Camlink Douala's video: MADI CONSTITUTIVE ASSEMBLY HOLDS IN DOUALA

The Coordinator of an association in the making known as ‘MADI’(MAKE A DIFFERENCE), Barrister SIMO KAMDOM Gildas, invited members of the World Coming Together To Make A Difference (WOCOTOMADI) on the 30th November 2019 for a constitutive general assembly at Boulangerie SAKER Akwa-Douala. In his welcome address, Barr. SIMO KAMDOM informed participants at the conference hall of the bakery that the purpose of the constitutive assembly was to put in place an association which will operate within the guidelines of WOCOTOMADI USA led by the Founder, Mrs. Julienne Siwe Ngongang, who is resident in Boston. Though the logo of MADI is almost copy right of WOCOTOMADI with its motto as 'Helping those who are suffering’, Barr. SIMO KAMDOM said, he knows little or nothing about WOCOTOMADI and that MADI is a different initiative and would like to start the process of legalization through building a data base of its members before submitting a file to the Wouri Senior Divisional office in Douala for endorsement as wanted by the Cameroon government. He added that when the legalization process will be completed, he may request for partnership with WOCOTOMADI USA founded by Mrs. Julienne SIWE NGONGANG. For now, he went on, the two organizations are going to work independently as organizations within the context of the Cameroon law on liberty of association, No. 90/053 of 19 December,1990 covering the liberty of association and its operations. The MADI constitutive assembly was attended by high level personalities like Professor Tsala, HRM Fonjinju Tatabong Alexander of Lenale Ndem UNESCO Museum Palace in Melong, HRH Ndoumbe Emmanuel of Bonendale I village in Douala-Bonaberi amongst a host of other traditional leaders from the centre and west regions accompanied by queens and princesses. It should be noted that throughout the deliberations of MADI constitutive assembly, Barr. SIMO KAMDOM, made no mention about other laws in quote, “Law No. 96/003 of 04 January 1996 on the frame work for health field activities, Law No. 99-14 of 22 December 1999 governing Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) or Law No. 2004/017 of 22 July 2004 fixing the frame work of orientation of decentralization. WOCOTOMADI NGO USA operates within the context of these other laws, though it was declared from its birth as a national and international association. Since the creation of WOCOTOMADI USA and the agency in Cameroon, operations have been undertaken within the framework of these other national institutional laws in vigour in Cameroon. This explains the reason for a First Aid Training planned and organized in Bamengou in the West region and Melong in the Littoral region of Cameroon recently by WOCOTOMADI USA. The intriguing orientation of MADI constitutive assembly led participants to ask so many unanswered questions directed to Barr. SIMO KAMDOM, who only insisted that his association is put in place within the law No. 90/053 on liberty of association in Cameroon and has nothing to do with WOCOTOMADI as of now. He emphasized that it is the liberty of each individual to decide to belong to it or not to belong to it. He presented a document, which he declared was delivered by the Founder of WOCOTOMADI USA, Mrs. Julienne SIWE NGONGANG, which he used for preparing the constitutive general assembly of MADI. The document was immediately challenged by Prof. Tsala, a member of WOCOTOMADI, who said in his words, ‘The document presented is baseless and a non-event’.