ID card tribulations

Below is the lamentation of a regular reader and fan of this column, Karen J.L. (name abbreviated upon request of the author to remain anonymous) reporting the plight of an acquaintance over difficulties in acquiring a national Identity Card and the jeopardy thereof: Dear Outside the Presidency, Is the Presidency Outsider aware of what is happening to Cameroonians in respect of National Identity Cards? A young friend of mine has been hampered in efforts to open a bank account and to carry on his petty trading business by the lack of an identity card. For the past several years he…