February 2020 Elections:

Governors Told to Provide Enabling Environment
Governors of the ten regions of the country have been instructed to ensure that a serene atmosphere reigns before, during and after the upcoming municipal and parliamentary elections which will hold under a peculiar security context in the country.
    The Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji was speaking on Monday November 25 in Yaounde as he chaired the opening ceremony of the second bi-annual conference of the regional governors. The meeting to scrupulously examine the security situation of the country ahead of the polls, the minister said was holding on esteemed instructions of the Head State, President Paul Biya.
    He said the regional administrative officers should ensure the local elections hold in a serene atmosphere. He reiterated that politicians and political party leaders who call and sponsor disorder will be held legally responsible for the acts of their militants, urging the regional administrators to guard against such behavior of politicians.
    “You have to ensure that Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), the independent elections management organ, gets all the necessary support and security assistance. Security concerns must be at the centre of priorities throughout the electoral process,” Atanga Nji told the ten regional governors.

    The conference was also the first for the regional chief executives since the Major National Dialogue which Atanga Nji said registered a resounding success; “proof of the fact that Cameroonian problems can always be solved by Cameroonians themselves.”
    He used the occasion to call on some young Cameroonians who have taken up arms against the state and have decided to be living in the bushes to heed to president Biya’s call on them to drop their weapons and join Disarmament. Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) centres in the Northwest, Southwest and Far North regions.
    The second semester conference of regional governors for 2019 was holding on the eve of end-of-year festivities; a period full of effervescence requiring heightened vigilance.
    “You have to more than ever before show proof of vigilance and anticipation,” Atanga Nji told the ten regional governors adding that intelligence has to be at the centre of their activities.
    The opening ceremony of the conference was also attended by the Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamime Ousmane Mey, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defense in charge of National Gendarmerie, Etoga Yves Landry and the Delegate General for National Security Martin Mbarga Nguele who all briefed the regional governors on some security and development issues.