In its edition of February 17, 2019, the Panafrican weekly commits an article on the wife of the Cameroonian head of state. Between judgments of values and untruths, Jeune Afrique exposes its ignorance of republican practices in Cameroon.
The article is very similar to a chestnut tree, which has simply been changed to appear current. We are not surprised because it is the same editor. However, whether the article of November 15, 2016 or that of February 17, 2019, it emerges a constant: Jeune Afrique exposes a number of untruths, contradicts itself and is mistaken. But it all boils down to the fact that Chantal Biya has, over the years, taken an important part in the management of the affairs of the state.However, on September 5, 2012, Jeune Afrique, with [still] Georges Dougueli at the controller, published an article on his website entitled "Cameroon: Chantal Biya, the invisible woman".
In which the first untruths appear on the role of the wife of Paul Biya at the Palace of Etoudi: "His strong character and his influence with the president have helped to impose on those who, at first, looked at her high [...] "A bit as if the diary of Bashir ben Yahmed scrutinized, on November 15, 2016, he writes:" Cameroon: Chantal Biya, a first lady who is crazy ". To say that "At age 45, her influence with her husband is growing and his footprint on public affairs marked."
And we already find the beginnings of gossip contained in the article of February 17, 2019: "In the presidency, she placed" his "men. Many come from the Upper Sanaga, his mother's native department, as the secretary general of the presidency, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, and the influential technical advisor Oswald Baboké (Today deputy director of the civil cabinet of the presidency of the Republic). The info clear and sharp. The others are from the neighboring region of the East, home to part of his family. Thus the deputy director of the civil cabinet Joseph Lé and the special adviser Dieudonné Samba.. In government also: the Minister of Sports, Pierre Ismael Bidoung Mkpatt, owes him a part of his career. In the high administration, the most emblematic of his protégés is Antoine Félix Samba, the director general of the budget."
Three years later, Oswald Baboké became "a friend of the First Lady [whom] Chantal considers as her brother". On the tribe of origin of Chantal Biya, Jeune Afrique is lost between Haute-Sanaga and the Eastern Region where she grew up to finish writing on February 17, 2019, in favor of the nomination of Bertrand Pierre Soumbou Angoula to the position of Director General of the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM), that "Chantal Biya is from the Yezoum tribe". The Panafrican weekly published in Paris, France, finds that "the entourage of the head of state is composed of" men of Chantal Biya "that are Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, Oswald Baboké and Dieudonné Samba". In short, the newspaper lends him a power of regigadement of her husband. After writing that "Paul Biya calls him" Mrs. President "". Jeune Afrique attributes this name to courtiers and decrees that "more than a beginning of emancipation, it is the revelation of a real pole of power".
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Yet, in 2016, Jeune Afrique admits that "the [Cameroon] Constitution does not attribute any role to the First Lady". In reality, it is a misunderstanding of Paul Biya to believe that he can be influenced by a third party, even less his wife, in the conduct of the country's affairs. Chantal Biya takes the thick in public only through its humanitarian activities. This is not exclusive to the wife of Cameroon's head of state. Dominique Ouattara, invests herself just like Bernadette Chirac, founder and president of France Libertés. Without Young Africa saying a word. It can not, however, be denied that she plays her role of wife to her husband by giving him some advice without pretending to take the place of him.
Pretend while Chantal Biya controls the secretariat general to the presidency of the Republic and the civil cabinet is wrong on the basis of the latest cabinet reshuffle of January 4, 2019. After which, for cases Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, elevated to the rank of minister of State, and Pierre Ismael Bidoung Mkpatt, now Minister of Arts and Culture, Jeune Afrique believes, as pharmacies out of these movements, that ministers allegedly involved in the alleged scandal of the CAN 2019 should not be renewed. And that they owe their promotion or their maintenance to Chantal Biya. "It's bad knowing Paul Biya who never acts on the spot," said a regular Etoudi corridors. On the release of Belinga Eboutou that the newspaper evokes, Georges Dougueli speaks of "a setting aside [Belinga Eboutou] by Chantal Biya".He contradicts his employer who, in the "Confidential" section of the previous edition, said that "it was on the advice of his Geneva doctors that Paul Biya agreed to let him go to rest."
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