SDF National Chairman’s New Year message wants Constitutional Council to take roots and mobilises Cameroonians to reconcile towards nation building process.
“We have lived through moments of excitement and crises and 2016 offers an opportunity for all to ask for pardon and forgiveness towards building a democratic, modern, prosperous and peaceful Cameroon”. That was how SDF National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi dropped curtains on his Near Year message, presented to the press at his Ntarinkon residence on January 14, 2016.
The message mobilised the nation to dissuade youths from easygoing life and prescribed indispensable values of good morals and hardwork. The gateway, he said, is education and adequate training for decent jobs in a country which he claimed showcases over 70 per cent of youth unemployment. The SDF National Chairman congratulated the nation’s valiant Security and Defense forces battling insecurity in the Far North, North and East Regions. He, however, blamed insecurity rocking the country on what he said is the result of unbalanced regional development.
Visibly disturbed with the ugly state of many of the nation’s roads, Fru Ndi thinks that it is better for Cameroonians to dislodge tollgates on dilapidated sectors of road infrastructure while road users should practice civil disobedience in the payment of tollgates until such roads are properly maintained. The message also expressed the need for developed and industrialised countries whose attitude and activities have depleted the ozone layer to stop climate change, repair damage caused and compensate regions which are the primary victims of indiscriminate timber exploitation. He equally prescribed the planting of two or more trees of the same specie for each tree cut and inspired the intensification of tree planting in the Northern regions of Cameroon in efforts to beat climate change.
The SDF National Chairman, does not believe in the 2016 Finance Law which according to him, is far from the dream of citizens. He prays for democratic governance in 2016 in the hope that the Constitutional Council takes root. He equally wants a veritable independent electoral Commission, the establishment of an electoral calendar for free, pluralistic and transparent elections. Fru Ndi also hopes towards full biometrics from registration to proclamation of election results, the limitation of Presidential mandate to two terms, introduction of the single ballot paper, review of the audio-visual law to cover all media institutions and legislation on double nationality.
