ELECTION Cameroon evaluate challenges ahead of March 12 senatorial election

To give more credence to March 12 senatorial election and eschew political hullabaloo, a common characteristic of electoral exercises in most countries and Cameroon in particular, the Chairman of “ELECAM” Enow Abraham held a strategic meeting with stake holders in Bamenda on Friday January 13 to set the stage for a hitch free electoral exercise. The meeting brought together ELECAM officials, Municipal authorities and political parties’ representatives of the region to evaluate, brainstorm and sort solutions to some of the holdups of electoral exercise encountered over the years.

This is aimed at creating an atmosphere of trust to give credibility to the upcoming Senatorial election. Participants were allowed to freely express their worries and exhume their past electoral experiences to enable the chair man sort lasting solution to them. Although tempers fired between some party representatives over electoral fraud, the meeting ended in a very convivial atmosphere as the Chairman was very tactful in his deliberation. He gave very mature and convincing responses to the issues raised. He disclosed that all commission workers shall henceforth be intitled to financial motivation without regards to their political affiliations. 

Thee meeting saw the presentation of statistics of the registration exercise in the region which stands at 602,039 potential electors. The regional Delegate of ELECAM Wofoa Njoya Sake gave a clinical report of the activities of the institution in the region. Enow Abraham exhorted militants to learn to live together to be able to put an end the political brouhaha that has plunged the region into arm twisting for over six years. He attributed the extension of the stalemate on internal political antagonism amongst political elite.While exhorting the political elite to speak with one voice to be able to convince the children against the insurgence that has held the region hostage for more than six years, he insisted that the indifference will not help things out.

       By chifu Edward

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