The CPDM government is creating more propaganda media houses, stifling Private media practice!
The Government of Cameroon and CPDM run CRTV television and radio, the Presidency of the Republic of Cameroon created PRCTV, and now the Cameroon National Assembly is creating its own TV and Radio house, with the building to host it already budgeted.
All these propaganda media stations are sponsored with Cameroon tax payers morning in a regime that has claimed there is no money to subsidize the running of the private media like in other countries, so that the population is mobilized, educated and properly informed by a vibrant media necessary in any real democracy.
Every year, this same government, through the Ministry of communication allocates an insulting, insignificant budget to support private media that is shared among a few private initiatives created by friends of the ruling party and government.
The result is stifling any media outlet that seems to inform Cameroonians objectively, or that doesn’t toe the CPDM anti-people unfriendly agenda.
Worst of all, the same system has created and appointed friendly journalists to gag or silence every voice of dissent against the government’s bad policy in the so-called National Communication Council.
In short, the private press that used to be vibrant, especially in the days of Southern Cameroon and West Cameroon, has been silenced through draconian laws and financial starvation. The vibrant private organs have disappeared, while thousands of media houses run on party and personality cult patronage have taken up the media landscape.
With the creation of communication media by state institutions increasing, it is likely that very soon various ministries will include budgets for creating their own, as the press, which is supposed to inform Cameroonians independently, will disappear because of stifling, using draconian, unfriendly laws and financial stagnation that has made their management impossible for private individuals.
Bravo to corruption, nepotism, killings and all the ills that can now be committed without fear of media scrutiny for the public to hold the CPDM government accountable
