EDITORIAL : Govt’s double standards on press subsidy

The history of the relationship between the state and the private press in Cameron has not been very juicy for the past more than five decades. It all started with a crippling policy of censorship under former President Ahidjo and was only scrapped a few years into the present regime. Needless to explain the pains and sacrifice offered by the private press in the early nineties, to arrive at the present climate under which the private press operates today, thanks to the wisdom of the incumbent President Biya, to whom credit must be given for initiating a support mechanism of…