Appeal Court Panel Divided Over Fon Doh's Bail

By Peterkins Manyong

Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin, imprisoned MP, and Mayor of Balikumbat is likely to regain his freedom next week if the Northwest Court of Appeal examining his controversial application for bail yields to pressure from "High Quarters"

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The Post has been informed by Northwest Judicial insiders that the decision to free Fon Doh, if taken, will be the handiwork of one, man-Justice Henry Morfaw, the Court's President, who is himself under intense pressure from the CPDM Central Committee and other high places.

The story goes that a Central Committee representative is in Bamenda to ensure that the bail is granted on May 16. Our sources disclosed that the application for bail, filed a few days after Fon Doh's imprisonment, would have been heard on Tuesday, May 9, but had to be adjourned, because of the visit that same day, of Amadou Ali, Vice Prime Minister in Charge of Justice.

Amadou Ali will be in Bamenda to launch the harmonised Penal Code. The Post gathered that the Judges on the panel have disagreed with the idea that Fon Doh be granted bail, not only because he was convicted of a felony, a crime punished with a long prison term, but because yielding to pressure from the Central Committee means allowing the Executive to impose on the Judiciary.

In other words, the Judiciary would be compromising its independence by so doing. The panel of Judges argues that haste in listening, is necessary when it concerns short prison terms because delay could result in the convict serving his or her own prison term before the appeal is heard. But Fon Doh was sentenced to a 15-year jail term.

If there is so much haste in listening to his matter, it means serious pressure is being mounted. The Judges fear that if Fon Doh is granted bail now, the hearing of the appeal will be delayed until the public forgets the matter. The Legal Department, The Post learnt, could concede or contest the bail application, but the decision to grant remains that of the Appeal Court President.

Because of the very sensitive nature of the matter and the interest the public has in it, as evident from the heavy turnout at the Appeal Court, The Post learnt, the Tuesday, May 16 hearing will be in chambers.

Fon Doh's Arrogance

The anger of the Appeal Court panel is reportedly further fuelled by the conduct of Fon Doh himself. The Chief convict in the Kohtem murder case, far from being humble and remorseful, has reportedly been boasting to all those who care to listen, that he will be a free man come May 15.

Fon Doh, The Post learnt, has been given some latitude by Ndop prison authorities to move out of his confinement, accompanied by four warders. Our informant said he was seen with the warders at Upstation, Bamenda, last week. Fon Doh is also said to have given the impression that he is not in good health. It is feared that he may forge medical certificates, which his lawyers will then present to strengthen their argument that he should be granted bail.

SDF Promises Mayhem

The SDF in Balikumbat has described the move to "release" Fon Doh on bail as the prologue to a very bloody drama in the village. Many of those who spoke to The Post said it would have been better to discharge and acquit him than to jail and release him a month after "There is nothing as dangerous as a wounded lion" one of them said.

Dr Pius Lecigah, Balikumbat SDF Chairman, told The Post that he did not believe the same Judiciary that gained credibility as independent and reliable when it passed the judgment could disgrace itself by undoing its good work because of pressure from above.

Richard Kunde Meneyam, family members in Balikumbat told The Post, is only one of several people that were brutalised by Fon Doh supporters, following the outcome of the Kohtem trial. Other families, especially those that rejoiced at the jailing of the Fon lost their homesteads to pro-Doh vandals. Fon Doh's release, it is held in these circles, could mean an apparent brutal crackdown on those who rejoiced when the traditional ruler was jailed.

It should be recalled that Justice Damian Ambe said before the verdict imprisoning Fon Doh was passed on Tuesday, April 12, that the trial Judges had been under a lot of pressure, including attempts to induce them financially, to pass a lenient judgment.

The Post was reliably informed that Justice Ambe who is a Grade 4 Magistrate, was threatened with professional stagnation after he refused huge sums of money to twist the case.

Before the verdict, there was a demand by his superiors to know what the verdict would look like, but he refused on grounds that it was unethical.An unsigned tract widely circulating nationwide, talks of an imminent bloodbath in Balikumbat, should Doh be released.

It names a top Anglophone official at the Ministry of Justice, as well as the President of the Northwest Court of Appeal who are reportedly bent on seeing that the jailed Fon is granted bail.

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Comments

[rexon]

Part of the tactics of la republique du cameroun. We will see how things will end with this case. I wonder what la republique du cameroun think.

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Sorry guys for the digression but serious matter warranting urgent attention .Our fellow contrymen have been rearrested so we want to mount international pressure for their immediate release so we need some information from all at sundry.Anyone who knows the contact addresses of the following persons should please help paste them here

Desmond Tutu
Peter Essoka
Eric Njinge
Prof Carlson Anyangwe
Koffi Annan
One Cameroonian Barrister Incharge of the Tribunal in Rwanda
Prof Wole Soyinke

Thanks for understanding
Tayong

[BenB]

Washow's well documented narration has just given us a recall of the gory experience Cameroonians, militants for change, often face during elections.

That's the frustrating way the Biya regime has managed to stall the democratization process these passed 16yrs.

How sad, Washow's experience.

Yet, in as much as there is Mukete involved, and in as much as the Mukete(s) on this forum hold(s) a position diametrically opposed to the views of SCNC Fru Ndiists here, nothing points to the Mukete(s) being the same person.

It just may be, but is that of more substance than the debate here that seeks to unravel the SDF problem?

This is The PostNewsline, a newspaper that has opened this forum for public debate, not an SDF forum. So wasting valuable time to "prove" someone's political color is diversionary as far as I'm concerned.

The substance here is the subject under debate. Here, whichever Mukete, be they the sons, brothers, cousins or whatsoever of a hated Nfon Mukete, be that Mukete a propaganda officer for La Republique or CPDM, they have an equal right to express themselves on this forum as Washow who admits without apologies that he was/is a propaganda officer for SDF somewhere.

If anyone has questioned Washow's opinion here it might have been for the content of the opinion not for his status as propaganda officer.

We wished we didn't have propaganda officers here but how bad is one propaganda than another propaganga?

Goodluck as you each strive to uncover the true identity of your detractors. The whole forum will benefit from the findings. I hope no one has given up.

BenF

[neba funiba]

Whatever happened in Cameroon during the past four months leading up to the IMF/World Bank HIPC decision was merely window dressing. The regime has accomplished what it wanted to accomplish viz partial debt cancellation. Watch and see how decisions that were made to entice the international community will be reversed. I hope the population does not take it lightly when this criminal is released. Anyway the struggle for a free Southern Cameroon must go ahead.

[Adolf Vanderwaals]

La Republique judiciary is a disgrace.

[Nko Mbengo]

If this murderer is released, I am afraid, there will be big trouble in Bamenda. Please, judges, let him serve his term. He is a criminal and has earned imprison term. Thanks. Jackson of Greater WAshington

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Sorry guys
Some people might have mistaken my plea above for the release of fellow countrymen to mean the release of Fon Doh.God forbids.Sorry I meant the release of the leaders of the anglophone movement who have been rearrested in Bamenda
Tayong

[Lienghotue Gideon]

I read carefuly the unfolding events about Doh.There's no body above the law.If this man is released then Cameroon should be prepare for a civil war come what may.Doh is a man who has not only kill kontem, he sent that family on exile.He instigated tribal war with nabouring villages and as a result many people killed and other left homeless.
Sadam is on trial to day and will definately be jailed. If he's released as alerged by the pressmen then we need not talk about democratization in a cameroon.This man has just a single vote and a parliamentary sit. If Biya was a good man,the lifes of the many cameroon reuin by this man should have been a call for concern.If Biya was a good man, he should have addressed the nation on that behalf.Biya himself had never shot and killed any Cameroonian though peoplew kill on his behalf.What a country are we biulding?We cameroonian should pray for God mercy.
You can not be what you are to be unless I am what I want to be.Biya should try to love the people he claimed to be ruling.Love is an understanding, creative and redemptive good will of all men.It's a kind of love that seek nothing in return.That's the love of God. Justice delayed is justice denied.Biya should pretend to the cameroonian people and let's feel we have country.The release of this man will send a strong signal to the other people who are being threatened to day by some of our leaders.
The SDF should embark on changing the country not strugling for leadership in the party.Biya has infilterat the SDF and now we hear of factions in this party.We will regret when ever FRU NDI hand over power to these guys.The cameroon constitution allow for creation of many parties but these guys in the SDF don't want to form their own parties.
It's true Fru Ndi is been long as party chairman. We should change him democratically not creating factions. We don't seems to have politician in Cameroon.Politics is not war.Fru Ndi is not an enemy to Biya.They have different politcal ideals.CPDM is like the Republican party in the state.The republican party members can disagree in times of disagreement and still vote for bills that will help the country.CPDM have friends in the SDF and vis-vis.Can we talk politics and behave like politician.Clinton defeated Bush sinior but to day they are working together to help the world.We shouldn't be too selfish and learn to listen to others and work togehter for a better cameroon.
Thanks

[noko mbele emanuel]

as a point of reminder. a month ago i wrote on this same forum that i was working on the exit strategies of my friend fon doh.how would guys ever thought that the fon will remain in prison. cameroon is in our hands and you will all watch fon doh walk out of prison a free man not long from now.worthless cameroonians calling them selves "bush fallers" should know that cameroon is not for them.you guys should stay away and be cleaning toilet in foreign countries. we know what we gain by living and administering cameroon.

noko mbele emanuel

[samleyin]

Corruption is flowing in the viens I keep saying. I dont want to believe Amadou Ali who started the good job will want to mess it up at the end. If this Fon be released, then .....hmmmmm hell will break lose in Balikumbat. This man kills without pity. His conscience is dead. His mischief exceeds all the books of the bible. And this is just one of the ten commandments he defies at will because he certainly had been defying the other nine very often. This man had killed many before and this was not the first one. He even killed two gendarmes last year. I am afraid he will certainly go free. Oh my God. Poor Balikumbat people who rejoiced for justice will be scared off their own village. They will certainly flee to neighbouring villages as `refugees`. I know this man and he is dangerous. When he is out to kill, he means business.

Please Cameroon Executive. Let justice take its course. If this man has already been seen at up-station then his freedom had already started. His thugs cannot brutalise in Balikumbat in his absence. They have just been acting on his orders. His children constitute the majority of thugs. Let the Judiciary be independent. What a corrupt country! Judiciary, Executive and Legislature are all one man`s peronal assets. My God this is the beginning of a war in Bamenda. I am scared. Even of the judge`s own life...........

[Jungle man]

Fellow camenroonians, i feel the tyrant should count himself locky to be in prison,The spirit of revange is very strong,and only a single bullet will let him down if the administration plays the dirty game.After all the dead of one is better than that of familise.the judge that will grant the bail should equally be prepared to pay the price.I feel we will apply the jungle justice at this time because there is no justice in cameroon.God bless Southern cameroon

[Malam Dogo]

Once again we let emotions cloud our judgement. I am surprised that even my Southern Cameroons friend have missed the boat on this one. One of the cornerstone of the Anglophone Judicial system is the ability to be granted bail for ANY crime commmitted - including murder. What primarily determines if bail is granted or no, is whether the accused is a FLIGHT RISk. In other words, will he skip bail? If the answer is No then the accused gets his temporary freedom.

What the Post has done here is write another shoddy piece full of speculation gossip and shallow analysis all meant to inflame the public and set the Court of Appeal judge up for lynching.

Nobody is above the law and nobody is below the law. If the court determines that Doh is not a flight risk, then he should be set free in conformity with the suprior justice system in "Southern Cameroons". And if Southern Cameroons activists decide to personalize justice in this case, then they don't even know what they are supposedly fighting for.

So is Doh a flight risk or not? That is for the court to determine and not the CPDM central committee, the Abakwa lynch mob, or even The Post which is becoming quite an embarrassment these days.

You guys back off now!!!

[Dr. A. A. Agbormbai]

The CPDM Central Committee is playing with fire. This type of pressure on the judicial system is the wrong type of pressure and is most uncalled for.

I hope that they will reverse their actions to avoid a public outcry. They should not start damaging the image of Cameroon and sending the wrong message to international investors so soon after the completion point.

The air of inpunity in the country is over, and I hope that President Biya will intervene in this matter to call the CPDM Central Committe to order, or this will be the first step in reversing the good work that has already been done to put the country in the right direction.

It is only a fool who, having learnt from his mistakes, returns to making the same mistakes with the hope that it can get away with it. A return to the air of impunity is going to damage the economic prospects of the country, as it is a step backwards towards indiscipline and irresponsibility.

President Biya and the CPDM should not think that having attained the completion point the world's eyes have been removed from the country. There are still penalties that the international community can apply if Cameroon were to reverse the increasing discipline and responsibility that is gripping the country.

The President and his party should not think that the people have lost their critical minds because the completion point is over. We are still here with open eyes watching your every move, so be careful!

A step in the wrong direction and you will open a can of worms once more. Just as we supported you in the attainment of the completion point so will we bring you down if you start getting lose and showing us disrespect. So, stop trying to play tricks with us!

I hope the point is clear.

[rexon]

Dr A.A Agbormbai,

Which completion point are you talking about and which CPDM central commitee?

You really believe in them more than you believe in us and our numerous experiences.Sometimes, i turn to really think that you dont know how those criminals operate.

i have told you Dr agbormbai and i want to tell you again. Even if at the end, they tell us in this forum that this criminal has been finally jailed, i will never believe because i know what la republique du cameroun and the central commitee you are talking of are up to.

Bye.

[Numvi]

Fon Doh Gah Gwanyin was tried and duly found guilty of the murder of John Knontem in a court of Law, and if Cameroon is truly a State of Law as it is being portrayed to the international Community then he should be left in prison while the appeal process takes its cause; vue the gravity of the case. This in order to ensure peace in Balikumbat and the North West province as a whole, I hope what happened to the Fon of Babanki is still fresh in the minds of all those scheming the machinations to get him released.

[Big Joe]

The judgement sentencing Fon Doh was appealed and by right he his entittle to request for and be granted or denied bail. If the court finds it necessary that he be granted bail pending the appeal then there is nothing wrong with that. That's justice.

[Fon Lawrence]

Justice Ambe Damian and Co,you have done your part.Posterity will judge those who want to fumble in this matter for selfish reasons.
Lets watch and see if Cameroon is a country of law.

[Glenn Wilson]

Malam Dogo, You wrote -
"Nobody is above the law and nobody is below the law"
"What primarily determines if bail is granted or no, is whether the accused is a FLIGHT RISk. In other words, will he skip bail? If the answer is No then the accused gets his temporary freedom."

Point of correction -
Camerooninans can be split into two distinct groups; Those that are above the law, and those that are below the law.

What primarily determines if bail is granted or not, is the likelyhood that that Doh Gwayin commit further criminal actions if released.
What sort of people protect their murderers who act like animals? CPDM: Criminal Pack Despot Movement

[Che Sunday (Dr.)]

Mr.Moderator,
I am very insulted. Not even in the name of freedom of speech should this be allowed to happen. I will rather read a track from the Ku Klux Klan than see this fellow dish out insults and rubbish on this forum. Who exactly is Noko Mbele Emmanuel? You can't even spell your own name correctly, yet, have the nerve of insulting Cameroonians who have the thinking capability you are so devoid of, who are gainfully working and making an honest living? Mister, be well advised that Cameroon shall someday get out of the control idiots and thieves. And when the day shall come, your type and the Fon Dohs will have but one form of trial; lowered into the ocean in iron baskets and allowed to drink enough salt water and die slowly. Bush felas continue to contribute towards the economic survival of Cameroon. Sadly, that survival entails keeping your type alive too. What a pardox!

[David Tita]

Fon Doh`s possible bail is a devastating disaster, a miscarriage of justice and a huge mockery of the Cameroon judiciary system. I foresee systematic revenge, further brutal killings, poisoning, a lot of unbearable agony for the anti-Doh people of Balikumbat and some members of the North West judiciary. Justice Ambe and all those who handled the Doh case have to be on the watch as assassins could be paid to eliminate them. I am heavily depressed with this ugly twist. What a shame for Cameroon?

DAVID TITA (PG Student Uni. of Manchester, UK)

[Edwin Yobo]

Politics and the law in Cameroon used to look like a big circus.I hope this time the judiciary is independent both in theory and in practice.If that be the case,the presiding judge should be allowed to do his duty without fear or favour.

[mbang]

I feel sickened when i read the above article on the Doh saga.Many have said it and i want add it in strong terms that Doh eventual release will witness a lot of killings in Balikumbat.I want to blame the people of Balikumbat for having delayed this long in enthroning a new Fon in that land.If that had been done as soon as Doh got incarcerated,things would never be the same again as any attempt by him either at night or during the day to get back to palace would be seen as a political coup d'etat.Balikumbat people,what have you people been waiting for all this while.You better get mobilised and get yourselves a new Fon.Delay will be dangerous as your man Doh still thinks he is a Fon in that land.A word to a wise is sufficient.Act now or you will regret next week if the arm of justice is twisted and Doh returns home.What will happen when this happens is what i saw in my dream while i slept last night but for now i seal my lips.Watch out

[mbang]

I felt sickened when i read the above article on the Doh saga.Many have said it and i want add it in strong terms that Doh's eventual release will witness a lot of killings in Balikumbat.I want to blame the people of Balikumbat for having delayed this long in enthroning a new Fon in that land.If that had been done as soon as Doh got incarcerated,things would never be the same again as any attempt by him either at night or during the day to get back to palace would be seen as a political coup d'etat.Balikumbat people,what have you people been waiting for all this while.You better get mobilised and get yourselves a new Fon.Delay will be dangerous as your man Doh still thinks he is a Fon in that land.A word to a wise is sufficient.Act now or you will regret next week if the arm of justice is twisted and Doh returns home.What will happen when this happens is what i saw in my dream while i slept last night but for now i seal my lips.Watch out

[mukete]

I have warned many times that the game president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi are playing will one day plunge the entire country into war. The very essence why Fon Ndoh was sentenced to death was a continuation of the secret deal that president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi had signed. Those who saw Ni John Fru Ndi rejoicing when Fon Ndoh was imprisoned could not have understood that his joy was centered on a purely selfish victory. While poor Cameroonians were rejoicing that Justice has been done, president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi were rejoicing that the death of poor John Kohtem and the subsequent imprisonment of Fon Ndoh have given the International community the belief that truly the SDF is a regional North West party.

Fon Ndoh was a thorn in the flesh of President Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi, but these two people found it extremely hard to dismantle the militia that he had established in Balikumbat. In a secret deal that Ni John Fru Ndi and president paul Biya signed, it was agreed that the SDF should gather all the votes in the North West while majority votes in the other provinces should go to president Paul Biya and the CPDM. This was a suggestion from France, and the reason for this was simple. The French did not like the idea of president Paul Biya sweeping all the votes throughout the country, because this would give the impression that there was no viable opposition in the country. This is something International donor countries wouldn’t like to hear.

Consequently, France insisted that in order to help Cameroon get the much needed money and debt relief from International Financial organizations, it was important that president Paul Biya gives the impression that there is an opposition in Cameroon, but that this opposition unfortunately is a regional and tribal party. The Geo-political situation in the country was further complicated when the US Embassy told president Paul Biya that the North West province can not be totally for the SDF when Fon Ndoh, an influential North West Fon won almost all the votes in an important constituency in the North West. The US government has been challenging president Paul Biya’s claim that the SDF is an Anglophone party due to the election victory of a CPDM central committee member in Balikumbat. Fon Ndoh, although an important personality, was an obstacle for the confidence president Paul Biya needed from Western countries and from International Financial organizations. This explains why Biya needed the collaboration of Ni John Fru Ndi by all means.

France, therefore, advised president Paul Biya to do everything in his power to see that the SDF and Ni John Fru Ndi gain total control of the North West province. It is important to know that president Paul Biya has given the impression that it is the North West province that is Anglophone in the country. Most International organizations know that the South West province is Francophone. In order to unfold the plan of giving the North West province to the SDF so as gain International trust, president Paul Biya had no other alternatives than to strike a secret deal with Ni John Fru Ndi and the SDF. The first stage of the project, according to the deal, was to remove all CPDM officials who post the least threat to Ni John Fru Ndi and the SDF in the North West province. This is how people like Nkwain, Tamfu, etc. left the political scene. This is how the only Santa CPDM official who was acting as a buffer against Ni John Fru Ndi in the North West province, Simon Achidi, lost his job as Prime Minister of the country. Part of the deal made it clear that Ni John Fru Ndi should be the natural leader of the Anglophone North West province, and that no North Westerner – be it in the opposition or in the CPDM- should have any authority greater than that of Ni John Fru Ndi. This is how the post of Prime Minister has been shifted to the South West province. Ni John Fru Ndi insisted that for the deal to work, he wouldn’t like to have any North Westerner claiming authority over the authority he enjoys by the deal. That is how he personally suggested that the highest North Westerner in government should be someone who has no voice in the North West and who is not known in the North West province. That is how the name of the present Assistant Secretary General in the presidency came up. Ni John Fru Ndi insisted that the post been given to someone who can not claim any part of the North West province as his strong hold. When president Paul Biya asked Ni John Fru Ndi to suggest a North Westerner for the post of Assistant Secretary General in the presidency, Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam put forward only one name. That is how the North Westerner, Yang Philemon was pulled from Canada where he had been forgotten as Cametroon’s Ambassador to Ottawa for more almost twenty (20) years. As part of the deal also, Ni John Fru insisted that no authoritative government officials in the likes of Bell Luc Renne (former governor) be posted to Bamenda again. This explains why the successive governors have always given Ni John Fru Ndi the respect that the deal demands.

The only threat to the authority of Ni John Fru Ndi and the SDF in the North West province was Fon Ndoh of Balikumbat. President Paul Biya found it very risky disgracing Fon Ndoh, who was already a CPDM central committee member, with parliamentary immunity and a very influential Fon in the North West province. President Paul Biya was also aware of the fact that Fon Ndoh is aware of important government and CPDM secrets, and that he holds a strong militia in his area of control. Care was therefore needed. To the greatest joy of Ni John Fru Ndi and president Paul Biya, poor John Kohtem was murdered in Balikumbat. Ni John Fru Ndi and president Paul Biya received with total satisfaction the news that John Kohtem was actually murdered by Fon Ndoh of Balikumbat. While Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam were shedding crocrodile tears in public, in their hearts, the death of John Kohtem was just as if the Good Lord has descended from Heaven and has relieved them of all their sins. This is how the exploitation of the untimely death of John Kohtem started.

Ni John Fru Ndi was mobilizing militants in the North West province to protest against Fon Ndoh, demanding that immediate justice be done. When SDF militants wanted to cause destruction as a protest against Fon Ndoh, Ni John Fru Ndi immediately contacted Yaounde with the impression that the entire North West province was soon going to war. This was not good news for president Paul Biya and International Financial organizations. As part of the deal that president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi had signed, Ni John Fru Ndi was expected to ensure that peace and order reigns in the North West province. When president Paul Biya reminded Ni John Fru Ndi of this responsibility of his, and promised that he, Biya, was going to contact the governor of the North West province, Ni John Fru Ndi immediately asked SDF militants to be calm. This is how the governor came in to tell SDF militants that justice would soon take its due course.
The next difficult step was on how to catch Fon Ndoh, a man who has fought hard for the CPDM and for president Paul Biya. Biya therefore had to assure Fon Ndoh that he should stand trial without any fear whatsoever. After all, even if he is sentenced, the executive still has much to do. This is the road that leads Fon Ndoh into prison. From the day that his parliamentary immunity was lifted, to when he was sent to prison, president Paul Biya contacted foreign embassies and International Financial organizations to ensure them that genuine democracy is in Cameroon, with government judges actually sentencing a CPDM central committee member and parliamentarian to jail. This was good News for France, because in it, the International community was made to understand that with Fon Ndoh in prison, the Anglophone North West province was now totally of the SDF and of Ni John Fru Ndi. The International community was deceived into thinking that with Ni John Fru Ndi in command of the whole Anglophone North West province, the rights of minority Anglophones will be protected. This is what International monetary bodies wanted to hear, and they actually believed it when they were hearing it from the mouth of Ni John Fru Ndi himself.

Even before the court suit against Fon Ndoh, president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi have been giving the impression that a Minority Anglophone Leader, Ni John Fru Ndi is actually collaborating with the government of Yaounde. Whenever Ni John Fru Ndi was abroad and visiting foreign bodies, he secretly used cars of Cameroon Embassies, with the flag and name of “Cameroun” and the photograph of president Paul Biya inside. Ni John Fru Ndi was accompanied on all such secret visits abroad by Cameroonian security men carrying their Embassy accreditation badges on their chest. Mindful of the danger that would result if these secret deals reach the Cameroonian public, Ni John Fru Ndi treated them as confidential missions and would even avoid been taken photographs with government cars and security officials. Unfortunately for Ni John Fru Ndi, when his wife (of blessed memory) was taken abroad on CPDM government budget, he was so confused that he could no more hide some of the secret benefits he has been enjoying abroad from the CPDM government. Abroad, before his wife died and even after she died, Ni John Fru Ndi was actually seen by Cameroonians been driven around the town, hotel, and hospital by CDPM government drivers, in CPDM government cars and was openly protected by CPDM government body guards. Thus as Ni John Fru Ndi deceives Cameroonians by using SDF vanguards inside the country, abroad, he uses the services of CPDM security men who killed six innocent souls in Bamenda for his personal protection. Abroad, CPDM agents who molested him in Cameroun and killed Cameroonians during the 1990s protect Ni John Fru Ndi. Who would have imagine Ni John Fru Ndi sleeping with his eyes closed in a foreign hotel protected by CPDM security men! . The most disturbing fact is that Ni John Fru Ndi was fully aware that he was merely washing the image of president Paul Biya and the CPDM abroad. We see how money and power can change a person.

Let me come back to the hidden facts behind the exploitation of the death of John Kohtem. Fon Ndoh was going to prison knowing fully well that he will be released one day, and that it was a temporal measure to gain support for Biya and the CPDM. Even Ni John Fru Ndi knew this, but they merely wanted Fon Ndoh to go to prison so as to gain International confidence and to project it as if it was victory for Ni John Fru Ndi. However, as an ex-convict, even if he leaves prison on a bail that will never end, he wouldn’t be able to go back to parliament. This explains why SDF is putting everything in place to take over Balibkumbat. This will complete the plan of making the SDF a North West party and presenting Ni John Fru Ndi as the eye, ear and mouth of Anglophones. We therefore understand why during the trial of Fon Ndoh, the government media were over blowing the fight against corrupt government officials. It was during that period that important CPDM officials were arrested and detained on corruption charges. Even a CPDM minister was dismissed and then immediately arrested on corruption charges. It was a ploy to attract foreign governments and International organizations into the “historic case” in Bamenda. Since that historic verdict, the anti-corruption fight has died down. Ni John Fru Ndi was fully aware of all this game, and he was part of it.

Thanks to Ni John Fru Ndi and the deal with president Paul Biya, the World Bank and other donor countries have canceled Cameroon’s debts and Cameroon has passed the exam to be one of the world’s poorest country on earth. This means more money with strings is flowing in and more money is going to president Paul Biya and the man who has washed his political image abroad. With Cameroon having passed the exam of becoming one of the poorest country on earth, and getting the benefits attached to this exam, it is now time for all those who were locked up to be released. It is also the turn of Fon Ndoh. Even if Fon Ndoh is released, the plan has worked because Fon Ndoh can no more go to parliament. The parliamentary seat for Balikumbat is waiting for the SDF.

Consequently, those who think that the SDF convention in Bamenda will not hold are making a bid mistake. This time around, even if Ni John Fru Ndi lacks the funds to organize it, the CPDM government will supply the money. Any government administrator trying to stop the SDF convention in Bamenda would be signing his own death warrant. Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi can ignore the Yaounde SDF convention because they know it will have no bearings on foreign governments and International organizations. As the North West Anglophone Head he has accepted to be, Ni John Fru Ndi has nothing to lose in Yaounde.

Let readers wait to see how the next parliamentary and council elections in Balikumbat will unfold to the sole advantage of Ni John Fru Ndi and president Paul Biya. And before I stop here, for today, I want to ask readers why the other Butcher of Ray Buba was never taken to court?

Who says Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi are not using Cameroonians for their selfish interests! God should open our eyes and hearts, so that we can see and feel the pains they are injecting on us.

The anger in my heart does not allow me to re-read this contribution. Pray for our country. Pray for those who have lost their eyes, their hearts and their conscience.

Stay tuned.

Mukete

[BenB]

See where unprincipled actions can land a great political party.

The SDF took the credit for forcing the hand of the government to let the judiciary do its job that resulted in the sentencing of Fon Doh.

Here now the SDF, the CPDM and their booty (Fon Doh) are employing the same dirty methods to dribble the courts - using appeal against judgement and "stay of execution" to hold back the hand of justice.

And lo! when Fru Ndi and his friends shall have wabbled their way to hold a convention by playing over the courts, whence shall their moral authority to challenge the courts to deny Fon Doh bail based on their now pet phrase "stay of execution"?

Blatant, bitter truth has a way of catching up with sweet liars. Such sweet talkers will be dumb and speechless when Fon Doh shall mount the podium to celebrate his TECHNICAL release using their own very crafty methods.

We're watching.

BenF

[Fritzane Kiki Hong kong]

Dear forum members,
I had once mentioned that this sudden imprisonment and jailing of Fon Ndoh was a means by the LRC to blindfool the masses that justice reigns and that the court is void of injustice practice.Look at what is happening now.The release and bail of a prisoner(Fon Ndoh)is not a good example to other prisoners who are under lock and key.It's a pity that justice is preached but not practised in Cameroon.

Fritzane Kiki]
Hong Kong

[mukete]

I have warned many times that the game president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi are playing will one day plunge the entire country into war. The very essence why Fon Ndoh was sentenced to death was a continuation of the secret deal that president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi had signed. Those who saw Ni John Fru Ndi rejoicing when Fon Ndoh was imprisoned could not have understood that his joy was centered on a purely selfish victory. While poor Cameroonians were rejoicing that Justice has been done, president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi were rejoicing that the death of poor John Kohtem and the subsequent imprisonment of Fon Ndoh have given the International community the belief that truly the SDF is a regional North West party.

Fon Ndoh was a thorn in the flesh of President Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi, but these two people found it extremely hard to dismantle the militia that he had established in Balikumbat. In a secret deal that Ni John Fru Ndi and president paul Biya signed, it was agreed that the SDF should gather all the votes in the North West while majority votes in the other provinces should go to president Paul Biya and the CPDM. This was a suggestion from France, and the reason for this was simple. The French did not like the idea of president Paul Biya sweeping all the votes throughout the country, because this would give the impression that there was no viable opposition in the country. This is something International donor countries wouldn’t like to hear.

Consequently, France insisted that in order to help Cameroon get the much needed money and debt relief from International Financial organizations, it was important that president Paul Biya gives the impression that there is an opposition in Cameroon, but that this opposition unfortunately is a regional and tribal party. The Geo-political situation in the country was further complicated when the US Embassy told president Paul Biya that the North West province can not be totally for the SDF when Fon Ndoh, an influential North West Fon won almost all the votes in an important constituency in the North West. The US government has been challenging president Paul Biya’s claim that the SDF is an Anglophone party due to the election victory of a CPDM central committee member in Balikumbat. Fon Ndoh, although an important personality, was an obstacle for the confidence president Paul Biya needed from Western countries and from International Financial organizations. This explains why Biya needed the collaboration of Ni John Fru Ndi by all means.

France, therefore, advised president Paul Biya to do everything in his power to see that the SDF and Ni John Fru Ndi gain total control of the North West province. It is important to know that president Paul Biya has given the impression that it is the North West province that is Anglophone in the country. Most International organizations know that the South West province is Francophone. In order to unfold the plan of giving the North West province to the SDF so as gain International trust, president Paul Biya had no other alternatives than to strike a secret deal with Ni John Fru Ndi and the SDF. The first stage of the project, according to the deal, was to remove all CPDM officials who post the least threat to Ni John Fru Ndi and the SDF in the North West province. This is how people like Nkwain, Tamfu, etc. left the political scene. This is how the only Santa CPDM official who was acting as a buffer against Ni John Fru Ndi in the North West province, Simon Achidi, lost his job as Prime Minister of the country. Part of the deal made it clear that Ni John Fru Ndi should be the natural leader of the Anglophone North West province, and that no North Westerner – be it in the opposition or in the CPDM- should have any authority greater than that of Ni John Fru Ndi. This is how the post of Prime Minister has been shifted to the South West province. Ni John Fru Ndi insisted that for the deal to work, he wouldn’t like to have any North Westerner claiming authority over the authority he enjoys by the deal. That is how he personally suggested that the highest North Westerner in government should be someone who has no voice in the North West and who is not known in the North West province. That is how the name of the present Assistant Secretary General in the presidency came up. Ni John Fru Ndi insisted that the post been given to someone who can not claim any part of the North West province as his strong hold. When president Paul Biya asked Ni John Fru Ndi to suggest a North Westerner for the post of Assistant Secretary General in the presidency, Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam put forward only one name. That is how the North Westerner, Yang Philemon was pulled from Canada where he had been forgotten as Cametroon’s Ambassador to Ottawa for more almost twenty (20) years. As part of the deal also, Ni John Fru insisted that no authoritative government officials in the likes of Bell Luc Renne (former governor) be posted to Bamenda again. This explains why the successive governors have always given Ni John Fru Ndi the respect that the deal demands.

The only threat to the authority of Ni John Fru Ndi and the SDF in the North West province was Fon Ndoh of Balikumbat. President Paul Biya found it very risky disgracing Fon Ndoh, who was already a CPDM central committee member, with parliamentary immunity and a very influential Fon in the North West province. President Paul Biya was also aware of the fact that Fon Ndoh is aware of important government and CPDM secrets, and that he holds a strong militia in his area of control. Care was therefore needed. To the greatest joy of Ni John Fru Ndi and president Paul Biya, poor John Kohtem was murdered in Balikumbat. Ni John Fru Ndi and president Paul Biya received with total satisfaction the news that John Kohtem was actually murdered by Fon Ndoh of Balikumbat. While Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam were shedding crocrodile tears in public, in their hearts, the death of John Kohtem was just as if the Good Lord has descended from Heaven and has relieved them of all their sins. This is how the exploitation of the untimely death of John Kohtem started.

Ni John Fru Ndi was mobilizing militants in the North West province to protest against Fon Ndoh, demanding that immediate justice be done. When SDF militants wanted to cause destruction as a protest against Fon Ndoh, Ni John Fru Ndi immediately contacted Yaounde with the impression that the entire North West province was soon going to war. This was not good news for president Paul Biya and International Financial organizations. As part of the deal that president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi had signed, Ni John Fru Ndi was expected to ensure that peace and order reigns in the North West province. When president Paul Biya reminded Ni John Fru Ndi of this responsibility of his, and promised that he, Biya, was going to contact the governor of the North West province, Ni John Fru Ndi immediately asked SDF militants to be calm. This is how the governor came in to tell SDF militants that justice would soon take its due course.
The next difficult step was on how to catch Fon Ndoh, a man who has fought hard for the CPDM and for president Paul Biya. Biya therefore had to assure Fon Ndoh that he should stand trial without any fear whatsoever. After all, even if he is sentenced, the executive still has much to do. This is the road that leads Fon Ndoh into prison. From the day that his parliamentary immunity was lifted, to when he was sent to prison, president Paul Biya contacted foreign embassies and International Financial organizations to ensure them that genuine democracy is in Cameroon, with government judges actually sentencing a CPDM central committee member and parliamentarian to jail. This was good News for France, because in it, the International community was made to understand that with Fon Ndoh in prison, the Anglophone North West province was now totally of the SDF and of Ni John Fru Ndi. The International community was deceived into thinking that with Ni John Fru Ndi in command of the whole Anglophone North West province, the rights of minority Anglophones will be protected. This is what International monetary bodies wanted to hear, and they actually believed it when they were hearing it from the mouth of Ni John Fru Ndi himself.

Even before the court suit against Fon Ndoh, president Paul Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi have been giving the impression that a Minority Anglophone Leader, Ni John Fru Ndi is actually collaborating with the government of Yaounde. Whenever Ni John Fru Ndi was abroad and visiting foreign bodies, he secretly used cars of Cameroon Embassies, with the flag and name of “Cameroun” and the photograph of president Paul Biya inside. Ni John Fru Ndi was accompanied on all such secret visits abroad by Cameroonian security men carrying their Embassy accreditation badges on their chest. Mindful of the danger that would result if these secret deals reach the Cameroonian public, Ni John Fru Ndi treated them as confidential missions and would even avoid been taken photographs with government cars and security officials. Unfortunately for Ni John Fru Ndi, when his wife (of blessed memory) was taken abroad on CPDM government budget, he was so confused that he could no more hide some of the secret benefits he has been enjoying abroad from the CPDM government. Abroad, before his wife died and even after she died, Ni John Fru Ndi was actually seen by Cameroonians been driven around the town, hotel, and hospital by CDPM government drivers, in CPDM government cars and was openly protected by CPDM government body guards. Thus as Ni John Fru Ndi deceives Cameroonians by using SDF vanguards inside the country, abroad, he uses the services of CPDM security men who killed six innocent souls in Bamenda for his personal protection. Abroad, CPDM agents who molested him in Cameroun and killed Cameroonians during the 1990s protect Ni John Fru Ndi. Who would have imagine Ni John Fru Ndi sleeping with his eyes closed in a foreign hotel protected by CPDM security men! . The most disturbing fact is that Ni John Fru Ndi was fully aware that he was merely washing the image of president Paul Biya and the CPDM abroad. We see how money and power can change a person.

Let me come back to the hidden facts behind the exploitation of the death of John Kohtem. Fon Ndoh was going to prison knowing fully well that he will be released one day, and that it was a temporal measure to gain support for Biya and the CPDM. Even Ni John Fru Ndi knew this, but they merely wanted Fon Ndoh to go to prison so as to gain International confidence and to project it as if it was victory for Ni John Fru Ndi. However, as an ex-convict, even if he leaves prison on a bail that will never end, he wouldn’t be able to go back to parliament. This explains why SDF is putting everything in place to take over Balibkumbat. This will complete the plan of making the SDF a North West party and presenting Ni John Fru Ndi as the eye, ear and mouth of Anglophones. We therefore understand why during the trial of Fon Ndoh, the government media were over blowing the fight against corrupt government officials. It was during that period that important CPDM officials were arrested and detained on corruption charges. Even a CPDM minister was dismissed and then immediately arrested on corruption charges. It was a ploy to attract foreign governments and International organizations into the “historic case” in Bamenda. Since that historic verdict, the anti-corruption fight has died down. Ni John Fru Ndi was fully aware of all this game, and he was part of it.

Thanks to Ni John Fru Ndi and the deal with president Paul Biya, the World Bank and other donor countries have canceled Cameroon’s debts and Cameroon has passed the exam to be one of the world’s poorest country on earth. This means more money with strings is flowing in and more money is going to president Paul Biya and the man who has washed his political image abroad. With Cameroon having passed the exam of becoming one of the poorest country on earth, and getting the benefits attached to this exam, it is now time for all those who were locked up to be released. It is also the turn of Fon Ndoh. Even if Fon Ndoh is released, the plan has worked because Fon Ndoh can no more go to parliament. The parliamentary seat for Balikumbat is waiting for the SDF.

Consequently, those who think that the SDF convention in Bamenda will not hold are making a bid mistake. This time around, even if Ni John Fru Ndi lacks the funds to organize it, the CPDM government will supply the money. Any government administrator trying to stop the SDF convention in Bamenda would be signing his own death warrant. Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi can ignore the Yaounde SDF convention because they know it will have no bearings on foreign governments and International organizations. As the North West Anglophone Head he has accepted to be, Ni John Fru Ndi has nothing to lose in Yaounde.

Let readers wait to see how the next parliamentary and council elections in Balikumbat will unfold to the sole advantage of Ni John Fru Ndi and president Paul Biya. And before I stop here, for today, I want to ask readers why the other Butcher of Ray Buba was never taken to court?

Who says Biya and Ni John Fru Ndi are not using Cameroonians for their selfish interests! God should open our eyes and hearts, so that we can see and feel the pains they are injecting on us.

The anger in my heart does not allow me to re-read this contribution. Pray for our country. Pray for those who have lost their eyes, their hearts and their conscience.

Stay tuned.

Mukete

[Rene Murena F.]

Mukete,

I started reading your comments but stopped.
Sincerely speaking, fiction is for those who want to read literature, fiction is not cherished in politics.

Maybe you had some facts towards the end, unfortunately I stopped after the fist 2-3 paragraphs.

Thanks,
Rene.

[Nkosi Jacob]

It is going to be a technical release for Fon Doh. If indeed May 16th Fon Doh gains his freedom as he has already announced, it would be disaster for Cameroon, for the Cameroon Judiciary and for Human Rights. Just like the pro Fru Ndi camp is using what is referred to in judiciary jargon as "stay of execution" to organise its convention in Bamenda so too is Fon Doh and his CPDM cohorts using a "stay of execution" to gain definite freedom. The BIG LOOSER in all this is the common man. The SDF has shifted from the goals and objectives it set for itself at the beginning and is now playing politics.Since politics is dirty or rather since it entails using dirty tactics to outdo one's opponents, actors of the political divide are playing the game to the fullest. The ordinary Cameroonian is still waiting for liberation.

[Klemenceau]

Oh God help us in this forum. Cameroonians are talking about a burning issue and MUKETE only comes in with his antics and fiction. It is really pathetic.

As far as the Doh's issue is concerned, I want to say that many of us said here that it was not yet time for rejoicing. I even said I won't be surprised if Doh was set free after a couple of months.

My prayer is that Biya and his gangs should be wise in the positive direction at least for once and let Fon Doh stay in prison. I know if Fon Doh is released, the government will flood the whole of Bamenda with police and gendarmes to ensure security and peace. But one thing is clear, the human mind is like a volcano that can hardly be controlled when it explodes and there is eruption.
I foresee the untold in Bamenda if Fon Doh is released. It is like someone killed my father or the only bread winner in my family and is set free. Imagine that I have no way to sustain my life. Do you think I will be afraid to kill that person and be killed or jailed? Only a child of God will forgive such a person. How I pray for peace in Bamenda. How I pray that Biya and his justice system can for once allow justice to take its turn.

Shalom
Klemenceau

[Fon Lawrence]

I have always ask a question to the international community and especialy to those like George Bush who are fighting terroism:Are some people born as terrorists?(certainly no,circumtantances force people to be terrorists);Then what are those things that push people to be terrorists?

To fight terrorism,we must first analyse all the causes of terrorism and do something about it else the fight is in vain.
Consider the case of an over grown school buy who keeps molesting a minor;the minor becomes depressed and desparate as he can not face the molester,what do you think becomes of this minor? He may decide to hide in the bush one after school and target the eye of the over grown school boy.He has become a terrorist simply because he can not face his molester physically.Remember you cannot deep the head of a child in water and ask the child not to cry.

Now the CPDM has all the powers and can do any thing they wish especially in this case of Fon Doh;they have the powers to controll the courts,they have arms to suppress an uprising and they can intimidate using all forces at their disposal.The masses especially those who are directly related to late John Khotem are in severe pain and agony; they have at their disposal nothing to face the CPDM and Fon Doh physically concerning this diabolic act in the making; what does the puplic expect from these desparate people? should they fold their arms and weep in silence since they cannot face the CPDM and Fon Doh? God forbid. Will anybody on earth blame these people if they become terrorists?
Terrorism will be the only way to fight the CPDM and Fon Doh if he is release from jail.
The world will hold Paul Biya and his regime responsible for promoting terrorism if Fon Doh, a murderer is arbitrarily release from jail on grounds that he is a CPDM baron

[Ashwell Molaba]

God deliver us from the likes of Mukete.

[Abakwaboy]

Mukete,
The "international community" is made to believe that Anglophone Cameroon is the NWP. You are a joker and idle devil to imagine that these people do not know the boundaries of the country they created.
If I were you,I'll become a reporter for Eric Motumu's Chronicle and help him out in his fiction writing. But avoid calling yourselves journalists because you are not.One day you will tell this forum that you are the middleman between Fru Ndi and Biya. Gosh!! Who pays you for what you write, Mukete, your Dad?

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Fellow counttrymen:
Our people are languishing in Jail for simply asking for what is theirs, leaders of the anglophone movement have been rearrested .Whetther you are SCNC supporter or not you are anglophone at least.Here below are some vital contacts addresses. Do anglophone a favour by sending an email at least or if u can , or call these offices and let them know the ordeal these people are going through in these detention camps.Here are the contacts:They must be released.Your email or call counts.

(1)Mr. Oumah Ba (Human Right office Yde) (237) 221 24 74
Cell: (237) 795 9136 (237) 221 2475 email:oba@undp.org
(2)Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping CN
DIRECT CONTACT LINES
Tel:+ 233 (0)21 718 200
Fax:+ 233 (0)21 718 201
email:info@kaiptc.org
(2)Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Tel. # +31 (0)70 3646504
Fax # +31 (0)70 3646608
email: unpo@unpo.org
(4)http://web.amnesty.org/contacts/engindex

Im still searching for the contacts of Peter Essoka, Prof Nyamjoh ,etc. Thank u all
Tayong

[.Legima Doh (LD)]

Noko Mbele,
A novice of your animal calibre has nothing to offer than to express imbecility and idiocy.When you come with such baseless comments,you make us to henceforth ignore and skip all your comments.You think it is worthwhile to be Doh's friend but I say though he is not worthy of friendship, he has never known you or heard about you.You gladly assert that he will be a free moving man,something that can only be done by someone who exhibits a strange deviation from natural and rational reasoning.Any right thinking person would decry such thing in the strongest terms.You are absolutely untutored about the law,its application and implications and so your waterysoup ideas are a reductio ad absurdum.Cowardly enjoy the unsophisticated,necessitous life under the Biya regime.
Che Sunday,don't give a damn about the comment of such a Noko Mbele.
Ashwel Molaba,
Mukete's method of thinking is his foe.He makes poetry and fun out of sensitive issues.To me he amuses the reasonable but could mislead the simpletons.
Dr Agbormbai,
The image of the CPDM has never ever been without blemish.So it is not a matter of returning to mistakes after the attainement of the completion point as you say because,La Republique has always practised indiscipline and irresponsibility and the attainement of the HIPC completion point was an error per se,and moreso a conspiracy as our comrades put it.Anyway,I have an iota of salutation for your comment here but you must come to the whole truth.
To all,Ambe simply reflected the law abiding nature of the Southern Cameroonians and La Republique regime is also reflecting her law breaking nature by trying to distort the verdict and so break the law that our humble Southern Cameroonian lawyer has abided by.Lets wait and see how long injustice,corruption,and all the vices of the occupational diabolic forces will reign in our homeland.
God,let your will be done on earth on the Southern Cameroonians as it is in Heaven.
Legima Doh,
SCNC Sweden.

[Teribobs]

Folks, Is it really coincidence that we have this 'stay of execution' issue in both cases? Open your eyes!
Good analysis BenF/BenB. I have been waiting for write-ups from those blind followers or disciples of JFN concerning this 'stay of execution' issue. Well they can easily recognize their old tricks. Time has caught up with you.

[Bamason, Cape Town.]

Before i continue,its a pity some people are so adamant and stupid to the extent of expressing their dumbness in a public media.Noko Mbele Emmanuel,start by spelling ur name correctly and then you can expect right thinking Cameroonians to listen to the trash you post.Fellow countrymen and women Justice did prevail before,despite all the pressure. Let give our judiciary the benefit of the doubt and pray they don't succumb to pressure.And whatever the outcome lets take it maturely.Charles Taylor is presently paying for his share in the sufferings of liberians.The time will come when the likes of Fon Doh will have no place to hide.

[Bamason, Cape Town.]

Before i continue,its a pity some people are so adamant and stupid to the extent of expressing their dumbness in a public media.Noko Mbele Emmanuel,start by spelling ur name correctly and then you can expect right thinking Cameroonians to listen to the trash you post.Fellow countrymen and women Justice did prevail before,despite all the pressure. Let give our judiciary the benefit of the doubt and pray they don't succumb to pressure.And whatever the outcome lets take it maturely.Charles Taylor is presently paying for his share in the sufferings of liberians.The time will come when the likes of Fon Doh will have no place to hide.

[Fon Lawrence]

Many will be amazed if I aver what "noko mbele emanuel" has written above to be far better than the trash from Mukete. I see "noko mbele"´s posting as coded language,with no damaging effects.To me he is simply a joker,but some are still to realise the real devil(the Iyago) on this forum.The day his mask will be unvaled for those who do yet know him,they will not believe their eyes.To me this fellow is ready to do anything inorder to destroy;God forbid

[ngang]

Tayong,
Prof Francis Nyamnjoh,s email is francis.nyamnjoh@codesria.sn
GuysI am a regular contributor to this forum
but the so call Mukete makes me sick even when we have to accept different points of view we should be as funny as him

Another idiot that has just come is NOKO Emmanuel .If he gas no means of going out of cameroon he should not insult those who are there.He is not better than them ,I am in cameroon working with a diplomatic organisation but i can say those out have noyhing to contribute to the development of cameroon.Please lets not always talk from bias ,and unscienctific approach.
Thanks Emmanuel Ngang.

[samleyin]

Dr. A. A. Agbormbai,

I begin to appreciate the quality of your comment this time around. I see you are beginning to realise the difference between you and Mukete. But I want to call to your attention that the supposed steps to put the country in the right direction was just a game. They've got what they wanted and are beginning to change colours. It will do some of us a great favour if you stop sticking to the robes of Mukete and this Biya fellas. Please use your potentials to plan positive seeds.
best regards.

[.Legima Doh (LD)]

Ngang,
I wonder if you mean Noko should not insult those who are in Cameroon or abroad.What is the meaning of 'there' at the end of that sentence?What diplomatic organisation are you working for in Cameroon that makes you think that those abroad can not contribute to the development of Cameroon?What contribution do people back home make to the development of the country than those abroad?Do you know what you are saying? Your talk contradicts your statement at the end because it is evidently based on bias because you also find yourself in Cameroon.Your approach is therefore totally unscientific and so you have to reproach yourself.You say Mukete's comment makes you sick and that even if we have to accept on different views we should be as funny as him.What again is the meaning of this?How can Mukete's comment make you sick and thesame you recommend everyone to be as funny as he is in commenting.And moreso how can a funny comment make you sick?Be careful with what you write in this forum ok.Don't let us look at you haughtily.
Anyway thanks for the email address of Prof Nyamjoh.It will be handy for us.

[vally]

Fon Lawrence,

Let's get back to the issues. Why is the sdf so quite now?Where is the secretarait that used to challenged dictator Biya,WHERE IS DR TAMAMJONG?

Mukete, the sdf has been finally silenced we hear nothing from those running the party against all these evils we are reading.

Fru ndi is happy since his friend in crime Biya is feeding him so why challenged him?

Fru ndi is a disgraced to the sdf, please, this dictator should live the party before we become slaves again.We have put in much to deslave our people now we are in square one.

Vally
England.

[Mbu.B]

You should have noticed that this psycho claiming to be Noko Mbelle whatsoever needed no response.This individual is aware such junk is susceptible to igniting level headed people to anger.
Though, we realize that so called Noko Mbelle is simply childish and Mukete is real stupid. So it could be preferable to read sth childish than sth stupid.
Mukete,if you ever hope of ever being considered a normal person,don`t you put such lengthy spiteful concoction as write-up again.
I need those your fervent followers to heap praises on this your perfect invention of the "inside developments" that you master so much.
Back to the Fon Doh case. The criminal Fon,lawyers and talked about bigwigs are trying to exploit the windows of the law, hoping that this could turn to real escape routes. But so far as this case has gained attention nationally and internationally, these evil men have very little chance.All we need is patience, it will even be more hurting to get back into into prison if he has the luck of being granted bail.
Assuming Fon Doh gets out on bail,the security and justice depts should consider his evil machinations against his opponents.
Being the person he is, we expect to see or hear more of his menaces and evil plots.And also hopefully a longer jail term shall come by.

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

ANGLOPHONES COME CLEAN ON CORRUPTION LIST

Liste des personnes incarcérées dans la lutte contre la corruption et détournement des deniers publics au 21/04/2006

N° Noms Et Prénoms FONCTIONS Département D'origine Grade Motif Ville M.D*

A- Crédit Foncier

1 Edou Joseph Directeur Général Nyong Et Mfoumou Professeur Université, Ddp* Yaoundé 21/02/2006
Economiste

2 Essama Zoh Gervais Manial Directeur Financier Nyong Et Mfoumou Cadre de banque Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

3 Bama Michel Chef de Caisse Nyong et Kelle Cadre de banque Ddp Yaoundé 01/03/2006

4 BEMA Emmanuel Directeur Général Wouri Informaticien Ddp Yaoundé 08/03/2006

5 Meke Raphaël Sous-Directeur Exploitation du Matériel Mvila Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 09/03/2006

6 Koh Koh Responsable des Affaires Lekie Cadre Contractuel Ddp Yaoundé 15/03/2006
privées du DG Crédit Foncier

7 Lentieu Nguemienti Ernest Haut-Nkam Directeur de Société Complicité de Ddp Yaoundé 24/03/2006

8 Tchoubet Joseph Commissaire Aux Comptes Nde Expert comptable Ddp, Faux Bilan, Douala 30/03/2006
Tromperiesenvers Associés,
Déclarations erronées

9 Biabi Epouse Foumena Georgette ExpertComptable Mbam & Inoubou Expert Comptable Coaction de Ddp Yaoundé 04/04/2006

10 Mintanguele Alexis Consultant Océan Auditeur Expert Ddp en Coaction Douala 05/04/2006

11 Moussio Mouelle Consultant Moungo Expert comptable Ddp en coaction Douala 05/04/2006

B - SIC

12 Belinga Gilles Roger Directeur Général Mvila Ingenieur Ddp+ Complicité Yaoundé 21/02/2006

13 Amougou Jules Martin Chef Service Gestion Locative Océan Ingénieur Systèmes Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

14 Ateba Enobo Jeanne Marie Chef Cellule Adjointe de la coordination Mefou Afamba Juriste Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

15 Nama Tsimi Patrice Chef Secteur de Maintenance Mefou et Akono Electricien Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

16 Ossombo Bidiang Dieudonné Caissier Principal Dja et Lobo Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

17 Soppo François Roger Directeur Technique Wouri Ingénieur Génie Civil Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

18 Mvondo David Elizier Mvila Cadre Administratif Ddp Yaoundé 22/02/2006

19 Ndoe Essono Martial Directeur Régional Mefou Afamba Maîtrise Siences de Gestion et Ddp Douala 22/02/2006
Dess Marketing

20 Madawe Njike Née Ngandjeu Chef Service Comptabilité Ndé Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 24/02/2006
Annie Chantal

21 Ndengue Edmond Mane Chef Service Maintenance Haute Sanaga Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 24/02/2006

22 Nnanga Nnanga Chef de Service Financier Mvila Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 24/02/2006

23 Okassie Amboulou Chef Bureau Trésorerie et Budget Haut Nyong Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 24/02/2006

24 Souleymanou Aladji Oumarou Ex-chef de service de maintenance Bénoué Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 24/02/2006

25 Leuze Dieudonné Commissaire aux comptes Ndé Expert Comptable Ddp Yaoundé 27/02/2006

26 Ayissi Tsala Chef Service Financier Adjoint Lekie Comptable Ddp Yaoundé 01/03/2006

27 Etoundi Epouse Endomo Lucie Secrétaire de direction Mefou et Akono Chef de Bureau des Affaires Ddp Yaoundé 01/03/2006
Rosette Thérèse sociales et Gestion des Courriers

28 Messy Claude Bernard Modeste Commissaire Aux Comptes Océan Expert Comptable Ddp Yaoundé 14/03/2006

29 Tchombe Sylvain Marie Hauts Plateaux Comptable Détention illégale Yaoundé 23/03/2006 des biens

30 Mme Njike Née Ngandjeu Annie Chantal Comptable Ndé Comptable Ddp Yaoundé 24/03/2006

31 Eyebe Lebogo Paul Directeur de Société Lekie Homme D'affaires Ddp + Complicité Monatélé 27/03/2006

32 Ngoune Bebe Charles Félix Chef service Etude-projet Menoua Ingénieur Génie Civil Détention illégale des biens Yaoundé 27/03/2006

C- Feicom

33 Ondo Ndong Emmanuel Gérard Directeur Général Vallée du Ntem Administrateur Principal Détournement des Yaoundé 21/02/2006
Scolaire Universitaire deniers publics

34 Bitye Bi Elanga Roseline Bertille Chef Service Comptabilité Vallée du Ntem Licences Sciences Economiques et Gestion Ddp Yaoundé 21/02/2006

35 Mbela Moise Agent Comptable Sanaga Maritime Inspecteur du Trésor Ddp Yaoundé 22/02/2006

36 Dika Ndongo Martine Béatrice Chef Bureau Recouvrement Moungo Agent de Maîtrise Ddp Yaoundé 22/02/2006

37 Tchuente Nantchueng Dieudonné Directeurs Ressources Humaines Nkoung Khi Cadre Juriste Ddp Yaoundé 22/02/2006

38 Ndjomo Nomo Wenceslas Agent Comptable Lekie Inspecteur du Trésor Retraité Ddp Yaoundé 22/02/2006

39 Ndzeng Atangana André Chargé d'Etudes Assistant Nyong et So'o Contractuel d'Administration Ddp Yaoundé 22/02/2006

40 Nguema Ondo Dieudonne Directeur des Finances et Gestion du Matériel Vallée du Ntem Administrateur Civil Principal Complicité de Ddp Yaoundé 27/02/2006

41 Bessala Nsana Jean Ex Contrôleur Financier Feicom Mefou Afamba contrôleur Financier Complicité Ddp Yaoundé 27/02/2006

42 Ketchami Charles Ndé Contractuel d'Adminitration DDP Yaoundé 01/03/2006

43 Ngo Bayanack Laurentine Chef Centre Provincial Adjoint Cnps Sanaga Maritime Dea Droit Privé Ddp Yaoundé 02/03/2006

44 Edjang Marie Carine Cadre au Feicom Vallée du Ntem Faux et Usage de Faux en Ecriture commerciale Yaoundé 10/03/2006

45 Ombala Née Noviaya Chargé des Relations Publiques Mefou et Akono Cadre Ddp Yaoundé 14/03/2006
Ablavi Koofie Elisabeth

46 Mibe Célestin Jean Pierre Commerçant Hauts Plateaux Commerçant Coaction de Ddp Yaoundé 24/03/2006

47 Medjo Edmond Cadre au Feicom Dja et Lobo Cadre Ddp, Coaction Ddp Yaoundé 24/03/2006

48 Elessa Soppo Suzanne Grâce Cadre au Feicom Nkam Cadre Coaction et Complicité Yaoundé 24/03/2006

49 Abessolo Eyi René Inspecteur général Valée du Ntem Inspecteur général Ddp Yaoundé 06/04/2006

50 Okomesse Luc Albert Vallée du Ntem Techncien en Génie Civil Ddp Yaoundé 06/04/2006

51 Ze Abel Ruben Agent de Maîtrise Nyong et Mfoumou Agent de Maîtrise Coaction de Ddp Yaoundé 24/03/2006

52 Ndode Gremiath Ebong Agent de Maîtrise Koupé et Manengouba Agent de Maîtrise Ddp Yaoundé 17/04/2006

[Christopher Ngosong]

Hey,
Like I said earlier when Fon Doh was jailed, this is no news. It would have been any news if the contrary was not eminent. That is Cameroon and the CPDM, and I wonder how wounded Fon Doh will be to his subjects who stood openly against him. Oh, poor villagers, Lord have mercy !!!

[Charles Forkwa]

In a "capital" case one is not realesed on bail pending appeal, whether they are a flight risk or not. They are a danger to society because they have been already been "CONVICTED" of murder. So the point of bail for Fon Doh is moot.
If his case were to go to appeal and he wins, only then can he be released.
Looks like these Bamenda Fons are deverting from their main purpose which is to rule their subjects and not to be messing with politics. They have allowed the state to hijack their power and infulence with thier subjects to the point where they are reduced to commiting murder as a means of silencing critics and competition.
The personality of the GRAFI fon, which in the past could move mountains is being disgraced by the new breed of successors who fail to appreciate albiet carry on the enourmous responsibilities of these kingdoms. I say shame onto them!
What a pity.

[General]

If Fon Doh is released, we of the Auto Defense Regiment will assassinate him and all the pro-Doh vandals in Balikumbat. The Judge had done a fine job but if he messes up this judgment because of pressure from any quarters, he's also in our black books and we'll not spear his life and that of his entire family.

This warning should be taken seriously. An example will be set here to act as an eye opener for those who feel they could do anything and go away with. Cameroon must change NOW and only NOW.

Commander-In-Chief

[Donna,Dubai]

Lagima,
I was about commenting on Ngangs comment,good thing you where right on time.If he means what he means to say is in the direction of pelting insulst in Cameroonians like the insane Noke has already done above,then they all have their brains in their ass hole.

There is no country in this world that has all its citizens living just in their country.I will not waste time analyse the rason behind international migration and the benefits,to have stigmatised bush falling only illustrate how misguided and mal-oriented Noko is.You should have asked your selves whether American,French,Nigerians,etc are not living in Cameroon,stupid.

It is glearing,enormously evident,and alarming why Cameroonians have delved into moving to other countries.Hundreds of learned Cameroonians have died without ever having the chance of working even for ten thousand francs.Many have seen them selves going back to those same parents that sacrificed so hard to educate them,unfortunately they reunited with their parents again,worse off than they were while students.

It is very provocatives and unrasonable to met any insults on those brothers abroad.(Only a mad man goes to bed with his house on fire).I can name many that are happier out of home,yes,say they clean the toilets,or wash corpses,it a more honourable honest approach to earning a living,compared to the hell that has broken lose in Cameroon.I have in several occasions received money via western union from family members and friends abroad.I have seen friends open business,erect structures,this entire page will be small to enumerate all the huge gains that flow into Cameroon.
In sum,the ditractors above are to a large extent jealous that creative people who were stiffled by their government have another way of making a decent life.Hey,i hear the prices for passports have been moved to 170.000frs now,move it to even one million we shall keep paying for our loved ones to follow us here when need arises.
Shame to Paul Biya.

[Ashley Vincent Chiento]

To the powers that be.In a bid to release this lunatic and so called Fon due to pressure from the Central Committee of the CPDM, is a disgrace is incomprehensible to a lay man on the street not to talk of educated and legal minded people who seek justice and protection of peoples right.Tell the President of the so called court that, should the fon be granted bail as a result of outside interferrence,then he is a devils advocate and he has sold his conscience to the devil.that guy ought to rot in jail.Is a pity though,shame to anglophone judicial system should this ever happen.but the president of the court should note that he is very much within reach.We gonna get him from a close range and smoke his ass.

[Bebe-Antwerp]

I think it's possitive to at least cleanse our beloved country from monsters like doh.I strip off his Fon title.Leaders should set better examples to their folks,not going to the extend of taking away innoncent lives.
Anybody in support of doh's acts should be punished by God.Let's keep aside our sentiments and face justice.

[Big Joe]

Justice demands that a person be granted bail if need be. It is left for the court to determine whether Fon Doh qualifies for a bail and that will depend on the plea put forward by Doh's lawyer(s). If at the end of the day Fon Doh is granted bail, i don't think we have to crucify the court or the judges but Doh's legal team for convincing the court to leave a murderer walk around freely. It is interesting to note that pretty soon the outcome of the request shall be made public whether the bail was granted or denied with the reason(s) to justify the decision. Until then there is nothing you and I(the common man) can do about it.

[Watesih]

The vague sing-song about the stay of execution tells us that disciples of doom had erroneosly nursed the feeling that the nail had been driven into the SDf coffin.But they should have known by now that the SDf is not a man ,but a societal phenomenon whose appeal and implantation far exceeds what little minds can see.The Assistant Prefect for Yaounde 2 issued a note banning all manifestations during Ngwasiri`s convention in Yaounde.Ngwasiri is pressing ahead with the organisation of his convention,in defiance of the court order suspending all party activities for both the NEC and NAC.Nobody is blind here.The French sponsored pimps in Yaounde wanted to force Fru Ndi and the SDF out of action while secretly jostling Ngwasiri into the scene.We all know ngwasiri has not been very courageous to come out in broad day light to organise another convention, because he knows Cameroonians will never forgive him for having attempted to or divided the SDF.Thats why he almost ran out of wits,imploring the forces of nature to dawn on Fru Ndi ,so that he could postpone the Bamenda convention.
Fru Ndi and the SDF have understood the Cpdm song pronto and had to use the stay of execution in order not to be outsmarted.In politics nobody will spoon-feed you .How can Ngwasiri be brandishing an authorisation from the same authorities in Yaounde and at the same time asking Fru Ndi and the SDF to stay and watch him organise his own convention.If the Assistant Prefect of Yaounde 2 issued an authorisation before the judgement barring the two bodies from carrying out any party activities,he should have issued another one after the judgement
reaffirming his desire not to see any convention held in Yaounde.But he didn`t ,exposing the little games they are playing.
Those little new hands trying to shout out their lungs about the stay of execution should know that first there are no courts worth the name in Cameroon. Secondly, the Cpdm as a party will never succeed to dictate events to the SDF .When the SDf was being founded,the Cpdm warlords shut down six innocent ctizens.Now they are behaving like a kind uncle.How do you want to strengthen something you wanted to nib in the bud?How many times have the courts forced Biya to convene a convention?
I want to ask those flipfloppers on this forum to give us an insight into all the cases brought against the Cpdm after every rigged election in Cameroon.Has a verdict ever been passed? Which moral authority can Cameroon courts have over the SDf when they arrest people who kill SDF militants like Fon Doh and release them after four weeks? Which legal authority can Cpdm courts enjoy when they arrest their own militants for corruption,but instead renovate and refurbish appartments for them in Kondengui? Does the Cpdm only have selective knowledge of what is happening in the SDf,but has always rejected all the court actions brought against it by SDF lawyers like Mbah Ndam? Biya has been eternally on a stay of execution in all aspects of life in Cameroon.For the remaining years that he is still in office,the SDf has to start using it frequently and will bring in good changes when Biya is finally flocked out of office.
Those who are now wailing went into rhapsodies here when they heard that Fru Ndi and the SDF had been suspended.The Cpdm and the SDF are the two giant political parties in Cameroon,so they should never nurse the feeling that the flame that was lit with the blood of Cameroonians can easily be blown out.When it comes to the legal profession,they know that the baobabs are right here in the SDF and will always outpace them.

[massamoyo]

Mukete,

Im a good supporter of the SDF and Fru Ndi. But I dont support foolishly like a sheep goat. I support with 50/50.

What you have written is a good piece and I wont deny any fact in it for my eyes and ears are widely open.

If anyone wants to convince me that Muketes facts are fiction, he or she should come out with concrete ideas.

Mukete thanks for the write up.

[Teribobs]

Watesih,
We're new comers but we've got brains. We do not act like your hoodlums. You and those of your likes cannot manipulate us. We sympathize with the course but . CPDM and SDF are two giant political parties as you rightly mentioned. You failed to mention that they are bedfellows and will use the same schemes to defend their actions like the current case in hand. Where you have a problem is coping with the consequencies.
You can call us names coz that is normal when you run out of ideas or options. SDF is a sham. Continue to defend.

[BenB]

Who can deny that Watesih put his best in this comment? Honestly he comes across with a lot of sincerity in this one. Very constructive.

This is the quality of stuff we like reading on this forum.

Nevertheless, the long and short of the matter is that Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam find themselves in their own trap and I wonder what Watesih said when previous court decisions were against Ngwasiri.

Didn't Fru Ndiists on this forum draw from that to mock at Ngwasiri? Didn't they laugh at Ngwasirir's legal credentials for losing a legal battle? Then, the courts were good courts.

Why send a lawyer to a court whose decision you won't recognise? Why submit legal documents to MINATD of the same government "manipulated by France to destroy the SDF", the same MINATD that rigs elections we all know the SDF would win in a free and fair race? Double standards.

In fact, when on May 22, the Yaounde court's ruling shall favour Fru Ndi's group, the court shall have become a good court again. Double standards, just to blindly support one side.

I keep saying that all the noises we make here would be of no consequence if at the end of the day there are two conventions or even just one-and-a-half.

That's what good SDF militants should be preocupied with - how to mend fences - not trying to portray their demi-gods as infallible.

Today is 9th May. Thirteen more days to the Yaounde court judgement. Seventeen more days to the convention(s).

God SDF militants should choose between having a strong party or cling on to the blood of innocent citizens, shall have been left in tatters.

Or may we just say the SDF is dead and here comes another 26th May when two new SDFs will be launched - one in Bamnenda and another in Yaounde?

Does that sound good to good SDF militants? Time for reflection. Very little time left. The clock is ticking.

BenF

[Teribobs]

We sympathize with the course but those we trusted have failed us.

[BenB]

Correction please:

...Good SDF militants should choose between having a strong party and clinging on to a deified faction after the SDF, born on the blood of innocent citizens, shall have been left in tatters.

...

[Evis Esenge]

Hello, I am a Cameroonian National provisional domiciled in Britain. Please cousult the website inscribed herewith to uncover a distasteful sample of how Cameroon's chronic socio-political abominations and exaggerated malvernation transpires abroad. The article contained on this webe page was publised by Oxford University press.
http://www.reason.com/0603/fe.th.why.shtml

[samleyin]

Massamoyo,

Are you not the one who ussually ends his write-ups with the latin word aluta continua? You are beginning to amaze me indeed! Are you holding Mukete to esteem now as he said the anglophones have no problem or on the fact that he said their porblem lies in satisfying their selfish interests from within. You really want people to examine the veracity of fictions. Can you proof Fileas Fogg sailed round the world in 80 days? I regret just your assertions of vindicating the LRC too and belonging in the SCNC camp. There are sheep among the goats. I think the evidences that have compelled your mind to accept this assertion is based on a contradictory proof. Tigers are really becoming goats. We just have to be careful.

[samleyin]

Tayong,

Thank you for the info on corruption. But why are these Ewondo people so corrupt? They are really evil pouts.

Hi Elvis Esenge.

That was a good x-ray of the country`s skeleton. I am ashame of Cameroon. Biya was born to destroy this counry. All evidences are clear.
Gratia Amigo.

[Peter Pan]

Why Poor Countries Are Poor
The clues lie on a bumpy road leading to the world’s worst library.
Tim Harford

They call Douala the “armpit of Africa.” Lodged beneath the bulging shoulder of West Africa, this malaria-infested city in southwestern Cameroon is humid, unattractive, and smelly. On a torrid evening in late 2001, I was guided out of the chaotic Douala International Airport by my friend Andrew and his driver, Sam, who would have whisked us immediately to the cooler hillside town of Buea if Douala were at all conducive to being whisked anywhere. It isn’t. Douala, a city of 2 million people, has no real roads.

A typical Douala street is 50 yards wide from shack to shack. It’s packed with street vendors, slouched beside a tray of peanuts or an impromptu plantain barbecue, and with little clusters of people, standing around a motorbike, drinking beer or palm wine, or cooking on a small fire. Piles of rubble and vast holes mark unfinished construction or demolition work. Along the middle is a strip of potholes that 20 years ago was a road.

Down that strip drive four streams of traffic, mostly taxis. The streams on the outside are usually made up of cabs picking up fares, while the taxis on the inside weave in and out of the potholes and other cars with all the predictability of ping pong balls in a lottery machine. Douala used to have buses, but they can no longer cope with the decaying roads. So the taxis are all that’s left: beaten-up old Toyotas, carrying four in the back and three in the front, sprayed New York yellow, each with a unique slogan: “God Is Great, ” “In God We Trust,” “Powered by God, ” “Toss Man.”

Nobody who sees a Douala street scene can conclude that Cameroon is poor because of a lack of entrepreneurial spirit. But poor it is. The average Cameroonian is eight times poorer than the average citizen of the world and almost 50 times poorer than the typical American. And Cameroon is getting poorer. Can anything be done to reverse the decline and help Cameroon grow richer instead?

That’s no small question. As the Nobel laureate economist Robert Lucas put it, “The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.”

The Missing Jigsaw Piece

Economists used to think wealth came from a combination of man-made resources (roads, factories, telephone systems), human resources (hard work and education), and technological resources (technical know-how, or simply high-tech machinery). Obviously, poor countries grew into rich countries by investing money in physical resources and by improving human and technological resources with education and technology transfer programs.

Nothing is wrong with this picture as far as it goes. Education, factories, infrastructure, and technical know-how are indeed abundant in rich countries and lacking in poor ones. But the picture is incomplete, a puzzle with the most important piece missing.

The first clue that something is amiss with the traditional story is its implication that poor countries should have been catching up with rich ones for the last century or so—and that the farther behind they are, the faster the catch-up should be. In a country that has very little in the way of infrastructure or education, new investments have the biggest rewards.

This expectation seems to be confirmed by the experience of China, Taiwan, and South Korea—not to mention Botswana, Chile, India, Mauritius, and Singapore. Fifty years ago they were mired in poverty, lacking man-made, human, technical, and sometimes natural resources. Now these dynamic countries, not Japan, the United States, or Switzerland, have become the fastest-growing economies on the planet.

Since technology is widely available and increasingly cheap, this is what economists should expect of every developing country. In a world of diminishing returns, the poorest countries gain the most from new technology, infrastructure, and education. South Korea, for example, acquired technology by encouraging foreign companies to invest or by paying licensing fees. In addition to the fees, the investing companies sent profits back home. But the gains to Korean workers and investors, in the form of economic growth, were 50 times greater than the fees and profits that left the country.

As for education and infrastructure, since the returns seem to be so high, there should be no shortage of investors willing to fund infrastructure projects or lend money to students (or to governments that provide education). Banks, domestic and foreign, should be lining up to lend people the money to get through school or to build a new road or a new power plant. In turn, poor people, or poor countries, should be very happy to take out such loans, confident that investment returns are so high that the repayments will not be difficult. Even if, for some reason, that didn’t happen, the World Bank, established after World War II with the express aim of providing loans to countries for reconstruction and development, lends billions of dollars a year to developing countries. Investment money is clearly not the issue; either the investments are not being made, or they are not delivering the returns the traditional model predicts.

A Theory of Government Banditry

As our car slowly bumped and lurched through the crowds, I tried to make sense of it all by asking Sam, the driver, about the country.

“Sam, how long was it since the roads were last fixed?”

“The roads, they have not been fixed for 19 years.”

President Paul Biya came to power in November 1982 and had been in office for 19 years by the time I visited Cameroon. Four years later, he is still in power. He recently described his opponents as “political amateurs”; they are certainly out of practice.

“Don’t people complain about the roads?”

“They complain, but nothing is done. The government tells us there is no money. But there is plenty of money coming from the World Bank and from France and Britain and America—but they put it in their pockets. They do not spend it on the roads. ”

“Are there elections in Cameroon?”

“Yes! There are elections. President Biya is always re-elected with a 90 percent majority. ”

“Do 90 percent of people vote for President Biya?”

“No, they do not. He is very unpopular. But still there is a 90 percent majority. ”

You do not have to spend a long time in Cameroon to realize how much people resent the government. Much of government activity appears to be designed expressly to steal money from the people of Cameroon. According to the global watchdog Transparency International, Cameroon is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. I was warned so starkly about government corruption, and the likelihood that officials at the airport would attempt to relieve me of my wad of West African francs, that I was more nervous about that than the risk of malaria or a gunpoint mugging in the back streets of Douala.

Many people have an optimistic view of politicians and civil servants—that they are all serving the people and doing their best to look after the interests of the country. Other people are more cynical, suggesting that many politicians are incompetent and often trade off the public interest against their own chances of re-election. The economist Mancur Olson proposed a working assumption that government’s motivations are darker still, and from it theorized that stable dictatorships should be worse for economic growth than democracies, but better than sheer instability.

Olson supposed that governments are simply bandits, people with the biggest guns who will turn up and take everything. That’s the starting point of his analysis—a starting point you will have no trouble accepting if you spend five minutes looking around you in Cameroon. As Sam said, “There is plenty of money…but they put it in their pockets.”

Imagine a dictator with a tenure of one week—in effect, a bandit with a roving army who sweeps in, takes whatever he wishes, and leaves. Assuming he’s neither malevolent nor kindhearted, but purely self-interested, he has no incentive to leave anything, unless he plans on coming back next year. But imagine that the roaming bandit likes the climate of a certain spot and decides to settle down, building a palace and encouraging his army to avail themselves of the locals. Desperately unfair though it is, the locals are probably better off now that the dictator has decided to stay. A purely self-
interested dictator will realize he cannot destroy the economy and starve the people if he plans on sticking around, because then he would exhaust all the resources and have nothing to steal the following year. So a dictator who lays claim to a land is a preferable to one who moves around constantly in search of new victims to plunder.

I cannot confirm that President Biya fits Olson’s description of a self-interested dictator. But if he did, it wouldn’t be in his interest to take too much from the Cameroonian people, because then there would be nothing to take next year. As long as he feels secure in his tenure, he will not wish to kill the golden goose. Like the virus whose very existence relies on the bodies it afflicts, Biya would have to keep the Cameroonian economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it. This suggests that a leader who confidently expects to be in power for 20 years will do more to cultivate his economy than one who expects to flee the country after 20 weeks. Twenty years of an “elected dictator” is probably better than 20 years of one coup after another.

Staying with the simplifying assumption that Biya has absolute power over the distribution of Cameroon’s income, he might decide to steal, say, half of it every year in the form of “taxes” that go into his personal bank account. That would be bad news for his victims, of course, but also bad news for Cameroon’s long-term growth. Think of a small business owner considering an investment of $1,000 in a new power generator for his workshop. The investment is expected to generate income of $100 a year. That’s 10 percent, a pretty good return. But since Biya might take half of it, the return falls to a much less attractive 5 percent. The businessman decides not to make the investment after all, so he misses out and so does Biya.

Olson does not predict that stable dictatorships will do good things for their countries, just that they’ll damage the economy less than unstable ones. Of course, Biya might make his own investments—for instance, providing roads or bridges to encourage commerce. While they would be expensive in the short term, they would help the economy to prosper, leaving Biya with more opportunities to steal later. But the flip side of the businessman’s problem applies: Biya would be stealing only half of the benefits, not nearly enough to encourage him to provide the infrastructure that Cameroon needs.

When Biya came to power in 1982, he inherited colonial-era roads that had yet to fall apart completely. If he had inherited a country without any infrastructure, it would have been in his interest to build it up to some extent. Because the infrastructure was already in place, Biya needed to calculate whether it was worth maintaining, or whether he could simply live off the legacy of Cameroon’s colonial rulers. In 1982 he probably thought the roads would last into the 1990s, which was as long as he could reasonably have expected to hold onto the reins of power. So he decided to live off the capital of the past and never bothered to invest in any type of infrastructure for his people. As long as there was enough to get him through his rule, why bother spending money that could otherwise go right into his personal retirement fund?

Bandits, Bandits Everywhere

But perhaps Biya is not in control as much as it first appears. A little traveling in Cameroon reveals that whether or not Biya is the bandit-in-chief, there are many petty bandits to satisfy.

If you want to drive from the town of Buea to Bamenda, farther north, the most popular way to make the trip is by bus; minibuses ply all long-distance routes in Cameroon. Designed to seat 10 people in comfort, they will depart as soon as 13 paying passengers have boarded. The relatively capacious seat beside the driver is worth fighting for. The vehicles are old bone-shakers, but the system works pretty well. It would work a lot better if not for all the roadblocks.

Bullying gendarmes, often drunk, stop every minibus and try their best to extract bribes from the passengers. They usually fail, but from time to time they become determined. My friend Andrew was once hauled off a bus and harassed for several hours. The eventual pretext for the bribe was his lack of a yellow-fever certificate, which you need when you enter the country but not when riding a bus. The gendarme explained patiently that Cameroon had to be protected from disease. The price of two beers convinced him that an epidemic had been prevented, and Andrew caught the next bus, three hours later.

This is even less efficient than Mancur Olson’s model predicts. Olson himself would have admitted that his theory in its starkest form underestimates the damage that bad governments inflict on their people. Biya needs to keep hundreds of thousands of armed police and army officers happy, as well as many civil servants and other supporters. In a “perfect” dictatorship, he would simply impose the least damaging taxes possible in whatever quantity was necessary and distribute the proceeds to his supporters. This approach turns out to be impracticable, because it requires far more information about and control over the economy than a poor government can possibly muster. The substitute is government-tolerated corruption on a massive scale.

The corruption is not only unfair; it is also hugely wasteful. Gendarmes spend their time harassing travelers in return for modest returns. The costs are enormous. An entire police force is too busy extracting bribes to catch criminals. A four-hour trip takes five hours. Travelers take costly steps to protect themselves: carrying less money, traveling less often or at busier times of the day, bringing extra paperwork to help fend off attempts to extract bribes.

The blockades and crooked police officers comprise a particularly visible form of corruption, but there are metaphorical roadblocks throughout the Cameroonian economy. To set up a small business, an entrepreneur must spend on official fees nearly as much as the average Cameroonian makes in two years. To buy or sell property costs nearly a fifth of the property’s value. To get the courts to enforce an unpaid invoice takes nearly two years, costs more than a third of the invoice’s value, and requires 58 separate procedures. These ridiculous regulations are good news for the bureaucrats who enforce them. Every procedure is an opportunity to extract a bribe. The slower the standard processes, the greater the temptation to pay “speed money.”

Inflexible labor regulations help ensure that only experienced professional men are given formal contracts; women and young people have to fend for themselves in the gray market. Red tape discourages new businesses. Slow courts mean that entrepreneurs are forced to turn down attractive opportunities with new customers, because they know they cannot protect themselves if they are cheated. Poor countries have the worst examples of such regulations, and that is one of the major reasons they are poor. Officials in rich countries perform these basic bureaucratic tasks relatively quickly and cheaply, whereas officials in poor countries draw out the process in hopes of pocketing some extra cash themselves.

Institutions Matter

Government banditry, widespread waste, and oppressive regulations are all elements in that missing piece of the puzzle. During the last 10 years or so, economists working on development issues have converged on the mantra that “institutions matter.” Of course, it is hard to describe what an “institution” really is. It is even harder to convert a bad institution into a good one.

But progress is being made. We’ve just seen one kind of institution: business regulations. Sometimes, it can be improved with simple publicity. After the World Bank revealed that entrepreneurs in Ethiopia couldn’t legally start a business without paying four years’ salary to publish an official notice in government newspapers, the Ethiopian government scrapped the rule. New business registrations jumped by almost 50 percent immediately.

Unfortunately, it is not always so easy to get corrupt governments to change their ways. Although it is becoming clearer and clearer that dysfunctional institutions are a key explanation of poverty in developing countries, most institutions cannot be described with an elegant model like Mancur Olson’s, or even with careful data-gathering by the World Bank. Most unhappy institutions are unhappy in their own way.

Such a uniquely backfiring setup was responsible for the world’s worst library. A few days after I arrived in Cameroon, I visited one of the country’s most prestigious private schools—Cameroon’s equivalent of Eton. The school boasted two separate library buildings, but the librarian was very unhappy. I soon understood why.

At first glance the new library was impressive. With the exception of the principal’s palatial house, it was the only two-story structure on campus. Its design was adventurous: a poor man’s Sydney Opera House. The sloped roof, rather than running down from a ridge, soared up in a V from a central valley like the pages of an open book on a stand.

When you’re standing in the blazing sunlight of the Cameroonian dry season, it’s hard to see at first what the problem is with a roof that looks like a giant open book. But that’s only if you forget, as the architect apparently did, that Cameroon also has a rainy season. When it rains in Cameroon, it rains for five solid months. It rains so hard that even the most massive storm ditches quickly overflow. When that kind of rain meets a roof that is, essentially, a gutter that drains onto a flat-roofed entrance hall, you know it’s time to laminate the books. The only reason the school’s books still existed was that they’d never been near the new building; the librarian had refused repeated requests from the principal to transfer them from the old library.

I was tempted to conclude that the principal was in an advanced stage of denial when I stepped inside the new library to see the devastation. It was in ruins. The floor contained the stains of countless puddles. The air carried the kind of musty smell associated with a damp cave. The plaster was peeling off the walls. Yet the library is only four years old.

This is a shocking waste. Instead of building the library, the school could have bought 40,000 good books, or acquired computers with Internet connections, or funded scholarships for poor children. Any of these alternatives would have been incomparably better than an unusable new library. The school never even needed a new library in the first place—the old library works perfectly well, could easily hold three times as many books as the school owns, and is waterproof.

If the library was such a pointless endeavor, why was it built at all? It’s all too tempting for the visitor in Cameroon to shrug his shoulders and explain the country’s poverty by presuming that Cameroonians are idiots. Cameroonians are no smarter or dumber than the rest of us. Seemingly stupid mistakes are so ubiquitous in Cameroon that incompetence cannot be the whole explanation. There is something more systematic at work. We need to consider the incentives of the decision makers.

First, most of the senior education officials in northwest Cameroon come from the small town of Bafut. Known as the Bafut Mafia, these officials control considerable funds for the education system, which they hand out based on personal connections rather than necessity. Not surprisingly, the principal of this prestigious private school was a senior member of the Bafut Mafia. Wanting to convert her school into a university, the principal needed to build a library of university size and quality. It was irrelevant to the principal that the current library was more than sufficient, and that the taxpayers’ money could have been better spent in other ways or by other schools.

Second, nobody was monitoring the principal or her spending. Staff members are paid or promoted not on merit but at the principal’s command. This is a prestigious school with good conditions for teachers, so staff members would be particularly eager to keep their jobs, which meant keeping in good favor with the principal. In fact, the only person able to defy the principal was the librarian, who was accountable only to the Voluntary Service Overseas office in London. She turned up after the library was built but was at least in time to prevent the book collection from being transferred and destroyed.

Either the principal was so stupid that she did not realize water ruins books, or she did not care very much about the books and simply wanted to demonstrate that the library had some books in it. The second explanation seems more likely. With the money at her fingertips and nobody to object to the wastefulness of building a second library, the principal had full control over the project. She appointed a former pupil of the school to design the library, probably to demonstrate the quality of education provided by the school; she did prove a point, although perhaps not the one she intended. But no matter how incompetent the architect, the flaws in the design would have been spotted if anybody concerned had a strong interest in making sure the library functioned as a library. But that was never the prime concern of anybody with authority. The people in power simply cared about putting up something that could qualify the school as a university.

Consider the situation: money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than use; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: A project that should never have been built was built, and built badly. The lesson of the story might appear to be that self-interested and ambitious people in power are often the cause of wastefulness in developing countries. But self-interested and ambitious people are in positions of power, great and small, all over the world. In many places, they are restrained by the law, the press, and democratic opposition. Cameroon’s tragedy is that there is nothing to hold self-interest in check.

Does Development Have a Chance?

Development specialists often focus on helping poor countries become richer by improving primary education and infrastructure such as roads and telephones. That’s surely sensible. Unfortunately, it’s only a small part of the problem. Economists who have pulled apart the statistics, or studied unusual data such as the earnings of Cameroonians in Cameroon and the earnings of Cameroonians who immigrate to the United States, have found that education, infrastructure, and factories only begin to explain the gap between rich and poor. Because of its lousy education system, Cameroon is perhaps twice as poor as it could be. Because of its terrible infrastructure, it’s roughly twice as poor again. So we would expect Cameroon to be four times poorer than the United States. But it is 50 times poorer.

More important, why can’t the Cameroonian people seem to do anything about it? Couldn’t Cameroonian communities improve their schools? Wouldn’t the benefits easily outweigh the costs? Couldn’t Cameroonian businessmen build factories, license technology, seek foreign partners, and make a fortune?

Evidently not. Mancur Olson showed that kleptocracy at the top stunts the growth of poor countries. Having a thief for president doesn’t necessarily spell doom; the president might prefer to boost the economy and then take a slice of a bigger pie. But in general, looting will be widespread either because the dictator is not confident of his tenure or because he needs to allow others to steal in order to keep their support.

The rot starts with government, but it afflicts the entire society. There’s no point investing in a business because the government will not protect you against thieves. (So you might as well become a thief yourself.) There’s no point in paying your phone bill because no court can make you pay. (So there’s no point being a phone company.) There’s no point setting up an import business because the customs officers will be the ones to benefit. (So the customs office is underfunded and looks even harder for bribes.) There’s no point getting an education because jobs are not handed out on merit. (And in any case, you can’t borrow money for school fees because the bank can’t collect on the loan.)

It is not news that corruption and perverse incentives matter. But perhaps it is news that the problem of twisted rules and institutions explains not just a little bit of the gap between Cameroon and rich countries but almost all of the gap. Countries like Cameroon fall far below their potential even considering their poor infrastructure, low investment, and minimal education. Worse, the web of corruption foils every effort to improve the infrastructure, attract investment, and raise educational standards.

We still don’t have a good word to describe what is missing in Cameroon and in poor countries across the world. But we are starting to understand what it is. Some people call it “social capital,” or maybe “trust.” Others call it “the rule of law,” or “institutions.” But these are just labels. The problem is that Cameroon, like other poor countries, is a topsy-turvy place where it’s in most people’s interest to take actions that directly or indirectly damage everyone else. The incentives to create wealth are turned on their heads like the roof of the school library.

Tim Harford, a columnist for the Financial Times, is the author of The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor—and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! (Oxford University Press), from which this article is adapted.

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[Teribobs]

Peter Pan,
I guess you want to send us away from this forum with your novel. No matter how interesting that article can be, the length is very discouraging. I wonder if any busy person has time enough for such an article. This is abuse and this might cause The Post to close down this slot.

[Che Sunday (Dr.)]

Peter Pan,
"All that glitters is not gold." The author of this article may be a columnist, but what prestigious secondary school is he speaking of in Bafut? I am Bafut, and to the best of my knowledge there is no prestigious secondary school situated on Bafut soil. CCAST Bambili is not in Bafut, Sacred Heart is in Mankon, Lourdes is in Mankon. CCAST is not a private school, its public, the other two are parochial and have always been run by missionaries. Before you uplift some stupidity put forward by some name seeking ill educated individual on African affairs, bear in mind that they do not hold all the answers to our problems.In the late 60s parochial school principals were noted for telling Bafut students that they were smart but come from poor homes, therefore it was a waste admitting them into secondary schools. They did not realize that they were dealing with a very hard working people. They toiled and made sure that the few kids that got admitted never got sent away for lack of school fees. They were no cutting of corners. What he has achieved vis-a vis education has come through sweat and blood. Nothing came to them easily. If you have gotten anything through hard work, you tend to protect it best as you know how. Defending your interest shouldn't make you a "maffia". That term is used to signify an institution that will go to any length, including killing to defend its territory or interest. The Bafut intelectual has not sank that low.
Just a personal take on the matter.

[Watesih]

Teribobs,
I want to make it very categorical to you,that the SDF is not dead as you said before and that the SDF will never die.At times these are things we nurse in our subconscious ,but they time and again surge to our brains.No well meaning person will make such sweeping statements about a political party like the SDf.This still shows the shortsightedness that has characterised those you stand for like Ngwasiri.
Teribob don`t let self-pity carry you to your grave .You seem to be caught in a whirlwind and do not know on which leg to dance.How can you sympathise for the course ,and say the SDF is dead,a sham turn and turn?You want to be dubious ,but it can`t work here.You don`t want people to call you names,but you think this privilege is reserved only for you.Teribob you are always refering to me as if i were here to force people like you to listen to me.I contribute like any other person here ,so always attack the ideas.You spend a lot of time and energy sulking about whether we should support Fru Ndi or not.Just take up the ideas,everybody knows that Fru Ndi has got supporters here and will always have them.There`s nothing you can do about it.If i ran out of ideas as you intimate ,you wouldn`t have been wailing everytime i write.You are the one who hasn`t got any option.The SDf is dead,it is a sham,we sympathise with the course,we should not scrutinize intellectuals turned politicians
--this is all you!A man learning to ramble!

BenF
When the courts previously passed judgement in favour of Fru Ndi,all the write ups here laid emphasis on the buffoonery Prof. Ngwasiri had made of himself ,by being the first to take to a course he knew was thorny.We were not celebrating that Fru Ndi had gone to court and beaten Ngwasiri.You can go back to the links and re-read our writeups,everybody decried Ngwasiri`s foolhardy of taking this problem to the public place.I even made the statement that it gave us eerie feelings to see him being dragged in the mud from one court room to another.BenF which SDf official rushed to the courts or even jubilated openly about the court verdict? You surely know the answer,but Ngwasiri has been running to his CPDm lords on daily basis to remind them that Fru Ndi and his men have not respected the stay of execution.
BenF ,it seems to me your interpretation of the stay of execution issue is tainted.The Sdf did not send a lawyer to court to disrespect it after.The fact is that this is a Cpdm court which has continued playing double standards.If Ngwasiri barandished a document allowing him to organise a convention in Yaounde,it means these same Cpdm authorities are helping him to disrespect the courts,and nobody has called him to order.I hope you who claim to be so objective would have belaboured this point for our readers to see.Since it is politics,the SDF has understood this as trying to put it out of action while Ngwasiri organises his own convention.Secondly it is the courts that have to decide when the stay of execution should come to an end,not the SDf.This is a sort of authorization the SDF got from the courts,which is very feasible in legal practice.
BenF ,you seem not also to know what MINADT stands for.The money at MINADT`s disposal is the tax payers money ,which as you know should be given to political parties to keep their activities going.No country can survive without political activity.This is not special money France sent to Cameroon.There are no double standards here.The SDF is not existing in a vacuum,but in a country of laws.It is not because MINADT has been rigging elections that the SDF should not be financed as a political party.
BenF you are a little shortsighted here.If the verdict favours the SDF on the 22nd of May,SDf militants will have the right to rejioce.They are not rejoicing that the courts are good,but that the rotten courts have once again learnt that you cannot blackmail that which is good.Keep at the back of your mind when you make all these arguments ,that the SDF did not take anybody to court.How can the SDf be celebrating courts which are getting ready to release a butcher who has been killing its militants,only after 4 weeks in prison?The SDf knows that our courts are skeletal and all their deliberations staged for the past 40 years.
Good SDF militants can`t be talking of mending fences because they haven seen those who want to mend fences.A few days ago Ngwasiri rejected any ouvertures of reconciliation with people he already branded assassins,not would be assassins.He wants to push his logic to the end,,so people like you BenF should rather be decrying this than waisting your time trying to sulk about the fact that others are supporting Fru Ndi.This is a trying time for FRu NDI,so he needs support.He did not take anybody to court.
There`s only one SDf and militants know where to go,just as they knew how to sanction in Boyo last week.If some are banking on the postponement of the Bamenda convention,it is because they have become
jittery.The SDf knows where it is going,so those who are announcing the death of the SDf should rather announce that the money they got from the Cpdm to discredit the SDf,is difficult to enjoy,because they have not got it easy out there and on this forum.

[UNCLE]

I WANT TO PROMISE CAMEROON JUDICIARY THAT IF THEY TRY THAT, I WILL NOT ALLOW THAT SO CALLED FON TO COME BACK TO BALI! I SWEAR! THAT IS A PROMISE. "BLOOD FOR BLOOD" LET'S WAIT AND SEE WHO IS WHO.

[Akoson]

I'm Back!

THE PROBLEMS IN "CAMEROON" ARE MULTI - DIMENTIONAL.

...by the way is there anything like Cameroon? If it exists, then what're the problems?

...Is La Republique Du Cameroon is "illegally legally" occupying Southern Cameroons.

...Does History always hunt the perpetrators of livelihood.

My Dearest Readers,

I beg you share this view with me. I expect reactions from everyone in this forum. Let's do ourselves good! What I'm about to write is my thought. I don't want to give it any more support by quoting famous politicians or whoever. Please just share and see how we can tackle things out rather than turning about thesame issue day in day out. Moreso, it's void of rhetorics - no political terminology or reason - just the TRUTH...the best reason...very simple English too( I tried my best so that a grandma in Ekondo- Titi can appreciate what I wrote).

Everyday, I keep thinking about Cameroon. I keep pondering about the issues. All or most of us are not new to this forum. Atleast the most burning subjects and heated debate centers around the SDF and the SCNC. This shows beyond all reasonable doubts we want change. That's good!!!

Our doubts about the SDF saga'll soon come to light. Politicians can be very cunny at times. They may not expose all what's in their mind while presenting their manifesto or talking to the press. This explains why most of their answers to press questions're more of rhetorics. Now, we all know that the SDF came as a result of the fact that "there's an anglophone problem". Do we know that an "anglphone" can NEVER become president of "Cameroon"?...don't dream. NEVER EVER. It's a reality. France has vowed! The French and "francophones" don't want "Cameroon" to "split". They're scared that should an "anglophone" become president, he'll use his powers and influence to "divide" the two parts and then he(president) moves over to "anglophone" area and still rules...infact he'll cut out the poorer part and leave it to them...a tactic to avoid using money from "anglophone Cameroon" to share with the East. This will give "anglophone Cameroon" more and adequate resources to become an African Singapore. Was this Fru Ndi's intention?

Let me just intersect the following question to constitute my say on the SCNC case; "is there an anglophone problem?". I was ached to the marrow when Mukete, in one of his recent issues said there's no anglophone problem. We can remember his reason. Let me just interprete it...he meant that he can't support the SCNC claim JUST becuase the leaders are corrupt and NOT because they've got a case...what a naive reason! This showed me how backward and lacking his thought really is. The more reason why I've stopped reacting to his write ups. You must have noticed that by now.

I have thought hard. I mean hard about this issue. I've come to a conclusion that it's wrong to call it an "anglophone problem". There's nothing like "anglophone problem" and there's no political or geographic name like "Cameroon" to constitute "anglophones and francophones". Infact, even traitors like Mafany, Inoni and even some francophone "leakers" acknowledged this with ignorance. Ignorance in all it's entirety. Oh if I were a journalist??? Note that I have read all the forces of arguments put forward by both the leaders of the SCNC and those who oppose their claims. I've come to realise that IT'S A LEGITIMATE CAUSE. Anybody can go to anywhere!!! That's the simple truth! The international community - the UN, USA and even Britain...Biya and France too know this simple truth. There's no twisting of facts...Southern Cameroons is an African territory that has not yet gained independence. Southern Cameroonians NOT anglophones are just suffering from the small mistake Britain did by giving us as a "small gift" to France. This makes it very acheing...a small gift. Nonsense! One man makes a mistake, the other suffers for life..."Tiko drink, Kumba drunk". Why don't they correct this mistake? It's better to be late than never. Again, war could be avoided - is this another dream that'll never materialise? Southern Cameroons and La Republic are two separate entities with two different identities and cultures that are NOT compartible. We're more of brothers to Nigerians than La Republique du Cameroon. This explains why there's a clash between the cultures of La Republique and that of Southern Cameroons.

So for those of you who're playing politics and dreaming that "Cameroon" can EVER have an "anglophone" president, you're wasting your time and dreaming - you'll dream until you dream no more - you'll dream until thy kingdom come. That's the more reason why I keep on telling you that I'm just marking time with the SDF. I'm making hay while the sun shines. However, as an SDF militant our pressure on the CDPM-runned government is helping both Southern Cameroonians and those of an entirely different country, as our efforts force them to toe the line. We're humanitarians - helping others - those of another country. My dual membership in the SDF and SCNC should not be questionable. Many more are like me even YOU. But you're afraid to come to the open.

Lest I forget, readers should note that the SCNC issue did not come up as a result of the so-called marginalisation and subjurgation...No...it didn't. It came up because it had to. Truth NEVER dies!!!. It didn't come up because they've realised that they can NEVER produce a president...rather it came up to correct history...it came up cos its the truth. Note that if we don't do it, our children and grade grand children MUST do it...whether we like it or not. Let's not drink beer to get drunk thinking that we're solving our problems...we're only pushing it ahead. Because a people's identity and culture is very unique to them, they need it absolutely...I mean absolutely for their own destiny. History will always hunt us until this mistake's corrected WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. These're the kinds of issues we should be discussing on this forum and Not Mukete, not people, not Biya etc.

I rest my case.

Twisted-thinking forehead, Son Of Ako - London School Of Economics And Political Science.

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[Teribobs]

Watesih,
You can call us names coz we are objective. I can see that you are an old broom in this SDF feymania which is not different from that of their mentors - CPDM. You are wasting your time attracting sympathy. We now know who JFN is. No matter the verdict come the 22nd you and your cohorts will go ahead with your so-call convention. That will not solve the big problem SDF is facing. Why don't you react to the criticisms from insiders? You have probably been eating from JFN's mangeoire so you have the right to 'put your mouth where your daily bread comes from'. You are playing for time. We already know who you guys are. As usual you will always play your game and come out with results that favour your demi-god. No window dressing will help your situation. Keep on with the non respect of court verdicts, intimidation, brutalization etc. What an example!

[massamoyo]

SAMLEYIN, MUKETE, TAYONG, REXON,

and all brothers and sisters of this humble forum.

I want to make it clear that I am an open minded person who hate cheating. What Mukete wrote if its a fiction is clearly logical and nicely framed.

Therefore Mukete should open his "korokoro" eyes and see the future that no matter what we the S. Cameroonians do, the only option is the restoration of our mother land.

Mukete has proved it all that SDF will never help us to be developed, be equaled citizens as the Camerounians etc.

So brothers what I saw in Muketes writings is that he is becoming to reason with us that multipartism has failed to help us so the only solution is to be alone.

Mukete hope I am in line with your thoughts.

Rexon, Mukete, Samlein, Tayong, Akosons and well good hearted people of Southern Cameroon, please lets keep aside our pride of being rich, being a 'bush faller' as I consider myself as a 'bush jumper'(laughter' and fight for the dignity of our land.
Thank you all

[massamoyo]

SAMLEYIN, MUKETE, TAYONG, REXON,

and all brothers and sisters of this humble forum.

I want to make it clear that I am an open minded person who hate cheating. What Mukete wrote if its a fiction is clearly logical and nicely framed.

Therefore Mukete should open his "korokoro" eyes and see the future that no matter what we the S. Cameroonians do, the only option is the restoration of our mother land.

Mukete has proved it all that SDF will never help us to be developed, be equaled citizens as the Camerounians etc.

So brothers what I saw in Muketes writings is that he is becoming to reason with us that multipartism has failed to help us so the only solution is to be alone.

Mukete hope I am in line with your thoughts.

Rexon, Mukete, Samlein, Tayong, Akosons and well good hearted people of Southern Cameroon, please lets keep aside our pride of being rich, being a 'bush faller' as I consider myself as a 'bush jumper'(laughter' and fight for the dignity of our land.
Thank you all

[massamoyo]

SAMLEYIN, MUKETE, TAYONG, REXON,

and all brothers and sisters of this humble forum.

I want to make it clear that I am an open minded person who hate cheating. What Mukete wrote if its a fiction is clearly logical and nicely framed.

Therefore Mukete should open his "korokoro" eyes and see the future that no matter what we the S. Cameroonians do, the only option is the restoration of our mother land.

Mukete has proved it all that SDF will never help us to be developed, be equaled citizens as the Camerounians etc.

So brothers what I saw in Muketes writings is that he is becoming to reason with us that multipartism has failed to help us so the only solution is to be alone.

Mukete hope I am in line with your thoughts.

Rexon, Mukete, Samlein, Tayong, Akosons and well good hearted people of Southern Cameroon, please lets keep aside our pride of being rich, being a 'bush faller' as I consider myself as a 'bush jumper'(laughter' and fight for the dignity of our land.
Thank you all

[massamoyo]

SAMLEYIN, MUKETE, TAYONG, REXON,

and all brothers and sisters of this humble forum.

I want to make it clear that I am an open minded person who hate cheating. What Mukete wrote if its a fiction is clearly logical and nicely framed.

Therefore Mukete should open his "korokoro" eyes and see the future that no matter what we the S. Cameroonians do, the only option is the restoration of our mother land.

Mukete has proved it all that SDF will never help us to be developed, be equaled citizens as the Camerounians etc.

So brothers what I saw in Muketes writings is that he is becoming to reason with us that multipartism has failed to help us so the only solution is to be alone.

Mukete hope I am in line with your thoughts.

Rexon, Mukete, Samlein, Tayong, Akosons and well good hearted people of Southern Cameroon, please lets keep aside our pride of being rich, being a 'bush faller' as I consider myself as a 'bush jumper'(laughter' and fight for the dignity of our land.
Thank you all

[rexon]

My dear Brothers and Sisters,

Some may doubt why I have not been in this forum for the whole week.

I have gone through a lot in the past periods. My frustration has reached an unbearable summit. I want to take time to reflect on certain issues in life, some of which are;

1-what next for our future generations?

2-How much contributions can I make for their development?

I hope writers like, Tayong, Massamoyo, Washow, Akoson, Ashwell, Mola Fako, samleyin, Doh, will keep up the good work. May God bless them.

I will not be continuing my contributions in this forum for the time being.

Best regards.

[Akoson]

I'm Back!

THE PROBLEMS IN "CAMEROON" ARE MULTI - DIMENTIONAL.

...by the way is there anything like Cameroon? If it exists, then what're the problems?

...Is La Republique Du Cameroon "illegally legally" occupying Southern Cameroons.

...Does History always hunt the perpetrators of livelihood?

My Dearest Readers,

I beg you share this view with me. I expect reactions from everyone in this forum. Let's do ourselves good! What I'm about to write is my thought. I don't want to give it any more support by quoting famous politicians or whoever. Please just share and see how we can tackle things out rather than turning about thesame issue day in day out. Moreso, it's void of rhetorics - no political terminology or reason - just the TRUTH...the best reason...very simple English too( I tried my best so that a grandma in Ekondo- Titi can appreciate what I wrote).

Everyday, I keep thinking about Cameroon. I keep pondering about the issues. All or most of us are not new to this forum. Atleast the most burning subjects and heated debate centers around the SDF and the SCNC. This shows beyond all reasonable doubts we want change. That's good!!!

Our doubts about the SDF saga'll soon come to light. Politicians can be very cunny at times. They may not expose all what's in their mind while presenting their manifesto or talking to the press. This explains why most of their answers to press questions're more of rhetorics. Now, we all know that the SDF came as a result of the fact that "there's an anglophone problem". Do we know that an "anglphone" can NEVER become president of "Cameroon"?...don't dream. NEVER EVER. It's a reality. France has vowed! The French and "francophones" don't want "Cameroon" to "split". They're scared that should an "anglophone" become president, he'll use his powers and influence to "divide" the two parts and then he(president) moves over to "anglophone" area and still rules...infact he'll cut out the poorer part and leave it to them...a tactic to avoid using money from "anglophone Cameroon" to share with the East. This will give "anglophone Cameroon" more and adequate resources to become an African Singapore. Was this Fru Ndi's intention?

Let me just intersect the following question to constitute my say on the SCNC case; "is there an anglophone problem?". I was ached to the marrow when Mukete, in one of his recent issues said there's no anglophone problem. We can remember his reason. Let me just interprete it...he meant that he can't support the SCNC claim JUST becuase the leaders are corrupt and NOT because they've got a case...what a naive reason! This showed me how backward and lacking his thought really is. The more reason why I've stopped reacting to his write ups. You must have noticed that by now.

I have thought hard. I mean hard about this issue. I've come to a conclusion that it's wrong to call it an "anglophone problem". There's nothing like "anglophone problem" and there's no political or geographic name like "Cameroon" to constitute "anglophones and francophones". Infact, even traitors like Mafany, Inoni and even some francophone "leakers" acknowledged this with ignorance. Ignorance in all it's entirety. Oh if I were a journalist??? Note that I have read all the forces of arguments put forward by both the leaders of the SCNC and those who oppose their claims. I've come to realise that IT'S A LEGITIMATE CAUSE. Anybody can go to anywhere!!! That's the simple truth! The international community - the UN, USA and even Britain...Biya and France too know this simple truth. There's no twisting of facts...Southern Cameroons is an African territory that has not yet gained independence. Southern Cameroonians NOT anglophones are just suffering from the small mistake Britain did by giving us as a "small gift" to France. This makes it very acheing...a small gift. Nonsense! One man makes a mistake, the other suffers for life..."Tiko drink, Kumba drunk". Why don't they correct this mistake? It's better to be late than never. Again, war could be avoided - is this another dream that'll never materialise? Southern Cameroons and La Republic are two separate entities with two different identities and cultures that are NOT compartible. We're more of brothers to Nigerians than La Republique du Cameroon. This explains why there's a clash between the cultures of La Republique and that of Southern Cameroons.

So for those of you who're playing politics and dreaming that "Cameroon" can EVER have an "anglophone" president, you're wasting your time and dreaming - you'll dream until you dream no more - you'll dream until thy kingdom come. That's the more reason why I keep on telling you that I'm just marking time with the SDF. I'm making hay while the sun shines. However, as an SDF militant our pressure on the CDPM-runned government is helping both Southern Cameroonians and those of an entirely different country, as our efforts force them to toe the line. We're humanitarians - helping others - those of another country. My dual membership in the SDF and SCNC should not be questionable. Many more are like me even YOU. But you're afraid to come to the open.

Lest I forget, readers should note that the SCNC issue did not come up as a result of the so-called marginalisation and subjurgation...No...it didn't. It came up because it had to. Truth NEVER dies!!!. It didn't come up because they've realised that they can NEVER produce a president...rather it came up to correct history...it came up cos its the truth. Note that if we don't do it, our children and grade grand children MUST do it...whether we like it or not. Let's not drink beer to get drunk thinking that we're solving our problems...we're only pushing it ahead. Because a people's identity and culture is very unique to them, they need it absolutely...I mean absolutely for their own destiny. History will always hunt us until this mistake's corrected WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. These're the kinds of issues we should be discussing on this forum and Not Mukete, not people, not Biya etc.

I rest my case.

Twisted-thinking forehead, Son Of Ako - London School Of Economics And Political Science.

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[ndema]

Noko Mbele Emanuel or you call yourself what.You are a yam a real yam which was grown in between rocks.What did you just write here about bush fallers?
What crime is it in earning a living from cleaning toilets abroad.Would you prefer odd jobs which are lucrative to buglary and armed roberry,feymania or other related crimes?
I am very convinced you must be a drop out and it can be seen from your shallow reasoning.Yes they are cleaning toilets abroad and helping thier families back home and not idling around and writing rubbish on this forum.I feel very sorry for your parents to have wasted thier energy and time to bring forth a worthless good-for-nothing child like you.You are devil`s workshop.How could boost that your mentor,the almighty fon doh will be a free man after such heinous crimes against humanity.What a pity for a fellow cameroonian to expose his stupidity in public.Just wait i will get back to you later i dont have enough words to describe you now

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Rexon
My greetings. What's going on ? I can imagine your frustrations brother.That not withstanding while you reflect I would plead u come online from time to time to pour some fresh water on battling soldiers.All the best.
Tayong

[NjifenztB.D.(U.K)]

Stupid idiots!(Those who boldly pose to change an original court verdict).Why a sudden reversal of justice?Cameroon's legal system is truely shambolic!
where is the conscience of our Lawyers?
Shame!shame! shame!

[victor]

Did I not say it?
When I read that Fon Doh has been sentenced to 15 years in Jail,people showered praises to the Judiciary in Cameroon.I came to this very forum and said,,guys hold your peace.'Cause our country is sick and needs a pill.
What am reading today is just what i said before.Guys,our Gov't has a tradition of one step forward,and five other steps behind.
Disgrace!!!!!
Cameroon is a shame to its' own children.
Shame to those we called Leaders!!!
May God free this country from these hideous people.

[Roki of Shanghai]

I felt my belove country was taking the right twist for the first time in its judiciary.But it was still too good to be true as it's the most unpredictable country on the face of the earth. The logic in releasing a prisoner who has been tried, found guilty and jailed beats my imagination.La republique is playing one of those dirty games but i must state here, that they can perform the magic they've been performing for the past 20 plus more years.There comes a time in every society that people who have been permanently pushed unto the wall,disenfrachised,beaten and maimed, lied to,cheated and killed react.Balikumbat is not different.What happened in Babanki was not expected but yet it happened because the people had had too much of it.
Fon Doh thinks he is a hard nut to crack.He has proven to the people of Balikumbat, to the entire North West Province and to Cameroon as a whole, that he is above the law.Beating his chest with pride, boasting, challenging the people he has hurt so badly right in the confines of the dark, cold room he knows is legally his for 15years.He knows that he is a part of the machinery that runs the system.He is a true example of our government.He is above the law.
If he eventually gets his release which he is so certain about, then it won't make news to me when i read the caption "Pseudo Fon Doh roasted to death in Balikumbat". The case of the Fon of Babanki is still very fresh in the minds of Cameroonians.It may repeat itself real soon.
And just as an advice, i will appreciate if true Cameroonians ignore this IDIOT that publishes his fantasies in this forum in the name of mukete or whatever. At first i mistook him for a normal person but now i'm certain that he needs medical attention.

[samleyin]

Terribob,

What you don’t seem to understand is that when it comes to calling names, you are the best to do it technically. If Watesih is a bread winner through the affluence of the SDF, I don’t see anything wrong with that if it is done the right way. What y’all are accusing the SDF of doing now is tantamount to what NAC has already been doing. From educating the forum on the correct application of academics/academician through castigating Aaron Nyangkwe to chastising Watesih. Not the amount of big words will tell us how perfect you English is but the correct usage of prepositions. Just the two, three and four letter words. Certainly I know my turn will soon come to be lambasted upon as I am identifying your fault now. What an attack on personalities you are waging forward. In one of your fist postings, you tried to tell the forum about the content of your white and grey matter. I begin to cast doubt if these matters are really in the right proportions. And when it comes to expressing our opinion and grievances in this forum, everybody has got the right to do so because in a suffrage, the educated have no special consideration over the less educated. What matters in this forum is getting the message across even if it is in pidgin. It is a pity most in this forum will not even execute their citizenry responsibilities of voting when the elections come along but will be the first to shout out from concealment.

Can you please tell the forum about the SDF feymania? Is it trying to corrupt your party chairman with FCFA 100,000 when he delegates you on a responsibility or it is the other way round? Do you hate JFN so much because he became known to the world through the chairmanship of the SDF when he did not have the sort of education you are having? Is it because of his name, origin, or on his striving to do his very best in the application and concoction of the party’s constitution the learned professors took their time to contrive that is now turning around to grip and chomp them. What is the JFN’s mangeoire that in all this time of turbidity no one can sideline a single somatic proof about? It will do some of us well and even YOU in breeding your disciples if you can give us some corporeal proof about this. There is no attraction of sympathy here bro. Know that this entire jittery ride over a rough terrain in the SDF will soon be over. It is just a winnowing process. Jacob Zuma just came out clean after all the allegations. Why not Fru Ndi. I even begin to doubt the credibility of this posted articles when counter articles are been published after another. Guess you can now tell who is who because we instead can guess who you are. Sponsored Agent (whispers).

[.Legima Doh (LD)]

Dona of Dubai,
Thanks for your comment.I advised Ngang to next time write something reasonable so that we may not develop haughty contempt for him.I also got the news about the passport issue today.This may be one of the reasons why Ngang will never leave home whereas the LRC children will be sent abroad with the use of stolen wealth from his own country and he stays back to express his mediocrity about what he knows nothing about.
Comrade Rexon,
We all faithfuls of our motherland often time are so much disturbed about the effects of the faux pas of the occupational regime on the future generation.But brother,since the future is a function of the past and the present,the past was but now is dead and cannot be brought back to life,the present is here and now,we just have to do our utmost best and work positively with it while waiting for the future with manly hearts.God is behind us and it is by faith coupled with work that we are going to succeed.We shall not relent our efforts as far as the struggle is concerned.
As you say,we have to keep up.I felicitate the works of yourself,Tayong,Washow,Samleyin,Forkwa,Watesih and all the faithfuls.
God bless us all.
Legima Doh,
For SCNC.

[massamoyo]

Rexon,

My dear I felt bad when i just read your last article.

Please if you go away even for sometime our distractors will think they are winning us in the fight.

Please return lets Aluta continua and Victoria is surely Arcetia.

I heard one of them rejoicing that as Rexon is being defeated, Tayong or massamoyo should be the next.

Come back dear lets fight till the end
Thank you

[kum]

Fon Doh is good for the Cell,granting bail to a monster like that is just to cause more problems to the entire Village of Balikumbat esp. with the approaching elections.

[rexon]

Dear Comrades,

I will still be in the struggle. You people should not misunderstand me. I am thinking a more advanced strategy. I want to take a few days off because the enemy has taken a harder strategy because they know what i am.

I will try to do better when i come back. I am still on.

[Klemenceau]

Hi Legima and Dona

Please I want to say that from my understanding of the write up posted by Ngang, he never intended to insult bushfallers. I think the problem his message can't be understood is because of some mistakes and omissions he made in the write up.

Please let’s read again part of the write up I have pasted below. I might be wrong but that is my interpretation of his write up. I think he wrote against MUkete and Noko Mbelle and not Bush Fallers.

"Another idiot that has just come is NOKO Emmanuel .If he gas no means of going out of cameroon he should not insult those who are there.He is not better than them ,I am in cameroon working with a diplomatic organisation but i can say those out have noyhing to contribute to the development of cameroon"

Reading through, we see that the mistakes he made while typing might have given a wrong message to some readers.

My humble contribution

Shalom

Klemenceau

[.Legima Doh (LD)]

Klemenceau,
You are right and thanks.His writing would make any reasonable person to understand it the way we did especially as in the last section it stated that those outside have nothing to do to contribute to the development of the country.Next time let him write what is legible and understandable if at all good faith circumscribed his article we lambasted.
Legima Doh.
SCNC

[Teribobs]

Samleyin,
I know you were very certain I was going to write back. I'll not try to justify any digression on this forum coz those who made it an issue have themselves to blame. I might have faltered with one or two prepositions just like you and even in your last write-up. I will not make it a point but if you wish I'll scrutinize it. Your level-headed article obviously merits a level-headed reaction from a gentleman like myself who has been deceived for years. We are just being voices of the voiceless. It is not about academics. It is about deception. I knew I will be brandished a sponsored whatever. You can continue to worship your chairman for life. My position is clear. It is time-out for him.

[Fon Lawrence]

Taking a break.
Will be right back

[Ngwasiri Christopher]

TRIBUTE TO MUKETE

I would like to say that I am particularly impressed with the tenacious grip and unintimidated contribution of Mukete on this forum. He has proved that a man with a mission will not be intimidated by people brandishing all sorts of titles, qualifications and journalistic jinks and jingoism. He is a real fighter. A Spartan that dies but never surrenders. A man that can stand pressure. A man that will flick away an elephant as if it was a fly. A man who concentrates on his job regadless of the gimmickries of the other employees.

I would like to put more grease to the elbow of his critics who would love to see him strangled because of the truth as the more they pressurise him, the stronger he becomes and the more revelations we get. Pressure is his inspiration and he can handle it. Nobody on this forum has been as informative as him. I have a feeling that if you cut his arms, he will write with his toes. There is no stopping him. Till death will he part with writing. He has proved that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. He has taken the heavyweight punches and has withstood them. Anyone who is dreaming of flooring him is just a daydreamer. He will not live to see his towel thrown in the ring. It will only happen over his dead body.

The old book says that a prophet is never accepted in his own homeland. While some people might argue that his articles are biased because he hits hard at Fru Ndi and to some extent at Paul Biya, while showering the Ngwasiri group with praises; I would equally argue that it is his chosen area of research and he has excelled in it. People have brandished themselves on this forum as political scientists and journalists but I am realy taken aback by what and how they write.

Mukete indicated in his early write ups that he acknowledged and appreciated Fru Ndi's contribution on the political arena of Cameroon but insisted that the passing of time had taken its toll of him and he was being overtaken by events. He insisted that he did not want to continue beating the drum after the dancing had stopped. He did not advocate for the hanging of Fru Ndi but for the revamping or changing of Fru Ndi.

We have all taken sides in one thing or the other. We all have our inclinations and shortcomings, which is a natural phenomenon. Is Fon Doh not still an idol to some people -those advocating for his bail? Has Mukete not have a right to idolising like anyone of us?

Mukete's hardcore critics fail to appreciate that they are equally very biased in their write ups, of which they have a right to. It is a question of live and let live; to criticise and be criticised but not threatening to strangle. People should accept that if they are living in a glass house, they should not throw stones. If they take a chance, they should anticipate repercussions.

Mukete's articles might be copious but not void of sense and information. Unlike other writers who say that they will be back and come back empty, Mukete says that he will be back and comes back with a bombshell or spitting fire. Unlike some writers who brandish breath-taking headlines and waffle about, he always has a missile to throw. This guy sometimes makes me feel that he is hiding under Fru Ndi and Biya's bed to get his information. He has Ntarinkon and Etoudi in his palms.

Some people call him a CPDM paid agent. A foresighted reader of this forum will not hesitate to rubbish such profanation. If tarnishing your paymaster's reputation is the strategy towards obtaining your information, you cannot go to the extent of castigating him. Damage beyond a certain level is beyond repairs and Mukete's writings on the CPDM do not bear the hallmarks of a paid for agent. His early write ups on Biya were enough to anihilate him if he was not the powerful guy he is.

I might not buy all his ideas (SCNC)but I think that he has contributed very enormously to unfolding many issues we would not have ever known.

Mukete, I urge you to stand by your tenacity except on the SCNC issue if you can. Though an advocate of it, I have a lot of mixed feelings about it, but I keep on pulling myself and saying that a child cannot be born without being conceived. No venture, no gain.

Christopher Ngwasiri

[BenB]

Fru Ndi should not allow two SDF Conventions to hold. He has what it takes to make only one Convention hold and this in the supreme interest of the party, self-interest, personal ego aside. This is my idea:

Frustrate plans by those organising the Yaounde Convention to take over leadership of the party. This is how that can be done:

Storm the Yaounde Convention. Perhaps or perhaps not in the way of the bloody storming of the Soulemane Convention in Yaounde in the late 1990s.

Well, it looks rather tricky. How can the Chairman lead an army of faithful militants to storm Ngwasiri's Yaounde Convention when they should be holding theirs in Bamenda same day? This is how: two possibilities.

1.) Postpone the Bamenda Convention by even a few days and mobilise militants to Yaounde to do everything, including EVERYTHING, to stop the Yaounde Convention, then go over to the Bamenda Convention, victory songs on their lips, and hold the bona fide Convention in Bamenda.

There, if the Ngwasiri group fail to show up, they'll have themselves to blame. There the world would have seen who really has the power. Militants have been leaving the SDF but the party continues to exist.

2.) Forget about the Bamenda Convention and mobilise SDF militants to attend the Yaounde Convention. Use his popularity to defeat Ngwasiri and Muna on their "home turf".

Fru Ndi has what it takes to make this happen. He has the grassroots following in spite of the raging crisis and revelations about his misdeeds.

This would be a most noble way of proving Ngwasiri and Muna wrong. And it would leave few scares and there won't be conflict, no violence, no blood, no exclusion.

Another day is ticking out, bringing doomsday closer to the SDF. Two conventions stare the SDF in the face. Even one-and-a-half Conventions would spell doom for the SDF, I repeat. And 16 expensive years would just have gone up in flames!

I've asked for contributions to the way forward here and not one word has been said in that direction. Only the insults continue. Only more praises for Fru Ndi.

Here, I have set the ball rolling. Contradict me but contribute something for the general good.

For some people on this forum the SDF and Cameroon can go to hell as long as Fru Ndi maintains the title of Chairman. Isn't that sad?

BenF

[samleyin]

Terribobs,

I first of all want to appreciate your comment. But you still havn't answered the questions I posed. Please I do demand an answer because it is my wish to identify the device meant to cheat so that we all can be able to get rid of the dishonest gambling apparatus. It will be better again if you propose an innovative stratagem to get some of us out of this 'hades' sorrounding your contemplation. It will do so much well if through your corporeal proofs, you can help some of us to realise that JFN is a small object that should not reeadily influence our minds. I do beg for an answer to my questions.

[Aladine]

Tayong,
What i will advice you is this, forget about all the bellow listed personalities you are asking for their contacts. You are in Europe Copenhagen why cant you brows the internet and get their address. SCNS members should go on a constand strike till the day the members are release like what you see in other countries ok.

Make wonna take time.

Aladine..

[Teribobs]

BenB,
You are fast becoming my hero. These guys are ramblers. They are calling me a small rambler. Yes they are big ramblers. Samleyin read your stuff but kept on asking me to answer questions that have obvious answers. They seem not to be re-reading your write-ups. I will not be surprised to learn that you read POS. They keep coming after my language. At least there is one thing that can keep them at bay. I'll spare them that for now so that they can address the issues you have been raising.

[BenB]

Thanks Terribobs, don't take any insults from whoever too seriously.

You must understand that some people on this forum had for so long been bound in the chains of fanaticism that they only now realise that some of you could be critical and still support the party, even if not Fru Ndi. They are surprised at your open-mindedness.

Just pray for us all. Pray for them. Pray for me. Pray for the Chairman. Pray for Ngwasiri. Pray for the SDF. I see dark clouds in the horizon if something radically dramatic is not done. Let us pray.

BenF

[samleyin]

Terribos et al.
You are drifting from the answer I need from you. the answers you are talking about cannot be found even in Ben B's write ups. there must be a reason for you to draw such a crafty conclusion about individuals and making the choice you have made. I just need the reason please. I will therefore conclude that you are a small mind whose points are based on allegations and counter accusations. Hmmmm you are building castles in the air brother. Let me consult your mentor this time maybe he can help. It is a great deal to safe a soul but I can see you are not ready for that. Lets see where hate and bias attitudes getting into our way will lead us to. But know one thing, there will never be another you or me or Fru Ndi in this life. We all are responsible for our actions and the informations we falsely spread across. Even if Fru Ndi leaves the SDF, it will not topple. the party came to stay and neither Ngwasiri or Fru Ndi will bring forth its extermination. Everbody is claiming now to have shedded blood during the launching. does that really matters now? What matters is the way foward that you can contribute in building by providing me with the simple answers I am begging of you but you think rebuffing me is the best. it is just because we hate people for no good reason. 2pac was right that somethings will never change.

Ben B,

Please help me out with the following questions. I asked Terribos but he snobed me instead. Isn't it a pity refusing to educate someone showing the zeal to learn? I hope you won't rebuff me either because I am praying you too should not have attained the state of self satisfied superiority in matters of intellect. I just have to copy the questions again because I did not find the answers even in your write ups. Here I come; Can you please tell the forum about the SDF feymania? Is it trying to corrupt your party chairman with FCFA 100,000 when he delegates you on a responsibility or it is the other way round? Do you hate JFN so much because he became known to the world through the chairmanship of the SDF when he did not have the sort of education you are having? Is it because of his name, origin, or on his striving to do his very best in the application and concoction of the party’s constitution the learned professors took their time to contrive that is now turning around to grip and chomp them. What is the JFN’s mangeoire that in all this time of turbidity no one can sideline a single somatic proof? It will do some of us well and even YOU in breeding your disciples if you can give us some corporeal proof about this. I hope there were no insults as some of you will always avouch. man no run because Terribos is already showing signs of running by ignoring me. too bad I guess, for somebody who was striving to answer all his previous questions.
I am waiting.

[peter pan]

France remembers slavery victims

Campaigners have been pushing for a commemoration for years
A French envoy has said her country did profit from slavery as it officially commemorates the victims of the trade for the first time.
"It profited from the commerce in human beings... ripped from the African homeland," Junior Co-operation Minister Brigitte Girardin said in Senegal.

She was visiting a notorious slave island off the coast of Senegal.

In Paris, President Jacques Chirac said facing up to the colonial past was a "key to national cohesion".

He opened an art exhibition in Paris's Luxembourg Gardens while other cities and venues around France held their own ceremonies for Slavery Remembrance Day - the first such event in an EU state.

Wednesday's day of commemoration was ordered by Mr Chirac, on the fifth anniversary of the passing of a law by the French Senate recognising slavery as a crime against humanity.

Hundreds of thousands of slaves were taken by French ships from Africa to plantations in the Caribbean before France banned the practice in 1848.

It was, Mr Chirac said, an "indelible stain on history".

Paying homage

Ms Girardin visited Goree Island along with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade.

FRENCH SLAVE TRADE
France mainly used slaves, taken from Africa, in its Caribbean colonies
France estimated to have shipped 1,250,000 slaves
France was Europe's first country to abolish slavery, in 1794
But it was revived by Napoleon in 1802, and only banned for good in 1848

African slaves were shipped to the Caribbean from Senegal, a former French colony.

"Coming to Goree Island is paying homage to the long succession of anonymous victims who, over the centuries, suffered slavery and struggled for its abolition," said Ms Girardin.

"The greatness of a nation resides in its capacity to bear full responsibility for the darkest periods of its history," she added.

President Wade rejected the idea of compensation for victims of slavery.

"There are some things that have no price," he said.

"You could give me the Bank of France and contents of the United States' Fort Knox but that would not undo what we have endured."

'Marginalised'

President Chirac said he was committed to fighting modern forms of slavery, allowing companies that knowingly use forced labour anywhere in the world to be prosecuted in French courts.

Jacques Chirac and actor Jacques Martial toured a new exhibition

"This first commemoration isn't the end, it's a beginning," he said.

"It's the necessary affirmation of the memory of slavery shared by all French people, whatever their origin."

The city of Nantes on the Atlantic coast, where many of France's slave ships originated, held a minute's silence.

Museums and libraries in Paris opened special events showing off contemporary manuscripts and artefacts.

"It was imperative that slavery be given a place in our collective memory," said Marcel Dorigny, a history professor who helped institute Slavery Remembrance Day.

"French people who are the descendants of slaves have felt marginalised - forgotten by history."

But some critics said the commemoration was not enough, and that the government's current policies were still alienating racial minorities.

French MPs were on Wednesday examining tough new immigration legislation limiting entry to foreigners.

[Teribobs]

Samleyin,
I see you are rejoicing over my silence. I was just trying to follow BenB's advice. I'll be travelling in a couple of minutes and will provide answers to your questions when my schedule permits. In the meantime tackle the issues BenB raised. I will be back.

A LUTA CONTINUA

[ONDO NDONG GERARD]

Guys you need to see the way petty criminals are treated by our courts and law enforcement officers without no respect of humanity, but this Fon Doh is a big criminal and murderer yet they want to set him free. Bravo Magistrate Ambe, u did a good job by sentencing that idiot in the name of a Fon.

mark you the release of fon Doh will give birth to a civil war in cameroon.

[BenB]

Samleyin, just put your own building block on proposals for the way forward first as Terribobs is urging you to do. It's easy to demonstrate to you how the SDF became a business centre and who are the marketing agents, public relations officers, cashiers and all.

We are on the ground. We see what's happening. Some of you, who are pursuing your noble dreams abroad are perhaps too distant to the reality on the ground that your analyses are based on Fru Ndi and SDF of the early-1990s. That since changed. Chairman be don change since. Some bad pipo dem fool he.

Why he doesn't want to be exorcised, to be cleansed and removed from the grip of those bad pipo is the vexing thing to some of those like Asonganyi and Ngwasiri that some of you chastice for wanting to destroy the party. You just don't understand. They just want to get the Chairman off the grip of those bad pipo.

But for now, let's look to the future first. Let's chase the hawk away first. There'll be time to chide the chicks.

Got the point?

BenF