Menchum Division:

Journalist Cham Victor Elected CNYC President

By Yollande Mbombe and Boris Esono in Buea

Cham Victor, New sub-divisional president, CNYC Menchum

Some 360 youths have recently been elected to head various branches of the Cameroon National Youth Council, CNYC.                                Amongst those recently elected is renowned journalist and reporter with Eden Newspaper, Cham Victor Bama who was elected Sub-divisional president for Fungom in the Menchum Division, NWR.

Charm Victor was elected last Saturday February 17 during elections in to the National Youth Council organized with some 360 sub-divisional heads elected.

These presidents have been charged with the implementation of the president’s youth plan at their various levels.

            The election held in Zhoa chief town of Fungom was supervised by the officials of the Fungom sub-divisional delegation of youth Affairs led by its Delegate Emmanuel Nji.

            He will be assisted by a 14-man executive bureau to control youth affairs in the area for the next three years.

            Speaking to The Median Newspaper, the new CNYC president for Fungom outlined some priority projects will special focus on revamping the Lake Nyos area. “My main priority project is to revamp the Lake Nyos area, lobby for recreational, educational, social and humanitarian facilities to be constructed in Nyos in order to integrate the youths. Lake Nyos needs our attention and they deserve it.  I will design projects and together with government we shall implement them”.

            “The next issue is the fight against illiteracy. There is a very big challenge fighting illiteracy where I come as they rate of illiteracy is about 4o percent.  Young people are only involved in activities that are not educated related. I have a challenged now to open vocational training centres but that can only be possible by lobbying and partnerships through national and international organs”.

            He further indicated that “workshops, seminars and conferences will be instituted to train youths in the area of academics”. “A program called employment will soon be launched to educate the youths that they can make it on their own and become entrepreneurs and that they should not only rely on the government for employment”.

            He concluded by calling on the youths to be confident in the leaders and national institutions as they cannot mislead them.

Background

            Cham Victor Bama hails from Weh, Fungom in the North West Region and has a vast and outstanding profile as a journalist and mass media communicator. He is a member of several organizations and has contributed immensely to the Civic Education drive in Cameroon.

            Before his appointment, he was a high school teacher in Buea and the founder of Municipal update Media group. He was the former coordinator of the Youth service at the national station in Bamenda. He is also a commonwealth fellow on leadership and citizenship from 2009: A former divisional president for the association of young Communicators for Menchum and a pioneer member of the Cameroon National Youth Council in 2009.

            His rise to power is highly deserved and anticipations are that his reforming spirit would bring the much desired change to an area which harbours Cameroon’s popular Lake Nyos.