Causes and Consequences of Early Marriage July 13, 2009

In a little village of
Cameroon, like many other villages around the world, Early Marriage has
proven the weakness of present day Democratic Governments.
“The Government can’t solve all problems” – some people think. One can
easily figure out that, it is powerfully able help the wealthy rig
elections, render the majority voiceless, maintain the wealthy in
power, widen the gap between the rich and poor, promote corruption and
give a blind eye to the basic necessities of Human Beings

Opposition Leaders Call On Biya To Declare Assets

By Elias Ngalame Ntungwe

Paul Biya: Will He Declare His Assets?

Leaders
of some key opposition political parties in Cameroon have successively
added their voices to the current debate on foreign reports about
President Paul Biya's fortune. They have urged Paul Biya to declare his
assets according to article 66 of the 1996 constitution to save himself
the trouble of any further victimisation.
At a press conference in
Yaounde on Monday 29 June 2009, CDU leader, Adamu Ndam Njoya said, the
constitution in article 66 was very clear on the issue of declaration
of assets by those holding public office but has never been respected.
He said Cameroonians would not have had any problem with such a report
if the President of the Republic had taken the lead to respect the
constitution by declaring his assets.

Limbe 150 Anniversary Rekindles Chieftaincy Dispute

Jesco Manga Williams: Main Pretender To The Throne

By Davidson Maimo

The
envisaged 150th anniversary celebration of the birth of Victoria (today
Limbe) programmed to hold some on a date yet to be announced later this
year has rekindled the long standing chieftaincy crisis in the town. 
Traditional
rulers in Limbe as well as the city authorities are worried on how the
anniversary of the city could be celebrated without a Paramount Chief,
Eden learnt.
It is therefore against this backdrop that a
pre-consultative talk has been scheduled for 8 July at the conference
hall of the Limbe I Council.

51 Year-Old Nabbed For Rape of a 7yr Old in Meme Division

By Constance Oneke

A 51-year-old man in Mato, Meme Division, has been arrested for allegedly raping a 7-year-old class three pupil.
The
suspect, James Akpan, a native of Akwa Ibom State of Nigeriais said to
have closed the mouth of the little girl whose name the parents refused
to unveil, before carrying out his devilish act.

Akpan is also said to have threatened to kill the girl if she
revealed what transpired between them. But the victim spilled the beans
when her parents interrogated her after noticing that she was in pains
and could no longer stand erect for five minutes.
The victim was
rushed to a nearby clinic where the nurse on duty requested that she
should be transferred to Ekondo Titi General Hospital. Reports say she
has, however, been discharged from the hospital.

Child Initiation On Increase In Bamenda

By Rosaline Obah and Cleopas Che

Initiation of children into secret cults is fast becoming the
order of the day in Bamenda within primary and secondary schools.
Such
children who are being initiated fall mostly between the early ages of
1- 25 years. Some are initiated through small food items, others
through small gifts and jewelries as well as through peers and elders.
A
case in point is a Lower Sixth student of St Paul College Nkwen, whose
name we are withholding who said she was initiated in Form Four and had
been in the secret cult for three years.

Two Cameroonians Lynched In Nigeria After Genital Theft Claim

Two Cameroonians and a Nigerian were recently lynched in Taraba state in Nigeria over allegations that they were involved in a case of missing genital organs. Confirming the incidence in Jalingo, the State Commissioner of Police, Musa Aliyu, gave the names of the suspects as Thomas Nchotu, Fosting Joseph, a driver attached to Cameroon Embassy in Lagos and the name of the Nigerian friend as Avea Torhinbo who are said to have been passing through Kurmi Local Government area to Cameroon when they were burnt to death.

CAMEROON – “No to the legalisation of abortion” say the Bishops of Cameroon, where Parliament approves a law to ratify the Protocol of Maputo

Yaounde
(Agenzia Fides)- Yes, to the protection of African women from all kinds
of violence and discrimination; No, to the legalisation of abortion.
This was state by the Catholic Bishops of Caermoon in a statement sent
to Fides, concerning the approval of the Cameroonian Parliament of the
law which authorises President Paul Biya, to ratify the Protocol of
Maputo. The “Protocol of the Charter of Rights of the individual and
peoples relative to the rights of women” was adopted by the second
ordinary session of the African Union in Maputo (Mozambique) 11 July
2003. The Catholic Church expressed its opposition to paragraph C of
article 14 of the Protocol, which establishes protection for the
reproduction rights of women, allowing medical abortion in cases of
rape, incest, and when the continuation of pregnancy threatens the
physical or mental health of the mother or the life of the mother or
the child (see Fides 26/1/2006).