THE DISTURBING CASE OF CHILDREN IN MAROUA

THE IDLE CHILDREN OF MAROUA TOWN

This morning I read a moving piece on the <LINKEDIN> blog of Fotso
Fokam about the manner in which little children roam the streets of
Maroua and frequent bars and other "dangerous" places and at odd times
and do things they should not do. You can read Fotso`s article by
following the link:
<http://lepetitecolier.mondoblog.org/2015/01/25/vendeur-de-guerare-maroua/#comment-6300>.
His write-up is entitled "Vendeur de `guéraadé` à Maroua". Below is my
reaction to his account.

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THE IDLE CHILDREN OF MAROUA TOWN

By all accounts, Fotso`s story is both mind-boggling and
thought-provoking. I had a similar experience in Maroua too. It was in
1988 when I flew to Cameroon (via Paris) in a group of foreign
journalists who were invited by the Government of Cameroon to come and
cover the Presidential and Legislative Elections of that year. It was
at the time that Paul Biya experimented with several lists and several
candidates within the same party: The CPDM. Unless I am wrong, today`s
Chairman of the opposition SDF Party, Ni John Fru Ndi, was a CPDM
candidate for the National Assembly on a list that lost to that of
Simon Achidi Achu.

On that trip, I traveled to Cameroon as the journalist representing
the London-based WEST AFRICA magazine. I was made to fly from London
to Paris where I joined three other journalists invited from France. I
think they came from JEUNE AFRIQUE, RFI and LE MONDE. We were received
for dinner by the Cameroon ambassador in Paris and at midnight we
boarded the Cameroon Airlines flight to Douala. There was no
Yaounde-Nsimalen airport at the time.

Our "foreign" team spent about a week in Cameroon during which time we
were taken to Douala, Limbe, Muea, Mbalmayo, Yaounde and Maroua.

While we were being shown round the town of Maroua, I noticed that . . .

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