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Parliamentary Election Rerun: Hon. Mbah Ndam cheats death; ELECAM staff, soldiers injured in separat
Parliamentary Election Rerun: Hon. Mbah Ndam cheats death; ELECAM staff, soldiers injured in separatist attack.
The ‘stubbornness’ of SDF’s four-term MP for Batibo, Hon. Mbah Ndam Joseph, to reconquer his parliamentary seat, in defiance of separatist threats, has landed him into more trouble.
The outgoing Deputy President of the National Assembly cheated death last Saturday as a convoy transporting officials and electoral materials to Batibo ahead of yesterday’s Parliamentary Election rerun came under attack with several injuries reported.
According to open sources, armed separatists fighting to secure the independence of a country they call Ambazonia opened fire on the convoy targeting Hon. Mbah Ndam Joseph Njang, incumbent Member of Parliament for Momo West (Batibo).
“At least four persons have been injured in an attack carried out by alleged Amba boys on the armored convoy carrying Hon. Mbah Ndam for Batibo Constituency. He was on his way to prepare for legislative elections rerun scheduled to hold in that area,” local media reported.
Other open sources however suggested that four elements of Cameroon’s defence and security forces were injured as they repelled the assailants. Two workers of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) reportedly sustained injuries. Hon. Mbah Ndam is said to have emerged unhurt after soldiers successfully inflicted heavy casualties on the armed separatists.
Like was the case during the twin Municipal and Legislative elections on February 9, 2020, separatists vowed to frustrate Sunday’s election rerun.
The electorate of Momo West along with those of ten other electoral constituencies in Cameroon’s North West and South West Regions chose 13 Members of Parliament yesterday, March 22, 2020 in rerun polls.
The election rerun follows Constitutional Council decision no. 29/SRCER/G/20 of February 25, 2020 to cancel the election of Members of Parliament in the following constituencies: North West Region – Menchum North, Bui West, Mezam South, Bui Centre, Bui South, Mezam Centre, Momo East, Menchum South, Momo West and Mezam North – and South West Region – Lebialem.
The partial annulment of the outcome of the February 9, 2020 legislative elections came after the opposition Social Democratic Front, SDF, seized the Constitutional Council citing irregularities that breached laws relating to elections in the country.
SDF lawyers and candidates had prayed the Constitutional Council to partially annul the elections on grounds of insecurity, and the creation of polling centres which disenfranchised their voters.
Political pundits posit that this rerun may not help improve the fortunes of the opposition SDF which emerged from the February 9 twin municipal and legislative elections with its worst performance ever – securing just five seats. They did not campaign for the rerun and with the constituencies emptied of its populations, only government officials and the military in armoured cars would constitute voters, thus tilting the balance in favour of the ruling CPDM.
And so Mbah Ndam’s bid to recover his seat may end in futility, bringing an end to an otherwise glorious political career. Also, the SDF which had hoped to earn at least 10 seats to secure a parliamentary group would have laboured in vain. Hon. Mbah Ndam, who is a graduate of the University of Yaoundé and Member of Parliament since 1997, was born on February 28, 1955 in Batibo, Momo Division of the then North West province. He has been a member of the National Executive Council (NEC) of the SDF since 1997.
Besides being a politician, he was a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Yaoundé from 1988-92. Since 1992, he is the adviser on legal and judicial matters of National Financial Credit Bank and he is chair of Union of cultural and development association of Momo Division. He is a practising Protestant Christian, married and a father of four children.
His house in Batibo was burnt down to ashes by armed separatist fighters on Sunday, December 15, 2019.