BELO MAYOR DRAGS BOYO SDO TO COMMUNICATION COUNCIL


The mayor of Belo council, Bernard Tosam Nenghabi has dragged the S.D.O for Boyo Joseph Oum II to the national communication council for what he has describe as a miscarriage of administrative decisions. He made the declaration in Bamenda April 9 upon his return from Yde.
NSOM HILDA FUTELA.  B C RADIO MANAGER


Following a live interview on state radio last week, the president of the national communication council, Peter Esoka in commenting on the closing own of the Belo community radio said, it is the council that gives instructions to the administration to close down any radio station and not the revers and that the council has not receive any complain from the management of the Belo community radio, Mayor Bernard Tosam Nenghabi quickly constituted a complaint against the Boyo SDO  and submitted to the council in Yaounde.

According to the mayor for Belo, it was an opportunity for him to see the radio came to live again and remove his entire municipality which from 1950s had been in complete communication black out because of the poor topography of Belo sub division. Belo community radio was the only window opening the entire sub division to through world as the national and world news could get to the populace through the relay of the state radio. As to what led to the shutdown of the radio by the Boyo administration, mayor Tosam have accused the local CPDM elite for manipulation and frustration. ”During the CPDM reorganisation in Belo, militants of the CPDM in Belo went round collecting the identification cards of SDF militants saying they were to register them for an AID  scheme that will pass through the council which was false. Angered by this, the district chair of the SDF in BELO wrote a warning announcement to the radio, cautioning SDF militants to fall prey to the CPDM ploy and when it was read on Belo community radio, the manager was attacked in a bar by the same CPDM and when she broke the news on radio few days later, a decision came from the SDO accusing the manager for arbitrary broadcast and closed the radio. I believe the SDO is working on party influence because the same local CPDM elite has been going around advocating the current manager be changed. I believe that the radio does not serve only the SDF, it benefits all. The SDO did not invite the said manager for an interview and acted basically on rumour. Myself, I was not consulted and the radio was closed. I have lobbied to no avail for its reopening and drawing from the words of the president of the communication council, I believe there is a silver lining in the dark cloud now “said mayor Tosam.

Belo subdivision has over 50 villages with thousands of the local population and a litany of local development association who depends much on the existence of the radio to contribute financially for the local development association through radio announcements ”These development associations contribute CFA30-40 million annually for development thanks to the radio. Last year the number of students and pupils who applied for holiday jobs at the council witnessed an increase from 900 to 1500 thanks to the fact that Belo community radio brought to their door steps information on the situation” mayor Tosam added.

Like the mayor and many citizens down the streets of Belo, they are still in confusion as to how a radio can be serving one party given that it does not select it listeners, the position of the SDO as the editor in chief or the monitor of mass media when bodies ranking as such exist even at divisional levels. They have point accusation fingers on the local CPDM elite saying just when the radio was closed, the militants went into jubilation and celebration.

                          

               CONFUSING FACTS

The Belo community radio has a well define board of directors manned by competent academicians and media professionals. The Board is led by a professor emeritus and has as board member seasoned journalist of the state runed radio, Delphin fien. The wife of the Cameroon’s prime minister hails from Belo and has been doing a great help in sustaining the radio.

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