THE EYE OPENER 24

Government suspends planned increase in beer prices The government of Cameroon through the Ministry of Trade has suspended the initial decision it took to increase the prices of beer and other alcoholic drinks by the 1 st of January 2015 as contained in the 2015 finance law voted by parliamentarians during the November 2014 session of parliament. The decision was taken following a crisis meeting at the prime minister”s office in Yaounde on the 31 st of December 2014 between government and consumer associations.   According to the Cameroon Consumers League, LCC, that was able to mobilise 5000 signatures in three days for a petition that was tabled to government denouncing the announced increase, if such increase was to be effected as contained in the finance law, then between 150fcfa and 600cfa will be added for each bottle of beer sold. LCC is also accusing the Minister of Finance of having decided to revise excise duties in the said law without consulting all the pa...

The esplanade of the fon’s palace at Laikom on Saturday 3 rd January 2015 became too small to contain the over 1500 Kom sons and daughters from all triangles of Cameroon and even those out of the country who returned home not only for the annual home coming of Njongsi-kom that has been taking place for the last six years but also for the royal dance, a move aimed at reviving the fon’s annual dance which has been abandoned for over 20 years now.It was a rare moment of communion between the paramount traditional ruler of the kom fondom, Fon Vincent Yuh II and his subjects. The fon’s message on the occasion delivered by Hon. Ndim Albert Waingeh hinged on the promotion of culture, love for fondom and peace. He reminded the Kom people that strangers will not come from outcome from outside to build their land and therefore stressed on the need for more consciousness of all kom indgenes towards supporting development back at home especially projects that have been earmarked for exec...

Village and quarter heads as well as ardos and sarkis in Fundong Subdivision who are all members of the Abassakom Traditional Rulers Association, ATRA, have been told that they have a very significant role to play in the developments of their respective communities and the entire municipality as a whole. Mayor Denis Awoh Ndang of the Fundong council made the call on Friday 26 th December 2014 at his Ngwainkuma residence while receiving the traditional rulers who were on a courtesy visit to thank the Mayor and to pledge their support to him and the council administration for the work the council is undertaking in the municipality to better the lives of the population. He told the traditional rulers that belonging to an association was already a step ahead towards learning how to administer traditional rule without excesses in their various areas of competence and also to see how as auxiliaries of the administration, they can better relate with administrative authorities. The f...

The Abassakom Area Development Union, ABADU, which is the umbrella development union covering all villages in the Fundong municipality created in the 1980s to carter for the socio-cultural and economic development of the population has lately been failing in its task, to be that pulling force that unites Abassakom sons and daughters towards the struggle for self-reliant development.   The present leadership of the union seems to be suffering from a crisis and some members of the present executive have even attested to the fact that if things were to remain the same as they are now, ABADU in the nearest future will only exist as a name. That is why the delegates meeting that held in Fundong on the 27 th of December 2014 prior to the 2014 congress saw the constitution of a reformation committee of seven members headed by Mr. Kiyong Simon of the Bamenda branch to help revamp the union and save its image in the face of an eventual collapse. For over the years, the leadership of...

The Bobong Development Association, BODA, grouping sons and daughters of Bobong village in Njinikom subdivision in and out of Cameroon has raised over 4MFCA with main target being the construction of two classrooms at the newly created Government Bilingual Primary School Bobong come 2015. The sum was raised during the 22 nd fund raising congress of BODA on Friday 26 th December 2014. The president general of BODA Ncham George who presented the stakes surrounding development in Bobong village at the start of the congress appreciated the people of Bobong for their total commitment to contribute to the success of every project that is undertaken in the village. He describedtheir commitment to development as being love for village and self. Bobong remains one of the villages in Boyo where even the very young ones at birth know the value of self-reliant development.Pulling out from the then Njinikom Area Development Association ,NADA,   in 1992 to form BODA was not a smooth r...