After the Far North, the delegation of the National Executive Bureau of the Cameroon Journalists' TradeUnion (NEB / CJTU) on national tour visited the North region on November 11, 2022.
NEB delegation in session with CJTU North members
Led by the President, Marion OBAM accompanied by the Vice President Derick BAKAH and Secretary General Hilaire HAMEKOUE, the NEB team was welcomed by the local Executive and led to the Regional Delegation of Communication where the host, senior journalist Mustapha Tiguele MAMADOU LOKA, Regional Delegate and several journalists working in the region were waiting.
Discussions with the delegate concerned the situation of the press in the region and their their relations with the regional delegation.
The delegation of the NEB then went to the governor's office where they werr received in audience by the Secretary General Mr. AVOM DANG. The national president of CJTU presented her team and the local leaders of the union to the administrator. On behalf of the governor, the SG welcomed the delegation and insisted on the role of the press in society, it is the press, he declared, which must give the temperature of society, denounce everything that goes against it so that solutions are found for the well-being of all.
A meeting with media professionals practicing in the North region being the high point of the visit took place in the conference hall of the regional delegation communications. The Regional Delegate personally took part in this frank and open exchange. The social situation of journalists, the pitfalls that plague the organization, possible solutions were discussed and commitments were made to build a balance of power favorable to CJTU in the North region.
The Regional Delegate has promised to provide the necessary assistance for the effective functioning of CJTU in the Region.
NEB delegation with North Delegate for Communication (in suit) and regional chapter president.
The meeting ended with the setting up of a Task Force of seven members as follows
-Coordinator: ESSONGUE EBAH of NordActu TV
-Secretary: Telespore MBONDO of Nord-Sud Info
- Raporteurs: Rebeka SINTEBE and Félix SWABOKA from I'Oeil du Sahel
- Communication and mobilization officer: Olivier TSEFFO of Equinoxe TV
- Finance Secretary: AMADOU Abdoulaye Alpha JRI Free lance
- Advisor: Loris Clet ADIANG of Galaxie TV
This task force has as mission: the mobilization and training of union members ahead of the February 2023 regional Elective General Congress
It is with the hope of seeing a revitalized CJTU in the northern region that the NEB of CJTU left Garoua on November 12, 2022 for Ngaoundéré, the last stage of the northern tour.
For the NEB of the CJTU
Loris-Clet ADIANG
National Secretary in charge of Communication and Alerts.