2, April 2019
Algeria: A lesson to Cameroonians 0
After weeks of huge demonstrations, calling for the departure of the wheelchair-strapped Algerian president, the ailing 82-year old Bouteflika has agreed to resign before his term in office comes to an end on 28 Aoril 2019.
After ruling the country from a wheelchair for most of his time in power, the sick Algerian president felt he could take another term. He did not know the Algerian population had a different plan.
Immediately he announced his candidacy in the upcoming presidential election, his opponents also went to work. The timing was perfect. The economy is suffering, the ailing president can no longer talk and the global political atmosphere is changing in favor of real democracy.
The population has also been angry. It immediately mobilized and took to the streets to once more prove that there is power in numbers. Once again, the world has witnessed another people power revolution that has taken down another seat tight leader.
The Algerian case should serve as a good example to Caneroonians, especially French-speaking Cameroonians who are too chicken-hearted.
Algerians like Burkinabe have proven that true power lies with the people and when they are determined to take down a dictator, nothing can stand in their way.
Cameroonians must learn from Algeria. They must take down Paul Biya and his corrupt criminal enterprise through a people power revolution.
Holding that elections can solve the matter is a waste of time and thinking that death might help them in the process is total stupidity as Biya is simply an element in a system that has been designed to hold the country and its people down for centuries.
There is power in numbers and Algerians have proven that. Cameroonians should take to the streets in Yaounde for weeks. If more than 200,000 Cameroonians come out, the military will throw in the towel and Biya and his people will either flee or will be held in the jails they have built for others.
Cameroonians must learn. They must understand that nobody will change their fate for them. They must figure out that the criminal enterprise that has ruled the country for decades will not be going away anytime soon unless taken down through a people power revolution.
This is possible. Yes, you can. Stop sleeping, start preparing. Take fear out of your mind. If the military does not kill you, preventable illnesses will, as there are no good health facilities in the country. Poverty has already killed many and know that pauperizing the population is a true Biya strategy to keep the people submissive.
Accidents and criminality will continue to kill you if you keep on fearing Biya and his incompetent bunch. For 36 years, they have not built a single road in Cameroon.
Their corruption is obvious and that is why most of Mr. Biya’s former ministers are in jail. He put them there. That’s a clear indictment of himself. Those people could not be stealing if he did not create a favorable environment for that.
Alibaba cannot be innocent while the 40 thieves are looting the system. Hold him accountable. Take to the streets. The system is collapsing from within. Internal fighting is tearing the criminal enterprise apart. Take advantage of this weakness. Change your fate and that of your children. Biya is old, sick and weak. He can be taken down.
The Francophone Diaspora should take a lead on this. Yes, you can. The time is now.
By Dr Joachim Arrey
10, April 2019
Open Letter to Chief V. E. Mukete 0
Your Royal Highness,
In 1990, the founding National Vice President of the CPDM party, Dr. John Ngu Foncha resigned from the party, citing some of the issues you are now complaining about.
By remaining inside that party, did you hope to correct those wrongs or did you consider that John Ngu Foncha was just a nuisance and ought to be dispensed with? In 1993 both John Ngu Foncha and S. T. Muna, who are considered as the fathers of the nation used the opportunity of AAC1 to offer their apologies to the people of Southern Cameroons for having driven them into an unfortunate marriage with a barbaric people.
Since you say you are like them because you fought for reunification, do you think that what you said in the upper house of parliament on 9th April 2019 is enough to atone for the killings and burning of villages under your jurisdiction as paramount traditional ruler, by the army of Mr. Paul Biya who recruits and pays you? In June/July 2017, Dr. Simon Munzu spent a week in Yaoundé, plying all Anglophone MPs and Senators (after he had travelled the entire North West and South West appealing to all traditional rulers) to form a delegation and seek audience with Mr. Paul Biya to request that he convene a national dialogue.
How did you receive Munzu’s advocacy and how did you react? Did you even summon a meeting to consider his plea or you just ignored him the way your younger brother and employer, Mr. Paul Biya has treated Anglophones with spite and disdain, beginning from John Ngu Foncha to that grandmother whom his army burnt in her house in Kwa Kwa and that child whom he sent his army to wake him up from sleep at 5a.m and shoot him dead in Batibo?
Well, your Highness, it seems to me that after publishing a well written book in 2014 which recounts the history of this country, you feel like you have still not done enough by way of legacy and you thought by that outburst in senate in Wirba-like fashion you are doing something to be remembered by.
I think that the reception which that drama you put up got from the Anglophone public tells you there is more you can do if you don’t want people to attend your funeral only to grab what they can.
You have two options: either you apologize to us and immediately resign from that moribund house of ghosts called senate, and also pull out of that masquerade called CPDM, or you form a delegation of about fifty Anglophones, including Musonge, Achidi Achu and all the others of that ilk, to take up permanent position in front of that house where Paul Biya works and stay there until he convenes a national dialogue as the international community has demanded of him.
I can bet you my life that if you do this, all the people of Southern Cameroon in Yaounde will join you there and even if you die in that action, you will be better immortalized.
What you did in senate recently was just a lame aping of the Wirba phenomenon and was quickly ignored.
Atemkeng in Madrid, Spain