New ELECAM appointees reluctant to assume duty

For more than a month after ELECAM appointments, regional delegates are reluctant to assume their responsibilities.

Three of the 'recitals' of resolution No. 0159 from 9 July of the electoral board of Elections Cameroon (Elecam), appointing delegates, are receiving attention. The first relates to the law of April 19, 2012 on the electoral Code and which recalls, in details, the provisions of articles 9 and 30 of the powers of this body.

The second is more explicit "seen as non-execution by the Director General of Elections of resolution No. 0153 April 25, 2014, on the appointment of officials of territorial dismemberments in Elections Cameroon (Elecam)" and the 3rd statement that "saw the admission of some regional officials to assert their rights to retirement." Thus, on July 9, regional delegates were appointed by the electoral Council.

While three replacements were made, it allowed the other three to assert their rights to retirement while four others kept to their positions.

Until recently, it was still the status quo within the regional delegations of Elecam taking in consideration these movements. It was recently revealed that a technical award of service took place in the regional delegations of the South and southwest where the incumbents of the positions, have been admitted to assert their rights to retirement.

What about the others, including those of the Centre, East and far North?

Recently there was calm at the headquarters of the body responsible for the Organization, management and supervision of the electoral process and referendum in Bastos. On the first floor of the building which combines the two main bodies of the structure, there was calm.

We are informed that the Cabinet of the president of the electoral Council, Fonkam Samuel Azu'u, as well as some members of the electoral Council, "is on a mission abroad under the supervision of the operations towards the overhaul of electoral file to Cameroonians in the diaspora".

On 9 July, regional delegates were not the only officials appointed under these conditions by the electoral Council. A second resolution, based on the same grounds, made the appointment of many officials in the regional delegations.

As with the previous resolution, article 3 States that "the Director General of Elections is responsible for the implementation of the present resolution," which is inter alia the installation of new leaders.

In the meantime, the next ordinary session of the electoral Council should take place by next December, except if Fonkam Samuel Azu'u and his peers decide the holding of extraordinary Foundation for an assessment of the revision of the lists of electors.