Photos courtesy of The Post, Buea
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November 28, 2006
The Southern Cameroons Interim Government commends the intellectually honest and politically correct strike action the University of Buea students are currently engaged in in response to the programmed destruction of the higher education institutions of the peoples of the Southern Cameroons.
After attempts in the mid 80s to completely bastardize the General Certificate of Education (GCE) and render it less valuable in the eyes of global institutions of higher learning were halted by protest action by teenagers in schools like CPC Bali, and after only brave and heroic attempts could launch the GCE Board in the 90s by the mothers and fathers of the Southern Cameroons, the French puppets in Yaounde have not given up the dream to destroy the anglosaxon-inspired educational system of the Southern Cameroons even as some of their kids flood our secondary and high schools.
Under French tutelage the criminal regime in Yaounde, with its armed forces trained and supplied by the genocidal French will soon descend on children peacefully protesting in Buea with the type of babarism that has become the trademark of the tyrants under French tutelage in Africa.
The Southern Cameroons Interim Government prays for the safety of our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters in Buea.
Media & Communication Department
Southern Cameroons Interim Government
Yaoundé Imposes Candidates On UB Medical School List
By Azore Opio (The Post)
The Ministry of Higher Education abruptly stopped the oral part of a Competitive Entrance Examination into the First Year of Medical Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) University of Buea that would have taken place on Thursday, November 23.
Acting on behalf of the Ministry of Higher Education, a new list of 153 candidates instead of the initial 127 candidates, signed by a certain Professor Nnomo Marcelline, purportedly the President of the Jury was faxed to the FHS.
The facsimile, now swelled up by the twenty-six new names, (majority of them Beti sounding) would push the orals to Monday, November 27.It is not known which examination these new candidates wrote, nor where they wrote it, who marked their scripts and graded them, or
if they did write any examination at all.
It is known though, that the Medical Studies examination had fielded 876 candidates out of which
only 60 candidates were required for the course. The first Francophone in that group was number 600.
The Cameroon General Certificate of Education, GCE, Board, with headquarters in Buea, had marked and graded the examination, using its qualification system. Subsequently, it had selected 127 candidates deemed successful in the written part of the examination and short-listed them to participate in the orals.
But in the night of Wednesday, November 22, several phone calls originating from Yaoundé called off the Thursday interview. The following morning, a jury constituted to conduct the orals comprising twenty lecturers drawn mostly from the University of Buea, would leave the Faculty astonished at the call-off.
The jury, in general, viewed this development as completely at odds with the principles and values of the University. It was thought that Prof. Nnomo and, perhaps, some big shots in the Ministry of Higher Education, had defied the time-honoured logic of competitive examinations.
The University of Buea Students' Union, UBSU, issued a sharply worded memorandum calling for "the purported orals of this examination to be suspended until the irregularities are resolved. Nnomo Marcelline is now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea."
When contacted to comment on the issue that had seemingly aroused Anglophone emotions and raised temperatures by degrees, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea said it was his error.
Professor Cornelius Lambi said it being the first time the entrance examination into the Medical School at FHS was carried out; it had slipped their minds that the Ministry of Higher Education would have to monitor every stage of the exercise and sign the list of successful candidates.
Lambi also said the Ministry has profound interest in the admission exercise into the Medical School because on successful completion of course, the graduates would be absorbed into the public service.
The University Registrar, Dr. Victor Julius Ngoh would corroborate his boss. He said no list was imposed on the University.” It was an administrative mix-up. The Ministry of Higher Education would sign and publish both the results of the written and oral examinations," the Registrar said.” In fact, the Minister of Higher Education had said he wanted more Cameroonians to come
for the orals," Ngoh added with a chuckle.
