Bamenda Convention:Littoral SDF Vies For 1st Vice National Chairman

By Joe Dinga Pefok

The Littoral Provincial Chairman of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, party, Jean-Michel Nintcheu, has said the Province will be gunning for the post of 1st Vice National Chairman during the party's elective convention slated for May 26 in Bamenda.

SDF Littoral will as well try to maintain the post of National Treasurer. The Province will put up candidates for a number of other posts, which will include the Chairperson of the External Relations Committee in the National Executive Committee, NEC.

In a chat with The Post, May 9, Nintcheu said the focus of the Littoral Provincial conference scheduled to hold in Douala on Saturday, May 13, would be on preparations for the Bamenda Convention. He said they will organise primaries to select candidates that will run for various posts at the convention.

The incumbent National Treasurer, Barrister Augustine Mbami, thus remains the lone candidate for Littoral SDF for that post. The candidate for the post 1st Vice National Chairperson will be chosen at the primaries. There are presently two aspirants, Dr. Emmanuel Sango Djoumbi and Joseph Meache.

Two other candidates, Mrs. Chantal Kambiwa and John Ndangle Kumase are vying for the post of Chairman of the External Relations Committee. Mrs. Kambiwa is presently a NEC member and occupies the post of 1st Assistant National Secretary for Education and Propaganda. She is also the leader of the Socialist Women in SDF, which is part of the International Socialist.

A strong critic of SDF National Chairman, it was rumoured that Mrs. Kambiwa was in the Ngwasiri camp for the Yaounde convention, and her name featured in a list of senior SDF officials which Ngwasiri released as being with in support of him (The Post No 0745).
John Kumase, on the other hand, is the all powerful and long serving Chairman of the Bonaberi Electoral District of the SDF. A former Deputy Mayor, he is currently a councillor at the Bonaberi Municipal Council.

Fru Ndi As Littoral's Candidate

The Littoral Provincial Chairman said their candidate for the post of National Chairman is incumbent Ni John Fru Ndi. Nintcheu recalled that during the visit of the Littoral SDF to Bamenda in February to present New Year wishes to Fru Ndi, they declared him their candidate. He said it was out of the question to talk of another candidate for the Littoral SDF.

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Comments

[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 on a red carpet. This is how that can be done:

Storm the Yaounde Convention. Perhaps or perhaps not in the same 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 there.

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.

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 no scars and there won't be conflict, no violence, no blood, no exclusion.

Another day is ticking out, bringing doomsday closer to the SDF. 11th May: DD-11 to Yaounde court verdict, -15 to the Convention(s). 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 called 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 please 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

[BenB]

Welcome back friends,

So what steps for the future? That's what we want to see now on this forum, if we mean well for those we are staking our necks for. Or are we still going to contend with seeing our idols just walk away with a piece of the treasure that the SDF is?

I thought some of us were going to use the self-declared break to bury our idols and resurrect the SDF. And mind you, it's the whole, not a piece, of the SDF that's a treasure.

Anyone wanting a piece, anyone dying just to see their idol walk away with a piece of that treasure dripping with the blood of the martyrs and other ruined lives both at home and abroad, means ill for the SDF.

Remember the wisdom of King Solomon when two women were contesting a child? Solomon teased them with the proposal to have the child shared so each of them could have a piece of the child. The destructive, false mother said, Yes let's divide the child. That meant the child would be butchered and left dead!

The genuine mother (oh good woman, compassionate woman, wise woman) prefered to let the child go even to the wicked woman, just so he stays alive, at least for a start.

This dilemma faces us with the SDF. Everyone here thinks someone is wrong. But as Samleyin would say those idols, like us shall pass away but the SDF will remain.

So how do we solve this problem, above any consideration for persons or even with consideration for persons? Let's just think up tenable remedial measures. And this is time we'll tell the wicked from the good.

Over to you, friends.

Model journalists and experts/students in political science and economics that some of us brag we are on this forum, should especially make good political proposals, shouldn't we? You bet, we'll rather see more Fru Ndi/Ngwasiri talk here soon. We hope not.

BenF

[knganjo]

BenB,

People get bored reading one and the same aricle posted over and over by the same person.

[BenB]

If I were saying "pawa to de pipo and iquo oppotinities" even without saying how equal, you'd like reading it from now till the day after tomorrow. Read it or leave it. I use na ya finger for type am?

[mukete]

This Knganjo is doing everything to occupy the role of Rexon in this forum. He wants to be the unappointed judge and the teacher of this forum. If he does not control the way he puts his nose into people's own ways of reasoning and writing, then I am afraid, he will also have to take leave to look for "country-fashion" as his other prophets of distortion of facts are now doing.

Why must people always write and reason the way others want?

Mukete

[momo]

aa
aaaaaaaaahhhh bemB
ASK HIM IF YOU HAVE USE HIS FINGERS TO TYPE.
KNJANGO VERY SOON YOU WILL LEAVE.FOOL
DID BENB ASK YOU TO READ HIS WRITE UP.OVER SABI WILL KILL WANNA.
WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN.AS FAR AS WE ARE HERE THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.
MUKETE AND BEMB KEEP ON THE GOOD WORK.

[momo]

aa
aaaaaaaaahhhh bemB
ASK HIM IF YOU HAVE USE HIS FINGERS TO TYPE.
KNJANGO VERY SOON YOU WILL LEAVE.FOOL
DID BENB ASK YOU TO READ HIS WRITE UP.OVER SABI WILL KILL WANNA.
WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN.AS FAR AS WE ARE HERE THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.
MUKETE AND BEMB KEEP ON THE GOOD WORK.

[Klemenceau]

Mukete the fact that people are writing here doesn't mean they don't have what to do. If someone decides to take leave it doesn't mean that person is running away from the arguments here.
You can be copying and pasting and never get tired. After all you seem to have taken money to do just what you are doing here- writing fiction and telling lies in the name of bringing facts.
Why have you been silent on the issue of Fru Ndi forcing militants in Fundong to drink blood of unknown animals and your claims that Fru Ndi killed Makoge? You have pretended not to know that you have been stupefying yourself in this forum with your lies and framed stories.
You are happy to have won new disciples who are now writing things that can never be proved.
If you claim you care about Cameroon and the people, tell us about the murder of lawyer Esseme. You have maintained silence over this issue because it has to do with your father/relative the butcher in Kumba.
Those who have decided to take leaves got other things to do. They just write when they have time that is why they are objective. You can never be objective because you came to this forum with a specific agenda. It is unfortunate for you because you have failed already. Keep on crying over spilt milk.
Shalom
Klemenceau

[Bugiba]

Where on earth is this Mukete living? Is it that you have nothing to do? Go to work. Good Cameroonians living abroad work very hard to provide for themselves and help others too. I can see your point. Think will awarded some position that can steal money.
I wish the post came up with a system where we paid some money before pasting stupid comments allover the place here.
Traitors.

[Bugiba]

Where on earth is this Mukete living? Is it that you have nothing to do? Go to work. Good Cameroonians living abroad work very hard to provide for themselves and help others too. I can see your point. Think will be awarded some position that can steal money.
I wish the post came up with a system where we paid some money before pasting stupid comments allover the place here.
Traitor

[Aaron Nyangkwe]

One Province for the Bamenda Convention and zero for the Yaounde convention.
The base has start talking and is on the move.
MAN NO RUN!

[Akoson]

.

.I think Professor Paul Nchoji Nkwi (PhD) wrote.

...Everyone says he wrote. But Mukete says what did he write??? Why???

Hello Everybody,

I'm happy there hasn't been much insults although Mukete did mildly. I bothered to read his two postings cos they're relatively shorter.

Mr. BenB, I like and admire your write ups. The contents're usually mature. However, I've realised that you've a conclusion already in your mind though you do everything possible to make it latent. Your first proposal about storming and disrupting the Yaounde convention is NOT the best. It may result to quarrels and possibly chaos. Let's not even think about that. Secondarily, your second proposed tactic is good from first thought. But when you think and think hard, you'll realise that the consequences're suicidal. Before I continue let me just state that I'd thought this too. I'm very sure many others have, even Fru Ndi. Now, Ngwasiri, being what he is, can cause more confusion when the "Bamenda" guys decide to attend the convention of the "Yaounde" guys. Place yourself in Fru Ndi's shoes and answer this question; if you move over to Yaounde to attend the convention and the organisers in Yaounde excludes your name from the list of contesters, what'll do??? The whole world will know that you attended that convention that produced another SDF chieftain. They'll not bother to look beyond and see what happened. Everyone has got their ambitions. I think Fru Ndi's is to change Cameroon. I still see so much exuberance of good faith in that man. So, such a mistake you're proposing could be the silliest ever recorded in world History. I wouldn't wish that my worse enemy even nurture such a thought, let alone doing it.

I smiled about the way you blend the ideas of the SDF standoff and the famous story of Wise King Solomon. It's wonderful indeed. Now, Fru Ndi doesn't want this child to be divided. It's very clear. Rather it's Ngwasiri who went ahead and scheduled a date that the "illegal" NEC had already scheduled. And remember that he, Ngwasiri participated in scheduling this date. Who then is guilty of dividing the child? It's clear that Ngwasiri doesn't know the pain and labour it takes to give birth to a child. He's the first to say let's divide the child. Is that what his
"Rev." Joshua of Nigeria taught him???I'm ashamed that even prof Asonganyi's indirectly campaigning that the child be divided by advising SDF militants to rally behind his so-called "origina" SDF, mindful of the fact that when some rally behind the "original" SDF, others'll prefer the "modern" SDF. Again, who or who are those who want to split the child? The answer's hovering in the wind. Even the stones know!!!

And now my own suggestion. The biggest and most needed word's RECONCILIATION. But how??? It's the simplest thing ever but hardest thing to do. Let the man of the people, I mean the Conscience Of Cameroon, Ni John Fru Ndi call Ngwasiri for dialogue. Doing this is not stepping low but being matured. If he, Ngwasiri denies then we can start thinking of other procedures.

Lastly, Mukete the Fiction writer. What did you expect Knangjo to do? I can only describe your contribution as choice of words. You only choosed words and "educated" prof on what he should do. You failed to understand that prof was ONLY making a reply to Ngwasiri's letter. You selected sections of the article to react to. Knagjo too selected portions of your write up to react to. This is not what I want to pull your ears about. In order to resolve a problem, we don't need to sing songs on who is wrong or right. There's a problem - the constitution - everyone's interpreting it their own way. After all reflections, let's say Ngwasiri is right. Now, is he still president of NAC? Yes or no. That same constitution he claims to have to his finger tips requires him to nullify his rejected resignation letter to all the organs that are. Did he do it? The "Bamenda" and "Yaounde" guys are ALL wrong from the look of things. Then what??? What do we do??? What do they do??? From the fine sermon BenB gave us, we learnt not to divide a child cos they'll die. Do we wanna kill the SDF? No! A part that can, through special intervention of GOD ALMIGHTY MIGHT produce an "anglophone" president who must be willing to listen to the plea of the SCNC and possibly instigate a grant of their independence. Therefore Mukete, could you please translate your FICTION writing expertise, concentrating all your energies into writing proposals on how the million dollar word - RECONCILIATION, could be achieved withing days ahead of a convention that will determine the dead of democracy in your country.

Who says what??

Twisted-thinking forehead, Son Of Ako - LSE.

[optimistic]

I did enjoy all that is said in this forum,and I think everybody has a point to make and everybody's opinion counts.
But I realise that most of us in this forum are extremists in thinking.I think the best thing is come out with a solution and hence the best thing is not to be in extremes.
I WILL ALSO BEG ON MUKETE AND BenF OR BenB WHO SEEM TO BE THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE(S) IN THIS FORUM TO ALSO INVESTIGATE DEEPLY THE ESEME MURDER CASE AND BRIEF US.GIVE THE FORUM THE FACTS SO THAT THEY CAN KNOW COS SOMEWHERE SOMEHOW,CAMEROONIANS THINK OR FEEL JUSTICE WAS NOT DONE.
WE ARE WAITING FOR YOUR YOUR RESULTS.
Optimistic

[MUKETE]

NGWASIRI TO BE TAKEN TO HIS YAOUNDE CONVENTION ON A STRETCHERNgwasiri hospitalized after Jua’s Crushing defeat

-MUNA ESCAPES TO FRANCE
Supporters of Hon. Paulinus Jua are still to recover from the crushing defeat he suffered a fortnight ago from the hands of John Fru Ndi during the Northwest SDF Provincial primaries ahead of the party’s National Convention.
While Ngwasiri, a long time patient went into coma immediately he got news of the result, their main financier, Bernard Muna escaped to France for financial reinforcement, The Heron was reliably informed.
Ngwasiri, The Heron learnt collapsed several times when news reached him that their candidate to challenge John Fru Ndi at the Northwest SDF provincial primaries, Paulinus Jua was beaten beyond control.
Ngwasiri, who for the past two months has been under intense heat and high blood pressure was first rushed to the Buea General Hospital. He spent some days there, but the situation degenerated as his blood pressure reportedly increased. The wife evacuated him to the Douala Reference Hospital where he is currently receiving medical attention. The Heron learnt that last Thursday May 4, Ngwasiri collapsed several times and the family was already afraid that he might give up the ghost, but the medical team insisted that he be taken to Douala Reference hospital.
His dismissal from the SDF has greatly contributed to the deplorable state of his health. When he was an SDF Member of Parliament, the party usually applies for him to be evacuated to Europe for regular medical attention. But since his expulsion, the SDF Parliamentary Group can no more press for him to be evacuated to Europe.
By the time of going to press yesterday, the sacked MP was still lying critically ill in the Douala’s Reference hospital.
As for Barrister Bernard Muna, The Heron equally learnt that the defeat was an embarrassment to him, having pumped in huge sums of money for the exercise. Muna who has already run short of cash, our source said, was equally traumatized with the shocking results olf 462 for Fru Ndi and barely 7 for their candidate, Jua. According to some of his aides, he left for France to brief the authorities there about his botch attempts against the SDF and Fru Ndi.
Muna was unable to withstand the heat last weekend in Bamenda to address the general assembly of Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ. The agenda featured Muna as one of the key speakers who was to deliver a talk on press freedom. Although several journalists protested against his presence in their assembly, he however failed to show up. The outgone National President of CAMASEJ, Nkemanyang Paul later took an excuse that he was not in the country.
Before his departure to France via Britain early last week, Muna is said to have expressed the wish to dialogue with Fru Ndi, having discovered that the man was too powerful for any adventurer of his caliber to challenge. As the local adage goes: “Man pass you, carry him bag.” But his greatest disappointment, our source said has been the defeat of Paulinus Jua. Although he and his “gang” were very aware of the popularity of John Fru Ndi, they least expected Jua garner barely seven votes. The defeat reportedly frightened the “gang” and they are running now helter skelter.
For his part, the main victim, Paulinus Jua is reportedly contemplating to quit politics at the end of his current parliamentary mandate, although the game has already quit him. A very dark political future awaits him should he dare attempt a third mandate. His division of origin, Boyo, has put the final nail on his political coffin when they rejected him by 100% during the last SDF provincial primaries for the post of National Chairman of the party.

No peace deal between Fru Ndi and Ngwasiri

The authorities of the Social Democratic Front, SDF have frowned at a misleading headline in The Herald newspaper of Monday 8 – 9, 2006. The article reported from Yaounde and citing sources from Buea and Bamenda is said to have angered SDF militants across the country. Captioned “Fru Ndi vs. Ngwasiri peace framework announced”, it alleges that Fru Ndi and Ngwasiri have agreed in principle to reconcile.
A certain Divine Mokosso, said to be a Buea resident claimed that his NGO was at the center of the deal.
But the claim is said to be a fake and questionable one. Several attempts by this reporter to get any official of the SDF party comment on the issue proved futile, but a close aid of the National Chairman, John Fru Ndi who requested for anonymity categorically refuted the allegations. The source described the publication as a fiction and an attempt by detractors to derail the party from its direction. According to the source, the preoccupation of the party now was the organization of the Bamenda convention and not peace moves with adventurers.
The source said the SDF, and not Fru Ndi expelled Ngwasiri. And that if there had to be any reconciliation, it would be between the party and Ngwasiri and not with Fru Ndi. The source did not see any stakes that would cause the party to engage dialogue with Ngwasiri whom the party has expelled, just like several others.
However, the Fru Ndi source questioned the integrity of the said peace broker, Mokosso Divine and referred to him as a quack seeking for cheap publicity. According to the source, no one has ever met Fru Ndi at the end of an NGO seeking for reconciliation with the rebels.
It should be noted that the said Mokosso Divine was in the center of another cheap publicity during the Buea University crisis. He came out with a bogus claim that his NGO has struck a peace deal between the students and the authorities, a claim that was rejected by the students. He is widely known in Buea, where he lives as an impostor and a nuisance.

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Mukete
Hahaha. The greatest political joggler in the forum .Wherever the wind blows so is he.
I wont be surprised if tomorrow you are appointed as govt delegate for Kumba.

[mukete]

This is THE ORIGINAL MUKETE writing!

When I see people trying to use strategies that have failed, I laugh. Readers would recall how those who were against me last year actually GERMINATED many "MUKETES" to distort what I have been writing. Last year, on realizing that I was too hard to be intimidated, they started using names like "Mukete Senior", Mukete Junior", "Mukete 4", "Sir Mukete", etc. Some even went as far as using these names to ask for forgiveness to give the impression that it was I, THE ORIGINAL MUKETE that was asking for forgiveness.

But what all these SHIT NO CLEAN LASSES forgot to understand was the simple fact that of ALL THOSE WHO WRITE HERE, I, THE ORIGINAL MUKETE, has a unique and original way of writting. Any reade to this forum, even when getting up from sleep, would be able to identify what I, THE ORIGINAL MUKETE has written. I am not praising my writing style or ability, but I am staing the clean observation on the originality of what I write. To quote one reader last year, at the peak of when some SHIT NO CLEAN LASSES were using my name, "NO ONE CAN WRITE LIKE MUKETE." This was the same writer who stated that, :This Mukete is a Rock."

This year around, when these same Baboons wanted to transform this forum into a congregation to offer undeserved praises to their stupid God - Ni John Fru Ndi - I stood against them. I did not only tell them that there were wrong, I pushed them into their shells. Some gathered courage and started a fight against me but when they realized that no degree of intimidations would bend me, they tried their old technique to see if it would work this time. This is how another "Patrick Ngando Mukete" germinated in this forum. Following this outdated method to confuse readers, I immediately fired another truth and fact about their Ntarikon god. Since then, the said "Patrick Mukete" has gone into hidding.

Unable to withstand the truth I bring to this forum, they are now trying to test another priimitive method. Another "MUKETE" has been germinated to misrepresent the ORIGINAL MUKETE. In doing this the SHIT NO CLEAN LASSES using this primitive method forget to know that I have since posted an identification number in this forum and that I have asked readers to keep this identification number for future references. I had to do this because I predicted all what is happening now.

I understand why these blind supporters of Ni John Fru Ndi are so confused. The Bamenda Convention is fast approaching and they stupidly think that my truth can bring about Ni John Fru Ndi's defeat during the convention. Who born dog? Who tell them that I am interested in the outcome of the Bamenda convention? Who tell them that Ni John Fru Ndi's position as Chairman of his own faction of the SDF is threatened? These Baboons fail to understand that Ni John Fru Ndi has enslaved all the delegates. Besides, all the delegates know that if Ni John Fru Ndi falls, all of them will have to fall with him. M. Mbami of Douala and Ni John Fru Ndi are the only people who know how the finances of the SDF are managed. The fact that Littoral SDF is boosting that M. Mbami is the only unchallenged contesting Candidate for the SDF treasury, points to the mafia that Ni John Fru Ndi has instituted in the SDF. This is a man who has not presented any financial statement on the SDF since it was created.

To hell with the 100% votes that Ni John Fru Ndi is already sure to collect from the Bamenda convention. To hell to those who will vote and will be voted during the Bamenda convention. What has a pig got to do with a muslim shrine?

To ask Knganjo, Watesih, Klamenceau, Fon Lawrence, Akoson, AAron Nyangkew (the most experienced Anglophone Journalist), Renne Murena (the face behind the mask) if it is another person writing with the name "MUKETE" would be just like asking the Pope in the vatican if he believes in the virgin Mary.

I invite to germinate more MUKETE,s and let our able readers watch and see if this will make me put the LIGHT I carry under the bed. If they have refused to see the LIGHT and have decided to remain in nocturnal darkness, then they should allow other readers to see the LIGHT I bring.

As I always say, THESE BABOONS HAVE NOT READ ANYTHING YET. I WILL PUSH THEM INTO HIDDING. Rexon Washow alias Tayong can not be taking cover to write the way he is now doing. Let them continue to use their names as I, THE ORIGINAL MUKETE" has continued to do. If I were to take their harmless threats into consideration, I would have since changed my name.

I invite many more "MUKETEs) to come up before I post my most recent research findings.

And before I end this contribution, I want to warn all of them not to jump into dancing that they are diverting me from my duties. I am merely writing this clarification just because I have nothing now urgent to present. They have been asked to use insults or my names to divert me from writing. If the fast approaching Bamenda convention is their problem, then I would like to tell them that my vision goes farv far beyond. Bamenda convention or no Bamenda convention, has nothing to do with my position. I even care less about the Yaounde convention. And I expect nothing good from both.

My attention is focused on those who have been using us for their selfish interests. And no one would dispute the fact that after President Paul Biya, the person who comes next in the destruction of our country is NI JOHN FRU NDI. This is the bitter truth and those who would not want to hear this can go and hang. And if I see them hanging simply because I dare criticize a butcher of democracy, then I will be the one to make sure that the hanging exercise goes on well.

Mukete
(The same yesterday; The same today; The same tomorrow; and the same forever)

[mukete]

Readers are seeing the same old game resurfacing here. People are now using the name "MUKETE" to cause confusion or divert attention. Unfortunately for them, readers can judge whenever I write. Only people like Klamenceau wouldn't be quick to realize that it was someone else writing as
MUKETE on May 12, 2006 at 10.59 AM. I see the hand of REXON WASHOW alias TAYONG in this childish game. It wouldn't surprise me if people like Klamenceau, Watesih, Akoson, Aaron Nyangkwe, and Knganjo are the people using the name Mukete. They have done this before. Yet they labor in vain as they try to use the name Mukete to divert attention.

No one will doubt the fact that my writing and contributions are UNIQUE in this forum and they carry an originality that no one can copy or imitate.

A close look at my contributions would reveal that my name does not appear on the front page as "MUKETE" but as mukete. If readers doubt and want to be very such, they should use my e-mail address (mukete_l@yahoo.com) that accompanies my contributions to send me e-mails. When I receive the e-mails I will confirm it through this very forum.

Before next monday I will be posting a research finding. My originality will be there. Facing defeat, my opponents are using the methods that failed. They have not yet seen anything.

Mukete
(Original Mukete)

[BenB]

See how this forum fuels discussions and influences decisions over the SDF debate.

Someone said here that we, on this forum, are wasting our time and energies writing things on the internet to insult Ni John, things which the grassroots militants don't read. That person said the grassroots know and trust Ni John and no amount of writing on the internet will change their minds about Ni John.

That sounds nearly true. Some of us have this much access to the internet just because of the nature of our jobs. Some of us work at cybercafés (internet shops), international organisations or other multinational companies that give us more-than-ordinary access to the internet which the average Cameroonian cannot afford.

As for those abroad, they can sleep with their fingers on their home computer with a magic devise that maybe notifies them when their hated Watesih or Akoson or Mukete or Klemenceau has landed stuff for them to hit right back, fire-for-fire.

Not so for the average "pawa" militant in the hinterlands of Akwaya or Moloundou or Furu Awa, who may not even have electricity in the first place and only waits for the opportunity to "vote for change" even if their vote won't count. Internet access is not easy even for the fellows on Commercial Avenue Bamenda or Limbe for whom internet connectivity is more a headache than kick-starting the engine of a 1960 Volks Wagen Beattle.

Internet access is equally a problem in another sense even for the budding intellectuals (students) in Molyko-Buea and Bonamoussadi-Yaounde who have to do opportunity cost over their last 200frs between eating "atchombo" and buying one hour of unsure internet time. Most times they end up using just about half that time because of poor connectivity or they have to first read through a bulk of mails accumulated over weeks when they couldn't afford the choice; little time is thus left for them to read silly quarrels like ours on the internet.

So who is reading all the stuff we post here and who is influenced by them? Someone here said only us. We write am, we read am we sef sef, eh? Dog di back, train di pass like say notin no di happen, eh?

Not quite true. Check this with any of the protagonists in this SDF fracas. They use this forum like the Bible. They (on both sides) use statements from this forum. Some even copy and print out whole postings or paragraphs from here to demonstrate how well their message is understood. Some names on this forum are already household names around the country and among those involved in this debate. Some of you might have already launched a political career through this forum.

And if you know what two-step flow means in mass communication, you'll understand that opinion is formed at some level, distributed down to some level and sips further down however gradually and "noiselessly" to the people, the grassroots.

Let's mind what we post on this forum. They go far. They have a consequence on peoples lives, on our democracy, on the SDF, on Ni John, on Ngwasiri, etc...

BenF

[BenB]

Aaron, you didn't count well. It's two provinces NW & Litt. for Ni John. None for Ngwasiri. 2-0, eh?

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Ben
Well said but yet the trouble remains. Enigmatic men and women simply missing the mark and punching the air. Tonnes of article on John Fru Ndi ,Ngwasisri ,Muna, etc when the man from Ako hasnt yet known whether he is Cameroonian or Nigerian nor the Akwaya man made up his mind whether to pay allegiance to Etoudi or Abuja.I was in Cameroon recently and the worst thing I did was to go to Mbengwi Muna's home. What an eyesore for a public icon like the Munas.The best thing he did was to built a prison ,now he wanna lead a political party.

Its time we begin to dig out the skeletons from the cupboards of those that wanna betray the anglophones for the second time instead unfruitful party politiking.

Tayong

[Chim]

What is realy happening to our beloved fatherland.Where is Prof Kale, Where is Prof Asonganyi. Can these two respected gentlemen bring about the most expected reconcillation of the various factions of the SDF.If Cameroon qualified for the PPTE, it was thanks to this party being the only oposition party that has stood the test of time.Please fellow Cameroonians every Government needs a strong oposition party to cater for the checks and balances. Let us not destroy our only hope to social independence. The SDF must remain united to bring about the most needed change in this Country call Cameroon. Just when the SDF's strugle for the formation of an independent electoral committee has sailed through, the likes of Prof Ngwasiri and other feeble minded Cameroonians are fighting to destroy the only oposition party left in the Country.I am calling on social peace loving Cameroonians to stop all attempts by the forces of division. We should all pray for the sucess of the Bamenda convention come May 26th-28th. The outcome of which will be a turning point in Cameroon politics. I am by this media sending a hand of fellowship to Prof Asonganyi to be present at the Bamenda rendez-vous. He has been very instrumental in the party during his tenue in office. Let us bury the hatchet and let byegones remain byegones.

[BenB]

Chim,

You've launched a call for Kalle and Asonganyi to help heal the wounds in the SDF. Read below and see what happened to Kalle (and you know what happened to Asonganyi only recently) who brought good ideas to the SDF and say if anyone would make use of his reconcilaition overtures even now. Read on:

In the midst of the deadlock in Cameroon, during the Ghost Towns when this country reached the breaking point of extremeism, when the opposition led by the SDF said, "No National Conference, No Nothing", a Cameroonian of goodwill had a proposal to break the deadlock.

A very enlightened Cameroonian, renowned for his academic writing and teaching from the 1970s, and with a record as a legal luminary of no common standing across universities in the US and elsewhere, came home with a proposal.

Knowledgeable but soft-spoken Professor Ndiva Kofelle Kalle took a break from his cool teaching career in universities in the US and elsewhere.

He came home with a proposal for the love of fatherland, for the sake of pulling together warring factions who had each found comfort in their political war trenches, either desperately pushed to the wall (Biya) or glorifying in the popular response to their obstinance and intransigence (Ni John).

Kalle proposed that we set aside calls for a National Conference and settle for a compromise Constitutional Conference. We wanted a National Conference to sort out those who had ruined Cameroon and punish them. The Biya regime was scared to death. Biya said in Parliament, "La Conférence Nationale est sans objet". To Biya's supporters, that is those who needed protection including the military, Biya was right and they'd stake their necks for him to defend that position.

Ni John and the rest of the opposition said, "No National Conference, No Nothing". We knew they were right. People must pay for what they plunder. They must pay for their sins. We must punish them. We were right. Ni John and his friends were right. We stood behind them, ready to stake our necks to make that happen. We paid the price in varied ways. Some of our friends were killed. Yet we kept on. Victory was our goal.

But thoughtful Kalle knew there needed to be progress. The political terrain is a world of fallible men, not one of perfect angels. He knew from his education and exposure that in the face of extremism, compromise is the key, the golden mean. In Kalle's thinking the Constitutional Conference could even be a way round to the National Conference.

We didn't see his point. We forgot that politics is not all arm-twisting. It requires some clever tactics too. With the National Conference, we'd achieve electoral reforms that would fix a level playing field for all parties and candidates and there would be institutional reforms that would separate powers so that the President won't manipulate Parliament and the Courts anymore.

With those changes we'd easily accede to power because there was no question we were popular and could win HANDS DOWN in a free and fair election. Thereafter, we'd organise OUR National Conference and there, punish the "sinners".

Diplomatic services in Yaounde had used their secret intelligence gathering methods to understand that though Biya also feared the reforms, he was more disposed to accept the Constitutional Conference if that would save him from a National Conference.

So we could have had it, but due to our characteristic intransigence that continues to this day, we lost that chance. He was scorned by both sides. We called Kalle names. The Biya regime called him names. They said Kalle was a trap sent to subtly lure them to their doom. We said Kalle had been imported by Biya and France to distract the opposition from their "noble goal" to have a National Conference that would cleanse Cameroon.

Now we can see just how cleansed of evil people Cameroon would have been had we taken over then, since we were the angels. It was as if the whole purpose of politics was to hold a National Conference. We prefered to glorify in stagnation, rather than make progress through tactical compromise.

Afterall, we were being hailed as the toughest of the tough. We were punching the air and screaming "Pawa to de pipo" though it has turned out we really meant, On the people's blood and standing on their backs, we'll negotiate our personal enrichment.

The gentleman Kalle wasn't discouraged. He folded his golden file and resorted to push his ideas from WITHIN. He joined the SDF, but find out how much of his good ideas have been accepted. You know just how much persecution Kalle has suffered from people in the SDF who fear his ideas are too brilliant to be allowed to thrive in the SDF.

And here we are today running on the spot and glorifying in our "popularity". Going round and round in the wilderness like Biblical Israelites under God's curse, just because we refused to open our eyes to Kalle's roadmap. Visionary man, Kalle is.

Today someone here is using Kalle's name to show that their Bamenda Convention is pulling support, so no need for reconciliation. Someone says he's vying for post of vice president. He well may. And drowning man would cling even to a snake. But where are the other vice presidents? Where is Vice president Odille Mengue Mballa? With Ngwasiri.

Like Kalle, that's how some of us come to town with SELFLESS ideas to bridge two warring parties on this forum. Like Kalle, we are instead scorned by extremists. And it's they who need the bridge most. They want us to say where we belong. We won't be discouraged unless an online referendum plebiscites us to leave YOUR forum alone.

Start voting now.

BenF

[Chim]

Thank you for your write up BenB. You rather sound like I am crying over spilt milk.As far as I know Prof. Kale is still a strong supporter of the only oposition party SDF. I know him personally to be a good fighter.He has never given up despite all odds. In-fact when he lost in the primaries at one time to parliement I thought he was going to give up but he did not.So I know it is not late , he can still do something. Prof likes it when things realy get tuff because he is quite a tuff man. If the rummour becomes reality the issue of a Yaounde Convention by the Ngwasiri camp is history.What should be done now will be to put all hands on deck and continue with the Bamenda Convention, believe me the SDF will come out this time around stronger than the 90's. Note that if we fail to plan, then we are certainly planing to fail.

[mukete]

Professor Kale is true to himself.
He was yesterday elected in Kumba to stand for the post of SG of the SDF at the Bamenda elective convention Come May 26.
Kale has nothing to negotiate with Power hungry people like Ngwasiri, Asonganyi, Muna, Nkemgu etc. Kale droped his earlier interest post of 2nd vice National chairman in favour of Osih Joshua Nambangi.
Please, rebels must drop their arms before sueing for reconciliation.
The Yaounde Convention of Ngwasiri and Muna has died a natural death.
If they could appologise, the Bamenda Convention can reconsider their case. Asongayi has a right of appeal because his dismissal was in default of attendace. The convention will save them if the act intelligently.
Since the appeal could decided to play 'Pontius Pilate' it is clear that events have overtaken Ngwasiri and co. Only an appology can save them.

[BenB]

Thanks for the infoganda, mr/mrs "mukete". We trust The Post will confirm your story tomorrow morning. And pray that keeps the SDF in ONE piece.

BenF

[Chim]

Thanks for the info mukete. This is the best piece of info received in a long time. I pray that Prof Kale should sail through. He happens to be the only one who can deliver the goods.I will advise any level headed SDF delegate in Bamenda to cast his/her vote for him. I am still pleading to all social peace loving Cameroonians not to destroy the only oposition party left to salvage us from the highhandedness of the rulling junta.GOD SAVE US.
Emmanuel Chim

[BenB]

Someone here says Ngwasiri and his group have
committed political suicide; that after the
convention(s), they’ll be erased from the Cameroon political map. Possible. They’re on a suicide mission and I believe they know, more than anyone else. And we know of course, that people on suicide mission leave
nothing to chance. It’s either they make it or they fail woefully.

Ngwasiri’s group may, therefore, be putting in everything to succeed. They surely know the price to pay (their political career) would be worth the cause they would be sacrificing for. So, if they failed, the
consequences may only be regretted.

Now, only a fool would contend with the imminent death of suicide fighters (in this case the expected political death of Ngwasiri and Muna) instead of taking measures to avert the probable damage.

Except, like the wicked woman in the King Solomon story, the Chairman would contend with a bloody piece of a supposedly beloved child (the SDF), even if Ngwasiri cut off only one precious arm. And what if
the child were to be cut in the middle?

Which is why I continue saying that, even
one-and-a-half or one-and-one-quarter conventions will make 16 years of blood and suffering wasted years for SDF militants. The leaders won’t have any regrets. Some of them have already reaped enough. To them the
people can go to hell.

Doomsday-11. Less than two weeks to go.

BenF