By Azore Opio
Martin Nkemngu
, the Assistant National Communication Secretary of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, party, who resigned on Thursday, March 9, has crossed the carpet to join the ruling CPDM party. Accompanied by two other SDF National Executive Council, NEC, members - Sylvester Ngemasong, one of the auditors of the SDF party, Dr. Steven Fomin and, according to Nkemngu, hundreds of SDF ward officials from Lebialem, Nkemngu and his 'followers' gave themselves up to Nganu, a CPDM baron and Assistant Secretary General atthe Prime Minister's office.
Nganu had travelled to Lebialem where he chaired a Joint CPDM Section Conference billed to discuss options for development efforts. The Conference held on Saturday, April 8 at the grandstand in Menji, Lebialem Division, Southwest Province.
Talking to The Post on phone after the crossing-over ceremony, Nkemngu expressed disaffection against what he termed SDF Chairman Fru Ndi's repressive regime. He blamed Fru Ndi for forcing them out of the party. He said the Chairman had turned into a Bokassa or an Amin of sorts.
Nkemngu denounced the Chairman's expulsion of people like the former Secretary General, Prof. Tazoacha Asoganyi, the Provincial Secretary of the Southwest, Atabong Asaba, the District Secretary of Menji and the SDF Chairman for Limbe, Francis Anu.
Without naming names, Nkemngu expressed disdain at some SDF big shots, who, he said, dine with the CPDM at night and sing praises for the SDF by day.
Nkemngu, however, seems to have a bone to pick particularly with the Fru Ndi.
According to Nkemngu, disgruntled militants had addressed a memo to the Chairman concerning issues such as bribes that he had allegedly received.
"But instead of defending, refuting or trying to explain the allegations, the Chairman began targeting individuals to victimise," Nkemngu said.
He also pinpointed the SDF Parliamentary Group leader, Hon. Mbah Ndam, as having struck shady deals amounting to something like FCFA 200.000.000.
The former fire spitting Communication Officer said he could not deliberately encourage such an attitude in a revolution that they started.
Nkemngu insisted that Fru Ndi has betrayed the cause of the revolution and that that is why they left.
However, he was quick to dismiss public suspicion that the CPDM party had bought him and the others over, and that he had "chopped soya".
"I haven't "chopped soya". No. For those who know me, I would have "chopped soya" long ago - a big fat one for that matter, if I'd wanted. But the people, my people in Lebialem, insisted that we join the ruling party… with a little sentiment about the sons of Lebialem being given the boot from the party (SDF), it wasn't difficult," Nkemngu said.
He further explained that he is not dealing with anybody in particular to canvass for positions or appointment.
Besides, he said, he did not mind joining a party that was grappling with national issues almost to the point of collapsing.
Asked why he was plunging into the arms of enemies that he made while in the opposition, and possibly sailing into more troubled waters, Nkemngu did not sound anxious.
"I am ready for any consequences …" he replied.
He said that, while in the opposition, he did not address individuals but issues.
On whether the Lebialem exodus was a prelude for him running for parliament next year, the CPDM convert said he is an ordinary politician down the lower ranks, not an ambitious fellow looking for favours.
The once acerbic critic of the CPDM refuted the accusation that by darting, first, from the Liberal Democratic Alliance, LDA, to the SDF and, now, from the SDF to the CPDM he is running round in political circles.
The CPDM, Nkemngu maintains, needs support from inside and he is ready to give that support in order to bring the much needed change in the country. When he was asked how the CPDM, a party they used to refer to as an unpopular and rather disreputable party was going to help him, Nkemngu waved the question aside.
He retorted that the SDF Chairman had compromised change; the cause of the revolution. "That is why I say that Cameroonians had better removed the scales from their eyes," Nkemngu added.
Another SDF big wig, Professor Clement Ngwasiri, who is planning a convention in Yaounde come May 26, expressed surprise when he was asked why Nkemngu had abandoned him to join the CPDM.
"He has big a problem. I think he is going to be overwhelmed and yet he is the one that might save the party," was all Ngwari could say.
After failed attempts to reach the Chairman of the SDF, The Post finally spoke to the President of the SDF Constitutional Committee, Hon. Cyprian Awudu Mbaya.
In a blistering tone, he said even Fru Ndi was not aware that Nkemngu and some Lebialem SDF militants had crossed the carpet to the CPDM.
Saying it was hardly necessary to comment about Nkemngu's recent move, Awudu, however, said it was no surprise.
"It makes the SDF stronger, and, after all, Nkemngu is a political prostitute, some kind of self-seeker, a fortune hunter of sorts.
"He abandoned the LDA for the SDF and now he has joined the CPDM. They can all join the CPDM. They have always wanted to be there - all along."
Ni John Fruy Ndi and his gang of opportunists are chasing away our SDF militants. Any one with a true conscience will find it impossible to CONTINUE working with an exploiter. We should wait for the disgace awaiting SDF during the next parliamentary elections.
It is unfortunate.
Mukete
Posted by: mukete | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:37 AM
Merely doing their Job openly now. You were all CPDM even in the SDF.
Go criminals.
Posted by: Rexon | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:37 AM
If the Old man in the picture is the new CPDM millitant i think the SDF party should be happy for losing old fellas with no ambition like him and wining new people like us to the party.
He has just few new ideas and alot of old and out dated ideas which only the CPDM needs.
LET 'EM GOOOOOOOOO
Posted by: joseph | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:53 AM
BANGWA PEOPLE WITH BANGWA SENSE!!!
Posted by: nkengajong | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:10 AM
Fru Ndi and his gang of opportunists are chasing away your militants from the SDF? I thought Ngwasiri was the chairman of your SDF and Nkemngu was already working hand in hand with him? Hahaha, the ball is still rolling. Let's just keep watch until the end of the match.We will finally know who are the opportunists and who the gang master is.
Long Live the SDF and Fru Ndi
Shalom
Klemenceau.
Posted by: Klemenceau | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:10 AM
I think we should, at least, be honest even for just a second. The fact that Ni John Fru Ndi is refusing to talk and to address the many boiling allegations against him is clear testinomy that he has something to hide. This is a man who was always quick to address the press and people, even when the corpse of his wife was lying in state.
How can a man who bitterly addressed the press and who spoke about his secret financial dealings with the CPDM goverment at a moment when he was seriously mourning the death of his beloved wife, be now silent under mounting evidences and allegations that he is the one actually selling and killing the SDF? This is a man who would use the slightest ocassion to give lectures to the media. When Professor Asonganyi sent him a letter, he was the one who blown it to the press. Why the silence now?
The common man has asked questions, NEC members have asked questions, SDF wards inside the country have asked questions, and SDF sections abroad, especially in Britain and France have asked questions, but no answers have been given. Instead, we hear the chairman is visiting his children for a rest in London while the SDF and NEC are under fire.
Even if we respect his children rights to call their father for a rest abroad, Ni John Fru Ndi should know that even if he sleeps with his eyes open in London, he, a lover of power, will still come back to Cameroon. If he continues to run away from the problems that he himself initiated, then he will never stop running in life. If he thinks that in his absence others will solve the problems he initiated, then he is making a big mistake.
I think he has heard the news that president Paul Biya has withdrawn the controversial press bill that was sent to parliament. Since president Paul Biya understands that he now merely living on borrowed time as president of the republic, why can Ni John Fru Ndi not addressed the many boiling issues and clean the SDF so as to regain the confidence and trust of the people. It is sad to realize that Ni John Fru Ndi is no more interested in becoming the president of Cameroon, but he is only bent on remaining the chairman of the SDF.
Imagine the leader of the opposition in a country like Cameroon, Ni John Fru Ndi, who is only contented with the presidency of his party. Ni John Fru Ndi no more cares about the presidency of the country, and for him, being the chairman of the SDF means he has attained the apex of his political activity.
It is a pity. It is a disgrace! It is a shame! It is treason! It is total betrayal! It is a failure! The man who falsely claims to have trigger the start of democracy in this country is the one actually killing democracy in this country.
God should save us!
Mukete
Posted by: mukete | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:19 AM
This trend of SDF militants moving over to the CPDM is worrying. The country cannot function effectively if one party is too strong over its leading opponent. This will lead to arrogance and its consequent shortcomings.
I hope that this is the last that one is hearing of these changeovers. It is far better for disgruntled SDF militants to move over to Ngwasiri's wing than to make the full distance to the CPDM. I certainly do not like hearing about this.
Posted by: Dr. A. A. Agbormbai | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:24 AM
Thank you Nkengagong,Bangwa People dont even know where they stand.They are neither Francophones nor Anglophones,neither CPDM nor SDF.Very fraustrated people.Follow your country man Asonganyi and create a Bangwa Republic.Traitors
Posted by: Nkem | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:26 AM
" When he was asked how the CPDM ,a party
they used to refer to as an unpopular and rather disreputable party was going to help him,nkemgu waved the question"
Mr Journalist the shame is overwhelming.
That is why he Nkemgu says he is ready for any consequences.How can one sound so defeatist before joining something he thinks is good.He has already started begging all the people he used to denigrate in the CPDM ,by saying he did not use to address individuals but issues.Apologetic in this way only to be another dangerous weapon against Cmeroonians,my Lord!
We have been very prophetic in this forum everytime.We knew that after Effimba,other devils were still lurking in darkness.The simple truth about Nkemgu`s carpet-crossing is that after hanging around Ngwasiri for sometime and discovering
that their trumpeted Yaounde Convention would not take them anywhere,he has decided
to desolidarise himself with this subsequent
catastrophy.The terms Ngwasiri uses to describe Nkemgu are explicit enough:"He has a big problem.He`s going to be overwhelmed..
..".This shows that many confused people can never agree and do anything good.It shows that there has been crises amongst them.
Why does Mr Cyprain Awudu expect Nkemgu to inform Fru Ndi of his departure? He made a French- leave because the shame is unparalled.He knows that everybody saw his name on Ngwasiri`s list of delegates
accredited to the Yaounde convention,and now that he cannot agree with Ngwasiri,the only thing is to make some waves by joining the CPDM,since he had no other leg to dance on.The big question now is that since nkemgu says he can`t work with Fru Ndi ,what has suddenly happened that he cannot work with Ngwasiri?
Nkemgu says the CPDM needs support from inside.May be all the failures the CPDM has recorded for 24 years,came as a result of only having support from outside.Nkemgu wants to go inside now with all his support.Pitiful!How can someone who is at the point of collapse,mad,frivolous,not join a party that is at the verge of collapse! He is right to chose this option.
It never rains,it pours!Let the CPDM theorists on this forum stop talking about parliamentary elections now and instead tell us more about their ill-fated Yaounde
Convention.One of their mouth pieces Nkemgu has taken to his heels.
Is there no other party in Cameroon that people can cross over to?Only the CPDM?
By going for a party that feeds on Cameroonians shows how Machiavellic this people have always been.When another lost soul,Ngwasiri can`t understand the fact that one of his weapons abandons him,then the situation is outrightly pitiful!
Posted by: Watesih | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:38 AM
THE TRUTH IS ABOUT TO BE BRANDISHED!...a lil more patience!
FRU NDI WILL ORGANISE A RALLY TO ADDRESS SDF CRISIS...he doesn't want press conferences, or some private interviews. He wants to talk to the people...he wants to talk to the world...he wants to talk in the open.
Why are we crying foul and trying to make a point where there's none. Didn't we see a previous article that the Chairman will address issues at a rally NOT a press conference, NOT in private interviews, NOT ...NOT..... He is going to hold a conference very soon in the open...and NOT in private! He wants the whole world to hear the truth. He doesn't want newspapers to quote "in a private interview" like what Ngwasiri has been doing. Howmany Cameroonians read newspapers or watch TV? We want a rally. Maybe some of us will take time of to attend this rally. We don't want "I hearsay".
The truth will be exposed soonest. If we don't have something to say we better shot up.
Is it a crime for me to invite my father under severe stress to rest for a while? Do some of you want Ni John Fru Ndi die before his time? The clock's ticking...tick-tock...tick-tock...tick-tock...You want to get the truth. It will be given you...and you shall be set free.
Again, the Yaounde convention will not hold. Quote me anywhere!
I'll be back!
Son Of Ako - LSE.
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Posted by: Akoson | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:55 AM
These are the kind of traitors who never help the situation.
It is an honourable step to form a new political party as a dissident group and tactically ally with another party rather than cross carpet in this unpopular manner.
I would describe this Mr.Nkemgu as an unselfless greedyidiot spying onthe opposition to relay info back to the ruling party.
This political flirt and his followers have genuinely proved that they are not prepared to see Cameroon change for the better.Short-sighted narrow-minded fools!
HIS LOOKS CLEARLY REVEAL SELF HUNGER.Unreasonably strange people.Stupid Asses!
Posted by: NjifenztBD(London) | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 11:55 AM
I want guys to react to the fact that Ngwasiri faked names into his list of those who'll organise the Yaounde convention. When we read such articles, we escape from reacting to them. I want the so-callled progressive SDF militants react to this. Vally and the rest, I'm waiting!
Still around.
So Of Ako.
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Posted by: Akoson | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:00 PM
Whatever the failures of the SDF and its chairman, when militants resign (rightly or wrongly) from the party and then join the CPDM, then there is a problem because it shows a lack of an ideological compass and is a manifestation of crass opportunism.
It has become obvious that the SDF will not get to power anytime soon, so folks are making a dash for the CPDM for opportunistic reasons. I will respect any individual who resigns from the SDF to join a party with a similar ideology, even if it is a small party, rather than jumping in bed with the CPDM with a totally different (not worse, simply different) ideology. Shame on Martin, Effimba and other political prostitutes.
Posted by: manga che | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:10 PM
What happened to the other political parties whose presidential candidates collected money to run their campaigns in 2004. What are they saying and planning to do about the problems in Cameroon? How come political parties only show up during presidential elections and nothing is ever heard of them after that? Can the current parliamentarians not hold these crooks to account? What kind of a jungle republic is Cameroon becoming?
Posted by: neba funiba | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:21 PM
Mukete you are an open ass hole with lose sphincter muscles that continuously emanates nothing but shits of hatred and dislike. Hate and force cannot be a part of the world without having an effect on the rest or it. This is why your contigion of hate is spreading wildly like a deadly epidemic across the mind of others. Something to regret on its effect of our future cameroonians waiting to see things come to unity and the benefit of all. You claim to be shining the light but I tell you it is darkness and evil that you are spreading across. Do you think because your father was a Vanguard you should be given special considerations in the party. Why don't you form your own party and stand for the upcoming elections
I am waiting for your claims to be the word living among men as well. The bible says from the fruits, the tree shall be known. From your words you are sowing seeds of discord and your aversions are really that strong but cannot influence all. don't worry because the same bible says, 'just a little while, the wicked one will be no more.' Your days are numbered in this forum. Dam Banza. Shaygay!
Posted by: samleyin | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:22 PM
Can anyone give me the email address of the University of Yaounde? The one that I found on the Internet is not functional. Thanks.
Posted by: Dr. A. A. Agbormbai | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:30 PM
This were the criminals that came to ruin the SDF and to run aways after. So we need not bother when they run to their paymasters the CPDM. We must confront them ever in this forum before they humiliate us. It is not proper for someone who is naturally honest to join the CPDM. The CPDM and its militants are the most dangerous group of individuals and occultist for someone who is in his right senses to have anything to do with. This party is the most criminal thing Cameroon has ever produced and we need to destroy it, otherwise, our children will not have any future. The problems of Cameroon has never been Ni John Fru Ndi, but the people he is working with like Mbah Ndam who will one day resign also for the CPDM. We should deal with this guys otherwise, all our reputation as southern Cameroonians will be destroyed. They are all Biya's agents and they are now coppying the attitude of "CHOP BROKE POT" from la republique du Cameroun. We should deal with them together otherwise even our southern Cameroonian struggle will be branded "Incredible"
Posted by: Rexon | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:33 PM
This are real jokes in Cameroon.
When I said party politics is a disgrace to this nation someone shouted at time...
When did George Galoway of the Respect party resign to join Tony Blair's labour party because there was a problem with Respect.....?
When did John Kerry become a Republican because he had a misunderstanding with Hilary Clinton within same Democrates..?
Or when Did Nelson Mandela ever change from being an ANC member to join Frederic de Cleck because they disagree with Jacob Zuma
Guys, wait,dont be surprised tomorrow to hear even Bello Bouba resigning and join CPDM what of Fru Ndi himself
Anlglophones, this party politics is a mere distractions. See an example of the demises of the anglophone on this article on Ndian people begging for roads...
Gos Save Cameroon
Tayong
Posted by: Tayong(Copenhagen) | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:34 PM
Nice "Comparative piece" Tayong. This guys are just fighting for their stomachs and not the common man on the streets of Cameroon/Africa. We should deal with them before they destroy all our hope and future.
Why are people soo interested in themselves other than the freedom they claim to defend? It really wonders me what Cameroonians/Southern Cameroonians have become. Poverty has influence individuals to sell their conciences. It is really a shame to all of us as Africans.
Traitors everywhere instead of genuine opposition leaders.
Posted by: Rexon | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 12:48 PM
Mukete,
Can you read other news items before making the noise that Fru Ndi should address the nation? Didn't you read the news item for the scheduled rally, though there is a conflict between day and date? When he finally addresses the nation will you be quiet then? you are a noise maker. You like ranting over nothing, saying the same thing day in day out. Fru Ndi, as a father, has got the right to see his children when he wants. Have you ever questioned Biya why he and his family spend all of their time in Europe when the whole country is dyeing? You can only write silly questions to ask why Fru Ndi should visit his children. This confirms the fact that you don't see him as any other normal human being with a personal life to take care of. "Empty vessels make the loudest noise"
Posted by: Enoh | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 01:10 PM
Enoh,
Shut up, you thief. Are you out of jail? Remember what took you to jail. You have to compose yourself now that you are on bail. Some of you guys really want us to expose your immoral acts on this forum. Watch out''' If you dare open your mouth, I will expose who you are.
Posted by: Charles | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 01:34 PM
If the 99s had such a large follwing, why not form a party that will effect the much desired change Cameroonians have been clamouring for?. Lebialem remains an SDF constituency.Nkemngu and Asonganyi do not speak for Lebialem Division.These are traitors known no way else in the division but in their native lebang clan.
Let the "Kontcho" of 99 sense and his mentor tell us how they have contributed in the development of the Division. lebang people are known worldwide for their tribalistic tendencies.Even when he and Asonganyi were active in the SDF, the CPDM still won elections in that Division.The SDF remains strong even if Nkemngu is going to deceive all the Bagwas to leave.Look at his political profile: supported the Fosung faction of the LDA,resigned and joint the SDF,Supported the Ngwaseri Faction in the SDF saga, now canvasing support for the CPDM.
What a shame? That is the end of his political career.Unfortunate for him the lone Parliamentary seat in the division was not ment for Lebang people alone.Someone else from Wabene will take the seat this time.
Posted by: Ngwaseria | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 01:40 PM
The resignation of these very high profile SDF members is just the beginning of the fall of SDF. In modern times, no party can become so tribalistic and hope to survive. No wonder SDF is unable to win a parliamentary seat outside North West. Fru Ndi has clearly shown his inability to be a leader. He might be a good bookshop manager but this is not the same as being a leader. Let me spare your time and energy by adding that I do not come from Lebialem.
Posted by: Dr. Peter Aka | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 01:43 PM
charles or whatever you call yourself, can you shut up you son of a bitch. If you spend your life in jail then do not think it is the home of everybody. You are another blinded coward. Yesterday you signed in as "who", today you are signing in as charles, tomorrow you will sign in as .... and that is cameroon. Today you are cdu, tomorrow you are sdf and when you reaslise that you are not reaping what you thought you will reap you switch to cpdm, and that is cameroon. A devil incarnate.
Posted by: Enoh | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 01:44 PM
Nkemgu Martin has been promised a post by Ephraim Inoni, his fellow school mate at Bojongo. So he wants to go and eat better buttered bread. As a Bangwa man, he is using his 99.99 senses to go for his piece of buttered bread from Inoni's table. Shame no di kill Bangwa man. I hope he can stand his friends and children. What a shame. Atabond Asaba, Ngemasong, Fomin , Anu are all scalyways who could not defend a single vote for the SDF during the last elections. Their decamping does good for the SDF. They were all traitors at the first place.
Posted by: Atem Nkengasong | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 02:18 PM
Mukete,
The Chairman has convinced a rally on 11th April2006. I think you can join in and ask some of the questions you deem very necessary. From the look of things, I strongly belief that you have special worries against the Chairman
Posted by: Ewane | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 02:18 PM
Enoh,
Please don't let me expose you. Tell this forum what took you to jail. Ex convicts like you should not come and pollute such a forum. This is not a forum for ex convicts. Stay out of this forum''''. If not of respect that I have for the post, I would have exposd your anus right away. Watch out Enoh''''''''''''''''''
Posted by: Charles | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 02:23 PM
This is not strange at all, 99.99 Bangwas can do and undo. Where do they really belong, the earlier the 11th province is created the better.
Posted by: T-boy | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 02:37 PM
I have very little to contribute now because I have said time and again that those who are against Fru Ndi did not have the SDF at heart.They are egostic and see Fru Ndi as one who stands on their way.These guys joining the CPDM know very well that this dreadful regime cannot and will never get Cameroonians out of the present misery,yet they take these decisions because,they know it is the only way to grasp their share of the national cake.
They have never stood for any change.What beats my imagination is that those who accused Fru Ndi for dining with the devil (CPDM)are moving in daylight to join that same devil.
They are people on this forum also working for the CPDM and see Fru Ndi as the sole devil of the Cameroonian people.When Fru Ndi´s name is mentioned,these persons become numbed.If they were objective,they would have condemned Martin Nkengu´s action.
Posted by: Fon Lawrence | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 02:47 PM
Akoson,
which is easier to address, A press CONFERENCE ,an INTERVIEW or a RALLY? Your guess definitely is as good as mind.
You will agree wiith me that , press conferences and interviews are more focused, intense, precise and indeed in-depth than a RALLY. Going to address a Rally to talk about petinent issues that people will want to know, to me, Akoson, is a carefully planed and thought out strategy once more to play fool of camerooninas once more.
Watesih, if you are in position, you could advicethe chairman to take a stand for a press conference or an Interview.
What worries me most, I know Akoson and Watesih whom I particularly share his steadfastness in his position, is the the " POTENTIAl VOTERS" that SDF is loosing. It will be an understatement to say that, this "cross carpeters"(permit the use of that Jargon), are not taking away some "significant" votes from SDF. To also say that, Liabeliam is not almost lost and doesn't count for the SDF, could be a said thing indeed as one commentator said above. We shouldn't make a Nonsense of a clan like that. But again, that is his opinion and I respect that but.....
Whether we like it or not, it will soon show, SDF should strive towards politics of inclusion and not exclusion,because it will do us NO GOOD. We can count on a pronvince alone or a division to head a nation, it works in no part of the world like that.
No matter how popular you are in your class, it will be difficult for you to be made the senior prefect of the whole school. You must be known and accepted by the majority, because Democracy, no matter how crazy it is, is a game of Majority, whether they are right or wrong.
My 5 frs
Posted by: Emah | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 02:53 PM
Cross carpeting is a Cameroonian way of politics. However i feel sorry for those who participate in it. What will they do if the CPDM also fall in thesame sham like SDF is facing..probably cross carpet to their.... . Shame to those cross carpeters, you are all traitors. What made u join the SDF in the first place. You are fighting only for your personal interest and not for the nation as a whole, you can cross carpet to hell black legs..
Posted by: Agborarrey(Maryland) | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 03:04 PM
Cross carpeting is a Cameroonian way of politics. However i feel sorry for those who participate in it. What will they do if the CPDM also fall in thesame sham like SDF is facing..probably cross carpet to their.... . Shame of cross carpeters, you are all traitors. What made u join the SDF in the first place. You are fighting only for your personal interest and not for the nation as a whole, you can cross carpet to hell black legs..
Posted by: Agborarrey(Maryland) | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 03:09 PM
Who has NOT crossed carpet before?
... but why are people presenting the issue of Martin N. crossing carpet as if crossing carpet is a strange phenomenon in Cameroonian politics? Was the SDF created out of nothing? Did those who created the SDF originate from thin air? If those who created the SDF were satisfied with their original CPDM party and its elections, would they have crossed carpet to create another political party? Why did the founding fathers of the SDF not remain in the CPDM and bring about the changes they wanted? Why did they cross carpet only out of frustration? It is the same thing our politicians are used to. All those who are trying to claim victory over Martin's crossing carpet fail to understand that they, too, did exactly the same thing.
To cross carpet is a sign of defeat and failure, because success demands that you remain where you are and fight for what you believe in, even if it means signing your own death warrant. That is true commitment.
However, when people cross carpts, it does NOT imply that the person or leader who caused them to do so is free. Those who create unfavourable working atmosphere within any organization or body must not claim victory when their members cross carpet, unless the process of crossing carpet only help consolidate their selfish and hegemonic interests. They may rejoice that the "THORN" that was in their flesh has finally left. They may also rejoice that the one who was keeping an EYE on them has left. They may be taking the ocassion as if it was the Almighty God who has descended from heaven and has relieved them of all their sins.
No, those who directly or indirectly force others into crossing carpts are accomplices in the failure process. They, too, are partly yo be blamed. They have failed in creating the favourable working conditions that would have held back those who cross carpet. In politics, especially in Cameroon where simple majority is the rule, NUMBERS IS VERY IMPORTANT. To say that the SDF has nothing to loose if Martin N. crosses carpet is pure ignorance and dishonesty. To say that the CPDM has not recorded a goal against the SDF with the crossing over of Martin N (a former SDF NEC member) is pure dishonesty.
I have stated in this forum that those who run away from problems will end up only running in their lives. I have also stated that the fight within the SDF is not for the weak and the uncommited. Martin may have a point, but by running away from the SDF that Ni John Fru Ndi has set on fire, he may find himself only running from one political party to the next. This is what we call political flirtation. This is exactly what Ni John Fru Ndi did when he lost elections to go to parliament under the CPDM. Instead of remaining in the CPDM and fighting Biya from within, out of defeat and frustration, he "crossed carpet" and with others created the SDF. This is not different from what Martin has just done.
This is the political game our leaders are used to. Bello Bouba, Ferderick Kodock, Ni John Fru Ndi, Martin N, and many others have left their parties of origin to either create theirs or join others. Before people start misjudging me, they should remember that when the SDF was created, Multi-party politics was already in our constitution. So if no one tried to creat another party before, it was not simply because we had only the CPDM. After failing to get what they wanted from the CPDM, they left out of frustration and created their own party.
I would like to stress that, "People come and go but the institutions remain." With or without Martin N, the SDF remains. In like manner, with or without Ni John Fru Ndi, the SDF will remain. For me, I have decided to stay and to fight within the SDF.
MUKETE
Posted by: mukete | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 03:45 PM
yes instead of calling for a press conference or interview Mr Ndi decided to have a rally .cameroonians are no longer fools Mr Ndi.so your just looking for an opportunity to come and sing the old sung to poor fathers and mothers that is not what is needed now.we want you to come one to one with some one like Ben Muna and tell us what is going on.forget about this rally stuff for it is just another means to keep fooling the people.thats how i feel Mr Ndi
Posted by: samuel | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 03:47 PM
i think every individual have the right to move to what ever party he or she wishes.no body has the right to question moves made by anyone regardless however cross party moves is not unusual in cameroon politics so people should learn to deal with that and move on.SDF will survive regardless of those individuals
Posted by: Elvis Tataw | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 04:08 PM
Why can't people be consistent? So according to Nkemngu the CPDM is now a better party!
To acknowledge that he is ready for all the consequences in the CPDM signifies that he went astray and is now at their mercy; they can treat him as they like; he's ready to accept the expected punishment as a lamb that went astray if only he can have a piece of stale bread.
When shall we have real men in this country?
Posted by: Tonyman | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 04:15 PM
Another orifice comes up emanating nonsense in the name of a Dr peter Aka. my ass. You are probably the kanda stick doctor. Who are you mister redneck. Let me begin by asking you when you last came home. How can you stand to say SDF has no parliamentary sit out of the NW province. Can you throw more light on your idea of the SDF being a tribalistic party and the high profile people you are talking about. You are just another 99 sense extract. This is surely the dullest kanda stick doctor I have ever come across my whole life and you really give bad taste in my mouth. Please carry your odour off this forum and dont let me talk to you because you will never smile again if I do.
Posted by: samleyin | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 04:21 PM
It is too late for any body to join us now. No party is a treat to us again so we can only give new comers who have been abusing us befor some beer money for the day.
All the same we welcome you guys but know you can not let in to the inner room.
Owona
Posted by: Owona | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 06:06 PM
At the end of the day, Fru Ndi himself will make the same change-over to the CPDM like his comrades have done. I must say that the SDF is carefully but steadily becoming a "grafi" affaire.
Bravo Mr. Ndi for gradually pushing the southwesteners out! The SDF is in its evenings i'm afraid!!!!
Posted by: Buea boy | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 06:52 PM
It is a disgrace to see that people get to the post and write whatever thing that crosses their minds without thinking. Politics is a dirty game and those who play it are dirty. However, renowned politicians are steady-fast to their courses. Mr. Ngemgu and the others cannot convince cameroonians in anyway that they were fighting for their interests, instead they were playing for time and gaining grounds to ask for bribe from the oppressive Biya's regime. Their actions do not surprise some of us because we know from childhood that you "have to eat with a Bangwaman with a long spoon". Flip-floops politicians have nothing to offer their followers since they do not have any defined objectives. Whether in the SDF or CPDM, Mr. Ngemgu Martin and the others have nothing to offer the lay Bangwaman but to feed their stomachs. Selfishness is not good. John Kerry lost the last USA presidential elections to George Bush because of his flip-floops attitude. So Mr. Ngemgu, if i were you, i could have resigned from the SDF and formed a political party, to prove my disagreement with the SDF's chairman Ni John Fru Ndi. Cameroonian people, it is clear from the actions of some SDF followers that we lack a genuine opposition party in Cameroon. However, SDF seems to be the only opposion party in Cameroon with John Fru Ndi as the leader though he too has his weaknesses. I think the weaknesses of John Fru Ndi are not comaparable to the treacherous acts other Cameroonian politicians such as Bello Bouba, Ben Muna (a replica of the father), Prof. Ngwasiri, Prof. Asonganyi and most recently the so call Martin Ngemgu whose phenotypic appearance depicts a Somalian refugee who has not eating for weeks. All thes people have have hidden agendas my people. I do not however, condole with all the actions of Fru Ndi but i admire him as a Cameroonian politician with the people at heart. I am not a politician at the moment but an independent observer (potenial politician) and a keen-reader of the post.
Posted by: Menjoh (Sherbrooke/Canada) | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 07:08 PM
In rgw final analysis, only the poor will suffer. I love my country, I love my people and i live my tradition and culture. But to those who have made Cameroon a prison yard for those without crimes I say to you it it time. For those who have made Cameroon a desert in the middle of an ocean, i say it is time. For those who have breath hatred among peace loving people , i say it is time. It is time for Cameroonians of good faith to start fighting with different tools, even those of the devil. The ballot has failed us and we believe the bullet can save us and give us our God given rights.
To hell those who want to jeopardise the future of cameroon.
Ben Benoi.
Posted by: Ben Benoi | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 07:18 PM
I cannot believe this, to see the republican Opposition melt right in front of my eyes.
The Lion goes from strength to strength. Viva the RDPC/CPDM.
I no longer need Fru Ndi to take care of the SCNC secessionists. The Fons will do it for me in the NW and the Police will chase these Southern Cameroons rascals in the SW.
C-in-C
Posted by: PB | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 07:26 PM
Klamenceau, Knganjo, JB Samba, Sammy, Akoson, Watesih, etc.
I have added more to my earlier contribution to enable you people tell this forum where I might be wrong. I however beg that readers read this patiently and with a cool head.
Can you people please be honest to tell this forum if the following analysis makes any sense? I do not understand why you people are selective in the contributions you react to. Are some of my contributions more harmful or nonsensical than others? I thought everything I write is wrong and that this forum is fortunate to have "truth bringers" like you who would not allow readers swallow the falsehood I bring here. Or is the following analysis fiction? Is it talks in the streets and the bars? Please address what I am saying here now.
Who has NOT crossed carpet before?
... but why are people presenting the issue of Martin Nkemngu crossing carpet as if crossing carpet is a strange phenomenon in Cameroonian politics? Was the SDF created out of nothing? Did those who created the SDF originate from thin air? Were the founding fathers of the SDF (with its current chairman) not disgruntled CPDM militants? If those who created the SDF were satisfied with their original CPDM party and its elections, would they have crossed carpet to create another political party? Why did the founding fathers of the SDF not remain in the CPDM and bring about the changes they wanted? Why did they cross carpet only out of frustration? Would Ni John Fru Ndi had participated in the creation of the SDF is he had won parliamentary elections as a CPDM militant? What Martin Nkemngu has done is the same thing our politicians are used to. All those who are trying to claim victory over Martin's crossing carpet fail to understand that they, too, did exactly the same thing. Ni John Fru Ndi and the other founding fathers of the SDF were all disgruntled CPDM militants, who had benefited from the CPDM party before.
To cross carpet is a sign of defeat and failure, because success demands that you remain where you are and fight for what you believe in, even if it means signing your own death warrant. That is true commitment. After feeding fat on Cameroonians as a police officer within the ranks of the CPDM, retired officer of disorder (Yoyo) crossed carpet from the CPDM and joined the SDF. Why did Yoyo do this only after his retirement, when he was far away from the remains that fall from the CPDM mafia table? Has Mbah Ndam not been a strong CPDM member before joining the SDF? Anenmbom Munjo has played the CPDM militancy before joining the SDF and if she had been made one of the CPDM female ministers, she would never have thought about crossing carpet tio the SDF. Today she is doing everything to be an important female politician, with all the benefits attached to it.
However, when people cross carpts, it does NOT imply that the person or leader who caused them to do so is not guilty. Those leaders who create unfavourable working conditions within any organization or body must not claim victory when their members cross carpet, unless the process of crossing carpet only help consolidate their selfish and hegemonic interests. They may rejoice that the "THORN" that was in their flesh has finally left. They may be contented with the fact that the man who was giving them sleepness nights have finally left. They may also rejoice that the member who was keeping an EYE on them has left, and acting as a "Balance of power" has finally left. They may be taking the crossing of the carpet by influential militants as if it was the Almighty God who has descended from heaven and has relieved them of all their sins. You think Ni John Fru Ndi and his disciples of doom would not rejoice and have sound sleep when all those "opposition" within the SDF resign? You think they will not thank God if all these "trouble-makers" leave them alone with the SDF? Ni John Fru Ndi would rather graciously want these "thorns" in his flesh to leave on their own than use the undemocratic article 8.2 kick them out of the SDF.
Those who directly or indirectly force others into crossing carpts are accomplices in the failure process. They, too, are partly yo be blamed. They have failed in creating the favourable working conditions that would have held back those who cross carpet. In politics, especially in Cameroon where simple majority is the rule, NUMBERS IS VERY IMPORTANT. To say that the SDF has nothing to loose if Martin Nkemngu crosses carpet is pure ignorance and dishonesty. To say that the CPDM has not recorded a goal against the SDF with the crossing over of Martin Nkenmgu (a former SDF NEC member) is pure dishonesty. We are not even talking about an ordinary SDF militant crossing carpet; we are talking about an important NATIONAL EXCUTIVE COMMITTEE (NEC) member of the SDF joining the party in power. Come on, let us be serious!
I have stated in this forum that those who run away from problems will end up only running in their lives. I have also stated that the fight within the SDF is not for the weak and the uncommited. Martin Nkemngu may have many pertinent and convincing points against the leadship of the SDF- which he has demonstrated again and again-, but by running away from the SDF that Ni John Fru Ndi has set on fire, he may find himself only running from one political party to the next. This is what we call political flirtation. This is exactly what Ni John Fru Ndi did when he lost elections to go to parliament under the CPDM. Instead of remaining in the CPDM and fighting Biya from within, out of defeat and frustration, he, Ni John Fru Ndi, "crossed carpet" and with others created the SDF. This is not different from what Martin has just done.
This is the political game our leaders are used to. Bello Bouba, Ferderick Kodock, Ni John Fru Ndi, Martin N, and many others have left their parties of origin to either create theirs or join others. Before people start misjudging me, they should remember that when the SDF was created, Multi-party politics was already in our constitution. So if no one tried to creat another party before, it was not simply because we had only the CPDM. After failing to get what they wanted from the CPDM, they left out of frustration and created their own party.
Truly Martin Nkenmgu might have found his life at risk within NEC. For example, since NEC meetings hold in the private residence of Ni John Fru Ndi, Martin Nkenmgu might have considered NEC meetings in Ni John Fru Ndi's house a serious threat to his survival. He couldn't have been attending meetings in Ni John Fru Ndi's house without eating and drinking with other NEC members. He couldn't have been coming to NEC meetings in Ni John Fru Ndi's house with his own chair and table. He couldn't have been attending NEC meetings in Ni John Fru Ndi's private residence and then living at NIGHT in Bamenda, where SOME people consider Ni John Fru Ndi a god. Even if Ni John Fru Ndi appears "clean", we do not dispute the fact that in Cameroon's politics today, people consult with Juju houses and witches to gain favour, support and power. Some have even killed opponents to maintain power. These are things we know do exist today in Cameroon, and no one can force another person to continue to stay where he thinks his life is in danger.
If Martin Nkenmgu in one way or another found himself in danger within the SDF (danger can be looked at from different angles), then it is his right to go where he thinks there would be a safty for him. He might at least be free to criticize the CPDM leadership within the CPDM itself as members of the progressive wing of the CPDM have been doing without fear or victimization. It is better to deal with the devil you know than to continue dealing with the devil you have been taking for a saint. Martin Nkenmgu might have been deceived - just like millions of SDF militants - into believing that Ni John Fru Ndi was the right man to take president Paul Biya, the devil we all know, out of the Unity palace. After dinning with Ni John Fru Ndi for long and discovering that he is an UNREPENTANT DICTATOR, what do we expect?
Some naively say that even if Martin Nkemngu has the right to quit the SDF, it would have been advisable for him to create his own party rather than joining the CPDM. This reasoning does not hold any water. It is not easy to create a viable political party as some would think. When Ni John Fru Ndi left the CPDM out of frustration after failing to win parliamentary elections, he was fortunate to have other able politicians (Ngwasiri, Nyo, Asanga, etc.) who helped him create the SDF. Ni John Fru Ndi couldn't have done it alone. Ni John Fru Ndi couldn't have raised enough money and resources alone to create the SDF.
With the present situation, Martin Nkenmgu could not have succeeded in convincing Ngwasiri and his group into joining him create another party. Ngwasiri as a Founding father of the SDF has invested much money, time, energy and resources into the SDF and is bent on taking that which he believes rightly belongs to him. Ngwasiri is against the fact that Ni John Fru Ndi is feeding alone from their collective sweat, and would not agree with Martin Nkenmgu that the SDF be left with Ni John Fru Ndi. Besides, with the issue of the SDF convention still very hot, Martin Nkenmgu would have needed time and energy to create his own party, if and only if, he has the financial means to do so.
I would like to stress that, "People come and go but the institutions remain." Ni John Fru Ndi, Yondo Black Mandengue, Jean Jacque Ekindi, Ndam Njoya, Ben Muna, Yoyo, Mbah Ndam, Nyo, Ngwasiri, Anenbom Munjo, etc, etc. left the CPDM but the party is still living. With or without Martin Nkenmgu the SDF remains. In like manner, with or without Ni John Fru Ndi, the SDF will remain.
Would Ni John Fru Ndi had left the CPDM if he had won the parliamentary elections he lost? The Founding Fathers of the SDF were disgruntled CPDM militants. Consequently, Martin Nkenmgu is merely doing what Ni John Fru Ndi and others have, unfortuntately been doing.
Finally, I want to state, clearly, that President Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi are very happy with the fact that Non North Westerners are leaving the SDF. Both men will even negotiate to give all North West seats in parliament to the SDF. So if SDF militants from other provinces do not vote for the SDF, this makes no difference. This is because president Paul Biya feels comfortable presenting the SDF as a regional North West party. President Paul Biya would rejoice if the whole of the North West province give the SDF and Ni John Fru Ndi 100% while the CPDM and Biya gathers all the votes from the other provinces. This will convince the International community that the SDF is a North West party. This is what president Paul Biya wants, but unfortunately, Ni John Fru Ndi is helping him achieve this.
Understand me, I am not supporting Martin Nkenmgu for finally letting Ni John Fru Ndi use the SDF as his private property. My point is that we should not over-react to his decision to join another party. Ni John Fru Ndi has done same before. The very essence of the creation of the SDF was based on the fact that disgruntled CPDM militants (Ni John Fru Ndi and others) came together under the umbrella of Founding Fathers and created the SDF. Consequently, the creation of the SDF was another form of crossing carpet by these disgruntled members of the CPDM. This is the fact!
Am I wrong in my analysis? Please tell me.
For me, I have decided to stay and to fight within the SDF. Until Ni John Fru Ndi and his gang of exploiters radically change their mentality, my heart will know no rest.
MUKETE
Posted by: mukete | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 09:39 PM
The "99 sense" guys who always think they are very smart thought all along that the SDF will be an avenue for them to have access to steall and embezzle money, but because things kept getting hard for them to steall, they are en mass to moving to a party that has lots of money to steal.
If they were trully people who wanted to get thier loved country out of corruption and the other vices that have creepled our once a power house in Africa and an emerging force in world polotics and affairs they would have at least moved to another Opposition party. There is the CPC, UDC and other parties that are out to fight the denise of our country, why did they not embrase one of them. The SDF is not for theives so let them go in peace.
We cannot regret losing ingrates like them. Look at the photo of the Nkemgu guy, he really looks hungry, and needs money to steal real quick if not he might starve to death.
We now know who they are, when the time comes for true change they will not have any place at the table.
Posted by: Ticha ( Toronto Canada) | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:01 PM
Anglofools,
Look at you idiots.
Keep on wasting your energies on stupid SDF/CPDM politics while your people can not travel from Bamenda to Mamfe to Kumba to Ekondo Titi to Mundemba.
Nkemngu does not need to desert the SDF to prove how stupid you are.
You are aleady seeing PB, Ben Muna, Buea Boy, Riccardo, Fuckam, Gislain, NAN, etc. on the mockery lane.
However, as stupid as you Anglofools are, you still have us.
Rest assured.
The Southern Cameroons SHALL BE INDEPENDENT.
NOTHING and we mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING can stop it.
OUR VICTORY IS ASSURED.
Paa Ngembus
SCAADIM (Southern Cameroonians Against the Annexation & DestructIon of our Motherland)
Posted by: Ngembus Fonlon Mbock | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:04 PM
Klemenceau,
u're misreading stuff on here. I never saw Mukete state in his reaction above that
Ni John Fruy Ndi "the leader" and his gang of opportunists are chasing away our SDF militants.
Or may be my computer blotted out "the leader" and only left these words: Ni John Fruy Ndi and his gang of opportunists are chasing away our SDF militants.
Is any other reader's computer having a similar problem?
Posted by: ftroit | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:11 PM
Manga Che,
there was no other better way to put it. Thank you.
Posted by: ftroit | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:15 PM
Former SDF Limbe District Chairman : "The CPDM has the interest of the South West"
Nkendemeh Emmanuel
[Cameroon Tribune - 11/04/2006]
Former SDF Limbe District Chairman, Anu Francis says it is for this and other reasons that they crossed into the CPDM.
Why have you decided to leave the SDF and join the CPDM?
The reason is simply. I have been a front-line member of the SDF, holding the post of the District Chairman of Limbe. The recent development in the SDF has pushed me to think otherwise and to liaise with other colleagues of the same Division to see what measures we can take. Most importantly is the management style of the hierarchy. The laws of the SDF are not bad but the management of the party by the hierarchy is the major problem. In the first place, the South West is completely cut off from the SDF set up now. We think that we must also send a reciprocal message that we can not support a thing that we can not be part of it. The paramount reason is the exclusion of Professor Asonganyi from the SDF. It is a clear signal that the SDF has excluded the South West and the Lebialem Division in particular whereas we were frontline leaders propagating the policies and ideologies of that party.
Mbah Ndam has been parliamentary group leader since 1997. We thought that the parliamentary group leader could be given to the South West this time. Still again, it is being maintained by the people of the same province. The National Advisory Council, the chairman of the party, the present secretary general, the parliamentary group leader, they think that it must be maintained by them. We have to protect our own people. We think that we could not go to fight for nothing. The essence of politic is to help your people and if we can not help our people, we think that we should go closer to the people who now can at least offer us the opportunity, where we know that we can at least rejoice at the end of the day.
Why only now?
We had given sufficient time to the party to rethink their decision. We realised that they have not been able to reason with us, to approach us and we think that we can not continue to wait indefinitely. That is why we have chosen this moment to stay away from the party.
Why have you preferred to resign as a group from the same Division and not individually as you joined the party?
We come from the same Division. When Pr. Asonganyi was touched, we felt that our interest was stricken and we had to act collectively. If you act individually it does not portray any force. When you act collectively at least you send a signal or warning to the person perpetrating this kind of behaviour in the party. So we think that we most let the impact be felt rather than go individually, we better go collectively just to make the impact be felt.
Why did you decide to join the ruling CPDM party after leaving the SDF?
I have being engaged in a struggle for liberation. I am engaged in a struggle to fight for democracy and the struggle is on-going. We can not break it because we have left the SDF. We most find a platform from where we can continue that struggle. Now, the CPDM has some interest in the South West. The Prime Minister is from this area, the deputy speaker of the National Assembly is from here. This shows clearly that the people have the interest of the South West at heart. If somebody has your interest, you have to support that person. Secondly, the set up of the SDF had excluded the South West even the UPC, UNDP, CDU had not got the interest of the South West province. We think that we have to try and support our own province and by so doing, we try to identify ourselves with the man who is giving us that support. The CPDM try to practice what they preach. We may not realise it now but we will realise it later that the values on which the CPDM stands are strong.
http://www.cameroon-tribune.net/article.php?lang=Fr&oled=j11042006&idart=34568&olarch=
Posted by: Ali Buba | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:19 PM
Dear countrymen and women,
The SDF/FSD is unable to manage itself.
And some people want the Chairman to run La Republique du Cameroun and manage all the ministers, the armed forces, heads of corporations, the diplomatic corps and all our friends overseas.
Do you know what you are talking about? Only a Lion can run Cameroun and beat the SCNC. The only opposition in our country is the SCNC. They have a formidable organization and cause problems when I travel abroad. The SDF is ungovernable.
C-in-C
Posted by: PB | Monday, 10 April 2006 at 10:21 PM
Hi Mukete,
I will first of all thank you for continuously brainstorming on the problems plaguing our country,rather than shying away.But there`s brainstorming and brainstorming!If you brainstorm to resolve problems,good and fine,but if you brainstorm to animate the gallery and create
mayhem,then we would have waisted our youthful energy .We the elite contributors in this forum are not better placed to judge
our contibutions here,because most of the times people have fallen into two groups.
Those who seem to cherish the fact that the SDF should be partitioned and those who have the view that the dirty linen can only be washed in the family.Making a judgement on whether your write up is nonesensical or educative will very much depend on where you stand.
Mukete,the second point i would like to raise is that communication is an art.In the process of communication,there is a source,a medium,and an audience.The meaning the audience would decode from what comes through the medium depends on how the message was put.This implies that the style
is the man.If you use revolutionary language,the audience will prepare for war,if you use filthy language ,the audience will look for a place to hide and if you use language that is soothing to the ears,the audience will yearn for more.The question i want you to ask yourself is what has been your style here?If you would like to call us "truth bringers" then there`s something that has motivated you to make this assertion.Maybe one of this day,you will call Fru Ndi Jesus Christ.Lets look at facts now:
Mukete i`m afraid you are trying to justify Carpet-crossing.Frist when you cross the carpet,it shows that you have lost reason,and that you are frivolous.Most of all it shows that your personality is wanting.There`s nothing terrible about a man than lack of a personality.If you want to reduce Carpet Crossing to our Cameroonian
situation,then this should bring into mind the fact that all these carpet-crossers have all been liabilities ,than assets to our nation.
Secondly we can not talk of carpet crossing when somebody like you Mukete crosses one.But when Mfon Victor Mukete does
,he makes waves and the impact is far reaching.Here we are talking about high profile carpet-crossing.In every party,there are always people who are considered as the Guardians of the Tradition
,so when they take to their heels,everyone catches a cold.This is because,they may reveal the party`s secret to adversaries or be lethal weapons against the party.So to cut things short,you can`t consider somebody like Fru Ndi to have crossed the carpet,because when he was in the CPDM,he was a small potato and his militancy was inconsequential.
Mukete the most important point i will like to make today is that if you are at the lower rungs of a party and decide to quit and initiate something of your making,then you are a sort of visionary and a challenger of faith.But if you are immersed in the policies of a party at the highest level and decides to slam the door,albeit ceremoniously,then you are the lord of dark forces.Mukete let me tell you today that a would be paliamentarian is more of a grassroot militant because he has no office of his own.So there`s no idea saying Fru Ndi crossed the carpet because he failed to win the parliamentary elections.You see that after this failure,he continued to be the unknown man he used to be until he launched the SDf.But if Fon Angwafor had been the one launching the SDF,the story would have been different.
Mukete it is a little too pitiful to talk about people forcing others to cross carpets.Who should create a conducive environment in a political party? I think it is the responsibility of the militants and the party hierarchy as well.When people get up in meetings and call their leader illiterate,then just know that the party will never enjoy peace.Respect is mutual.
Mukete as you say Fru Ndi left the CPDM after the failed parliamentary elections and not because he was in conflict with his leader or because he wanted to show solidarity to his brother as Nkemgu did.It will be intellectual dishonesty to say this is the same thing.It was a personal decision and he did not accuse any one of his plight,as Nkemgu is doing.
Mukete in politics crossing the carpet would not even sound bad,but what matters is the how and the when you do it.This is where people jugde you.Fru Ndi left the CPDM not in times of crisis,but Nkemgu
does not only leave when the party is bleeding ,he leaves with all his brothers(who strangely did not come with him).We can therefore see the tribalism you have been accusing Fru Ndi of at play here.
Mukete you say it is not easy to create a party and that Fru Ndi was fortunate to have people who could listen to him.Yeah you are very right.Not everybody can have people to listen to them,especially for 15 years.This has to do with trust.Nkemgu has people,like Asonganyi and the other brothers.They would have shown him their solidarity if he wanted to create his own party,just as they had shown to Asonganyi by resigning in a block.
Mukete Mr Nkemgu attended NEC meetings in Fru Ndi`s residence for 15 years and it only dawned on him that he was in danger when there when his brother Asonganyi started denigrating Fru Ndi in public and when he knew that his brother was going to be sidelined.
Mukete you seem to be trying your hand at logic,but you can`t have your cake and eat it.According to you a political party is a business venture where people should get back their time and money at all cost?My God ,you have come too low here!Nkeemgu was already with Ngwasiri preparing the Yaounde convention,so how could Ngwasiri not agree with Nkemgu to leave Fru Ndi alone? You are confused,i can`t continue.Your analysis is not only wrong,but far fetched and ridiculous!
Posted by: Watesih | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 12:24 AM
Mukete or what ever u call ur self. Please always try to understand word before reacting to them. Crossing carpet means leaving one party to join another. Those who left the cpdm to form the sdf didnt croos any carpet, the broke away and fromed their faction. Thats what any reasonable politician should do. If the party to which u militate doesnt seeem to follow the phylosophy on which it was founded its totally normal for militants to leave and form their party hoping they will respect their and proof the the nation how steadfast they can be to the ideas. Leaving one party to join another means u don't know what u want, and u are fustrated. I am no sdf nor cpdm. Infact i am totally disatisfied with Cameroonian politics that i see no reason to militate in any of the current parties. They are 90% full of greedy ad selfish individuals who only seek their self interest. Nkemngu let me tell you some thing , you, Effimba and your likes will never get anything good from the cpdm because they already know you as traitors who can spy for the sdf or leaave anytime they see a better opportunity.That alone defines you all OPPORTUNIST. You are and will remain a shame to you children and great grand children. All you think of is ur stomach.
SHUMBUH.
Posted by: GEORGE | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 01:18 AM
Mukete
I have read your comments and I want to say that there is nothing new in what you said. All along you have just been struggling to let the readers know that Fru Ndi also crossed the carpet. But I think you don't have a solid argument here.
Ask me why---
There is little or no similarity between what Fru Ndi did and what Martin Nkemngu has just done. Fru Ndi was disappointed with the way things were going on in the CPDM and he didn't leave to join another party. He instead with the help of others decided to form a political party. When he formed the party, the SDF, he and friends held ideologies that were to foster democracy in our country. Until now the SDF has been able to realize some of the things it has been propagating. You name them.
On the other hand Martin Nkemngu has been moving from one party to another. He left the LDA after supporting a faction of it and joined the SDF. In the SDF, he supported Ngwasiri's faction and now he has joined the CPDM.
I know this will call for serious arguments but I just want to say that what Fru Ndi did in my opinion was not any crossing of the carpet as such. He left the CPDM and created the SDF. If I want to look at crossing the carpet, I will be seeing someone moving from one party to another existing one. Hahaha, this is a little grammatical game. Someone help me here.
Mukete, let's even suppose that you are right to say Fru Ndi crossed the carpet to "join" the SDF, (remember he created/formed the SDF not joined) how can you compare the two? Nkemngu was in the SDF crying foul because of the corrupt nature of the CPDM regime. But when he discovered that Fru Ndi was "becoming corrupt" as he claims, he decided to join the master of corruption. Mukete come on man, reason with me for a while.
As you said, the essence of creating the SDF was due to disappointment and of course to correct the wrongs of the CPDM. And all you want to conclude is that Fru Ndi once crossed the carpet. I say a big "NO". Fru Ndi never crossed the carpet. If you feel he did, then tell me if the SDF existed and he only had to join it.
In conclusion, I want to say the point in your write up that Fru Ndi crossed carpet is not true.
Knganjo, JB Samba, Sammy, Akoson, Watesih, Fon Lawrence etc please help me add more to what I have said. Correct me if I am wrong in anything I said. You guys are some of the objective minds in this forum and I know you will never support me when I am wrong. Mukete wants us to react to his write up and the above is my humble contribution.
Ftroit
I didn't misread any write up in this forum. Read what I wrote again pasted below:
Fru Ndi and his gang of opportunists are chasing away your militants from the SDF? I thought Ngwasiri was the chairman of your SDF and Nkemngu was already working hand in hand with him? Hahaha, the ball is still rolling. Let's just keep watch until the end of the match. We will finally know who the opportunists are and who the gang master is.
Long Live the SDF and Fru Ndi
Shalom
Klemenceau.
Posted by: Klemenceau | April 10, 2006 at 11:10 AM
I have not seen where I wrote Fru Ndi "the leader" as you said. Maybe in a different writing up that I have not seen? Please Ftroit there must be a mix up somewhere. Try to check again and let me know if you won't mind it. Thanks
Shalom
Klemenceau.
Posted by: Klemenceau | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 02:12 AM
Hello Mukeke;
I will never hide the fact that u are ignorant of many things. Fru Ndi formed the Sdf not because he failled going to the parliament or what have you. One of those working with the gov't at that time is still alive at his eighties though still the Sub Section president for Mbaw central in nwa sub Division. Go to him and he will tell you when fru ndi had earlier planned coming up with a party in the future and you will see that you are simply a noice maker. The old mans name is Nji Salifu who till date has free access to your presidency.If tomorrows future for young Cameroonians is distroyed, then people like mukeke should be held responsible. Could u pleases mukeke tell us your Problem for it appears u cant build. U better be called to other. For Nkemkou and co who crossed the carpet, i pity you so much and for the former Limbe SDF district man who says the govt is doing more for Sw, i wonder who actually gave him the District Chairman,s seat. Has he seen the Ndian road? has he seen the mamfe road etc. You are now well comprehended. Courage
Posted by: Layeh Ndifon | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 02:27 AM
That was a good one George. I thought I was wrong in saying Fru Ndi didn't cross the carpet only for me to post and discovered that you explained this to Mukete already.
Shalom
Klemenceau.
Posted by: Klemenceau | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 02:28 AM
BANGWA people u think jumping from SDF to CPDM will give u people a minister. Shame to you all for your fraustation. CPDM will shock you people and you will become more fraustrated.
Atem
Posted by: Atem | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 04:01 AM
These militants should not be allowed back into the party when the current wrangling will be over. This is a good example of impatience. No party has ever succeeded without going through stumbling blocks except the CPDM of course who have never known what it is to become an opposition party. Cameroon being what it is, it’s easy for CPDM to fund itself by coughing out swindled funds from the state coffers. CPDM doesn’t know what it takes to be a struggle fighter. One wonders what the role of the parliament in Cameroon is for, when obnoxious laws are passed every day in parliament that favours the ruling party. It wouldn’t surprise me if there are more resignations to come. The question is who are they and where do they come from? We now know who is who and where is where in SDF.
Posted by: Willie | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 04:04 AM
And we are progressive Cameroonians? Who care about our country? When a small band of people cross the floor, we bring out all the skeletons of tribalism to the fore. Bangnwa people this Bangnwa people that. Fru Ndi and his tribal party this and that. Asking all sorts of rhetorical questions. Truth be told, some us are just so happy to say anything. I understand the frustration that most of us feel and the willingness to change our country for the better. But as they say, some people are so eager to go to the moon that the climb trees. They day we learn not to generalise and hold every man responsible for his/her actions, then we will have a better Cameroon. When we learn to judge each person by the content of his character rather than what tribe or party he belongs to.
There are some in this forum who have previously called Fru Ndi, Hitler. Who now in this case are pouring their vitriol on Bangnwa people. To use their own bastardisation of the Queen's language "It really wonders me what Cameroonians/Southern Cameroonians have become". They know themselves. Others have course taken this forum for debate as a means of settling personal scores, attacking people left, right and centre. That is Cameroon and I'm afraid, things will not change soon.
As for the SDF, both camps should know by now that their favourites will lose one way or the other. If the party does not split, it will bleed so much that, it would barely cling to life. And before long, it will sink. Period.
Posted by: Ashwell Molaba | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 04:51 AM
There has been a lot of rubbish and garbage on this forum. People insulting one another. Poor English, wrong information, just to mention few issues that disturb me. Please if you are not sure of your language, why not use pidgin? This is not what I expect on a forum like this. My advice to THE POST is that it should have the right to edit any postings before publication. I do not mean CENSORSHIP. This will prevent idiots and illiterates from writing what they want. Any serious forum does this, why not THE POST.
Posted by: Moforbeni | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 05:12 AM
Who is this coward called samleyin? If you are not a coward, then come out with your real names and let us have a meaningful discussion on this topic. For now however you have just done what cowards do best: hide behind their ignorance and stupidity by pouring insults on others. If you have nothing to offer on this forum, keep your big mouth shut forever. It seems if I were not a Dr. you would have nothing to write about. It is never too late my brother; better imitate than become jealous.
Posted by: Dr. Peter Aka | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 05:36 AM
What is the use of us referring to people by their tribes in this forum. We must be mature. I habitually made this same mistake before but that is not good.
We must grow up an even if we want to refer to anyone from his tribal affiliations, we must be cautious as to what we want to say. Tribalism is very bad.
Posted by: Rexon | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 05:40 AM
Ashwell
YOu see lots of things that I see. Time will tell.
Fru Ndi( Full Ndos)= Paul Biya
SDF = CPDM
Reasons:
CPDM has one chairman ever since, SDF has the same.
CPDM is corrupt SDF is also corrupt
Paul Biya wants to be president for life, John Fru Ndi wants to be chairman for life.
Paul Biya is a Dictator so too is John Fru Ndi
So if the CPMD = SDF the mathemathical transformation from SDF to CPDM is inconsequential and yields the same results in either directions.
I remember how the SDF betrayed the chance of a single candidate for the last presidential elections, why did he do that? so that Biya should win, and because the CPDM=SDF.
This is a very simple equation that every man in Cameroon will understand without any studies.
Posted by: Don man | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 05:53 AM
I don't think there is any problem with the SDF.If the SDF leadership has realised that there are infiltrators trying to disrupt the party and change it course I support them 100% to crack down on them.
Immagine people with 99 senses in the party with all their malicious intent.If they are not offrooted immediatly I am affraid the party would soon rach it waterloo.
First,it was Effimba,now it is Ngemngu,is just a matter of time Ngwasiri and Muna would join.These same people are the ones who are quick to accuse Ni John of dealing with the CPDM.If dealing with the CPDM is evil while resign from the SDF and join the CPDM? Why not join the UPC,or CDU,or UNDP or even form the Bangwa Liberation Movement of Democracy,or Bakwerie National Party of Progress,or SW Democratic movement,or Muna's Front of True Liberation, or Ngwasiri's Open Langha Party?
Bunch of traitors.
Even Paul Biya knows that the people's party in Cameroon is the SDF and that is why he is reluctant to have an independent electorial commision.Maybe you guys are right to cause an internal wrangling in the SDF.Popo might think that the party has lost it might and give in for an independent electorial commision.We would bounce right back and claim etoudi.Then the Effimabas and co would be reminded to stay away from the party.
Posted by: Tita Mofaw | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 05:56 AM
Tita Mofaw,
You can spread you tribalism nonsense wherever you wish. People like you will obviously read and agree with you. But I should tell you it has no place in an educated society. What do you mean by: "Immagine people with 99 senses in the party with all their malicious intent.If they are not offrooted immediatly I am affraid the party would soon rach it waterloo."? These same 99 senses people have been in the SDF for a long time. If the SDF leadership is only waking up to their "99 senses" only now, then who is the fool? If you have nothing to say, shup up.
Your tribalism has helped kept Cameroon where it is today and it will remain there until you judge each person on the content of his character, not what his/her tribes folk have done.
Posted by: Ashwell Molaba | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 06:12 AM
Resignations are a political gimmick.The exit of Nkemngu is a political gimmick to hoodwink Cameroonians
However,resignation is a good thing and a welcome reversal since it raises stakes in the whole political showdown.
Posted by: stephen nigzegah njuafed | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 06:34 AM
Nkemngu martin, "see he day as he kalla like shansong for ethopia" Na langa throat go kill Bangwa people. Nkemngu talks about tribalism in the S.D.F, meanwhile because Asonganyi was sacked from the S.D.F all the bangwa people have to resign is that not also tribalism. Bangwa people na over cunning go kill them. until when them go start sell their woman fowl before better go follow them.
You guys will still runaway from the C.P.D.M because that is not a party for cunny people their policy is scratch my back and i scratch your own, there is no way the C.P.D.M will scratch your back and you promise to reciprocate the scratch later, it must be done simultanousely. you must chop and all man see say you di chop so that when die come all wonna di go, you no fit go hide for back yard.
you are a politicl prostitute. There is no way you can be regarded with seriousness anymore, your political life is dead. why can't you learn from the example of those who have crossed the carpet, where are they today,
Posted by: Mimi | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 06:38 AM
Mimi,
Please, i kindly beg you, dont write tribalistic statements here, something different i guess. I remember you wrote something about Akwaya that was very sad indeed.
Posted by: Rexon | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 06:45 AM
THE TRUTH WILL ALL COME OUT.REASONS WHY THESE SO CALLED PROGRESSIVE SDF MILITANTS ARE CROSSING CARPETS.WHY THESE SO CALLED PROGRESSIVES WILL NEVER FORGIVE FRU NDI
there is no secret that some of these high rank sdf militants have been waiting impatiently for thier share of the cake in politics to come soon.the resignation and criss crossing of these militants is not strange and new.i however WANT to appreciate nkemgu and the others to have been patient uptil till this time before changing.some others like prof kale and the rest were rather impatient and had to resign immidiately ONCE they were defeated in last parliamentary elections.THIS SHOWS THAT MOST OF THESE RUNNER WAYS IN THE SDF ARE JUST TRYING TO SPEEDY THINGS UP FOR THEM TO GET IMMIDIATE BENEFIT.I MUST MAKE YOU KNOW THAT IT TOOK MORE THAN 30yrs for mandella to take over and even more for abdullai watt in senegal to take over.these our HUNGRY POLITICIANS IN THE OPPSITION find it impossiblöe for someone to wait for so long to get the best.THE ANGER OF THESE SO CALLED PROGRESSIVE SDF MILITANTS EMERGED EVER SINCE fru ndi REFUSED TO FORM A COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH THE CPDM when he was given the authority by the NEC to give the go ahead.to these so called progressives and hungry politicians,this opportunity to get a share with CPDM was a blow to them and will NEVER FORGIVE fru ndi for letting this opportunity out of thier hands.they have waited and see that the journey is still long and could never be patient to wait.nkemgu and the others are longing desparately on where to get immidaite benefit.
THAK GOD,fru ndi has been given the wisdom to lead the party to the right path.IF THE SDF IS OR WAS LEFT IN THE HANDS OF MUNA,ASONNGANYI,NGWASIRI AND THE OTHERS,THEY WOULD´VE PUSHED IMMIDAITELY FOR UNION WITH THE CPDM.to complete the journey,several stumbling blocks will be met.this is just the beginning but victory will remain that of the opposition.
NOW that the convention in yaounde is failing,were will muna and ngwasiri stand.will they go to bamenda or continue to claim for and empty convention in yaounde.THE NAME muna IN CAMEROON POLITICS WILL ALWAYS REMAIN A FAILURE BECAUSE OF THE modern prison his father build as a sign of his successes in politics.
NKEMGU WAS SUPPOSE TO RESIGN BECAUSE THE FIGHT IN SDF IS AMONG PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS.HE HAS NO PLACE BECAUSE IF WE DEFINDE INTELLECTUALS AS PROF or docs then he is a pseudo-intellectaul.THE CROSSING TO CPDM IS EMINENT.it will continue for impatience is a problem with cameroon´s hungry politicians.
let ngwasiri and his camp tll us what is happening now that almost all the members in his lists are quitting.THE JOURNEY AND VICTORY OF THE SDF IS CERTAIN.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.God bless the SDF.
Posted by: sammy,sweden | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 07:51 AM
Mukete and co,
I must have missed lot by the content of what i am seeing.I have been out during the weekend tryig hard to see the end of dictator Fru Ndi as chair of the sdf.
Why are we deviating from the truth?who was the first to decamp to cpdm?Was it not Fru Ndi /Mbah Ndam?what have done,dinning with the cpdm.Why are you guys chasing the shadow?Let martin Nkemngu and co do what they like fru ndi taught them all this.
prof Ngwasiri continue with the process so far,i said the divide within the sdf was from the NW and it was very dangerous,now why are we accusing those lebialem guys.We want them seat and see Fru Ndi enriched his family,we all seem to be very passive,when they go for the kill we start calling them names.let's stop all these trash,the problem divider of the sdf is Fru Ndi.
I hear Fru Ndi will be in London,if he comes i will throw him eggs as i did to paul biya.
Dictator Fru ndi wants to have a rally to address militant?Is he afraid to have a press conference were all the tonnes of evidences gathered will be presentd to him infront of the world.
He has opted for a rally so his cousin and children come vandals will protect him.Poor Fru ndi.His friend in crime Biya must have given him the go on.Let him watch out for the cpdm is happy receiving militants who were once sdf,now in their fold so they are waiting for him.
I personaaly have no problem with Martin Nkemngu and the rest decamping for the sdf is suffering,militants living due to poor leadership is a problem for any sound leader.
More to come
Vally
England
Posted by: vally | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 08:51 AM
Fru Ndi( Full Ndos)= Paul Biya
SDF = CPDM
Reasons:
CPDM has one chairman ever since, SDF has the same.
CPDM is corrupt SDF is also corrupt
Paul Biya wants to be president for life, John Fru Ndi wants to be chairman for life.
Paul Biya is a Dictator so too is John Fru Ndi
So if the CPMD = SDF the mathemathical transformation from SDF to CPDM is inconsequential and yields the same results in either directions.
I remember how the SDF betrayed the chance of a single candidate for the last presidential elections, why did he do that? so that Biya should win, and because the CPDM=SDF.
This is a very simple equation that every man in Cameroon will understand without any studies.
Posted by: Don man | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 08:57 AM
At last everyone is seeing it! Mr. Nkemngu et al were all wolfs in sheep clothings! I hope the next will be Prof. Asonganyi? Are these not the same people who pressurised Hon. Ndobegang to refuse the SG's position? I hope Hon. Ndobegang is regreting now? He Hon. Ndobegang should have known that he came to the SDF as an individual and ought to reason as such? Sooner, this issue of tribal chauvinism will be a thing of the past. We will soon have the real (SDF) leaders of Lebialem. I am looking forward to the reactions of Chiefs Alex & Charles Taku.
In a nutshell, let's say good riddance to Mr. Nkemngu et al! They have been more of a liability than an asset. Who mandated these self-seeking individuals to speak on behald of Lebialem and the South West? The SDF will be stronger in Lebialem and the South West now, than before - 2007 is not far from now!
Of course everyone now knows these guys were all trouble-makers; disturbing SDF in the name of exercising their rights to free expressions? How on earth will a rational mind leaves the left & went straight to the right? If I were one of them, I would have stayed quiet after resigning, for when I joined the SDF, it was never on TV or in the Press. Thank God things are unfolding naturally - the goats are being separated from the sheep.
Concerning Prof. Ngwasiri, if Lawyer Ben Muna was a good lawyer, why didn't he defend their cause in court? This clearly shows that Ngwasiri is being used by the Muna's syndrome ! I feel sorry the so-called Intellectuals; they are ever and regularly deceived by Munas.
Anyone who is closer to Barrister Ben Muna should advice him to go back to Ngyen-Mbo for primaries before returning to Yaounde for their "imaginary" convention. A true SDF militant knows that it takes 5 years before you ripe to gun for the position of Chief Executive. And so, 2004 + 5 = 2009. Only then that Barrister Ben Muna will be okay to run.
Posted by: Atangha | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 09:02 AM
Any Chemical system will try to reach a state of equiibrium: at Equilibrim the forward movement is the same as the backward movement
So when people move from CPDM to SDF or SDF to CPDM. we need not be angry , the system is just trying to attain a state of equilibrim
Posted by: Don man | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 09:08 AM
Watesih and others.
What must of you guys have not told us is the difference between what these guys are doing and what Mbah Ndam/Fru Ndi have done.The only difference is, one has come out open, why the others are doing theirs in hiding.
Why must we call the Lebialen folks traitors?have we forgotten that Limbe,Muyuka,kumba has been sdf thanks to lebialem?Do you know that they have all this while been sdf main suppoters in the SW.Untill Dictator Fru Ndi and co started eating with Biya to their detriment, these guys have been very loyal.Of course loyalty has a limit they now think they have been betrayed and they are very correct.
The sdf will seriously regret the lost of Lebialem,i know it will be very difficult if not impossible for Fru ndi to attempt any rally there.I regret all this.
I once said in this forum that we of the NW lack tactical skills at times,we created a well justified party and we have silently out of greed killed the sdf.The fighting is among us of the NW,instead of trying to salvaged what is remaining we are blaming the lebialem man.What do want them do?Seat and see Fru Ndi and co enriched their families?let be honest and reasonable.
I seriously admired prof.Asonganyi as SG of the sdf,enter must of the Embassies in london you will see his hand work, he was a technocrat,beleive me, i will not be surprised if the cpdm should target this learned Prof.
I only pray that he stays loyal until we can remove the sdf dictator Fru Ndi.
The sdf is seriously sick the problem is from the NW not Lebialem.
Get Fru Ndi out and bring back the party true faithfuls.
Vally
England.
Posted by: Vally | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 09:25 AM
Mukete,
Wonders will never end.Trying to justify political prostitution is tantamount to campaigning for lucifer.From LDA to SDF and from SDF to CPDM.God forbid.Tell me where Nkemngu will go to after the cpdm? He might suddenly found himself militating in another political party in Gabon or in Nigeria. We have always told you and your crew that the truth will always prevail.Is it not ridiculous that people who have been accusing Fru Ndi of dining with the cpdm have suddenly seen light in the cpdm? What are you taking Cameroonians for? Fools? You need to apologise to this forum the damage you have done to some small heads like Agbormbai and the famous Valley of England. We have always told you and other disciples of hatred and enemies to the political emancipation of Cameroon that Ngwasiri,Nkemgu and and other strange bedfellowS have an agenda and that they were on a mission. Do not forget that Nkemgu is incharge of the communication unit of the cpdm convetion slated for may 26th by Ngwasiri in Yaounde.There is still much to come.Ngwasiri another cpdm agent still passing around for an sdf has not yet exploded.You will be shocked.The sdf is a rock and nobody including Fru Ndi can never destroy.You have not made a mistake by describing us as truth bringers. Thank you very much for being honest.All along we have been and still stand for that.The real enemies for change in Cameroon are begining to reveal themselves.Would you be surprise if Muna announces this evening that he is already in the cpdm.Of course Klemanceau,JB Samba,Fon Laurence,Tamukong,Akoson,Enoh and many others will not.Read Muna's statements in-between -the-lines you will notice a frustrated political thief yearning for reconciliation.I am for reconciliation but fellows like Muna should never be trusted.Those dining with him in the sdf should make sure the spooon is a thousand miles long.Let's keep watching.
Posted by: knganjo | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 09:53 AM
this is funny, this is the man i always see on CPDM CRTV talking about the ills of the present regime, a few millions of cfa from the cpdm was enough to get him. all our politicians are poverty ridden rats, please eat well before joining politics else hunger will derail you from your objectives, this guy from lebialem is a true example, who knows maybe they have promised him a post in the government.
Posted by: abongwa | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:00 AM
Regrettably, it seems we're still in the earlyman's era in Cameroon. People in small states like Lesotho, have learnt to exercise restrain and tolerance in political debates. I see,our Drs. are coerced into fits of abuse.
I appreciate the thinking an reasoning of Ashwell Molaba. Why can't some of us learn? Why is it so difficult for some of us to stop abusing freedom of expression?
Did somebody prescribe about 10% dictatorship, and 90% democracy for Africa?
I don't know what's my take on this. But if your abuses will help you learn and grow up, then its worthwhile to let you go on.
Some people write what they do not mean. I understand communication through writing is difficult for most of us, but you may ask a friend to help put forward your idea in a clear and concise way. Just ask somebody to help do the writing.
Yes, writing and communicating ideas, either s issues, or argument presents a great deal of challenge even to the most accomplihed writers and critics.
Posted by: Celestine Nke Fosung | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:26 AM
Vally or whoever you are called, I hope the statement, "I once said in this forum that we of the NW lack tactical skills at...", does not mean you come from the NW, because you are a disgrace not only to the Queen. If Biya lives in England for just 6 months, I bet you he will excel more than you in written and surely spoken english. You are one of the french agents in this forum. You write neither french nor english and pollute the forum with foolish ideas.
This crossing over by Mr Nkemngu can let us know the ills he must have done to the sdf party while he was still in disguise. Don't blame the Lebialem people for mr Nkemngu is not the whole of Lebialem. He is simply telling more lies. More grace to the sdf.
Posted by: Divine | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:30 AM
DID YOU PEOPLE SEE HIS PICTURE?HE IS A HUNGRY MAN.CONFUSED FELLOW.YOU ARE NOT EVEN AMBITIOUS WHAT A WOMAN YOU ARE.WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LEAVING.PLEASE LOOK FOR OTHERS IN THE SDF WHO ARE LIKE YOU.GATHER THEM LET YOU PEOPLE LEAVE.SOME PEOPLE ARE FUNNY .REAL IDIOTS.GO DON'T COME BACK.YAM HEAD
Posted by: wallyman | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:47 AM
Klemenceau,
whatever word you used, "the leader", "the chairman", "the president". Pick whichever. All i'm saying is Mr. Mukete in that posting did not refer to Fru Ndi as leading the SDF. He's merely stating that others are leaving the SDF because of Mr. Fru Ndi. Now what do you have to say? Ok let's do it this way, pick the phrase you used and point to it in Mr. Mukete's write-up.
Posted by: ftroit | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 11:00 AM
wether you are Mr. or Mrs Ashwell Molaba. Seems to me that U are one of those ewondo people from Malabo.
First of all tribalism was never in our agenda because before the creation of the SDF the NW was far more represented in the government than it is today.The leadership of the CPDM was in the hands of North Westerners just as much as it was in the hands of the guys from the centre-sud provinces.
North Westerners today (and evern before multipartism) knew that they would suffer more than others in promoting multipartyism in Cameroon yet they accepted the risk and supported the opposition.
One thing which people don't want to acknowledge is that joining the CPDM is not a difficult thing because we can all join it over night.Remember that the CPDM was created in Bamenda.What is difficult is sustaining the opposition and leading it to victory.
Remember that the strong hold of SDF has never and will never be in the SW.The SW is just one confused province that no politician has ever been really interested in because it is for the good of every politician to leave them in their state of confusion.Only then can the small oil,and plantation produce could be easily shipped away.Just immagine the kind of headache that they could cause this beloved country Cameroon if they were ever to get out from their current state of confusion?
Vally n co,I know what is troubling you.Popo has surely lost confidence in your father because the NW has turn it's back on the CPDM.Sorry my brother he could as well naturalise in the SW where the masses are ever ready to support any candidate who is willing to appoint one of their sons.If your dad for example, naturalises in Buea he might even become the PM because the Bakwerians actually don't give a damn so long as the PM tells them that he is there to defend the interest of the SW -Buea in particular.
Molaba,Mukete and what ever your names are it is not a suprise that Lebialem and the whole of SW are rushing to join the CPDM because they have not been appointed to the various positions in the SDF.Now that it seems your problem in the SW is post,make sure that Paul Biya creates more ministeries.If we cannot have at least 7 prime ministers they would still be problems because already the Bakwerians from Limbe and Buea are at each others throat for the position of PM. Kumba is already complaining that their sons are not well represented in gov.Now that Lebialem has publicly demonstrated their willingness to stab anybody on the back because of greed (and for the seek of the CPDM) they too would want the PM to come from Lebialem.
Then for Mamfe, I don't know what they are up to.They seem to have learn some good lessons already from popo because they have understood that appointments are for the benefit of those greedy individuals not the populace.They are doing right by holding fast to SCNC.Thump up for the mamfer guys but there is a problem because of the geographical position of Lebialem and their cultural hobby of backstabbing. They would probably wait for you to put in so much energy in the SCNC and just when Southern Cameroon is about to gain independence they would say no,Part of Lebialem is in La Republic and it won't be a nice idea to have one half in southern cameroon and the other in La republic.
Hahaaaa.If you care you should say Tita M is tribalistic.Maybe I learned it from you guys in sawa.hahaaaaa
Posted by: Tita Mofaw | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 11:41 AM
Ftroit
I don't know exactly what you are trying to say. I feel you just want to play over my understanding. Are you saying that Fru Ndi is not the leader of the SDF or did I say something that Mukete didn't say? If not, then come out plain and I will answer.
Shalom
Klemenceau.
Posted by: Klemenceau | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 11:53 AM
Yes this is turning into a NW-SW politics.
I had said it here that JOHN be it Fru or Foncha are People who have no vision before going into politics.
The Bangwas were like a Spoon since 1990 trying to cool the boiling between the Northwest and Southwest.
Today his is camming Home as a Prodigal Son.No more SDF in Southwest......
Sorry any of SDF supporter here is crying over spil milk.Welther you like it or not I see and sdf falling down.Soon Fru Ndi Will be History just as Foncha...............
Posted by: felix | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 11:53 AM
I don't know why tribes take so much pride in having their sons or daughters appointed in government. How important is this really? This is why Cameroon is not developing - because of misplaced priorities.
The emphasis should be on what development the government brings to a tribe, regardless of whether it appoints a son or daughter of the tribe as a government official. It is very easy for a government to put salt in people's eyes simply by appointing officials from different tribes and then proceeding to offer no development at all to the tribes.
So please, stop making it easy for Biya to deceive you. Place greater emphasis on what matters: development of your area rather than having ministers or officials in government.
Posted by: Dr. A. A. Agbormbai | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 12:05 PM
I am personally disappointed with the behaviour of Nkemngu for every reason.Firstly, I don't believe in abandoning a fight as a means of solving it.If Fru Ndi is dictatorial as many are forced into thinking now, running away from the SDF to join the CPDM is not and will never be a way forward. Crossing parties is very common like Mukete would say but it doesn't mean that it should be accepted as right. Two wrongs, even ten would never make a right. While I will understand the leaving of the SDF as a grievance against the hierarchy, we will equally be very fast to condemn the joining of the CPDM as a way out. I think any other option would have been welcoming - and not joining Biya to increase the disenfranchising of our people. This is more so as he has been one of the most vocal persons against the Biya regime. Where has he kept his conscience, even if the entire world advised him to go the CPDM way? This is really a shame.
In most of my write ups, I have blamed Fru Ndi for dining with Biya in the dark at the detriment of those who hope that the SDF could be a way forward in a country devasted by more than twenty years of Biya's incompetence. I will never take the floor to support any person who joins Biya to increase the misery of the common man - not even Nkemngu.
On the other hand, I don't see the crossing over of Nkemngu as a political victory for Fru Ndi as some people seem to be insinuating from their contributions. This act tells me that the leadership of the SDF has remained intransigent and very uncompromising in the face of threats that the party will go into disarray soon. I feel that if the leadership of the party loved Cameroon, was working for the interest of the common man, still had the interest of the electorate at heart, there would have been a more pacific approach to handling the recent storm in the party. On the other hand, there have been little exposure to the press, we have not heard of any attempts at reconciliation, there have been no moves to bring people closer. To me, all this is testimony that both warring parties place their personal interests before that of any other person and this leaves me with the impression that we are going to remain in this mess for a long time. It is a more pitiful situation than we imagine.
If you asked me what way forward from here, I would reply that we leave Fru Ndi alone, leave Ngwasiri alone, leave Nkemngu alone and champion a purely youthful revolution in Cameroon. These politicians are just taking advantage of the confusion to enrich themselves. And in the face of this confusion, it is the youth that suffers because we remain without jobs, we are discriminated against by those whose parents are rich especially when we write concours, we have no roads to our villages, our sisters and brothers are dying in ill-equiped hospitals, we go back to our parents to beg even after leaving the universities, we are forced to live as beggars in countries abroad were we suffer discrimination. In short the list is too long.
Whether is it Fru Ndi, Nkemngu, Ngwasiri or whoever out there, their children have a good future. They have studied abroad and their futures are are no longer on a balance like yours and mine. So, the youths, lets make this fight ours. I am sure that we can turn the tables in Cameroon. We just lack the conviction that we can do it. Without to resorting to the SCNC style, we can come out en masse from all corners of the country and affect change in our favour. I personally think that the period of the old testament where manner used to fall from heaven has long evolved. We must fight for our future and save ourselves from the hands of incompetent and selfseeking politicians.
Posted by: ateba | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 12:08 PM
Hahaaaa!
I am simply laughing at what my fellow African brothers are thinking.
"The Bangwas were like a Spoon since 1990 trying to cool the boiling between the Northwest and Southwest.
Today his is camming Home as a Prodigal Son.No more SDF in Southwest......"
I don't know if my man is using the term "prodigal son" as it is used in the bible.Man! don't frighten Cameroonians to start running to Nigeria.If only you could explain how the Bangwa boys n girls would become a prodigal son in Cameroon it would be very interesting to know.
I can give you one reason why they would never come close to being a prodigal son.
It is common knowledge all over Cameroon (even in the so called SW) that the bangwa man is a cunning man.A man who would eat his cake and try to have it at thesame time.In pidgin it is said that "Bangwa pipo get 99 sense" and often,this phrase comes with the warning that, use a long spoon when eating with them.
Even Paul Biya knows this.Even your SW West brother Mukete knows this.PLease Mukete would a Bakwerian eat with a Bangwa using a short spoon? Answer this question Mukete.
If another SW man cannot eat with you from thesame dish tell me how you hope to become a prodigal son in Cameroon.
Please don't say this again because popo might hear this and would soon send gendarmes to come and terrorize people for something that would never happen.
What kind of a joke is this? We should stop joking about serious issues
Posted by: Tita Mofaw | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 12:19 PM
HEY GUYS,
Let's be realistic and stop commenting on sentiments.The party is in total chaos and instead of the chairman to address this ASAP he is instead calling for a rally.An achaic method that he used to use to lull the common man.This time it's too late for that.We need him to answwer pressing and pertinent questions militants wants to know troubling the party now.
Talking of carpet-crossing,I don't see it as faulty or polically arrogant.We all know political opinions vary and views too,so someone leaving from one party to another is just his/her wish and not the publics opinion.And as Mukete made mention and we all know if one member(mostly a top ranking member of the NEC)leaves there is little doubt that he will carry along a crowd while crossing the carpet.
Again,the point of talking about 99 senses here in uncalled.This is driving to another state of hatred and even future secterian conflicts which can have a great impact on the Anglophones population as a whole.You guys address Mr Martin as a 'Bangwa 99 senses and 11 province' simply because he went to CPDM.He had been supporting Ngwasiri and later realised thereis no hope in the whole party.We should face it or leave it.....but not put it in the tribalistic point of view.
There is still more to come as Fru holds his famous 'Rally'.Let's wait and see the turn out.....
Fritzane Kiki
Hong Kong
Posted by: Fritzane Kiki Hong Kong | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 12:33 PM
Ateba,
Your article is one of substance. If everyone could have thesame outlook on the situation back home, our nation will go stronger and indivisble. The present generation has failed us, we need to groom the youths to build a better Cameroon.
Posted by: Michael | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 12:50 PM
Dr.Peter Aka
I may not react to issues as Samleyin did,but I must tell you ,I did not only strongly disagreed with what you wrote,but was profoundly disappointed to a read a thing like that from a person with such a tittle attached to the name. Selfish interest have made many on this forum numb to reason.
Don´t take it as an insult.Objective reasoning is the way forward.
I see Mukete as the most confused man on this forum.He keeps mixing issues.How on earth can he compare Martin Nkemgu´s actions with the bold steps Fru Ndi and others took to form the SDF?
Ateba,expect a mail from me not to long from now.I have been thinking in the same direction
Posted by: Fon Lawrence | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 02:40 PM
The best thing to the sdf party is what is happening at the moment. People are coming out to be their true selves as well as new members are also joining the party. After the convention in Bamenda, the sdf will come out stronger than before. I have always said in this forum that, there is too much democracy in the sdf. Thank God that the barons, has realized this. I strongly support that only the national Chairman should be voted (whoever that person is). Then, that person can come up with his team and the convention endorses that team. Please our democracy in Cameroon is very young and needs cautioning as it grows.
Concerning this person (Nkemngu), it was already known that he is a political prostitute and I thought he was in charge of Ngwasiri’s communication department of his so call convention (you see these cpdm sponsored agents). Why should you disappoint Ngwasiri like this? He would have come out after the convention as a new cpdm militant. What will Ben Muna do? Will he go to Fru Ndi on his knees? Time shall tell. When you look at all those trying to divide the sdf, these are all people who thought that a struggle was a day’s event. It is not! I continue to trust Fru Ndi. This man is a true fighter. Again, not long from after the convention in May, he will deliver. Cameroonians know the truth.
People in “diaspora” depend a lot on news over the web. Let me tell you, that the different newspapers have their agenda’s. Those in the USA, UK France, Hong Kong etc.., your press also have an agenda. You know that better. Some of the writers, especially in this forum are sponsored by the enemies of the sdf. We all reading and writing in this forum know why we are writing and who is behind us. I say that because sooner or later, you will see people like Alex Taku (who also calls himself a fighter writing on this forum about the sdf struggle), writing rubbish here. To my Knowledge, he had abandoned this fight a while ago with his friend Ben Muna. I’m also hoping he joins his brother Nkemngu.
Posted by: Ace | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 02:47 PM
I am writing this with much resentment on my phizog. I am not tribalistic but I’m sure some of you reading this will think I have any squabble with bangwa people. At times the truth is very bitter but it remains the truth. Just to continue from where mimi left. Let’s use a simple magnifying glass to have a glimpse of what this issue is all about. Because if we were to analyse this using an atomic microscope or scanning electron microscope or rather still a quantum particle magnifying machine, some of you will read this and might even faint before getting through. I can’t blame Ngemgu, I blame genetics. Bangwa people have always been two side cutlass. They chapier on the left and chapier on the right and play the role of neutrality like a catalyst in a chemical reation. Mimi say until they start selling woman foul. Huh! Of course they sell woman foul only after destroying egg mechanism rendering it inapt to reproduce. Corn is sold only after been partially heated to prevent any form of germination. Cunning people, (corni people) 99.99999999 sense. They always look at you with a corner corner eye. We have a saying that says if you see a Bangwa man and a snake… let go the snake and deal with the Bangwa man. If you get married to a Bangwa man you sleep with one eye open, any dreams should involve just part of your body. And you have to keep alternating your body like a AC current though the frequency might not be 50 hz but 0.0005hz. Be it woman or man a Bangwa remains a Bangwa man. I remember this scholar who studied in Canada got married for years and came back to the country and people immediately jump into conclusion that ooh no he is different but it was just a matter of time before people realised they were suffering from the principle of uncertainty and shocked to come to the conclusion that a bangwa man is a bangwa man. Even if they go to the moon, sun, Pluto… eat the heart of a swallow bird. If a bangwa person sell you a pregnant goat, you get just the mum and not the kids. Some one said you use a long spoon? Huh and you think that will shield you? A long spoon and both hands. Do you know of any inter marriages involving Bangwa people? Remember we have just used a simple magnifying glass to make things simple at this stage, no ATM, SEM microscopes or quantum tech. So All SDF militants should be rejoicing that this langer people have left and showed their true colours. When SDF gains power you will see them coming cunningly like chickens retaining home when dark falls.
Mimi and Mukete over to you
Posted by: Ebai James | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 03:15 PM
I have read all your comments and I have these comments to make.Those who think Martin Nkemngu is not a force to reckond as per SDF in the southwest province got it all wrong.He was the one who made Lebialem to slip from the ruling CPDM to the SDF.He is well known in his Division and was an active member of the NEC.
For sure,he defected to the CPDM with some 350 active members of the SDF not those who sit and write on this forum who do not even have a membership card.This will also prove in the on coming parliamentary and municipal elections.
In politics,"goat di chop na for place weh them thether e-i".Soon Nkemngu will be appointed by his friend and classmate Inoni.
Opinion poll conducted by some papers in Africa shows that John Fru Ndi's job rating has dropped to the low 20's.For that reason he's become a dictator 'cause he has no base and cannot rule again.He should step down for the sake of success.
Posted by: LeBAMS | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 03:59 PM
Klemenceau
let me ask it this way: why did you have to ask that you thought Ngwasiri was the leader of your SDF as though Mr. Mukete said so. What has that got to do with the fact that Mr. Mukete clearly stated that others are quiting the SDF because of Mr. Fru Ndi. I see u're confused just as i was when i read it. The fact that some people are leaving the SDF because of Mr. Fru Ndi (as stated by Mr. Mukete has nothing to do with whoever is the leader of the SDF. Mr. Mukete is just ascertaining a fact that some people are leaving the SDF because of Mr. Fru Ndi. He never stated that they are leaving because of Mr. Fru Ndi who is the chairman of the party, but rather and simply that it is because of Mr. Fru Ndi, regardless of who is the chairman.
Posted by: ftroit | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 04:07 PM
Are we revisiting the Endeley-Foncha debale that landed us in this somewhat onesided union? Some may say for personal interest, late premiere, Mr John Foncha sold our common political interest for his premiership. Should be sit down as a common people, hold a referendum between the two provinces, and discuss our common destiny. God put us together. No man, from Lebialem, or from Ntarikon, can put us asunder. The learning process continues. Tolerance should be our watchword.
Posted by: Celestine Nke Fosung | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 05:31 PM
Ebai James,
When there is a burning issue, and you leave it aside to talk about a whole region, do you think you are making a contribution at all? I don't believe that leaving Martin Nkemngu to talk about bangwa people in general is any way forward. We have been blinded by this doctrine of tribalism that we inherited from our parents so much so that we are stuck in a dark era. When you look at the countries that are playing a frontline role in world politics, we hardly see them founded on tribalism. The mistake we make is that we are not conscious of the fact that we can make our country respected in future by overlooking such practices. From your article,l don't see any difference between you and Biya who fills his brothers in big positions and makes them embezzle the country's money. Why do you criticize him then? We must start asking ourselves pertinent questions such as "what is making our country stagnate in mediocrity, what can we do to make things better for us in the future, what should we do to get ourselves out of this mess etc" Until we start thinking along these lines, I am sorry we shall remain here forever. Other nations are moving ahead to other planets while we are running back to our villages. This is a shame. What Nkemngu has done is bad, but to belabour on Bangwa people as bad, makes me think that you missed the point completely and is just taking advantage of your access to internet to expose your shallow reasoning. If you have a bone to pick with anybody in Bangwa land, or Bamenda or Betti land, don't use such a forum. Your views and those of people who have reasoned along similar lines, is poisonous to the Cameroon we want to build. Please reason in a mature way. This holds true for your followers on the forum. Talk about Nkemngu, don't talk about Bangwa people. When we criticise Ngwasiri, or Fru Ndi we talk about them and not about Bamenda people. I think that tribalism is one of the most disastrous cankerworms we have in our society. We must make a conscious effort to eradicate it if we really intend fo work for the interest of this nation.
Posted by: ateba | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:33 PM
The True Voice Is Out!!!
LEAVING A POLITICAL PARTY TO CREATE ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY IS NOT CARPET-CROSSING!
Klemenceau,
You tried your best to educate Mukete about the true meaning of carpet-crossing. You would've made it complete if you bothered to brief this forum on how the SDF came about. So let's NOT replace someone's thirst and vision for frustration.
Remember that Ni John Fru Ndi joined the CDPDM in the yesterdays not because he liked the party but because he wanted to, in his own lil world as a parlimentarain contribute to the development of the country especially as Mr. Biya did open dictatorship at the time...there wasn't any political party, a fortiori, that was the only means he wanted to use contribute atleast a modicum to what Cameroon expects of each and everyone of us. Ni John Fru Ndi had a vision to form a political party but it was difficult to openly dare Biya at the time...don't ask me why! Now, God loves Cameroon. God opened Biya's eyes for multi-partism. Soom, 1990 came...the drama began. We should be happy for that. God uses people to instigate change. And when God chooses someone, nobody can derail his plan. I think that God chosed Ni John Fru Ndi as the ONLY courageous gentleman at the time. This explains why God never wanted him win the parliamentary elections. If he had done, then there wouldn't have been any SDF today cos he's the only one who could still speak even at gun point. We should rather be happy today that God intervened. We should rather be happy that Ni John lost that parliamentary elections cos this is the prime factor that gave him extra boldness cum courage to go ahead with his God ordained vision - to instil democracy in our country. This is an undisputable reality!
Now, he knew that not being in parliament meant that he had no other avenue to free Cameroonians from bondage. Creatig the SDF was a do or die issue...but he'd to dare that cos of the love he has for his nation. "Oh I wish I'd such love!" Mindful of the fact that he'd to die, he didn't give up. He fought and fought...at gun-point at times. Infact, he decided to die for Cameroonians. Luckily enough, God still keeps him alive to continue the race. NOTHING CAN STOP GOD FROM USING SOMEONE FULFIL A MISSION. Even conspiracies and coup plots can't stop Him to use Fru Ndi. This is a trial period. Even Jesus went through temptation. Who's Fru Ndi not to?
I may have evaded the topic a lil, but my point is that leaving a political party to form another one is not carpet-crossing but leaving one party to another is carpet crossing. I rest my case. If you want us to educate us of the meaning and different types of carpet-crossing, I'll do just that when I come again.
I love you all.
Twisted-thinking forehead - Son Of Ako - LSE.
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Posted by: Akoson | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:44 PM
TALK BACK TO MUKETE!
Before I make this talk back, I'd like us read inbetween the lines, the History of the SDF...you can get it at http://www.sdfparty.org/english/history/128.php
The present day SDF, a dynamic political movement on which countless Cameroonians are pinning their hopes and aspirations for a better future, started as a think tank in the late 1980s. The think-tank, Study Group 89 was certainly motivated by the personal experiences of those involved and pro-democracy initiatives elsewhere. Their similar aspirations and interests for the welfare of Cameroonians brought them together. The plans to form the SDF were top secret so much so that even the closest family members of those concerned did not know what was going on. At the time it was virtually suicidal to challenge the hegemony of the one-party dictatorship that had successfully silenced all dissent since independence in the 1960s.
The first formal arrangements to form the SDF were made in a meeting summoned by Ni John Fru Ndi at the Presbyterian Church Centre in Bamenda on November 11, 1989, thanks to the courage and collaboration of the late Rev. Dr . D.S. Gana, in charge of the Centre at the time. Those involved -- the founding founders of the SDF were: Ni John Fru Ndi, Dr Siga Asanga (late), Dr Gemuh Akuchu, Justice Nyo?Wakai, Professor Clement Ngwasiri, Mr. Vincent Feko, Mr. Albert Mukong, Dr. Carlson Anyangwe, Mr Banga James (late), Mr Aloys Tebo and Dr. Alfred Azefor (late). Dr. Tah Zacharias left the group at the early stages because the group refused his suggestion of consulting Mr S.T. Muna. During the early stages of the group meetings it was about writing a memo to UN on the marginalisation of the anglophone minority.
The Group met at the Bastos (Yaounde) residence of (the late) Dr Siga Asanga on December 1, 1989. The anglophone problem in Cameroon was the main topic od discussion during this meeting.
However, the decisive meeting took place at the residence of Ni John Fru Ndi, in Bamenda on February 17, 1990. Present at this meeting were: Ni John Fru Ndi, Dr Gemuh Akuchu, Dr Carlson Anyangwe, Mr Vincent Feko, Dr Alfred Azefor, Dr Siga Asanga, Dr Tah Zacharias, Mr Albert Mukong and Justice Nyo?Wakai. During this meeting the Group reviewed their plan to write a memo to the UN and instead decided to form a political party to tackle all the issues facing Cameroon.
The decision to transform the Study Group 89 appears to have been influenced by many factors but what actually pushed the members to take this decision at this point in time was the fact that diplomatic missions in Yaounde while they appreciated the work of the Group, wanted them to clarify their official status as well as leadership. During the February 17 meeting, the founders resolved that whatever the name of the political party, the words 몊ocial?and 멶emocracy? must be part of it. Justice Nyo?Wakai presented a paper during this meeting (17/2/90) entitled The New Social Order for Cameroon. This paper served as the basis for the Manifesto of the SDF. Also during the February 17 meeting Messrs Mukong and Feko informed the Group that there was a similar initiative going on in Douala led by one Mr Yondo Black and suggested that they invite the Douala Group to join them. The meeting considered that such moves will result in the leaking of the initiative to the regime and consequently it will be nipped in the bud before they are able to take-off (from the ground). Messrs Feko and Mukong, however, maintained contacts with the Douala group on their own accord. They were subsequently found out, arrested and charged for trying to form a political party.
On Saturday April 4, 1990, the Group met at Professor Clement Ngwasiri뭩 residence in Yaounde to put final touches on the Manifesto. During this meeting Mr Banga James donated CFAF3 million to fund the printing of launching material. From here on there was no going back.
Ni John Fru Ndi and Dr Siga Asanga signed the papers for the registration of the SDF in accordance with the 1967 law on political associations on the morning of March 16, 1990, at the Ebibi Book Centre, Bamenda. The documents were formally handed to the Senior Divisional Officer for Mezam (SDO) for onward transmission to the Minister of Territorial Administration. This decision took the Cameroon government by storm. The government officials directly responsible for the file came face to face with perhaps the most difficult dossier in their professional lives. The then Governor of the North-West Province Magloire Nguiamba, the Senior Divisional Officer (SDO)of Mezam Division, Tabi Arampe Emmanuel, and the Minister of Territorial Administration Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya kept tight lips preferring to act through the D.O. of Bamenda Tchoussano Augustin. At the national level the ruling RDPC organised marches and church services in all major cities to put their point across that Cameroon was not ripe for multi-party democracy. The Minster of Territorial Administration Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya panicked and initially said he did not receive the SDF registration file, but then unwittingly contradicted himself by saying the file was incomplete! After failing to intimidate the founding fathers, the government sent intermediaries to propose lucrative government positions and money, to derail them, an offer they emphatically rejected.
On May 15, 1990, Ni John Fru Ndi on behalf of the SDF issued a press release announcing the launching of the Party for Saturday May 26, 1990 at 2pm. The launching programme was going to take the form of a march from the City Chemist round-about to the Bamenda municipal stadium where speeches were to be delivered followed by the distribution of the SDF Manifesto. Mr Fru Ndi also wrote to the government officially informing them of the launching. The launching date was postponed twice in order to enable Mr Albert Mukong who had fled to the UK on voluntary exile to return and take part in the launching. However, Mr Mukong could not make it. The government banned the rally and ordered the closure of all public places in the Bamenda area. Security forces in war gear were deployed all over the city of Bamenda. The Commercial Avenue where the march was supposed to take place was sealed. Tension gripped the country as the count-down trickled through leaflets, press releases, word of mouth and international media outlets.
The founding fathers of the SDF held a meeting on May 25, 1990, past midnight to review the situation and they decided that the launching will go ahead. By this day many Cameroonians had become concerned. Dr John Ngu Foncha as well as the Rector of the Bambui Catholic Seminary came to see Ni John Fru Ndi in person and even submitted written appeals (apparently in good faith) to him to desist from the SDF project to avoid bloodshed, according to them. On May 26, 1990, at 2pm, the SDF was launched at Ntarikon Park. Ni John Fru Ndi delivered the launching speech. Cameroon뭩 state-owned radio-television (CRTV) estimated the crowd at 20,000; however, independent sources estimated the crowd at 80,000.
After the rally troops stationed on the Commercial Avenue shot and killed six (6) unarmed civilians returning to their homes. Those killed were: Fidelis Chosi Mankam (Corn Mill Operator), Tifuh Mathias Teboh (Student), Asanji Christopher Fombi (Student), Nfon Edwin Jatop (Tailor), Juliette Sikod (Student), Toje Evaristus Chatum (Student). Their bodies were quickly ferried to the Bamenda Provincial Hospital Mortuary. The only person who was allowed to see the corpses was the late Dr J.N. Foncha. He made the following testimony:
I went to the hospital myself where I saw the victims; two had gun-shot wounds on their shoulder blades and one had an injured collar bone; one had bullet holes around the buttocks; and another with bullet wounds on the foot. There was clear evidence that those who died were shot and killed and not trampled upon as suggested in some quarters.
The bodies were identified and taken for burial by the various families several days after the incidents. The SDF has ever since sustained a relentless struggle to restore democracy, respect for human rights and social justice in Cameroon. Between May 1990 and January 1991, a group of dedicated volunteers known as the Hunting Dogs under the leadership of the founding founders criss-crossed the country and implanted the Party bearing terrible risks.
On February 3, 1991, the SDF organised a Constitutive Assembly that brought together representatives from all the regions of Cameroon. A nationally representative National Executive Committee was elected during this meeting. Since then the SDF has held five Ordinary National Conventions and one Extra-Ordinary National Convention.
The SDF Candidate, Ni John Fru Ndi, is widely believed to have won the Presidential elections in 1992. However, the incumbent, Paul Biya confiscated the victory by manipulating election figures while Mr Fru Ndi and many of his supporters were put under house arrest for two months. The party took part in Municipal elections in January 1996. Despite the massive fraud perpetrated by the regime in Yaounde, the SDF won majority of seats in 62 Councils including those Councils in the economic capital city, Douala, and other major cities such as Limbe, Kumba, Nkongsamba, Buea, Bafoussam and Bamenda, and minorities in many others. In May 1997 the party took part in Parliamentary elections and won 43 seats amidst unprecedented electoral fraud organised by the ruling RDPC Party. The Party celebrates its first 10 years of struggle for democracy in May 2000.
I'm coming!
Son Of Ako - LSE.
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Posted by: Akoson | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 10:46 PM
Ftroit
Thank you for explaining yourself to me. Mukete didn't talk about the leader of the party as you said and I didn't say he said so. I just post a rhetorical question as to why Fru Ndi should be responsible for Nkemngu's going away from the SDF. I said so because Nkemngu left from Ngwasiri's camp and not Fru Ndi's camp. If they i.e. Ngwasiri and the members of his camp declared openly that Fru Ndi was no longer the leader of the SDF, then I didn't see why Nkemngu should still accuse Fru Ndi when he left Fru Ndi and was with the self appointed "leader” Ngwasiri. If he (Nkemngu) did have selfish motives and had a heart for the SDF, he would have joined his leader Ngwasiri so that they could together help to reform the SDF and take it away from the “illiterate and corrupt” Fru Ndi. I hope Nkemngu will not say one day that Ngwasiri too is an illiterate or corrupt and “tribalistic”.
You might want to say Ngwasiri is not the chairman of his faction but it is logically true that he has made himself the chairman and Jua the parliamentary group leader. That is why I used the word “leader”. I wish you understand my point now.
Shalom
Klemenceau.
Posted by: Klemenceau | Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 11:54 PM
Nkemngu and co are all hungry, they have been waiting to "chop" to no avail. As elctions for next year approaches, there wil be distribution of bags of rice, T-shirts, money, palm oil etc. They just want to leak the oil, shameless bannwa 99 sense, people them. Idiots.
Posted by: Texam | Wednesday, 12 April 2006 at 12:10 AM
Bello Bouba said it, you can not live like an opposition all your life. opposition is a choice not by birth. I think sooner or later we will be United in all aspect, one part, one cameroon, one nation, one language, like in the 70's. Then we will just need to cast our vote for Biya after 7 years. I knew deep in me that sooner or later there will be no opposition( SDF is just for fun, people have enrich themself throught it). i once asked John Fru while in the USA, why the SDF is not practicing democracy within the party, he has been the president and chair of the party since it was created, he did not answer me. We can't fix a nation if we can't fix our house, the fix problem with our neighbors etc. We must learn the small thgs before we can explain the big ones. All cameroonians are thesame opportunist, just looking and waiting for the best opportunity to enrich themself. SDF "sofa don finish" is now SDF" SOfa di fresh". I think cameroon has been curse long ago, that is why we have many languages than any other country in the world. Those reading the Bible knows that, God once curse a group of people with many languages because they wanted to get to him. it is cameroon. The USA is atlaest 40 times cameroon but with just about two common languages( English and Spanish). But a small cameroon full of gossip and Jealousy has more than 128 languages. we need just one person at this time "GOD". Not Paul Biya, not John Fru, not Bello, Not Adamu. Please pray and forget about party. i colud have been very happy to hear that people are leaving SDF, CPDM etc because they have been call by God that the country can be save only through prayers.
Thanks
Posted by: Desire Atem, USA | Wednesday, 12 April 2006 at 12:35 AM
Some people are using this forum to talk about personal issues, which I find not important, inappropriate and disturbing. I think we should be bent on regaining control over our lost land, over our lost selfs and identity and over our lost hope. I do not personally think we will ever get there if we attack brothers and sisters on issues which do not matter. We all are fortunate to read and write, to analyse and draw conclusions, to think critically and to give constructive criticism; all these with the hope of unitin us. But this spirit, which is the cornerstone of this forum is gradually sleeping away and instead is sewing seeds of hatred. So, brothers and sisters, I say we should think again and see if we really want the best for our people and ourselves and our land. Remember we have a common enemy: the Biya regime, la republic and if we unite under the banner of this common enemy we will mold from the "mountain of despair, a stone of hope." This is a place where we can either bring the best out of ourselves or bring the worst out of us. The river does not only let the boat float, but can let the boat sink as well. Choose the right path, forget about our tribal differnces, forget about the the number of degrees your friend has, forget about the insults and disgrace your friend must have caused you while in secondary school or primary school, forget about the negative past and only use it contructively to build the future. Remember, act as if it is you and you alone who can change the things around you. I am not saying that we should be passive in our approach to oust any body our way, who wants but evil on our land, but that we should do this under one condition and one understanding: we all have a common enemy. Fight this common enemy, not your fellow brother who speaks a different tribal language. God Bless you all as we fight a common enemy.
Ben Benoi
Posted by: Ben | Wednesday, 12 April 2006 at 01:14 AM