Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Unveiling Tomorrow's Cameroon Through Today's News

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L'oeil du Sahel, a newspaper with focus on the northern part of Cameroon, has accused Prime Minister Philemon Yang of marginalizing the people of that part of the nation.
The Great North comprises three regions-North, Far North and Adamawa.
The paper claims that  people from these three regions are not well represented in the Prime Minister's Office.
Out of 11 main technical advisers in the PM's Office, none is from those three regions, the paper says, as related by Cameroon -Info.Net.
Of the three special advisers in the Star Building, none is from the Great North. 
Only one of the seven directors in the office is from that region of the nation.
The same paper also accused the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization of failing to suggest enough names from the Great North to Paul Biya for the appointment of divisional officers.
Of the 58 SDOs appointed recently, only eight are from the supposedly 'oppressed' part of Cameroon.
How tangible are these accusations?
What this paper doesn't seem to understand is that the Great North has a large population in the military which is equal to barely no other part of the nation.
The Great North equally has more straight ministers in government than the English-speaking regions of the nation.
The vice-prime minister is from the Great North. And most importantly, this vice-prime minister is more powerful than the prime minister himself. He doubles as vice-prime minister and minister delegate at the presidency in charge of relations with Parliament.
By the way, is Philemon Yang not just a figurehead ?
Why have they left the cause to attack the effect?
Have our brothers forgotten that Paul Biya is the president, head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of government?
Or is it just an attempt to divert attention from the Anglophone Struggle?
English-speaking Cameroonians are fighting desperately against their marginalization by the eight french-speaking regions of the country.