Articulating the Anglophone Crisis:

Hunters invited on radio debate programs in K’ba

By Doh Bertrand Nua in Kumba

Chamberlin Ntou'ouNdong, Meme SDO 2

The Senior Divisional Officer, SDO, for Meme Division, Ntou’ouNdong Chamberlin, has begged broadcast journalists in Kumba in particular and other media practitioners in general to rethink the kind of personalities they invite to analyze the ongoing Anglophone Crisis that has gripped the two Anglophone regions in the country.

                Chamberlin Ntou’ouNdong made the plea to journalists on Tuesday May 16 at the conference hall of his office during a crisis meeting that brought together all heads of forces of law and order in Kumba, administrative authorities and media men in Kumba.

                The SDO revealed to journalists that after investigating and cross checking panelists on sundry radio programs, he has noticed that most of the panelists lack a mastery of what they are invited to talk about.  According him “most of your panelists on radio programs are hunters” while revealing that after investigations it is very certain all the panelists who pose as experts have no mastery of the sensitive issues they try to enlighten the public on. He added “most of these your radio analysts have nothing concrete doing in town are cannot to trace as workers in any establishment in Kumba and so use this opportunities given them on radio programs to mislead and misinformed the public.

                While lamenting the fluctuating nature of CRTV signals in Kumba that doesn’t give the population the opportunity to get information from the national station, the SDO noted the entire population of Meme division depends on what the journalists in Kumba do and as such any radio program or any of the hunters taken to analysts radio programs that will attempt jeopardizing public peace will not be welcome. He lamented while the hunter like radio analyst have never seen good in anything done by government, why some of them continuously abuse administrative officials and go ahead to say baseless things which they ought not say.

                While enjoining all to be responsible even at their family settings Chamberlin Ntou’ouNdong reminded journalists while drawing inspiration from the current Anglophone impasse on the fact that problems are part of human life and there is no problem that cannot  be resolve. To him without peace the journalists themselves will not be able to live and manage their own families reason why he noted the journalists should be peace crusaders and not promoters of insecurity.

                In a fatherly tone the SDO pleaded sundry times to journalists to be agents of peace and not agents to spur up insecurity. He urged journalists to practice responsible journalism while enjoying government’s largess of operating under administrative tolerance.

Administrative Information Gatekeeping

                The media men drawn from different organs all appreciated the frank talk of the SDO and promised to better their practice and ensure the promotion of peace in the country especially during this trying moments. They however raised worries of certain administrative officials and other authorities who still practice information gatekeeping. The journalists revealed to the Meme boss that for them to prevent bringing in hunters in the studio to analyse programs, the officials and experts in the different domains who are always afraid to talk to media men will also shun that habit. In reaction, the SDO promised and assured journalists that he will talk to the officials concern while also noting that if is not also all information that the journalists may get from officials at all times. He however appreciated the level of journalism practice in Kumba and cautioned all to stay out of trouble while continuously enjoying government’s administrative tolerance.