Who is fooling who? Musonge distances self from Tabetando’s internet shutdown utterances

Former Prime Minister of Cameroon and the only one of them to have escaped to cobwebs of the Kodengui Maximum Security Prison, Peter Mafany Musonge, who currently serves as the permanent head of CPDM in Fako Division and grand chancellor of National Orders, has distant himself from the claims of Chief Senator Tabetando that they (South West Elites) advised the government to cut off internet supply in the Anglophone Regions of Cameroon (North West and South West).

Speaking in an interview with press men after the South West Elite forum that took place last week in Buea, a gathering that saw speakers launching xenophobic attack on North Westerners and promoting the divide and rule tactics of the government, senator Musonge said he was not a party of the internet shutdown.

“I didn’t…you have a tool which permits your education, which permits you to acquire knowledge, which permits you to come in contact with your brothers and sisters all over the world…I appeal to young people to use this medium for the benefit of themselves and their country.” While rejecting the claims, he frowned at the fact that people take to the social media to preach hate against his personality and others. “

You will go to the internet and people call you all type of names, and they will say you did this-you did that, that you have ill-gotten wealth and so on.

We have done a lot of work for this country, but you young people who are growing up, you criticize and condemn your leaders. It a shame.” He said. Even though the former premier did not avowed that he was an accomplice to the internet shutdown, his utterances suggest that he was at peace with it out of the way.

However, professor Ngole Ngole explained that the internet blackout is somehow justifiable. His words “we live in a country where internet technology is used very widely…for reason either related to national security or abuse or whatever reason that it has been cut. Obviously authorities that have the powers to regulate have a reason to do that.”