Politics

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 7^th May 2017?

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Rita Akana

13.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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Rita Akana

11.May.2017

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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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Rita Akana

11.May.2017

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The Advocate General at the Supreme Court and President of the Popular Action Party, PAP and Chief Justice Ayah Paul Abine has reiterated that he has always acted within the ambit of the law and will forever do so.

In an outing through his Facebook page early Wednesday, May 10, 2017 Justice Ayah said despite his incarceration, he has remained steadfast but is still waiting to be told what his crimes were.

Ayah Paul writes,

“As I commemorate over 110 days under illegal detention at SED (in complete ignorance of why I am here; for I am yet to be told what my crimes are) following my abduction from my residence at biyem-Assi Yaounde, I have a word for all Cameroonians who care ”MY MORALE IS EXCEEDINGLY HIGH! FOR I AM AT PEACE WITH MYSELF AND WHOLLY SATISFIED THAT I HAVE FOUGHT (AS I KEEP FIGHTING) A GOOD FIGHT; WITH INTEGRITY, IN ALL HONESTY, IN TRUTH, AND ABOVE ALL, WITHIN THE LAW. AND SO ONWARD I MARCH AND SHALL SO DO TILL THE END; WITH INSPIRATION FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES THAT; Whoever Holds on till the end shall be saved’”’ The Most High God has a Divine mission for me. Therefore, I shall not die unless HE so permits. I shall live; to accomplish it and to tell of the goodness of the Most High God in the land of the Living. I have always acted within the law and shall forever so do MAY PEACE REIGN IN AND AROUND YOU ALL. GOD BLESS

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Rita Akana

11.May.2017

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I have never been dumbfounded, bemused,shocked and stupefied like yesterday,the 10th of May 2017. When the Minister of Secondary Education declared that for the first time in history, unregistered candidates of an Examination could write without registration,it marked the beginning of absurdity. How shall these scripts be marked and how shall their results registered when they don't have any serial number that makes unpublished results confidential? Has the Minister any plan B for those students whose fate awaits them come next academic year because they have to stay put thus mounting pressure on class capacity? This is because these students have not been studying and therefore the GCE shall not be written next academic year because of the vacuum that the stake holders refused to acknowledge existed?
Solutions to every problem can only surface when a very indept analysis and synthesis of the root cause had been discovered and uncovered.
A civil Engineer will tell you that when the very foundation of a structure has cracks, it definitely will be stupidity for the owner to change but the roof the house and a new coat of paint added to the dilapidated structure.
Consciously the issues affecting the Anglos-axon Educational system must be remedied and curricula that is purely theirs allowed entirely in their hands.
Syncretism is what is ruining this Country called the Cameroon's because kerosene and oil can never blend.
The GCE Board stands as the loser should any Examination be conducted this year because its credibility stands a high risk being ruined for life.
No examination board worth the salt can forget and forfeit its future because of the presence.
The GCE Board was not given to the Anglophones on a platter of gold,rather it was and is a child of the Anglophone resistance.
This history of the GCE Board should ring a warning bell on the ears of those who today are reaping where they never sowed. They must remember that lives were lost in that struggle, people were maimed and eyes lost because of the veracious attacks launched on Anglophones by the state Gendarmes using water cannons, hand grenades and Toxic tear-gas. Today those whose duty is to jealously protect the future of the young Anglophobe students have agreed to put it to jeopardy. What an inferno and what a disgrace. History shall be our judge and shall either nail us to the cross of humiliation,disgrace and Shame or venerate us if we shall have clean hands.

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Rita Akana

11.May.2017

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A shameless policeman last week demonstrated the flagrant hatred the Francophone regime in Yaounde, Cameroon, nurses for Anglophone Cameroonians by driving out a young girl who had gone to deposit her application for a passport.

The Francophone policeman wasted little time and minced no words in demonstrating his contempt for anything that looked and sounded English.

With unrestrained xenophobic arrogance and racist discrimination, he flung the application documents in the face of the Journalism and Mass Communication graduate from the University of Buea and told the upset girl never to go back to Yaounde with her application.

“I have marked your face,” the policemen told Hilda, “if I ever see you here again, I have you arrested and detained.”

 The policeman further told Hilda, “You Anglophones are very big-headed; you like making trouble, so go back to where you came from. Don’t ever come back here  !”

Hilda, though nervous, plucked courage and asked the police officer what crime she had committed and the man responded by throwing Hilda’s file at her.

“Don’t you understand? I said get out of my office!” was the officer’s rude reaction.

What Hilda learnt from the unsolicited outrage is that Cameroon, indeed, is not one and indivisible. In any case, her crime was speaking English in Yaounde and also having certified her documents in Buea.

Recorded history in Biya’s Cameroon has it that Anglophone Cameroonians have been conditioned by the Francophone government to accept force and terror whenever they make powerful demands with some success.

In their fanatical hunger to continue enslaving Anglophones, the Francophone regime has, in a tragic prediction of the future of the country, refused all significant negotiations with the clamouring minority Anglophones and persisted in offering too little too late in the way of concessions.

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Jerome Ngwa

09.May.2017

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