Douala Airport: Biya's Gov't imposes travel ban on Anglophones

Gov't imposes travel ban on Anglophones
Just weeks after wasting taxpayers money to organize a so-called forum for the Cameroon Diaspora (FODIAS 2017),the gov't has imposed a travel ban on Anglophones from entering the country.

The contradictions are simply mind-boggling and shows a gov't completely out of touch with a reverse sense of its own priorities. Obviously, Diaspora Anglophones are now an endangered species whether or not they support the ongoing Anglophone struggle, but any responsible gov't will not shut the door on its citizens; while at the same time asking them to come back home and invest. Is the gov't pretending not to know that the all the Cameroonians who attended Diaspora forum hold passports and resident cards from their countries of origin? Who is fooling who?

The same gov't rolled out the red carpet for a group of Black Americans who claimed to have traced their ancestry to Cameroon; yet deny entry to its natural born citizens. The gov't would do well to send its "blacklist" to the embassies to screen visa applicants because issuing someone a visa only to turn round and block the person at the port of entry only reinforces Cameroon's international image as a country with highly dysfunctional institutions where bizarre things happen.

This pig-headed policy is ill-advised, counter-productive and plainly egregious in its stupidity. Either way, it is the economy that loses because those rejected Anglophones constitute part of the Cameroon Diaspora that have helped sustained the Biya regime with remittances.

Granted that Cameroon does not recognize dual nationality, even though most Ministers and top gov't functionaries hold French passports; but must you bite your nose to spite your face? Can the gov't survive if Diaspora Cameroonians boycott Western Union and MoneyGram for just one month?