Cameroon:FSNC Intensifies Implantation of Party in Southwest Region

SW FSNC strategizing  at regional meeting in Molyko-Buea to popularise party 

 By Christopher Ambe

The  Cameroon  National Salvation Front party (FSNC) ,whose National President is  Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has embarked on a campaign to intensify the implantation of the party in the Southwest Region,  in spite of  the on-going  Anglophone crisis .

The Southwest Regional Coordinator for FSNC, Nnange  Calvis  Nkumbe, on Monday July 25, chaired  a  regional meeting  in Molyko-Buea, bringing  together  the party divisional and sub divisional coordinators, as well as other  members,  to assess the growth of the party in the region and strategize how to  popularize it.

Nnange Calvis Nkumbe 

Nnange expressed optimism that if their implantation strategies are well-implemented, the party will soon become a household name in the Southwest region.  He said the FSNC is new in the Southwest region –just a year old but has already over six thousand registered members with women and youths topping the list.

It emerged that the FSNC exists in five of the six divisions of the southwest region. Only Ndian Division is yet to have the presence of the FSNC,but  the Southwest Regioal Coordinator told The Horizon that the party will soon be launched there.

“By joining the FSNC it is an opportunity to partake in the management of our daily lives. The FSNC opens its doors to the youth, because they are the future of this country.Nnange noted,“FSNC is not only a political party but platforms for governance for we are poised to uplift standards. We teach people patriotism and nation-building. We focus on salvation, which is reconciliation between the past and the present. Like in the Southwest where there is a crisis we have to reconcile the past and the present to move to a brighter future. If we are here today, it is because we are managing the crisis and we hope to see its end soon”

 The Manyu Divisional Coordinator 
for FSNC,Rev.Dr. Oben Mbikang Ernest lauded the party’s National President Issa Tchiroma Bakary for “seeing in me a leader that would champion FSNC activities in Manyu Division.”

According to him, being a member of the FSNC party is a great choice “because the party opens its doors to the youth, giving them the opportunity to make their contributions towards nation-building.

Noting that unemployment is a problem in Cameroon, Rev.Dr Oben pointed out that the party has good employment programs.

“Our National President being an engineer has been appealing to Cameroonian parents to orientate their children towards professional studies …because he has realized that in the near future there will be lots of skillful jobs in Cameroon and the country may not have the professionals to handle such”, he remarked, urging the youth of the Southwest Region to enroll, en masse, as FSNC members.

For her part, the Kupe Muanenguba Divisional Coordinator, Ekinde Highly Epede, said being a leader in the party has attracted many women to the FSNC. She implored women to join the FSNC in their numbers, enroll in electoral registers and vote for peace-loving and development-focused leaders, whom she added, abound in the FSNC.

Chief Rev. Pastor Paul Molua Tonga of Lower Ewonda Village, Buea Subdivision, an FSNC official, admitted that the party is young in the Southwest Region, but advised that “we have to do everything legally and morally right to make it grow rapidly.”

The Southwest FSNC resolved, among other activities, to launch soon a regional football tournament with handsome cash prizes and trophies and embark on massive voter registration of youths in the electoral registers while promoting youth empowerment programs to help solve the unemployment crisis in the country.

It should be noted the FSNC National President,Issa Tchiroma Bakary,is Cameroon’s  Minister for Employment and Vocational Training and  former Minister of Communication.