ELECAM: Directives Given To Attain 2017 Objectives

The Director General of Elections, AbdoulayeBabalé gave the directives in Yaounde on January 12, 2017.

Cameroon’s elections managing institution, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) targets to register  more than seven million voters should elections be organised in 2018. The Director General of Elections in ELECAM, AbdoulayeBabalé disclosed the target  during the 2017 New Year wishes presentation ceremony in Yaounde on January 12, 2017.He said for 2017,  ELECAM has set out to enrol at least 650,000 new voters  which  when added to the 6,250,000 voters already registered, the number could go up to over seven million by the end of 2017.

It is in view of attaining the set objectives  that he prescribed the acceleration of voter card production such as to further reduce the period between the enrolment  of a citizen on the electoral registers and the production of their voter’s card, and also an increase in the rhythm of fabrication of new more high-performing enrolment kits, easier to use and more resistant to weather hazards and to transport conditions.

He equally called for the continuation of the installation of the VPN network in view of rendering data importation and exportation more fluid at the level of relations between Council Branches  and Regional Centres for Election Biometrics, as well as  exchanges between the National  Centres for Election Biometrics  and Regional Centres for Election Biometrics. ELECAM officials would also have to integrate social media in the daily activities of the institution and equally consolidate the accomplishments in terms of electronic  governance or e-governance, more transparent, less expensive  and more efficient method of communi...