Last week, many where taken aback when Cameroon’s ace musician Petit Pays appeared on Emmanuel TV confessing in front of Prophet TB Joshua asking the man of God to pray to set him free. Petit Pays accepted to have been mixed up with witchdoctors.
It is a good thing to give one’s life to Christ, but I begin to wonder if this is not just a publicity stunt by Petit Pays. It should be recalled that in the late nineties, this same Petit Pays appeared naked on the cover of one of his albums and it sold like hot cake.

US President-Elect, Barack Obama who has traceable descend to Kenya in Africa would take place on Tuesday 20 January 2009.
Most African political leaders are definitely now packing their luggage to travel to the US to attend. Most of them would be using hundreds of millions of tax payer’s money to travel there and live in expensive hotels like the Waldof Astoria. But what for? What will they bring home? They still continue to hold their countrymen hostage.

A four-year-old child, Bright Fuh Afangwei, who was diagnosed of a strange cancer died over the week.
The death of this child raises the problem of medical evacuations in Cameroon, most often with assistance from government.
The child and his mother moved from one hospital to another to no avail until he finally died.  A few Cameroonians came to his assistance financially, but this was not enough to fly him out to receive expert treatment abroad.

During the week the press was inundated with reports of allegations of immigration fraud against the newly appointed Chairman of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, Samuel Fonkam Azu’u.
Fonkan Azu’u is alleged to have used his position as Assistant Secretary General at the National Assembly to sign mission warrants for some youths to use to acquire visas to travel abroad. The youths are reported to have been nabbed at the Yaoundé Nsimalem Airport.
Fonkan Azu’u has refuted the allegations, saying they are the handiwork of his detractors.

when a people are pushed around too much to the wall, meek sheep may turn into roaring lions.

On Tuesday 30 December 2008, the Head of State appointed members into Elections Cameroon, ELECAM. More than 50% of the members were CPDM stalwarts, including Political Bureau and Central Committee members.
From reactions, many Cameroonians including CPDM militants are not happy with the appointments. Many have openly declared their frustration and disappointment in ELECAM. While Fru Ndi called it a wing of the CPDM, Kodock described it as a non event.
Cameroonians may be a docile lot, but when a people are pushed around too much to the wall, meek sheep may turn into roaring lions. The ELECAM issue is a time bomb, ticking slowly to detonation. When it does, the explosion will be so load that it will put the government off balance.

Ghana recently held its presidential election in which the incumbent, John Kuffour did not take part. Kuffour was at the end of his required two term mandate.
At the end of the election which went to a second round, pitting John Atta-Mills and Nana Akufo-Addo, the former won by 50.23% against 49.77 % for his adversary.
There are several lessons to be drawn from the Ghanaian presidential election.

One thing that made news during the week was the arrest and later release of Bernard Njonga, president of ACDIC including some maize farmers who staged a protest over alleged embezzlement and corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. They alleged that money meant for maize farmers to boost the sector was embezzled or was distributed to individuals who are not maize farmers.
This is not strange to Cameroon. Most often resources meant to be distributed to beneficiaries never get to them. Either they are embezzled outright, or government officials create fictitious organisations, NGOs, CIGs in the names of their family members and make them as beneficiaries of the government funding.

There was recently a lot of hue and cry about the issue of regional balance. After the results of the entrance exams were released, Members of Parliament from the Northern Regions wrote a memorandum to the Head of State asking for 60% of the number of students to be admitted. They were complaining that the Northern Regions were given only 24% in a school that was duly promised them by the Head of State.
The Head of State later called for the creation of a commission to over see the results and give the three Northern regions the 60% place requested.