Day: May 25, 2024

Gendarmes in Akwa Nord Douala have succeeded to apprehend a man called Keming Franklin accused of acting as a fake landlord extorting money from over 20 people in search of an apartment to rent.

He reportedlypleaded guilty to the gendarme officials, adding that has been in this dubious job for over five years now with his accomplices being fake real estate agents and security guards.

Some victims who witnessed his public presentation on May 23, 2024 said he even issued them fake receipts after depositing him huge sums of money.

‘In 2021, when I was looking for a house, I contacted one of his fake real estate agents who presented to me some houses which were available in Bonamoussadi. The next day, I went with my wife and some witnesses to hand him the sum of FCFA 1.3 million. He told me I had to give FCFA 100.000 to one agent and 50.000 to another. Days after, I noticed he was fake and filed a complaint at the gendarmerie.’ A victim narrated.

‘As for me, he dubbed me off the sum of FCFA 1.5 million. I als
o paid the fake agent the sum of 5,000frs’. Another victim Embelle Fidel reported.

Following series of similar complaints filed against the same individual, an investigation was conducted which lead to the arrest of the alleged fake landlord.

‘Within a week, we received 16 complaints against the same man. The number adds to 10 others who had also filed similar complaint.’ Commander of the Akwa Nord territorial gendarmerie brigade disclosed.

The alleged fake landlord will be answering to questions from judges in court.

The victims on their part expect reimbursement of their money by the suspect and for him to be thrown in prison.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

The 6th Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon(PCC), Rt. Rev. Dr. Fonki Samuel Forba will resume normal pastoral duties in the church after an election scheduled at the end of 2024.

Rt. Rev. Dr. Fonki Samuel gave the insight during a send forth ceremony and memoir launch, done to his honor at the PCC Synod Office Buea on May 25.

‘I don’t know where my place is, but I can satisfactorily and honestly say, my time on this Hill is up, I must go down into the field to experience life there too and joyfully follow as I am led,’ the PCC Moderator said.

After serving for two five year terms beginning in 2014, unlike his two predecessors and other moderators, his mandate doesn’t end in at his retirement.

‘Unlike Moderator emeritus Nyansako-ni-Nku, the distinguished Rev. Dr Festus A. Asana who ‘Stepped aside in Hope’, I am stepping further inside, on the other side to be led in active and exemplery obedience and service,’ he furthered.

Rt. Rev. Fonki Samuel has served the PCC in the pastoral ministry for
over three decades through various ranks to the most as Moderator. He said: ‘serving God as a pastor is the noblest of all responsibilities; I won’t want to miss it that is why I was called.’

The Man of God who had wrestled with internal conflicts in the church, social media alarms, Anglophone crisis and the Covid19 pandemic is remembered by many of his christians to have been a visionary leader.

He has called on all to abstain from trouble making in the forthcoming church elections and build a stronger and resilient church.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

The president of the Cameroon Rennessiance Movement, Professor Maurice Kamto has responded to warnings by the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji,

In a letter on May 25, 2024 titled; ‘Cameroon does not need a Ministry of agitation, insult and blustering’, the opposition leader noted that the Ministry of Territorial Administration (MINAT) has become less than it’s original mission for it’s ‘permanent abuse of power.’

The firebrand political leader citing the Ministers remarks in a release on May 23, which labelled efforts of CRM and others to get Cameroonians massively registered on the electoral lists, as ‘adventurers in need of notoriety’, said the government official ‘is talking about himself, he who is chasing a notoriety which he sorely lacks, because there is no basis his notoriety could rely upon.’

Responding to the point which the MINAT boss highlighted of Divisional Officers permitting political parties to hold rallies, the Law Professor cum political leader argued that the same
quoted Law No. 90/055 of 19 December 1990 governing public meetings and manifestations in the Republic of Cameroon, talked of a declaration and not an authorization.

In the same release, the CRM chair expressed his solidarity and that of his militants and sympathizers to PCRN leader, Cabral Libii, and Barrister Paulin DJORWE, Acting National President of the MDR, who were also indiscriminately shot at in the MINAT release.

The CRM leader promised tough days ahead for the current regime.

Source: Cameroon News Agency

Traders at the Douala central market pinpoint frequent power outages as the primary cause of fire outbreaks in the commercial hub.

‘Some traders are speaking out. They cut electricity here like a turn signal in traffic! It’s tragic. That’s why people face financial ruin when their shops catch fire,’ onet revealed.

Another cited haphazard electrical wiring as a contributing factor.

‘The electrical setup in this market is appalling. When power cuts are frequent, the risk of a short circuit is high. That’s what’s been happening,’

These potential root causes emerged after Littoral region Governor Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua informed reporters on Friday, May 24, 2024, that fire that engulfed over 30 shops on Thursday night, May 23, was ignited by a fan left running in one of the shops.

‘It was determined that a trader forgot to switch off a fan in one of the gutted shops and left. Perhaps the fan overheated and sparked the fire, which then spread to other shops,’ the governor said.

Governor Ivaha Diboua al
so observed that illegally constructed shops around the Douala central market hindered firefighters’ efforts to extinguish the blaze.

He cautioned against this practice, which exacerbated the flames and caused extensive material damage.

Source: Cameroon News Agency