Former Prime Minister, Peter Mafany Musonge and the other members of the so-called National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism will be installed on Thursday, April 27, 2017. Paul Biya, who earlier indicated that he was personally going to perform the installation ritual will be absent during the Thursday 27 April event at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé.

Peter Mafany Musonge, Vice President Oumarou Djika Saidou and the 13 members of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism will be commissioned by Philemon Yang, Prime Minister, Head of Government. The CPDM personalities who will be installed were appointed by presidential decrees published on Wednesday 15 March 2017 for a five-year term, which may be renewed.

The creation of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism is one of the government’s responses to the Anglophone crisis that has plunged the Southern Cameroons into a serious socio-political upheaval that has lasted six months.

By Sama Ernest