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Twenteith of May 1972 was and remains a farse and today falsehood must be debunked and killed. Cameroon remains a state that venerates falsehood and deceit .
It's on record and history can attest that the Fifteith anniversary of reunification was celebrated in Buea wheras the format of the state that was born as a result of the 11th of February 1961 masquerade had been ruined.
Celebrating May 20th as national day across the Cameroon's is show casing falsehood,deception and manipulative tendencies.
I have never seen a situation where by a couple instead of celebrating their respective birthdates start celebrating their wedding day as an upper most event.
Furthermore we cannot continue to fool ourselves by celebrating Germain Ahidhjo' s birthdate. Its time enough for us to remove the saw dust from our eyes.
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Today in Bamenda peace loving citizens and populace witnessed an intimidation parade by blood thirsty BIR battalion elements each carrying at least five heavily armed weapons as a show of false bravado.
The people of the North West Region and erstwhile Southern Cameroons say no to such antics and no to such uncalled for provocation.
The people of the erstwhile Southern Cameroons can comfortably wipe out these brutes from the surface of the earth without resulting to the use of weapons.
The purported Commander of the BIR battalion shall have such cowardice sanctioned by history when tomorrow shall be our judge.
Military men and women, Gendarmes and Police in Cameroon have refused to be abreast with the changing era and seemingly are still using antics that were fashionable in the 60's and 70's and therefore are out dated and mundane.
The Military of La Republique should come to understand that no country has ever won any war against its people.
The united Nations Organization's Secretary General through his Central African sub Regional representative is watching as well as the world as Cameroon tramples on human rights.
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History has proven and still holds that there can be no valid democracy without a strong Opposition. God is not a fool to have allowed Satan stand against Him this long, going by Christianity.
But what we observe in Cameroon is just the reverse. There is no Opposition in Cameroon.
Recently, something caught our attention. Leaders of two of the leading parties in Cameroon expressed very divergent views about the status quo in the nation.
While the leader of the leading opposition party (Social Democratic Front) was crying foul against the government for being unable and unwilling to handle the numerous problems plaguing our nation, his counterpart of the Cameroon Democratic Union (UDC) was calling on his militants to “preserve the heritage of our fore-fathers”. Adamou Ndam Njoya made the call on Wednesday in the West Region.
According to him, there is nothing wrong. The Foumban Conference has been given the right attention. As a result, his militants must hold tight to National Unity. But that is his own point of view, which must not necessarily match Fru Ndi’s. The chairman of SDF sees a “decaying state of our nation”. Mr Fru Ndi raised the concerns in a letter addressed to his militants on 7th May, calling on them to boycott National Unity Day on 20th May.
In a country of less than 30 million people it is quite unconceivable that more than two hundred opposition parties should pretend to stand against a single government. How many followers can each party have?
By the way, what is the main motive for creating a party? Are we creating parties because we want to ensure the respect of democratic values or simply because we want to put something into our pockets, given that recognized political parties are given financial assistance by the State during election campaigns?
Certainly, the Opposition is not an enemy of the government. But a strong Opposition is the watchdog of every democracy.
And the sheer number of political parties in Cameroon would not be a problem if the leaders of such movements had a focus. Unfortunately they are as divided and confused as you can imagine. If there were a good focus for each party, most of the leaders should have had similar ideas, which would have bound them together in a strong coalition that could do what was done in the Gambia months ago.
How can we explain the fact that a political party should participate in an election just to tender its votes to the ruling party?
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Since November 2016 Cameroon has been bathed in a tragic drama that sometimes turns fascinating to watch from the other end of things. This probably was a unique opportunity for Yaounde to prove to the people of West Cameroon in particular that there is no other might before them after Heaven. But unfortunately, the strike in West Cameroon has hit the Achilles Heals of La Republic with such dexterity and expertise that what is left of the hope is the debris of a broken plan.
When Common Law lawyers took to the street at the very beginning of the strike, the central machinery in Yaoundé ordered its forces to spray tear gas on the highly revered professional s.
Whether that is a move of intimidation or an attempt to prove superiority or a call of duty, we cannot tell. All we know is that it was irrational to treat peaceful protesters as such.
That might have been a way of stifling the outcry in order to give the false impression that there was no problem at all, as later confirmed by a certain Atanga Nji Paul.
As a “son of the soil”, Atanga Nji Paul had deluded himself that a claim as such was going to earn him the prize of preaching the gospel of Christ in Yaounde. Yes, it might have been so in Yaounde. But that claim almost cost him his precious life in Bamenda.
Mr Atanga Nji’s assertion came after several other claims by high profile government officials that there was never any such thing as Anglophone Problem.
However, when the issues became too conspicuous to be hidden, Yaoundé jumped into creating commissions and committees head-on like a cat on hot bricks.
In a twinkle of an eye, an ad hoc committee was created an put under the control of a “son of the soil”. Whether the commission succeeded in its mission or not is not our concern for now.
We might not know how much money changed hands or was used to quench the fire. All we can recall and say with confidence is that Yaounde tendered a huge sum of CFA 2billion to lay private schools. Well, that was a step forward, not backward. But how far it took us is still not important here.
When students and pupils maintained their stay away from classes, the central machinery in Yaounde used all sorts of strategies to mask reality and unveil falsehood.
It became a routine on the state broadcaster Crtv that “classes had resumed timidly in West Cameroon”. Till lately, the message was always the same “classes had resumed timidly in West Cameroon.” Why would classes resume and not continue? Everyday resumption and not continuation! That is certainly no skin of our nose.
Later on it was the turn of the General Certificate of Education Board to make a mockery of itself, closing and opening the doors of registration consistently.
And most importantly, everybody is allowed to sit the 2017 GCE examinations: even the unregistered candidates or better still students. Great idea. Why? Because somebody has got caught in their own snare.
So why not forsake unwillingness and provide “simple solutions to pertinent problems posed by respectful trade-unions and associations” as Fru Ndi recommends in his boycott letter to his followers on 7th May 2017?
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The National Communication Secretray of the ruling Cameroon People Democratic Movement, Prof. Jeacque Fame Ndongo says that Ni John's decision for the SDF to boycottt National Day is very much welcome in a democratic country like Cameroon.
Fame Ndongo who is also Minister of Higher Education explains that Cameroon is a democratic country where every opposition party has the right to express its opinion.
Speaking to 'Cameroon Tribune' newspaper of Wednesday May 10 2017, Fame Ndongo said 'A republic has sacred principles that all republican parties must strictly respect. I don't think a call to boycott the National day celebration(which is not the celebration of a political regime or the ruling party) is a political pride or achievement activated by whatever party. One needs to just go through the history of nations or political institutions to understand that it is not a glorious fact, since the national day belongs to all citizens, including those who decides to boycott celebrations for reasons only known to them.Besides, the national day is to be treated as a major event in the life of our nation(referendum of 20th may 1972 being dedicated to the historic birth of the Unitary State)". Prof. Jacques Fame explained.
He further boasted that, CPDM militants and republican parties will take part in the march with enthusiasm. "They will express with patriotism their unwavering commitment to democracy, sovereignty and national unity."
The SDF announced the boycott over government's catastrophic handling of the Anglophone crisis which the frontline opposition party believes has endangered the much cherished National Unity.
Other opposition parties like the UPC and UNDP have also lashed out on the SDF calling the party's stand undemocratic.
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Life has tragedies, misfortunes and gloom. Life at the same time offers solace to those in unfortunate circumstances.
The erstwhile Southern Cameroons witnessed tremendous financial uncertainty when E-Commerce,E-Learning and E-jobbing was affected when Mobile companies sided with the state against their clients by switching off internet connectivity.
Young and blooming entrepreneurs were obliged to suffer the crunch and thus billions were lost.
On Friday last week, the head of state of (Cameroun) extended his largess of seventy three million to those whose shops and make shift shalks were gutted by fire. Today the big questions that beg for answers remain unanswered.
Were shops only burnt in Bamenda -Cameroon?
What about those whose shops were burnt in Buea,Kumba and Limbe?
What about the billions lost because people across the erstwhile Southern Cameroons could not communicate via internet and the millions of job opportunities that people could have grabbed if there were internet connections?
When shall these other affected class of persons be compensated either by the state or the thievery mobile companies?
We are waiting and expecting because that will be the right thing in the right direction.
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