Dear Ngwa,
I am sorry I couldn't write to you last week because I was in Bachuo-Akagbe in Mamfe for preparations for the interment of the Honourable Emmanuel Tabi Egbe a.k.a E.T Egbe.The funeral actually drew a mammoth crowd though most of the people were members of the Yaounde government and those who hang on their aprons.
I saw all the affluence in which members of government and other state agents live, as there were cars of all models.
The road had been hurriedly repaired to make the government officials have a smooth ride to and from the funeral though most parts were still in bad shape given the short time required for the repair job.
Caterpillars and all sorts of machines had been ferried to the Kumba-Mamfe road, even those that were no longer functional. I am sure that was meant to deceive the public, as usual.
I cannot understand why E.T Egbe' funeral became such official business when he was not given any worthy attention when he was ill, unlike his Francophone counterparts in a similar situation.
My brother, your frog masters also demonstrated that they see nothing good West of the Mungo. Can you imagine that food was prepared in Yaounde and carried to be served here by Hotel Makombe and its servants?
And the servants, about 100 of them, spoke only French perplexing the local Bayangs who attended the funeral.
So, what with our famous OIC in Buea and other catering services here in the Southwest or in Anglophone Cameroon? Is it that somebody in Yaounde gave the contract to a Yaounde-based hotel for a fee?
Getting a hotel all the way from Yaounde means no money comes here but stays in Yaounde in spite of the fact that E.T Egbe was from this side and was buried here. However, those are the consequences of what he stood and worked for.
Can this be an eye opener to all of you guys who have been trying to make see that you will be used and dumped like toilet paper?
At the funeral itself no local people or authorities were given the opportunity to speak.
Even the MC was a Francophone who attempted to speak in some approximate English. In fact, he spoke French in English. I don't know if E.T Egbe's family members were also part of that arrangement.
I was in Bamenda and the streets are in a mess. I don't know what the council is doing with all the park fees, market tolls, land tax and so on. Bamenda is really an eye sore.
The rains are fully back and the so-called national roads will soon be impassable. The Bamenda ring-road like the Kumba-Mamfe road is in patches.
My brother, something is happening at the GCE Board. Weh! Our lone relic of Anglo-Saxon institution! Workers are now dying by the week. At the GCE Board, a slogan: "Who is next?" is the greeting. Someone should find out what is actually happening. If it is natural, may God make us see it.
Well, I hear the new Pope is German. May be we should tell him that the Germans were in Cameroon and their relics are still there to show and have survived the French rape in all forms; from the mentalities of our rulers, through our environment to our natural resources.
However, I hope he will not come visiting now because that would be a blessing to the pirates who are looting all our resources in the name of leaders.
And remember that many people think that the economic crisis during which our resources have been looted started after the visit of Pope John Paul II - may his soul rest in peace.
I hope the passing away of the Pope and the election of a new one will bring reason to your powers that be that life on earth is transitional.
May this season of Long Live the Pope bring glory in the struggle for our God-given rights in the former British Southern Cameroons. Amen.
God bless you.
Mbella.
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