The research work was funded by Trust Africa and was carried out in Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa.

The findings states that upto 70% of small and medium business entrepreneurs were not aware of the limited support structures and services put in place by their governments

Some of the ideas put forward to encourage small businesses was the creation of an express enterprise portal.

Mr. Owona Alfonso, speaking on the progress done by cameroon’s government in this regard mentioned the existence of a three (3) days period as maximum time to obtain all required licenses and paper from the government as well as new limited constraints on small businesses.

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SINOHYDRO is a chinese company with extensive expertise in the building of hydro electric dams.

It is one of several chinese companies used by the Chinese government in its outreach efforts in Africa.

The Memve’ele Hydro-electricity dam, is projected to be complete and come online in 54 months, just under five years.

Once completed, the dams, estimated to cost 365 Billion FCFA will provide 201 Mega Watts of electricity to the central africa nation.

It should be noted, that power shortages are rampant in Cameroon due to increase demand and a sharp raise in urban populations.

In addition, Cameroon exports electric power to neighbouring central african states and faces significant pressures to increase this supply capacity.

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The Mayors of Bagacina and of Krimadoka were sanctions in a communique from the Minster Delegate’s office of the Budgetary and Finance disciplinary council committee for embezzling public funds.

The communiques stated that the mayors were charge the total sum of funds embezzled with added penalty to be paid towards refunding the embezzled funds to the states treasury.

In the same spirit, it was announced that SONARA, University of Yaounde 1, University of Yaounde 2, the Cameroon State Public Contract Regulatory Board and other state enterprises were under investigation for embezzlement and mismanagement of state funds.

In addition, the Budgetary and Finance disciplinary council committee made it known that it was compiling an updated blacklist of state official sanctioned by the council to-date.

Corruption runs rampant in Cameroon and its a top-down issue. All public services and public officials have in place efficient method of collecting personal funds from the public services they render.

Cameroon has topped the list of most corrupt country in the world, multiple times.

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During a meeting in Yaounde on February 21, 2012, Germany promised about FCFA 40 million, African Development Bank, FCFA 50 million.

Other partners of the CHOC Project like the United States of America, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Great Britain, United Nations Development Programme, the European Union and the World Bank said they were to make their contributions known to government in the days ahead.

The Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi who chaired the meeting said the second phase of the CHOC Project that started in January 2012 will cost a total of FCFA 1.235 billion.

FCFA 239 million is expected to financed the first part of the project that spans through January to September 2012.

The first phase of the Change Habits Oppose Corruption Project started in 2007.

Its success according government officials is the creation of the National Anti-corruption Committee (NACC), the National Strategy for the fight against corruption and the active involvement of the civil society organizations in the fight against corruption.

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The Electoral Board members of Elections Cameroon embarked on a series of consultation meetings with elections stakeholders in the country that include political party leaders, civil society organizations and national and international development partners, who have been proposing different ways of ensuring a proper recompilation of the voters’ lists to ensure transparent and credible future elections.

Most of the leaders have proposed the biometric registration as a way of curbing fraud and double registration.

The Director General of Elections in ELECAM, will make public the programme for the recompilation of the register when the service provider for the biometric registration must have been selected, the materials bought and deployed to the field and staff trained, Dr Fonkam Azu’u specified.

The Electoral board of ELECAM during an extraordinary session early this month, decided that the electoral register has to be recompiled. Before that, the institution had embarked on the revision of the voters’ register as provided for by the law.

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A drama that underlines the tension and distemper within the ruling Cameroon People Democratic Movement (CPDM) party in Manyu Division which has been playing out ever since the appointment of Prof. Peter Agbor Tabi as Minister, Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency has taken a turn for the worse, with the party base accusing the minister of anti-party activities.

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On the one hand, the drama modulates the view that the Manyu CPDM is a league of pro-Agbor Tabi cronies and knee-jerks who are up in arms against anti-Agbor Tabi bellyachers; but on the other hand, it confirms the widespread view that Agbor Tabi is yet to reconcile himself to the fact that presently, there are several levers of political power in Manyu; and he Agbor Tabi cannot be the only cock to crow in Manyu politics as was the case in the past.

The cracks witnessed within the party shortly after the appointment of Prof Peter Agbor Tabi on June 30, 2009 as Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency, came to public knowledge when rival factions of the party organized public manifestation in Mamfe, November 6, 2011 to mark Mr. Biya’s 29th anniversary in power, demonstrating a deep rift in the party which currently faces the greatest challenge amid the rising crescendo of the People’s Action Party of Justice Ayah Paul Abine.

In a petition dated November 11, 2011, addressed to the Secretary General of the CPDM Central Committee, Jean Kuete, the Manyu I CPDM Section accused Agbor Tabi of practicing dictatorship and terrorism.

The petition, signed by the Section President, (Takor Daniel Emoh); Manyu I YCPDM President (Eyong) and Manyu I WCPDM vice-President (Agbor Sally) also accused Agbor Tabi of anti-party activities and attributed the significant inroads being made in Manyu by the opposition to Agbor Tabi’s actions.

Noted the petition: “Your Excellency this is not the first time we are writing and no action has been taken to bring the Minister to order.

Manyu I is gradually going to the opposition because of the Ministers attitude of dictatorship and terror.

This attitude of the Minister is dangerous for the party since we are getting towards the legislative and municipal elections in a couple of months,” the petition partly read.

The petitioners also exhorted the Secretary General of the CPDM Central Committee to immediately use his high offices to check the excesses of the Minister in order to guarantee the stability of the party in Manyu division.

The petition further states that “on Saturday November 5, 2011, we discovered that one of our banners around the Post office junction was pulled down and replace by a bigger one.

After investigation, we were informed that it was Minister Peter Agbor Tabi, who ordered Mrs. Mary Chu (his cousin) to destroy our banner and replaced it with the one he gave money to be produced”.

The ensuing schism culminated the next day in high drama. The show of shame, ridicule and public embarrassment saw Manyu I CPDM militants storm the Mamfe town hall where Agbor Tabi was presiding at events marking Biya’s 29th anniversary and removed all the party paraphernalia and canopies, including the one on the high table where Agbor Tabi and the SDO were seated, to the consternation of on-lookers and by-standers.

The Manyu I CPDM militants of Mamfe Central sub-division then riled and heckled Agbor Tabi to go and celebrate Biya’s anniversary in his native Eyumojock, as stipulated in the circular order signed by then CPDM Secretary General Emmanuel Rene Sadi.

Cameroon Today gathered that the public humiliation of Agbor Tabi in Mamfe is the by-product of micro nationalism in which Mamfe Central militants have complete and undivided loyalty to their political patron, CPDM Central Committee member, Chief George Tabetando, who Agbor Tabi has vowed to destroy politically and even threaten to eliminate physically.

But it takes more than just a luxurious desire and misguided ambition to destroy a man like Chief Tabetando; an oil magnate with very deep pockets who is revered by the rank and file in Mamfe central, thanks in part to his generosity and his unwavering disposition to bankroll CPDM party activities in Mamfe Central.

Political watchers in Manyu believe Agbor Tabi’s decision to go and organize Biya’s anniversary celebrations in Mamfe town in contravention of the Central Committee edict that directed him to his native Eyumojock was to prove that he is the political leader of Manyu; an issue that does not sit well
with militants in Mamfe Central and especially Upper Bayang which too has a Minister in the person of Eng. Victor Arrey Mengot, whom Agbor Tabi treats with disrespect and scornful disdain, refusing even to acknowledge and recognize his presence at public meetings, let alone shake hands.

Cameroon Today gathered that the Minister schedules political meetings in the division without bordering to inform the other actors, including Mengot.

His supercilious attitude and scornful behavior has alienated many Manyu elite, who now believe that after the President’s election, Agbor Tabi who prides himself as the God of Manyu politics should confront Ayah on the field alone, come the legislative and municipal elections.

As Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency, Agbor Tabi sees himself as the next Prime Minister, a position he is alleged to have been lobbying for over the last decade.

The varsity don is said to be even more convinced about his ambition of becoming the next Prime Minister, considering that former Prime Minister, Ephraim Inoni and current Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, left his current Portfolio to occupy the Star Building.

Analyst hold that because of his self-confidence in becoming the next Star Building occupant, Agbor Tabi has developed a swollen head and bloated ego, thereby disrespecting hierarchy and causing confusion both in Manyu division and the entire Southwest region.

The unpopularity of the Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency and accusations that he could not account for over FCFA 50million of the FCFA 72 million contributed by Manyu elite to fund President Biya’s re-election campaign has further torn the party apart in Manyu thereby denting his Prime Ministerial ambition.

Manyu elite who spoke to Cameroon express but refused to be named, said they are neither contributing nor are they going to campaign for the CPDM party during the upcoming elections with Agbor Tabi as the Divisional Campaign leader.

“We are neither contributing nor are we going to campaign until Peter Produces that money, we shall prefer to vote for Ayah’s party, after all, is he not another Manyu son?” an elite of Akwaya questioned

“The Minister is not sincere to himself, why is he running away from Eyumojock to Mamfe?

Why is he creating confusion all over the place? Political analyst hold that with the dwindling popularity of Agbor Tabi and the refusal of Manyu elite to contribute towards the financing of CPDM political activities in Manyu, Ayah’s People Action Party, PAP will have a field day at the legislative and municipal election come July, this year.

It should be noted that Agbor Tabi’s unpopularity, coupled with bad roads, caused the CPDM party to suffer a humiliating defeat at the October 9, Presidential polls.

But for massive rigging orchestrated by Agbor Tabi with the complicity of ELECAM officials, Ayah would have emerged victorious with over 80% of the total vote cast.

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He called on the youths to use the knowledge acquired in school and other training sessions to contribute to building an emerging Cameroon which is a common grand vision.

The Head of State cited government’s efforts to give the youths decent and professional-oriented education, as well as job opportunities.

Mr Biya acknowledged the damage successive crises have done to the country’s economy.

He however, stated that the country has set out to surmount the crises by giving a fresh impetus to economic activities with the ultimate goal of attaining the status of an emerging country.

President Biya gave both certificate and non-certificate holders hopes of getting jobs.

“ We will soon launch our agrarian revolution and implement our major mining, energy and infrastructure projects,” he said, stating that some of them were already underway.

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The Supreme State Audit Office is a ministry in charge of fighting against the corruption, as well as embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds.

The Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of the Supreme State Audit Office, Henri Eyebe Ayissi and new Ambassador of Morocco to Cameroon, Lahcen Sail discussed the possibilities of the relations and Morocco’s assistance to the ongoing anti-corruption crusade in a meeting in Yaounde, February 17, 2012.

It emerged from the discussions held behind closed doors that Minister Eyebe Ayissi solicited the support of the Moroccan Embassy in Yaounde in establishing the cooperation ties whose ultimate goal is exchange of working visits.

The Moroccan Court of Accounts, Supreme State Audit Office, the Head of Division in charge of Training and International Cooperation, Alfred Enoh said , has a leading experience in fighting against the embezzlement of public funds and corruption.

He disclosed that Cameroon dispatched experts to learn from the Moroccan experience during the establishment of the Audit Bench of the Supreme Court, specialised in ensuring proper management of finances of public and semi-public companies in Cameroon.

The courtesy visit of the Moroccan Ambassador is part of the ongoing discussions Minister Eyebe Ayissi has been holding with national institutions and foreign partners in seeking ways of strengthening the fight against corruption and embezzlement of public funds.

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They had separate discussions with Electoral Board members of ELECAM led by the Chairman Fonkam Azu’u Samuel as part of the ongoing consultations to ensure a proper recompilation of the register of electors in the country.

“We could help ELECAM politically and also see how to put our technical know-how at the disposal of ELECAM and other specialized institutions”, Ambassador Reinhard Buchholz said in an interview after discussing with ELECAM Electoral Board members.

He expressed happiness to see ELECAM work in a professional manner ahead of the upcoming council and parliamentary elections, contrary to the case in the October 9, 2011 presidential election which was baptism of fire for the institution.

“We want to give our shared commitment to free and fair elections and work to ensure that people have confidence that elections are done with great care to ensure the outcome that people are seeking,” US Representative to UN Council on Human Rights said.

She said the Council consider free and fair elections to be sensitive.

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“35 percent of the work in the Mekin Hydro-electricity dam project has been executed,” said the General Manager of the Dam Project, Frederic Biya Motto on February 10, 2012 after an inspection visit to the project site, accompanied by the Governor of the South Region, Jules-Marcellin Ndjaga.

He said the place for the foundation has been filled, clearing of the site for the main factory and construction of staff quarters were on course, while the river has been diverted.

The Mekin dam project is expected to produce 63 kw. The work is expected to last 36 months, meaning that it must be completed by March 2014.

The Memve’ele dam project expected to generate 51.6 MW of energy, is still at the level of digging the access roads and compensating the affected population.

70 percent work on the access road has been covered, the Head of the Control Mission, Jean-Bertin Dokou Sitio said.

He disclosed that the bridge over the Mvila river which has been the major obstacle to the project may be completed by May 2012, stating that construction work on the access road was progressing normally.

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