One would think that with the changing political climate, the ruling CPDM, also known as the crime syndicate, would also change its ways, but recent actions by this bunch of unpatriotic and corrupt people only underscore that old habits really die hard.

The CPDM management style has remained a challenge to many astute planners who hold that having a futuristic view of life is the best path to tread.

For more than 40 years, the ruling CPDM has been groping in the dark instead of having clear economic policies and plans which should demonstrate that the government is replete with highly smart and intellectual planners whose efforts should result in certainty and admirable results.

But the Biya government yet to understand that ruling by decrees does not really produce the desired results. The political chaos that has reduced the country to a jungle has rippled out to other parts of the economy and there is no end in sight.

One would think that a country’s senators would automatically qualify for life insurance coverage and once they pass on, their funeral arrangements would be conducted with class and their families will be beneficiaries of the pay-out the insurance companies would provide.

The deaths of the Senate Vice President, Nfon Victor Mukete, and that of the Member of Parliament, Emilia Lifaka Monjowa, are clearly demonstrating that even at the highest levels of government, insurance coverage is not a matter of priority.

Chief Mukete and Ms. Lifaka do not have any state provisions for their burial and this has caused the ruling CPDM to pick up its begging bowl to get to work.

This is a party which knows how to beg. In many cases, it is a beggar who imposes the amounts the benefactors have to deliver.

True to its ways, the crime syndicate has called on all its members to donate generously towards the burial of the two Southwest law-makers who never thought it wise to fight for life insurance for themselves and their families.

Find below the message issued by the proud beggar, obliging civil servants to contribute towards the funerals of the late law-makers.

Dear Comrades, following a brain-storming meeting convened by the SW regional political hierarchy towards the funerals of the late Senator Nfon Victor MUKETE and Hon. Emilia LIFAKA it was agreed on Divisional levies of 2.000.000 F CFA as participation towards the organization of the funerals of the late members of parliament. In consonance with the decisions arrived at and to enable Manyu CPDM Caucus come up with its share of the condolence contributions the following levies shall apply:

1) Members of Government and those ranking as such ………….500.000 F CFA

2) Vice President of the Senate….. …. 500.000 F CFA

3) Ambassadors & senior diplomats ……300.000 F CFA

4) CT-PRC/SG ……..200.000 F CFA

5) Senators…………150.000 F CFA

6) Members NA…..150.000 FCFA

7) DG…………………..150.000 F CFA

8) DGA…………………100.000 F CFA

9) Board Chairs…….100.000 F CFA

10) CT/Directors……..75.000 F CFA

11) Heads (Institutions, Deans of Faculties, etc) and ranking as such 50.000 F CFA

12) Members of bureau Regional Assembly.. 50.000 F CFA

13) Mayors …… 50.000 F CFA

14) Sub-Directors/Divisional Delegates 30.000 F CFA

15) Members of Regional Assembly …… 30.000 F CFA

16) Chiefs of services/ Principals…. 25.000 F CFA

17) All other political elite…..20.000 F CFA

All condolence levies including transfer charges should be forwarded to Mr AGBOR EMMANUEL OBEN Momo 670851975 on or before midnight May 09, 2021. Thanks for your understanding and usual diligence. Victor MENGOT. Head PDD/CPDM – Manyu

By Soter Agbaw-Ebai

Experts have often repeated that psychopaths are chameleons who rarely stand out in a crowd. This attribute makes them inconspicuous and, therefore, difficult to identify and capture. A relaxed, charming, and unemotional demeanour, combined with a keen intellect, make the psychopath a very effective predator. Such is the case of Cameroon, wherein a rare interview conducted over a decade ago by the country’s President, Paul Biya, has surfaced. In the video attached to this write up, the charismatic 88-year-old despot labels his people as mature. Why did Mr Biya choose those words to describe his people?

Paul Biya is the oldest head of state in Africa. He came to power peacefully in 1982 after former President, Ahidjo chose him as his successor. Biya was educated in France and portrayed himself as a public servant upon returning to his country. He cycled to work even after he was appointed prime minister in 1975.After presenting himself as a gentleman and hard-worker, in1979, a law was passed in Cameroon assigning the prime minister as the President’s constitutional successor. Many historians have labeled this as a significant move from Biya towards the country’s top job.

Ahidjo’s decision to resign from the presidency in 1982 meant Biya became President at forty-nine. Biya has, however, amended his country’s constitution designating the President of the Senate as his successor. As it stands, that position is currently occupied by Niat Njifenji- a long-time collaborator. Niat Njifenji is 87, incontinent and senile. This begs the question: Why would an 88-year-old president designate an 87-year-old as his successor? Does this point to Biya being a cold, calculating, mindless, devious, and self-serving psychopath?

The answer is simple. Biya is supreme evidence that children can be wholly dissimilar to their parents. Biya’s father was a Roman Catholic Catechist and wanted him to follow in his footsteps, but the young seminarian was dismissed from a Catholic school at sixteen. Had background checks been done when he joined the civil service in the 60s, his true character may have been revealed, and millions of lives might have been saved. Many in his country say he has represented the worst of humanity with his brutal and oppressive rule. Biya’s consolidation of power before and after the failed coup in 1984 was ferocious and definite. He eliminated without remorse over a thousand members of Cameroon elite force accused of plotting to oust him.

The butcher of Yaoundé was forced to implement multiparty politics in the 1990s. Correspondingly, he has reportedly won all counterfeit elections organized by his ruling party and he has amended the country’s constitution on many occasions to extend his failed political experience.

In “Tyrants, the World’s 20 Worst Living Dictators”, the author states, “Every few years, Biya stages an election to justify his continuing reign, but these elections have no credibility. In fact, Biya is credited with a creative innovation in the world of phoney elections”.

Many political commentators believe that Biya has taken full advantage of the docile nature of Cameroonians. Like thousands of psychopaths before him, he has been effective at killing his prey slowly. Thanks to first-rate tribalism and ruthless henchmen, he has been methodical in ruining a nation rich in human and natural resources.

There is no single noteworthy achievement attributed to Mr. Paul Biya, except one considers the production of millions of alcoholics an achievement. Under Biya, Cameroon has excelled as a nation of drinkers and alcohol abusers. According to experts, the number of people suffering from depression in the country is in the tens of millions. He has dashed the hopes and aspirations of his people and plans to be a candidate at the country’s next presidential election when he is ninety-two. Thousands have died because of his misrule and criminality and it is a sad indictment that generations unborn will pay for his actions and inactions.

In the last forty years, the standard of education in Cameroon has fallen woefully. Education was never his thing, and the evidence is in his family unit, where none of his children has managed to earn a university degree.  His acute laziness and lack of vision have been significant obstacles to the country’s economic growth and political maturity. Moreover, he is a totalitarian who does not believe in the delegation of responsibility except the tasks of executing political adversaries and rigging elections.

Amongst Cameroonian academics and political scientists in the diaspora, the debate is rich and intense whether he has managed to cause as much harm as Hitler. Separated by time, tactics, and place, many believe that Biya has caused as much damage and premature death as the psychopath who ruled Germany from 1933-1945. While Hitler’s damage was done in 12 years and numbered 6 million human bodies, like slow poison, Paul Biya’s damage has spanned four decades, three generations, and the actual human toll is impossible to compute. But the significant damage is there.

Paul Biya, a charming psychopath, has led a criminal enterprise that has mismanaged his country for nearly forty years. Whether he likes it or not, he will be exiting the stage soon. He inherited a vibrant country with economic promise but will leave multiple war zones, mountains of public debt, dilapidated public infrastructure, battered educational system, a country with more beer-parlours than people and libraries combined. Due to hard work, Biya has transformed Cameroon into an open prison. His pathetic record points in one direction: He is a coldblooded Psychopath or better still, a monstrous liability of a president and a political disaster.

By IsongAsu

London Bureau Chief,

Cameroon Concord News Group

Cameroon has created 11 new political parties, bringing the total number of legalised political parties in the Central African country to 330.

Paul Atanga Nji, Cameroon minister for Territorial Administration, announced Wednesday that he has legalised the new political parties “which will enrich political debate and encourage freedom of expression” four years to major elections in the Central African country.

He said the new political parties will “henceforth contribute to the facilitation of a contradictory but constructive political debate” in the country of 26 million people.

One of the newly legalised political parties is the Patriotic and Republican Alliance (APAR) of Celestin Djamen—a former member of the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) of Ni John Fru Ndi—and the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) of Prof Maurice Kamto.

Speaking at a press conference in Douala last month, Mr Djamen said he created the party to fill in a vacuum left by current opposition parties in the country. He said APAR “will be very active in the field.”

He said the political party will never boycott any election in the country, adding that it has great plans for 2025.

President Paul Biya’s current mandate will end in 2025 when the veteran leader will be 92. The mandate of current members of the National Assembly as well as local municipal authorities will also come to an end in the same year.

Mr Djamen, however, did not elaborate on the party’s plan.

But he added that APAR will have a secretariat in charge of cooperation with other political parties with whom they will discuss issues relating to the reform of the electoral law of the country.

President Biya accepted the reintroduction of multiparty politics in the country in the 90’s and in 1992 the country organised its first multi-candidate presidential election which he won and has since remained a serial election winner albeit reports of massive rigging.

Source: The East African