Politics

The alleged intervention of President Paul Biya to resolve an examination scandal which his Minister of High education publicly stated he perpetrated pursuant to government policy is not just a pity but an anxious interpretation of the signs of times. Higher Education Minister, Professor Fame Ndongo accurately explained that he was executing the policies established by Paul Biya which have been in place for the past 32 years. For this, purpose, there may no reason for Paul Biya to fire him which he hasn't. There is also no reason for him to resign since he merely did the job he was appointed to do. On the contrary, the manner of Presidential intervention tacitly approves of the Minister actions. Removing the Minister alone will not adequately redress a systemic wrong which has caused so much pain and suffering on so many over three decades. Honour requires that the formulator of this policies that led to this and other scandals must resign. That person is the President himself.

The conduct of the Minister in this scandal was but a faithful interpretation and implementation of policies that have sustained the crime syndicate in power and through which it buys consciences and compel allegiance. That Fame Ndongo acted the way he did and later justified it, is not news. What is news and should attract public attention and scrutiny is the fact some of those who were complicit in the execution of this policy in the past, this time around, challenged it by publishing the list of successful candidates which the examiners retained. The publication of the political list came only to alert the conscience of a captive and docile nation. The commendable action of the examination panel in publishing the genuine list of successful candidates, damning the consequences, is an indication that finally some people within the crime syndicate are anticipating a future without Paul Biya and his coterie of corrupt Ministers.

True to a nation of cowards, Paul Biya is being praised for decreeing an admission list which includes candidates whose names were corruptly removed. The question is not asked, how the panel arrived at the first list before it was tampered with. It may well have been the product of corruption at another level, political, nepotic and tribal influence. Disturbing as that may be, that should not preoccupy us now. It suffices that they published the list; a bold act in a regime whose staying power is inbuilt corruption and cultic allegiance to its corrupt entreprise.

Fame Ndongo rebuked the panel for not applying the policy of regional balance in their deliberations. But this policy has hardly ever been applied in any sector of this perverse neo-colonial contraption as Ntemfac Ofege has brilliantly demonstrated elsewhere. The CPDM has a policy of so-called " back scratching" in which corruption as a political tool of governance is celebrated and vigorously applied. Regional balance has nothing to do with this corrupting policy of allegiance, mental compulsion, political blackmail, patronage and intimidation. The case of the captive colonial territory of the Southern Cameroons where the escalation of the policy of cultural genocide is ongoing makes the situation of its colonial citizenry worse.

Paul Biya has acted the way he has because the unprecedented action of the examination panel and national/international public reaction took him off guard at a time he is abroad. No one should be surprised that members of this panel rather than Fame Ndongo may be sanctioned. If ever Fame Ndongo is sanctioned or moved around to a senior or strategic position to oversee this policy, that will still be within the hallmark of the policies of corrupt governance.
The conduct of Paul Biya as well as that of his foot soldier Fame Ndongo in this case must be critically analysed within the context of the failed policies that 32 years of misrule has pushed this sinking boat. The conduct of the examiners may herald the emergence or begining of a positive trend among persons who at long last have acknowldged the approach of a Noah's Arc of political survival at the shores of a desperate polity fighting for its soul. The reality of a future at some point in time, without Biya and without the many Fame Ndongo's who elevated him to a demi-god, may at long last be reaching the confines of the conscience of some people. For those who were complicit in the many crimes, one which has alarmed the conscience of the nation and beyond, their Saul to Paul moment may be now.

Reasonable persons should therefore be celebrating the courage of those who published the genuine list no matter their motivation, and encourage others to do the same. Heaping misplayed praises on Paul Biya whose policies led to the pain, humiliation, anxiety and shame of a nation held hostage by Aujoulatist neo-colonial vampiric rule, strengthens the hand of tyranny, criminality and political rascality. Only a cowardly people applaud their own victimization. That is what those praising Paul Biya rather than those who exposed the fraud are doing. And that is worse than the crime itself.

Chief Charles A. Taku

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10.Mar.2015

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The alleged intervention of President Paul Biya to resolve an examination scandal which his Minister of High education publicly stated he perpetrated pursuant to government policy is not just a pity but an anxious interpretation of the signs of times. Higher Education Minister, Professor Fame Ndongo accurately explained that he was executing the policies established by Paul Biya which have been in place for the past 32 years. For this, purpose, there may no reason for Paul Biya to fire him which he hasn't. There is also no reason for him to resign since he merely did the job he was appointed to do. On the contrary, the manner of Presidential intervention tacitly approves of the Minister actions. Removing the Minister alone will not adequately redress a systemic wrong which has caused so much pain and suffering on so many over three decades. Honour requires that the formulator of this policies that led to this and other scandals must resign. That person is the President himself.

The conduct of the Minister in this scandal was but a faithful interpretation and implementation of policies that have sustained the crime syndicate in power and through which it buys consciences and compel allegiance. That Fame Ndongo acted the way he did and later justified it, is not news. What is news and should attract public attention and scrutiny is the fact some of those who were complicit in the execution of this policy in the past, this time around, challenged it by publishing the list of successful candidates which the examiners retained. The publication of the political list came only to alert the conscience of a captive and docile nation. The commendable action of the examination panel in publishing the genuine list of successful candidates, damning the consequences, is an indication that finally some people within the crime syndicate are anticipating a future without Paul Biya and his coterie of corrupt Ministers.

True to a nation of cowards, Paul Biya is being praised for decreeing an admission list which includes candidates whose names were corruptly removed. The question is not asked, how the panel arrived at the first list before it was tampered with. It may well have been the product of corruption at another level, political, nepotic and tribal influence. Disturbing as that may be, that should not preoccupy us now. It suffices that they published the list; a bold act in a regime whose staying power is inbuilt corruption and cultic allegiance to its corrupt entreprise.

Fame Ndongo rebuked the panel for not applying the policy of regional balance in their deliberations. But this policy has hardly ever been applied in any sector of this perverse neo-colonial contraption as Ntemfac Ofege has brilliantly demonstrated elsewhere. The CPDM has a policy of so-called " back scratching" in which corruption as a political tool of governance is celebrated and vigorously applied. Regional balance has nothing to do with this corrupting policy of allegiance, mental compulsion, political blackmail, patronage and intimidation. The case of the captive colonial territory of the Southern Cameroons where the escalation of the policy of cultural genocide is ongoing makes the situation of its colonial citizenry worse.

Paul Biya has acted the way he has because the unprecedented action of the examination panel and national/international public reaction took him off guard at a time he is abroad. No one should be surprised that members of this panel rather than Fame Ndongo may be sanctioned. If ever Fame Ndongo is sanctioned or moved around to a senior or strategic position to oversee this policy, that will still be within the hallmark of the policies of corrupt governance.
The conduct of Paul Biya as well as that of his foot soldier Fame Ndongo in this case must be critically analysed within the context of the failed policies that 32 years of misrule has pushed this sinking boat. The conduct of the examiners may herald the emergence or begining of a positive trend among persons who at long last have acknowldged the approach of a Noah's Arc of political survival at the shores of a desperate polity fighting for its soul. The reality of a future at some point in time, without Biya and without the many Fame Ndongo's who elevated him to a demi-god, may at long last be reaching the confines of the conscience of some people. For those who were complicit in the many crimes, one which has alarmed the conscience of the nation and beyond, their Saul to Paul moment may be now.

Reasonable persons should therefore be celebrating the courage of those who published the genuine list no matter their motivation, and encourage others to do the same. Heaping misplayed praises on Paul Biya whose policies led to the pain, humiliation, anxiety and shame of a nation held hostage by Aujoulatist neo-colonial vampiric rule, strengthens the hand of tyranny, criminality and political rascality. Only a cowardly people applaud their own victimization. That is what those praising Paul Biya rather than those who exposed the fraud are doing. And that is worse than the crime itself.

Chief Charles A. Taku

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Ngwa Bertrand

10.Mar.2015

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President Biya has ordered Minister Fame Ndongo to reinstate the names of the students he rejected from the list of successful candidates in the IRIC entrance examination. Cameroon Concord has learnt that Biya made the decision from Europe where he is on a private visit. Minister Jacques Fame Ndongo the Minister of Higher Education has now officially been requested to readmit the students previously rejected for the academic year 2014-2015. The students are:

1- Nti Estelle Nadia

2- Mebenga Lucien Thierry

3- Oyono Ottou Didier Hervé

4- Ayuck Josiane Marguerite

5-Simeu Djoko Brice C.

6- Minka Minyem Joseph

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09.Mar.2015

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Chad and Niger launched a joint army operation against Boko Haram in Nigeria on Sunday, intensifying a regional offensive designed to defeat the Islamic group, military sources said. It is the first incursion deep into Nigeria by troops from Niger, which have so far only fought Boko Haram in the border area. Chad  has already sent troops many kilometres inside northeastern Nigeria and has won territory back from the Sunni jihadist group near the Nigeria-Cameroon border.

“We can confirm that Chadian and Nigerien forces launched an offensive this morning from Niger. The offensive is underway,” said Colonel Azem Bermandoa, spokesman for Chad’s army. Niger military sources said troops were attacking militants from the Islamist group in Nigeria’s Borno State, having entered via the country’s southeastern region near Diffa. One of the sources said that Abuja had given the green light for the operation. It was not clear how many troops were participating in the offensive.

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09.Mar.2015

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Troops from Chad and Niger have managed to liberate a Nigerian town from the Boko Haram terrorists, as the regional alliance against the Takfiri group continues its advances in western Africa. Around 200 militants of the Boko Haram terrorist group were reported killed on Monday in the operation which saw the Nigerian town of Damask liberated.  A Chadian security source said three Chadian soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded in the offensive which began Sunday as part of a regional effort to purge Nigeria of the Takfiri militants. Officials in Niger also confirmed the recapture of the town, which had been under Boko Haram's control over the past four months. The heavy fighting comes as the Takfiri group, which has been wreaking havoc in Nigeria for the past six years, recently pledged allegiance to the ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.

In an audio message last week, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau (pictured above), voiced his support for ISIL’s cruel massacre of the innocent people in the two Arab countries.The Nigerian terrorist group has expanded its militancy across the borders over the past months, killing hundreds of civilians and making many others homeless. Officials in the Nigerian army also announced late February that the government in Abuja is determined to recapture towns from Boko Haram in north of the country. They said the war against the militants will soon end. The militancy has claimed the lives of more than 13,000 people. Some 1.5 million Nigerians have been also displaced with many of them escaping into the neighboring Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. African Union on Friday decided to establish a regional force of up to 10,000 men to battle the terrorist group.

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09.Mar.2015

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Cameroon under President Biya has been an elitist and unfair society operating an imperial kind of presidency with a pattern of discrimination and systematic war against the Anglophone community. This vicious pattern of governance which was propounded by a group of Francophone Beti-Ewondo elites in politics and in the army ever since Biya came to power in 1982 has resulted in a vast ethnic and wealth disparity. And as the Biya regime shows no signs of crumbling, the spirit of peace, work and fatherland is fading away from the Anglophone communities in the country.

The disparity of wealth accumulation between Francophones and Anglophones has its roots in the Beti-Ewondo imperial presidency headed by Paul Biya. Contrary to the late Ahidjo era when we had our Kilos and Nangas, in the 32 years of the Biya regime, Anglophones do not have one Cameroonian billionaire. CPDM Cameroon is for the enrichment of the Francophones and 1 percent of CPDM South West and North West elites who spend their time and ill gotten wealth fanning the flames of North West/South West divide. The Biya regime also operates a malicious policy where the Bamilekes pretend to be “les meme gens” with our North West West brothers and help their Francophone geopolitical setting to expropriate and exploit the Anglophones.

The Cameroonian society has never been fair. It was never about any Anglophone succeeding except for those who betray other Anglophones. His Royal Highness Fon Angwafor of Mankon can go around posing as National Vice President of the ruling CPDM party but even a child born in Tinta in Akwaya Sub Division in Manyu is aware that Fon Angwafor does not have access to President Biya like the Sultan of Foumban, the Lamido of Rey Bouba or the Fon of Banjoun. CPDM Cameroon has always been unfair, it will never be right if the people of the North West and South West province do not read from the same script.

Today, it is almost impossible to speak English in any government building in Southern Cameroons. Under Biya, we have had 32 years of some kind of slavery and discrimination from French speaking Cameroonians. Perhaps, I should bring myself into this editorial for this week!! Where do I really belong? In Southern Cameroons, I am a minority from the South West. In the Republic of Cameroon, I am a minority from the Anglophone community. In Europe, I am a black man, still a minority!! Where do I go from here?

In both the South West and North West regions of Cameroon, Francophones have 50 times the wealth of Anglophones. For everyone Anglophone captain in the army, there are 100 Francophones. For everyone Anglophone diplomat, there are 101 Francophones and for every 2 Anglophones SDOs, there are 100s of Francophones senior divisional officers. No Anglophone can even muster the courage to seek a government contract amounting to a billion FCFA!! Who are you?

Protest against financial inequality is what led to many Fulanis joining the Boko Haram Islamic sect. The Biya Francophone Beti-Ewondo regime is speeding up developmental issues now in the Far North region. But in the Bakassi peninsular in the South West region, there is no sign of improvement. The Anglophone Diaspora should please raise their game!! We should move away from organizing ekpe, mbagalum, and bottle dance etc to more serious issues. A stitch in time saves nine

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07.Mar.2015

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