ELECAM declares readiness for March 12 Senatorial poll.

Dr Enow Abrams declared the institution’s readiness on Thursday February 23. This was during its fourth session staged in Yaounde.

He told reporters that, ELECAM has cleaned, updated and published the electoral register for the poll even before the deadline.

Competent units of the Directorate General of Elections, he reassured, have effected certain minor corrections that were requested.

Voter’s cards, he also said, have been produced and dispatched to the different ELECAM branches nationwide.

Dr Enow Abrams said as at February 23, “ballot papers and election campaign documents have been produced and ready for deployment…”.  He reassured that, “everything is set to carry on with the next phases, the nearest of which” is campaigns for the election.

He said, ELECAM has by all standard, shown its competence in beating even operational deadlines in the planning and other activities related to the poll.

Dr Enow lauded staff of ELECAM whom he said have been giving their best to ensure the process is completed hitch free.

The ELECAM Board Chair urged stakeholders to shun campaign languages and other activities that could spark violence on the field. The integrity and transparency of the senatorial election, Dr Enow insisted, must not be tempered with.

The official said board members of the electoral board of ELECAM will be on the field in the coming days to observe how campaigns are unfolding.

The board members, he noted, will also while on the field, monitor and control electoral operations at polling stations among others.

The visit of the ELECAM board members, he said, will be to ensure a permanent watch of political speeches to see that everyone respects the laws in place.

To the board members, Dr Enow said, their field visits should serve as opportunities to build a clean electoral model as a symbol of the democratic hope in nation building.

“I know that I can count on the resilience and patriotic will that resides in each of us…So, together, let us once again make this important Senate election a success…,” he remarked, adding that, in “doing so, we will have brought, “our contribution to “the building of a democratic ideal approved by all, for the good image and the notoriety of our dear and beautiful country, Cameroon”.