Bakah Derick
Blogger@hilltop
Bamenda is
one of the few cities in Cameroon with an avalanche of media organs. The city
has over 30 newspapers, over 12 radios and over 10 televisions based or represented. These figures
according to Senior Councilors of the Bamenda City Board meeting in Bamenda
Tuesday August 4, 2015 are stifling communication in the city.
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| Bamenda City Board in Session |
The
councilors argue that you cannot read all newspapers, listen to all radio
stations or watch all television stations in the city. The councilors hence
requested the Government Delegate to the Bamenda City Council Ndumu Vincent Nji
to hence forth send all announcements to the Senior Councilors in hard copy for
eventual dissemination to their population.
The
Government Delegate reacted saying that the issue will be given deserved
attention.
It is worthy
of note that since the liberalisation of the press in Cameroon in 1990, the
country has witnessed on unprecedented growth in the number of independent news
organs in the country though with questionable quality. Bamenda is one of the country's
most populated cities in terms of media organs.
Apart from councilors,
other advertisers have complained bitterly.
"the
radio that will give you More airspace, most listened radio, frequency for
newspapers and names for televisions" Nestor Njodzefe a lecturer of
Journalism at National Polytechnic Bamenda and Northwest bureau chief for the
Median newspaper said will be simple criteria to choose where to go to.
According to
Wanchia Cynthia Journalism lecturer at HIBUMS polytechnic and Chief of
programs at Radio Hot Cocoa " frequency for newspapers, professionalism
for radios and quality for television" will be her cardinal points.