Representatives of political parties and board members of ELECAM assigned to Meme Division, Southwest Region, have been discussing witchcraft, corruption and influence peddling as virtues that discredit the electoral process in Cameroon.

During a consultative meeting on Monday, May 29 at the ELECAM Divisional Branch office in Kumba, party leaders expressed disgust that in 2013 witchcraft was used to dissuade voters from vote and influenced the choice of others.

According to the National Vice President of the National Alliance for Democracy and Progress, ANDP, Elisius Asa’ah Agbor, Mbonge Subdivision remains a hotbed of witchcraft practices during elections.

Agbor specified that Ngwandi was the heart of witchcraft practice in the last political consultation.

“We see witchcraft practised on the eve of elections. You report to those concerned but nothing is done.

Ngwandi is ahas been a thorn in the flesh of the CPDM, earning undue votes in the process because of similar ballot papers.

Meanwhile, the Meme Divisional head of ELECAM, Divine Mokoto Mewanu, said registration of more voters this 2017 suffered a setback as a result of the social tension in the Northwest and Southwest Regions.

Mokoto disclosed that in 2016, within the same period, 6,500 potential voters had registered compared to 654 potential voters registered for the period spanning January 3 to May 29.

The meeting also provided a platform for the introduction of former Southwest Governor, Thomas Ejake Mbonda, to the stakeholders as the board member previously working in the Littoral.

Mbonda is now in the Southwest in replacement of Dr. Dorothy Limunga Njeuma who has been moved to the Littoral Region.