Re: [cameroon_politics] Re: My Last Mail to Mr Ofege

Just curious folks, who tabled the complaints about these reporters
and their programmes to the NCC?
I pray it was not an inhouse job....given the tone of what I am reading?

On 3/29/13, Herbert Boh <herbertboh@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> The overall point Ntemfac is making is that we must be jealous guardians of
> the little liberty of expression we have and that policy, procedure and law
> need to be followed.
>
> The NCC has sent a strong signal that it means business. We can applaud
> that. But, we must ask: to what effect? Could this signal be so strong that
> it forces media outlets to impose in-house censorship or that it forces
> journalists to self-censor? Would it not have been better for the NCC to
> demonstrate that it followed due process; that it gave the accused
> journalists and stations a fair hearing; that they found their explanations
> wanting; and that they ruled in conformity to the spirit and letter of some
> law that would be cited along with the sanctions?
>
> If this is the process, what stops Solomon or my young brother Elvis Boh
> from being the next without so much as having a chance to explain
> themselves?
>
> It seems from what we have heard, have read, have been told, and that has
> been narrated by the NCC that there may be cause for severe sanctions to be
> taken. However, the manner of getting to the sanctions should not end up
> weakening the NCC by opening it up to other proceedings before a court of
> law, for instance.
>
> Without regard to whether the stations and journalists sanctioned win their
> cases or not, the NCC stands to lose if it gets dragged to court in these
> matters. Its present membership is the most credible of a self-regulatory
> body of the media I have seen since I first started working in the
> profession and I hope that they can take the criticisms that some of us
> offer with consideration.
>
> Very best regards,
>
> Boh Herbert
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com>
> To: cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com
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> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 10:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [cameroon_politics] Re: My Last Mail to Mr Ofege
>
>
>
> Kenneth John Beghni Ndeh,
> Move along.
> There are vital issues at table here if only you can read.
> The very issue of a dubious structure arrogating powers it probably
> does not have.
> To institute a tyranny within a tyranny.
> By the way, the Jukuns of Ndaka are natural warriors, as you know.
> And it is not only the Koutebs that we floored.
> Go ask the Tivs.
> Or, maybe you are yearning for me to wipe the floor with you, c'est ça?
>
> On 3/29/13, Pa Fru Ndeh <PaFruNdeh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Solomon Amabo:
>>
>> Please, do not allow that O'BOUH FEGUE man from la valle de NTEM not
>> annoy
>> you. Get him off your back. His insinuations on me have been
>> "terrible",
>> hence I give him a taste of his own medicine, sometimes in bigger doses.
>> Besides his tribes people fought with the Koutebs, and his own side
>> remained
>> in Cameroon.
>>
>> Blessed Be Cameroon
>> Pa Fru Ndeh
>>
>> From: solomon atanga <soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk>
>> To: "237medias@yahoogroupes.fr237medias@yahoogroupes.fr>;
>> "ambasbay@googlegroups.comambasbay@googlegroups.com>
>> Cc: camasej group all members <camasej@yahoogroups.com>; "cameroon
>> politics
>> @yahoogroups" <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com>; film industry
>> Yahoogroups
>> <cameroonianfilmindustry@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:36 AM
>> Subject: [cameroonianfilmindustry] My Last Mail to Mr Ofege
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mr Ofege this is my last mail to you on this issue. I did not create the
>> NCC
>> and i am not a member. I don't think those who are in the NCC are so
>> stupid
>> to listen to an almost non exiting figue in Cameroonian journalism like
>> me.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am by no means threatening you Mr Ofege. Who am I to threaten mighty
>> you?
>> But to come on a forum and make statements or comments and insinuations
>> like
>> you did is the issue at stake
>>
>>
>> I will not have time to answer each segment of your mail. I simply want
>> you
>> to let everyone know about what you said:
>>
>> " Mr Amabo, Ilistened to you the other day on radio and you practically
>> announced these sanctions in ADVANCE! "
>>
>>
>> Let me tell you in clear terms that i am not jubilating. by no means.
>> over
>> what by the way? I instead regret the way some media men go about this
>> job.
>> I am not only a broadcaster but also a listener and televiewer. I am not
>> by
>> no means saying i am the best. i am even the last. But know that i can
>> never, i mean never defend any one who decides to rub journalism into
>> mud
>> and does not want to listen to advice.
>> I can never defend people who blackmail others and stop only when they
>> are
>> few CFA frs or nairas. I can never spend time defending people who have
>> no
>> sense of morality, respect and seem to have taken the 'common man in
>> Cameroon' hostage.
>>
>> I will see what you will eventually do the day you hear a radio or TV or
>> newpaper say Mr Ofege has stolen money meant for the construction a
>> government building and for adultry or any other accussation without
>> evidence.
>>
>> Mr Ofege you are more than me in terms of beauty ,money , asset,
>> connections
>> and all. Please just leave me in my own small corner. In the name of God!
>>
>> Personally i do hope our colleagues will seat up and practice journalism
>> in
>> the noblest sense of that word.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Solomon Amabo A.
>> Deputy Editor-in-Chief
>> Equinox Radio/Television.
>> Nat V.P. Council SNJC,
>> P.R.O. Camasej-D.
>> P.O.Box 5082, Douala,Cameroon
>> Tel:(+237)74668899/(+237)95302043
>> Email: soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com>
>> To: ambasbay@googlegroups.com
>> Cc: "237medias@yahoogroupes.fr237medias@yahoogroupes.fr>; camasej group
>> all members <camasej@yahoogroups.com>; "cameroon politics @yahoogroups"
>> <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com>; film industry Yahoogroups
>> <cameroonianfilmindustry@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Friday, 29 March 2013, 5:04
>> Subject: [237 Médias] Re: [camasej] (Mr Ofege)NCC Bans Awilo's IPP News
>> on
>> LTM TV and Canal Detective on Canal II?
>>
>> Mr Amabo, I do recll that some of your callers told you to let this
>> matter be handled IN-HOUSE reason why you piped down.
>> Look, the issue is not to make idle-wind threats..look at the big
>> picture.
>> The media is this day people with many strange characters which
>> characters I will not employ even to sell newspapers let alone
>> actually write articles or broadcast but the FIRST DUTY of any group
>> of media men-women is the DEFEND their member FIRST...protect the
>> errant chick and then deal with the fellow when the wolf is away.
>> Here you are threatening me because I caution you about being jubilant
>> when an enemy is sanctioned: Do you know how many people would gladly
>> table fake reports and hearsays about you to the NCC and get you
>> suspended? Even people you think are your friends.
>> Watch it, young man.
>>
>> On 3/29/13, solomon atanga <soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Mr Ofege read this sentence of yours:
>>>
>>> " Mr Amabo, Ilistened to you the other day on radio and you practically
>>> announced
>>> these sanctions in ADVANCE! "
>>>
>>> I hope you have me on record Mr Ofege. When the time comes i do hope you
>>> bring evidence of your assertions against me.( 'The day,' and the
>>> 'sanctions in advance ' you are talking about)
>>>
>>>
>>> For the rest of your remarks,no comment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Solomon Amabo A.
>>> Deputy Editor-in-Chief
>>> Equinox Radio/Television.
>>> Nat V.P. Council SNJC,
>>> P.R.O. Camasej-D.
>>> P.O.Box 5082, Douala,Cameroon
>>> Tel:(+237)74668899/(+237)95302043
>>> Email: soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com>
>>> To: camasej@yahoogroups.com
>>> Cc: 237 media pressmen <237medias@yahoogroupes.fr>; "cameroon politics
>>> @yahoogroups" <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com>; ambasbaygroups
>>> <ambasbay@googlegroups.com>; film industry Yahoogroups
>>> <cameroonianfilmindustry@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, 29 March 2013, 4:25
>>> Subject: [237 Médias] Re: [camasej] NCC Bans Awilo's IPP News on LTM TV
>>> and
>>> Canal Detective on Canal II?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mr Amabo, I may have to warn of a dangerous precedence being set
>>> herein for the following reasons:
>>> 1. The concerned were never given the opportunity to defend themselves.
>>> 2. The media collective were never given the opportunity to caution
>>> the sanctioned press hands.
>>> 3. Which WRITTEN Code of Ethics did the NCC use to adjudge on this
>>> case and how does that conflict with EXISTING Laws and the judiciary
>>> process related to the issue at table?
>>> 4. Does the NCC have a legal mandate to carry out this action?
>>> 5. Some members of the NCC had private motives to sanction the
>>> concerned hence this was a sort of kangaroo court. Mr Amabo, I
>>> listened to you the other day on radio and you practically announced
>>> these sanctions in ADVANCE!
>>> 6. There are clear challenges to the GRUND NORM of a democracy.
>>> You see freedom of EXPRESSION, FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE and FREEDOM OF
>>> THE PRESS are not the same thing. A democracy needs all of the above
>>> to thrive. The IDEAL remains the US First Amendment herein posted;
>>>
>>> First Amendment
>>>
>>> * Text
>>> * Learn more
>>>
>>> Amendment I
>>>
>>> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
>>> prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
>>> speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
>>> assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
>>>
>>> In fine, it is never in the interest of media practitioners for
>>> FOREIGN BODIES composed of dubious characters - aliens - to adjudicate
>>> on PRESS ISSUES.
>>>
>>> In fine, caution.
>>>
>>> Ntemfac Ofege
>>> Reporter.
>>>
>>> On 3/28/13, solomon atanga <soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> i received unconfirmed news this evening that the National
>>>> Communication
>>>> Council,NCC has reportedly banned the pidgin news programme popularly
>>>> called 'IPP News' broadcast on LTM Douala based TV station for a period
>>>> of
>>>> six months.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The same NCC is said to have also banned another programme on Canal II
>>>> TV
>>>> called Canal Detective for a period of three months.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The NCC found the different programmes guilty of violating the ethics
>>>> of
>>>> the
>>>> journalism profession. ( Broadcasting shocking images, interviewing and
>>>> recording people without their consent, use of abusive and obscene
>>>> language
>>>> in some cases- according to my source) amongst professional lapses
>>>> other
>>>> lapses.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> While waiting for the information to be confirmed and made official ,
>>>> the
>>>> NCC's chair His Lorship Ateba wants media men to remain impartial in
>>>> the
>>>> coverage of senatorial elections as campaigns begins this Saturday
>>>> April
>>>> 29
>>>> 2013.
>>>>
>>>> The NCC met for two days with its members and publishers of newpapers
>>>> in
>>>> Yaounde.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Solomon Amabo A.
>>>> Deputy Editor-in-Chief
>>>> Equinox Radio/Television.
>>>> Nat V.P. Council SNJC,
>>>> P.R.O. Camasej-D.
>>>> P.O.Box 5082, Douala,Cameroon
>>>> Tel:(+237)74668899/(+237)95302043
>>>> Email: soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk
>>>
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