Kini Nsom & Daniel Gwarbarah
4 December 2008
The Executive President of the Foundation for Human Rights and Development, FHRD, Afanyi Ngeh, who has been very vocal against corruption into public professional schools in Cameroon, has reportedly been targeted for elimination.
Afanyi who spoke to The Post over the weekend in Yaounde, claimed that he has received death threats by members of a mafia group running the corruption network into the schools. According to him, he received the threats when six students were dismissed recently from the Philosophy Department of the Higher Teacher Training College, ENS.
He stated that even though some of the threats have been anonymous, the most recent one is from a suspected agent highlighted in their unpublished report. The agent, he claimed, has allegedly been facilitating corrupt practices into ENS in connivance with officials of the school.
Failing short of calling the names, Afanyi said the agent in question is a Geography teacher in Yaounde and currently working on part time basis with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, MINADER. He revealed that despite his over age, the said agent went into ENS this academic year surely through corruption. He said the agent has discussed about the determination of the mafia group to eliminate him twice to different persons who happen to be volunteers of the FHRD.
Afanyi also mentioned that the agent is so bitter that some candidates who fraudulently got themselves admitted into the Philosophy Department were dismissed. "He has placed the dismissal of the six students on the shoulders of officials of the FHRD. I am still wondering why he is so concerned about the plight of the dismissed students when none of them is his relative," Afanyi told The Post.
He disclosed that of the 17 Anglophone candidates admitted this academic year into that Department, only two are holders of the first degree in Philosophy as required by the text. He said members of the jury that studied the files of the Philosophy candidates who bribed their way through as well as those who conducted the orals must be severely sanctioned.
Afanyi quoted the agent as having declared that he (agent) is a friend to the authorities of ENS and that the names of all the officials of the FHRD is on the table of ENS authorities. According to Afanyi, the agent claims he has already discussed his fate with the Director of ENS with whom the agent equally claims to have a good working relationship.
The FHRD Executive President said the threats from the agent confirm the facts of their report, pointing to him as a facilitator of corruption into public professional schools in Cameroon.
On whether the threats could stall their determination to fight corruption into professional schools, Afanyi said the threats encourage them to forge ahead. He hinted that some ENS authorities are threatening to resign from their duty posts already.
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