Meeting with the Press:

Enow Abrams Cautions Journalists to Report ‘Lawfully”

-Says IDPs in NW and SW will vote

Elecam boss, Enow Abrams

The president of the electoral board of Elecam has assured the public that people displaced by the crisis in NW and SW will have the opportunity to vote at the polling centres that have been created in troubled zones.

            Governor Enow Abrams Egbe was speaking during a press launch in Yaounde on Friday.

            “We have put all in place to ensure that people in troubled zones vote. We have pulled together many polling stations to create polling centres in safe areas where these people can vote safely,” Enow Abrams said, noting that it was for this reason that polling centres were created near army camps where there is more security.

            The press launch gave opportunity for C authorities to meet and exchange with pressmen, clear worries and doubts and emphasize on the need for reporters to report within the ambit of the law.

            Guided by the theme “the role of the media in presidential elections”, discussions were centred on the practical measures taken to ensure a smooth, transparent and equitable election and in view of an effective collaboration between the media and other stakeholders of the electoral process, before during and after the polls.

            Governor Enow Abrams told journalists that the two organs of Elecam, the Board and Directorate General, are working in strict synergy and perfect collaboration towards a successful organization of the October presidential polls.

            He said as of 20 September 2018, some 6.630.847 electors had registered on the voters lists. The potential voters are distributed in 24.990 polling stations in Cameroon and 64 in the diaspora, he revealed.     

            Enow Abrams said the DG of elections has procured and dispatched all electoral materials including stationery, polling broth; ballot papers, indelible ink, envelopes to the 10 regions of the country.

            The Elecam board chair beckoned journalists to accompany Elecam in ensuring a hitch-free and transparent election in October. He reminded journalists that it is not their role to give provisional or partial results in their reports. He called for fairness, balance and accuracy in the coverage of the vote.

            Enow Abrams said voting will take place in all the divisions and subdivisions of the country and that soldiers and other uniform officers will vote because they too are Cameroonians and they have a right to choose their president.

            He enjoined journalists to bring their professionalism to bear on the elections so that together with Elecam, Unity and Peace can be preserved in Cameroon.