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Actualités of Friday, 1 May 2015

Source: Journal du Cameroun

Who succeeds Archbishop Befe Ateba at NCC?

The death of Archbishop Joseph Befe Ateba has left the position of president of the National Communication Council (NCC) vacant.

While the NCC is supposed to shine with impartiality and transparency, one has the impression that the regulatory body of the media in Cameroon became a weapon in the service of obscure lobbies and gurus as well as, serial killers of freedoms.

Some cases such as that of the Anecdote within the group of Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga which had been successful after having dragged the Vice President of the NCC Peter Essoka and the Secretary general of the same regulatory media body, Jean Tobie Hond to court for "abuse of office" and defamation, shows how this body turned into media planned editorial genocide.

At the time, it is urgent to place at its head a grip man capable of redeeming an institution which is very precious to the head of State Paul Barthélémy Biya bi Mvondo Assam.

Already names such as Charles Pythagore Ndongo current Director of information TV at CRTV, Zacharie Ngniman head of the prevention and the communication division at the National Anti-corruption Commission, Patrice Etoundi Mballa, former managing editor of the Government daily Cameroon Tribune, or even Joseph Janvier Mvoto Obounou, former Director of development of private media and advertising in the Mincom circulate in the Seraglio to replace late Bishop Joseph Befe Ateba.