Promotion of Bilingualism : Commissioners Evaluate Annual Performance

Members of the National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism (NCPBM), meeting on December 17, 2020 in a second biannual session for the 2020 financial year have reviewed activities of the outfit as well as deliberating and adopting an action plan for 2021. The President of the Commission, Peter Mafany Musonge, chaired the session which held at the Yaounde Mount Febé Hotel in Yaounde. 
In his opening remark, the President said despite the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic on plans and projects earmarked by the Commission, the balance sheet recorded thus far is positive as adaptive strategies were quickly put in place. “As to what concerns the implementation of our mission and action plan of 2020, we carried out field visits to ministerial departments with the objective of following up and evaluating the application of the December 24, 2020 law on the promotion of official languages in Cameroon,” he stated. The Commission’s President also said on the instructions of the President of the Republic, a ‘listen-to-the people’ mission was also carried out during which ideas were exchanged on the freedom of expression and other salient activities of the Commission with regards to promoting peaceful social cohesion. 
The population, he noted, was sensitised on the dangers of hate speech and its possible impacts on the concept of living together. Peter Mafany further revealed that the project on the institution of regional offices for the Commission is being accelerated. The objective of such an initiative, h...