society organisations and the press, centered on the identification of the origin, sources and causes of hate speech and xenophobia, it's propagators, ways of curbing the two phenomenon and the legal tools sanctioning them. In tracing the root causes of hate...