Presidential 2018: Biya Still Remembers The Cameroonian People
While he is not yet officially candidate, the president of the Republic multiplies the operations of charm.
One day in July 2016. At the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Spatial Planning, the head of this department is preparing to sign a concessional loan of 75 billion Fcfa with Exim Bank China. The funding is for the construction of 10 digital development centers, eight of which are in state universities.
Almost at the same time, the Minister of Higher Education (Minesup), receives a phone call from the presidency of the Republic: the project "a student, a computer", on which some political strategists of Etoudi cravaches for several weeks, has been validated. This will be the new allocation of funds from the loan.
For many analysts, this is a political operation with electoral aims. The Prime Minister will often understand the Minesup Jacques Fame Ndongo, especially when he reminds him, this afternoon of December 22, 2017, the distribution of computers freshly landed at Nsimalen airport, will begin with the two universities of Yaoundé, and no longer by the universities of Maroua and Ngaoundéré as originally planned. "It's a very political operation," insisted the head of the government.
As in February 2011 - the day before the presidential election - when Paul Biya launched the recruitment operation of "25,000 young graduates in the civil service", the project of distributing computers to students appears as a need to satisfy ( once again) one of the fringes of the most idle society, but more, to attract the sympathies of this important electoral basin to a few months of the presidential election. Young people, it is still question in one of the last acts of the head of the State.
Last Monday, the President of the Republic signed two decree acts: one on the creation of the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (Fmsb) of Garoua and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ens) of Bertoua; which are all attached to the University of Ngaoundere.
For many analysts, this is a political operation with electoral aims. The Prime Minister will often understand the Minesup Jacques Fame Ndongo, especially when he reminds him, this afternoon of December 22, 2017, the distribution of computers freshly landed at Nsimalen airport, will begin with the two universities of Yaoundé, and no longer by the universities of Maroua and Ngaoundéré as originally planned. "It's a very political operation," insisted the head of the government.
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Last Monday, the President of the Republic signed two decree acts: one on the creation of the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (Fmsb) of Garoua and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ens) of Bertoua; which are all attached to the University of Ngaoundere.
Very rare in the heavy Cameroonian bureaucracy, said schools will be functional next February, with in the meantime, the recruitment of 85 students at the FMSB Garoua and 250 students at Ens Bertoua.
Earlier, last December 31, Paul Biya leaned at the bedside of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), financially strangled by the huge slate of the state. "The unfavorable international situation [...] negatively impacted economic growth and social progress in [our] country.
It also resulted in cash-flow difficulties, which the state suppliers, and particularly the small and medium-sized enterprises, suffered badly, "the head of state said before promising:" special attention will be paid the situation of Smes, in particular with regard to the priority settlement of the debt due to them, as well as to improving their access to bank credit ".
The employers, who asked for no less, welcomed the attention of the President of the Republic. The next presidential election is scheduled for October 2018. Paul Biya, who has not officially declared his candidacy, yet seems to think every morning in front of his mirror.
The employers, who asked for no less, welcomed the attention of the President of the Republic. The next presidential election is scheduled for October 2018. Paul Biya, who has not officially declared his candidacy, yet seems to think every morning in front of his mirror.
Difficult, as things stand now, to say who potential candidate or the President of the Republic is behind these charming operations.
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