Senator Barrister Kemende bags Prestigious Performance Award

 

- Dedicates it to Suffering Masses in the NW & SW

Senator Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey on Sunday September 27 in Bamenda, received the Cameroon Performance Award in a gathering of friends, family and colleagues. According to the National Coordinator and Chairperson of the Organising Committee, this award was given in recognition of what Barrister Kemende Henry Gamsey has been doing since he became a member of the Upper House.

 The presence of this outspoken gentleman in the Senate had made debates to better reflect the presence of Opposition parties. The organizers further explained that his constant media outings had made him an indespensable ingredient in the Political Transformation Process of Cameroon. "Your ideas and prescriptions have fuelled the National Debate on how the country should move forward" the organiser stated. Meantime, the senator has dedicated his award to the suffering masses in the crisis riddled Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon.

In a press briefing shortly after reception of the prestigious award, the Senator expressed the way he felt in the following words: "This award means a lot to me. Even as the war rages on, there is always room for the market to hold. Permit me use that African adage. In my vernacular, there is an adage to the effect that while the war goes on, market days don't fail to hold.  During these market days, the ongoings are discussed. To me this Award Event represents such Market Days during war and I have dedicated it to the people who are victims of the ongoing crisis."

He explained that while some parties that were directly involved in the war were not suffering, many innocent civilians had been forced to undergo untold hardships as a result of the crisis. The Senator said it was for the suffering people that he constantly intervened in the Upper House and that it was as a result of these constant interventions that this award was being given to him. 

"Without the ongoing crisis I don't think I would have had the chance to keep intervening through the media. I want to thank the organizers of the CPA for organising this and for recognizing me."

He called on the suffering masses in the two crisis riddled regions to stay calm and pray for peace to return soon.  

Explaining why he felt he had been recognized, he said apart from what had been written on the award, the recognition comes against a backdrop of a parliament that is dominantly made up of hand clappers who contribute nothing towards the advancement of the democratic process but simply serve as rubber stamps to endorse anything that is rammed down their throats. In such a parliament he felt he had to constantly speak for the people. "I thank the God Almighty for empowering me to see things differently and to propose different solutions. Maybe if the solutions proposed by me and my political party were heeded to we would not be where we are today."

Hinting on the rationale behind Cameroon Performance Awards the Senator said people should always allow the potential that's in them to sprout. People he said should always show the exceptional qualities in them adding that if God deemed it necessary to create you after creating millions of other humans then there was certainly an extra reason for creating you. Each individual had an extra quality that must always be worked upon he said.

The National Coordinator of the CPA Francis Ekongang Nzante was accompanied for the Award Event in Bamenda by some members of the Organising Committee; Mr Emmanuel Bah Toko from Bamenda, Mr Leonard Sigeh L. from Yaounde and Mr Belack Ernest Jimbam.

Meantime the Senator was accompanied for the event by his wife, kids, relatives, close friends and colleagues amongst whom were the President of the Northwest Lawyers Association NOWELA, Barrister Acha Collins, Justice Taminang Ignatius ATTE amongst many others.

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HND 2020 Results

 Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Hits 100%Target

By Francis Ekongang Nzante

Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences Bamenda has once more hit the 100% target following the release of the 2020 results of the Higher National Diploma HND. This revelation was made recently by the the Director of the institution Mr Nkwain Joseph in press chat with Edev Newspaper.

The Director revealed that through out the ten year's existence of the school, the institution has never scored less than 100% at the Higher National Diploma Examinations.

"This school has existed for ten years and as far as this examination that is organised by the Ministry of Higher Education is concerned, the institution has scored a hundred percent throughout its existence. Last year this school scored the best results in the whole country. This year for all the options that we went in that is the Nursing and Medical Laboratory Sciences, we scored a hundred percent and the number that we put in was quite substantial. We have been doing so much in terms of quality and quantity. Even with the Ministry of Public Health, that is with State Registered Nurses, for all the years we have also been having a hundred percent. This is because we have a very experienced and competent staff in the various disciplines."

With this series of successes registered by the school, the establishment is now poised to move to the next level. Firstly, Bachelor Degrees will be offered by the establishment in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. It is in preparation for this that the Higher Institution of Learning is Signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Bamenda.

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New Age Oil Company Donates FCFA 25 Millions worth of Equipments to the Limbe Regional Hospital

The New African Global Energy Company with acronym "New Age" has donated FCFA 25 Millions worth of Anti COVID-19 Equipment to the Limbe Regional Hospital. The equipments were handed over to the Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital, Dr Kinge Thompson Njie on Friday September 11 by Diane Bakehe, the Human Resource and Management Officer of the Oil Company within the confines of the premises of the Regional Hospital.

 While handing over the equipments, Diane Bakehe who represented Mr Bruno De Vinck, the Director of New Age Oil Company noted that the Limbe Regional Hospital despite its 75 years of age still looked very clean. She said the African Global Energy Company had branches in London, China, amongst others. All these branches she said contributed to the equipments that were being handed over to the Limbe Regional Hospital. She said Corporate Social Responsibility has always been taken very seriously by New Age Oil Company. To butress her point, she mentioned aid that had been provided by the company to some Educational Establishments like Government Primary School Debunscha and Government Primary School Idenau Group 2 and 3. She said the company was now shifting it's attention to the Health Sector.

The Limbe Regional Hospital she said, was just one among other hospitals earmarked to benefit from the company's 2020 Corporate Social Responsibility package. 

On reception of the equipments, Dr Kinge Thompson Njie, Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital said the donation was timely considering the fact that the hospital had been facing some challenges in tackling COVID-19 cases due to the absence of certain equipments. He said the hospital had registered 265 comfirmed cases adding that the last five cases were comfirmed within 72 hours prior to the reception of the equipments. 10 patients he said had been lost to COVID-19 mostly due to lack of oxygen supply. The supply of the new equipment he said would certainly take care of this problem since most of the deaths occurred as a result of lack of intensive care. He said the hospital staff felt strengthened by the equipment and promised to make good use of it. 

Some Administrative authorities present appealed to the population to have confidence in the expertise of the staff of the hospital and called on them to observe barrier measures and to do the COVID-19 screening test. Meantime the City Mayor to the Limbe City Council who was represented congratulated Dr Kinge Thompson Njie for his Reception of the Cameroon Performance Awards CPA 2020 adding that he was an example for the younger generation to emulate. 

On behalf of the Regional Delegate for Public Health in the Southwest Region, Mr Njie Esasa expressed gratitude for the gesture by New Age Oil Company and said it was timely because of the challenges being faced coupled with the upcoming 2021 African Nations Championships CHAN slated to take place in Cameroon with Limbe hosting one of the groups. He further said the personnel of the Limbe Regional Hospital was well trained and would make good use of the equipment. The equipment he said would go a long way to improve upon the health status of the Southwest population as a whole and called on other companies to emulate the example of New Age Oil Company.

The Divisional Officer for Limbe I Acha Nkwenty Mofor equally called on others to join in strengthening the Limbe Regional Hospital and reminded the population that COVID-19 truly existed and that barrier measures should continuously be respected.

Present at the Limbe Regional Hospital to participate in the reception of the equipment were Traditional Rulers from around Limbe.

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CPDM Mayors, MPs throw weight behind Quest for Peace in NW

 

- City Mayor proposes Constitutional Adjustments

 CPDM Mayors, Members of Parliament and Senators from the Northwest Region recently met in Bamenda, Capital of the Northwest Region with an intention of mapping out strategies to bring peace and fight insecurity in the Crisis Riddled Region amongst other things. This meeting came in the wake of gun battles in the heart of the city which claimed the life of atleast a uniformed man. 

Paul Achobong Tembeng, City Mayor of Bamenda, in his speech during the workshop called for an adjustment of the Constitution to include clauses that would make sure that crisis such as the one presently rocking the country do not occur in future. The Anglophone Crisis he said had resulted in the greatest Economic Recession ever experienced in the Northwest in particular and Cameroon at large. Paul Achobong further said the time had come for lessons to be drawn and major decisions taken to make sure that such a situation never repeats itself in future. It is in this vein that he suggested that certain amendments be made to the Constitution. He suggested that all Cameroonians should be made to swear their love for the Fatherland and that no group of individuals irrespective of the circumstances should take up arms against the Fatherland. He said provisions should be inserted in the Constitution to make sure  that there never would be any conflict between Tribes or between villages. These amendments he proposed should be taught in schools from Primary Schools and included in school textbooks. The amendments he further said should be published on Billboards and on Public Buildings. 

Harping on the importance of Education in civilization he said classrooms needed to be reconstructed and teachers given some reasonable degree of comfort.

Referring to road infrastructures he cited the deplorable situation of the road entering the Northwest from the West Region. He did not fail to mention the deplorable state of roads in the city of Bamenda which he said had not been catered for due to insecurity for a long time. 

Numerating some causes of the present stalemate in Bamenda he cited misinformation and distortion of information to produce a particular mind frame among the people. He also mentioned the spiritual drifting away of children from worshipping of the true God to the worship of idols and phenomena such as "Odeshi".

The first step towards solving the present problems he said should be the changing of the mindset of the people. For this to happen, all the available media, the churches and the mosques had to be used, he said.

He said he had just co-signed an Administrative Order with the Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam restricting the movement of bikes from Commercial Avenue and Administrative areas. He further said that the City Council would be paying for 1000 Driving Licences for both bike riders and Taxi Drivers adding that bike riders who wanted to become taxi drivers would be aided by the City Council through the provision of Category B Driving Licences. This he said would cost the City Council a collosal sum of FCFA 30 millions which he said was not too much to spend to build a cleaner and safer town.  

The City Mayor said for a change of mindset to be achieved, the support of all the Members of Parliament and Senators of the Region was needed. 

Also highlighted during the meeting was the need for a synergy between the Mayors, Members of Parliament and Senators for their aspirations in the Region to be met with. The aim of the creation of this Platform of CPDM Elected Officials in the North West Region was to brainstorm and seek for ways to better serve the population and in this way regain the confidence of the people they represent. 

This maiden workshop of the platform was dedicated to creating collaboration between Mayors and Parliamentarians as well as between Mayors and Counselors. It also involved creating the much needed collaboration between Elected Officials, the administration and the security Forces as well as a follow up procedure for school resumption in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. It also concerned itself with preparations for the upcoming Regional Elections. 

Senator Regina Mundi who was also in attendance said the present times were most challenging for the CPDM party to implement it's ideals on the field. These ideals she said included the creation of a stable, united and indivisible Cameroon. She called on the CPDM Elected Officials to work as servants and to carry out their duties with abnegation. "Our party aims at all times to transform society for the better" she said adding that as a new breed of leaders, they should be aiming for higher positions. "You are the agents of change and Transformative Leadership demands reliability, honesty and truthfullness" she said. Transformation she said starts at the individual Level explaining that they should be able to give what they expected in life to others. She challenged everyone present to put into practice what has come to be referred to as "Living Together". To do this we have to be each other's keeper she emphasised. 

Most of the Mayors spoken to explained that the role of the Councils was to prepare the grounds for School Resumption by talking to parents about the importance of sending their kids to school. Another identified important responsibility of the Councils was to encourage youngsters who had taken up arms and stayed in the bushes to come out and be reinserted into society.

In attendance at the meeting were all the CPDM Mayors of the Northwest Region as well as Members of Parliament. The meeting was equally attended by the Governor of the Northwest Region Adolphe Lele L'Afrique, the SDO for Mezam Division Emill Moh and coordinated by Honourable Njingum Musa.

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Edison Fru Ndi Recognised for Resilience in Entrepreneurship

 

Against a backdrop of the raging Anglophone Crisis and the resulting difficult circumstances for entrepreneural initiatives in the two crisis riddled Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon, many entrepreneurs were forced to move their activities to the French Speaking Regions of the country. In the heart of the crisis about two years ago, economic activities in English Speaking Cameroon came to a standstill. Schools were closed and transferred to Yaounde, Bafoussam, Douala and other French Speaking towns that are close to the Anglophone Regions. The Intertainment World came to a standstill and the price of food items reached unprecedented heights.

Despite all these adverse circumstances, some entrepreneurs stood their grounds and stayed on. Among these entrepreneurs were Edison Fru Ndi, the CEO of what has come to be referred to as Dreamland Conglomerates. 

Edison Fru Ndi against all odds did not give up on his dream to rewrite the Intertainment narrative of Bamenda specifically and the Northwest Region in general. Sceptics held that culturally the Northwesterner did not have an outdoor eating tradition. This School of thought held that quality and top class restaurants would be completely out of place in Bamenda. Edison Fri Ndi proved them wrong. If it could work in Douala, Yaounde, Limbe or Bafoussam then it could work in Bamenda.

He started Dreamland Restaurant, Snack Bar and Cabaret at Fon Street in Bamenda and invested a fortune there to make the place one of the best destinations in Cameroon and the CEMAC Zone. 

When the crisis struck, many felt it was the end but he saw it differently. In the heart of the crisis, this Entrepreneural Maverick started and accomplished the construction of yet another Dreamland Complex in a safer part of town in Nkwen just besides the National Headquarters of the Amour Mezam Travel Agency. 

"A real Colourful and Quality Intertainment Heartland that can comfortably host about five thousand guests without a frown" is the most appropriate description of what Edison Fru Ndi succeeded to construct in Nkwen Bamenda. 

While others were busily running away to God knows where, Edison Fru Ndi was building the largest Intertainment Complex in the Central African Sub Region. The Dreamland Complex in Nkwen is a Snack Bar Dancing, Cabaret with Life Shows and Restaurant. It is also a venue for all sorts of Parties and now constitutes the heart beat of Bamenda, the third largest town in the country not withstanding the realities on the ground.

Dreamland Conglomerates also extends into construction by virtue of the fact he runs a quarry and is deeply involved in construction.

On reception of the award by Mawo Pascal the General Manager of Dreamland on behalf of his boss Mr. Edison Fru Ndi the former said "this award means a lot to my boss Edison Fru Ndi whom I represent. This is as a result of his hardwork over the years. Building the brand called Dreamland took a long time. It has been a journey of a thousand miles and he is at 90% of that journey. This dream started with Dreamland Documentation, Dreamland Restaurant, Dreamland MTN, Dreamland Snack Bar from where he moved on to open the Dreamland quarry. This is how the business venture has been moving on step by step. What Edison Fru Ndi has been doing is to make Bamenda proud. He had a lot of dreams for Bamenda before the crisis hit. What we have here now is just the tip of the iceberg. Mr. Edison Fru Ndi is a symbol for Africa, Cameroon and entrepreneurs who do not just work for money but for the sake of the people."

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Dr Denis Nsame Recognised for work done at the Limbe and Bamenda Regional Hospitals

The Limbe Regional Hospital remains one of the cleanest and one of the best organised Hospitals in the country alongside the Bamenda Regional Hospital. This is simply a reflection of the work that has so far been carried out by the hard working Hospital Administrators that have been appointed in the past decade to run these health outfits.

Permit us to begin with the Limbe Regional Hospital from the era under Dr. Bijingni Kuoh Pius. This retired Hospital Administrator took over an outfit and worked hard to create a good conducive working atmosphere that was quasi absent on his arrival. He laid the foundation for future development to be made possible at the Regional Hospital. Considering that Nation Building is like a Relay Race with each runner having the responsibility to make sure that he safely hands over his relay baton to the next runner, Dr. Denis Nsame lived up to the challenge when he took over as the Director of the Limbe Regional Hospital.

 

Aware of the fact that one must not only maintain the standards one meets but that continuity and improvement upon the statut quo is the only acceptable formula in Nation Building, Dr. Denis Nsame gave his time to his work unreservedly. 

It is easy to notice when there are administrative lapses in a hospital. Get answers to these questions and you know that a hospital is well run. Is the clock work mechanism well oiled? Do the Nurses liaise mellifluously with the Doctors and the patients? Are the nurses polite and caring to patients? Does the neatness and general outward appearance of nurses and Doctors inspire confidence in the patients? Are public utility services like toilets available and in good shape? Is the environment as clean as a hospital should be? Are the emergency services truly functional? 

The questions could continue but the point has already been made. The Limbe Regional Hospital increasingly had positive answers to the above evaluatory questions. This was and is still an indication that Dr. Denis Nsame moved towards the right direction when he took over as Director of the Regional Hospital.

The challenges were equally great when he took over from an old broom like Dr. Kingue Thompson Njie at the Bamenda Regional Hospital. If the above "evaluatory questions" were to be asked about the Bamenda Regional Hospital when Dr. Nsame arrived, most of the answers would have been in the positive making it even more challenging for the Hospital Administrator.

Dr. Denis Nsame Nforniwe stepped in with the same spirit like he did in Limbe and moved on. Standards had to be maintained and improved upon. Seven months down the line he is moving on.

The challenges facing the new occupant of the office of Director of the Bamenda Regional Hospital were further compounded by the out break of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Working in collaboration with the Regional Delegate of Public Health for the Northwest Region and the Governor of the Northwest Region as well as the entire Regional Health Family, Dr. Denis Nsame in formidable team work put up a stiff fight against the marauding COVID-19 Pandemic.

On reception of his merited award from Francis Ekongang Nzante, the National Coordinator and Chair Person of the CPA Organising Committee Dr. Denis Nsame said, "when you are doing work, it's only an onlooker who sees what you are doing especially when you do so with your heart and might...this means a lot to me. First, it is an encouragement to myself then to my team because these are the fruits of team work...the present context is very different with the Crisis and the COVID-19, the challenges are enormous and the demands daunting..amongst these, we try to stay neutral while attending to the health needs of the population."

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Barrister Divine Ndeh Momuluh bags Performance Award for Revolutionising the Modus operandi in Credit Union Landscape.

 

According to Francis Ekongang Nzante, Chair Person and National Coordinator of the Cameroon Performance Awards, the young Barrister Divine Ndeh Momuluh bagged the Cameroon Performance Awards CPA 2020 because of the efforts he had put in to bring the activities of Cooperative Credit Unionism back on track and to reorganize the Sector in the wake of the sprouting of countless institutions in the Sector especially in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of the country.

Within the framework of the Cameroon Government's Economic Vision, Micro Savings Institutions and Cooperative Credit Unions were created with an aim of encouraging Small and Medium Scale Initiatives through the provision of loans at rates lower than those in other more conventional Financial Institutions. 

Recently however, there has been this gradual drift away from the real purpose for which these institutions were created. The initial orientation was the essence of Collective Effort but there recently occurred the frightful tendency to shift away from this position to that of a more self centered Personal Profit Making orientation.

The Organising Committee of the CPA through the words of Mr Francis Ekongang Nzante it's Chair Person and National Coordinator took note of Barrister Divine Ndeh Momuluh in his multiple media outings in which he drew attention to this phenomena. 

Divine Ndeh Momuluh is a Board Member of the Azire Cooperative Credit Union AZICCUL. He is also an elder of the Presbyterian Church  PC Ntsualam in Mankon, Bamenda. He is a Lawyer with the Cameroon Bar Council and a member of the Northwest Lawyers Association NOWELA.

He played an active role in the break away of AZICCUL from the Cameroon Cooperative  Credit Union League CAMCCUL. Just back from the United States where he pursued studies in other domains, he threw his legal knowledge behind AZICCUL and protected it's interests during this break away period from CAMCCUL.

The content of his media outings identified him as an advocate for reforms within the Cooperative Credit Union Sector in Cameroon. He has constantly reiterated that Loans should always be directed to small and medium scaled initiatives. This he says will impact positively on the health of grassroot initiatives. 

 This interest in the quality of lives at the grassroot certainly stems from the fact that his Academic trajectory is not unconnected to Community Development. This was equally seen when recently during the election of elders at PC Ntsualam, a congregation of over 1000, Divine Ndeh Momuluh was elected alongside others to serve.

Considering his age, organizers belief he will serve as a true role model to young Cameroonians who truly need one at a time when the life of the country is at crossroads.

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