Afrique Media case: Disagreement between CNC and Mincom

On October 2, the Minister of Communication Issa Tchiroma sent a letter to the Vice President of the CNC, entitled "Lifting of the temporary suspension measure taken against the Afrique Media television station."

The Mincom instructed the CNC to "order the lifting of the measure concerned in the decision No. 00015 / Cnc of 4 June 2015 temporarily suspending the television channel Afrique Media". Issa Bakary Tchiroma also recalled that "the above-mentioned measure led to the sealing of the facilities of the said station dated August 6, 2015, expired since September 5, 2015".

The instruction of Mincom was not well received by the CNC. According to a publication of Mutations newspaper on Thursday, October 8, it is through the press that members of the National Communication Council (CNC) learned the news of the lifting of suspension of the Afrique Media TV channel. Everything was unappreciated. The newspaper reveals that Peter Essoka, vice president of CNC on Tuesday sent a correspondence to rebel against Issa Tchiroma Bakary.

"This letter is intended to alert Mincom it has no jurisdiction to lift the suspension. 2, it was to remind him of the principle of parallelism, which is that the one that suspends also lifts the suspension. 3, he had to know it creates disorder in our functions," said a source from the CNC to Mutations while specifying that the CNC was created to prevent the government from being both judge and party in the case.

For now, the seals continue to be visible at the television headquarters in Tsinga in Yaounde. Following the closure of its premises, June 4, 2015, Afrique Media had decided to settle in Chad and Equatorial Guinea to broadcast. According to Journal du Cameroon, a new director was even appointed at Chad in the person of Kemi Seba, Pan-Africanist essayist.