Prof. Ngwasiri : Point Of Correction

My attention has just been drawn to a piece you published in The Post entitled "Ngwasiri Answers Professor Nkwi" (The Post No.0755 April 5, 2006). In that piece you assert that I wrote an article entitled "Varsity Don Rescues Fru Ndi from Insults."

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I did not write that article nor did I order it to be written. Kini Nsom, a journalist wrote the article and Ngwasiri, true to his personality, was more obsessed with my name than with the author of the article.

No wonder he cannot remember that he resigned as Chairman of the National Advisory Council, NAC. The day he resigned as chair was the day he turned his back to the institution he helped create. Little did he know that he would need it one day? It is rather too late, sir.

I want to be educated on the constitution of the SDF and how the members of NAC are selected? As a party organ, are its members randomly selected or there is another process, which confers its member's powers over an elected organ, National Executive Council, NEC? Answers to these questions should permit Ngwasiri and his group to know that NAC remains an advisory body.

Has the position from which he resigned suddenly become so important because of his inordinate thirst for power? If so, he should go about it in a constitutional manner. Indeed, evidence exists to prove that my learned colleague resigned from NAC and he should cease to mislead the militants of our great party.

As a learned law professor, he knows that proposed amendments do not become law until they are actually amended. Indeed, within the party, there is ongoing debate with respect to amendments of certain provisions of the constitution.

As far as I know, the position of chair of the social and cultural policy commission is still elective. Until those amendments are endorsed by the convention, I still stand for democratic process as defined by the statutes of the party.

In the last ordinary convention I was elected Chair of the Social and Cultural Affairs Committee. I have served honourably. A draft report of its work is available. I will be running for the same position. It is within this context that I took part in the primaries at the District, Divisional and Provincial levels, which culminated in the successful Provincial Conference at Fundong in the spirit of the current constitution of the party.

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I thank Ngwasiri for inviting me to join his group. I am declining that invitation. The fact that I was in Fundong for the Provincial Conference should convince him and his group that I stand for constitutionality.

Lots of things Ngwasiri stands for today, really amaze me. He accused Fru Ndu of tribalism, nepotism and many other things. Why has it taken him 16 years to realise that strategic ethnicity is a vital political tool?

My learned colleague served as chair of NAC, and before he resigned, did he ever draw NEC's attention to the change of the status quo or advise the Chairman of SDF, Ni John Fru Ndi to detribalize NAC and other party organs? Why only now?

It is now time for all of us to rebuild our great party. Let us not shatter the dreams of our people and jeopardize or delay the social deconstruction of Cameroon as we look beyond 2020.

My learned colleague and his group will be contributing to the rebuilding of our party if they join SDF militants on May 26 in Bamenda for a constructive engagement and debate for at total birth of the party.

Paul Nchoji Nkwi (PhD)

Comments

[Klemenceau]

Mukete

You are the greatest joker and fiction writer I have ever known. It would have been better for you to use you writing skills in a better way rather than wasting your time that you are against Fru Ndi. This man Fru Ndi is not the type you can drag through the mud successfully because he is the light in the SDF and only people with hidden agendas and selfish interest like you (Mukete), Prof Ngwasiri et al can't see it because hatred has blinded you.
Who told you that there will be a Yaounde convention? Why are you so stupid so much so that you can't even see the handwriting on the wall?
Mukete, don't pretend that you didn't read what I have been writing to you. I want you to give proofs of your allegations against Fru Ndi.
You have been claiming to be the light bringer in this forum. But I want to tell you that that is just what angels of darkness do. They will never tell someone that they want to destroy else they won't have victims. So by constantly claiming victory, praising yourself and calling yourself the bringer of light, is just the tactics of the evil one. Mukete you are an Evil Genus. Planning evil is like reading the alphabets to you.
I have called your attention to the following and I will continue doing so.

Proof your allegations that Fru Ndi Killed his wife
That Fru Ndi killed Makoge
That Fru Ndi is a Rosicrucian
That Fru Ndi planned and allowed John Korhtem to be killed
Bring details on how Fru Ndi made SDF militants in Fundong to drink the blood of an unknown animal.
Explain to us how Fru Ndi has been able to take many people hostage through his magical powers.
Mukete you claim you care so much about people. Please tell us about the death of Esseme. Don't pretend that you don't know that one of you in Kumba is a butcher of people, a murderer.

Many have asked the above and many other questions to you Mukete in this forum but you have always ignored them. It puzzles me that someone who claims to be bringing light will refuse to throw light on important questions and issues raised here.

Mukete you are a bringer of darkness. Your postings here have helped to derail many from the truth. Sometimes you write fiction while at other times you just do fantasy writing. I advised you before now to make good use of your time by writing short stories for primaries schools.
Mukete you are nothing but a frustrated fool. You do everything to make people think that you are writing sense here. Let me tell you that some here accept what you write because they are related to Ngwasiri or they hate Fru Ndi and therefore forced to support Ngwasiri. If they were sincere and objective they would have told you that you were writing fiction.
I want everyone here to see if Mukete will talk about the above mention points. He will ignore them because he framed up the stories.
Mukete you better apologize for lying to readers in this forum.

Shalom
Klemenceau.

[Watesih]

Fon Lawrence,Klemenceau,Kgnanjo,Enoh,Boh,Jokwi,
Atangha,Nyankwe,Sammy,and all social democrats,
My propositions are already on langaisins@yahoo.co.uk.We should do everything to channel our ideas to him on time ,to give him room to put them together.
Fon Lawrence`s idea to have someone like Langaisin to deputise was wonderful!

Mukete
You are a mad dog barking in the wilderness.Shame is driving you to your grave because you can not imagine that the Fru Ndi you took money to run down is waxing strong,but you are instead announcing the defeat and illnesses of your
co-disciples of doom.Just think of all the readers who have disavowed of you for the past week.Everybody has been blasting your childish vague-sing song about Fru Ndi,and now you are completely disoriented.Can you tell readers any good topic you contributed to on this forum that did not have to do with insulting Fru Ndi,Bayangis,Bakossis,
Agbormbai.Is there any social issue about Cameroon that you this shameless ackward
man can write home about? Where are you going to have the ideas from? Do you think writing in an international forum has to do
with ,"shit no wipe lasses,hypocrasy,talking
about the hair on your 'rod','hole'.Who is this filthy morally loose adult who cannot even hide his ignorance to the international community.
Mukete you always bring in Agbormbai`s name as if he were a child who can`t defend himself.He owes his salvation on this forum to Mukete! Cheap wits.Why is
Agbormbai not sending you motions of support
on daily bases as he did before? He discovered he was fast becoming a laughing stock internationally because of a mad man like you,and he took his stand.That is also
the character of an intellectual.
Mukete make your complaint to the POST to send you the e-mail of the person who has been writing under your name and you will have it.Apart from that stop begging for favours from the Ngwasiris.When somebody
even wants to beg for favours,he does it from a winning team,but you are doing it from people who have disgraced themselves at all levels.
Mukete you have the blood of a hangs man flowing in your veins.You learnt to be treacherous from your family,and we can easily see it being played out here.You know the Ngwasiris are at the lowest ebb,so
as befitting the family you are from,you want to sink them further.You have not even
made mention whether the idea of reposting an article that Ngwasiri Christopher posted several days ago is out of treachery,or because you are completely disoriented and lack ideas.Look at the article again,there`s no date under it.There`s another comment of yours immediately after it ,then posted by Mukete May 13th.So there`s no doubt to know that you cut Christopher`s article from somewhere ,to show how praisesinging has been keeping you on this forum.We would have seen Posted by Christopgher Ngwasiri,May 13th at the end,but you instead made your comment at the end of this article which is not yours.Mukete you have people of your calibre that you can fool,but here you are dealing with another level.
Nobody has ever been afraid of you here and will never be afraid of you.We have remained consistent in our bid to see to it that the SDF remains intact and at the same time beating the demon out of you.
Last time you admitted that it doesn`t matter whether you write as Willy,Mukete 1,
Mukete 2,Mukete 4.But today you accuse people of writing for you.Which right thinking person would even want to spend a second thinking about you,lets not talk of carrying a name stained with the blood of Lawyer Esseme.Mention of your name brings a lot of eerie feelings to Cameroonians.When you first started writing using your name,you must have been very proud to be known as a kin of the butcher of Kumber,but when you soon dis covered your foolhardy,
you have been looking for names that sound more Euphemistic.But everytime people have
still unmasked you,because you don`t know that the style is the man.Very soon Ngwasiri Christopher is going to write for you,because you have become too frantic.

[momo]

mukete is a star.
IF NOT WHY ARE MANY PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT HIM?.IF HE HAS NO TRUTH THEN WHY DO SOME OF US EVEN CARE TO WRITE BACK.I THINK THERE IS ALOT OF TRUTH COS EVERYBODY REACTS JUST WHEN HE WRITES.OH MUKETE KEEP ON AS I ALWAYS SAY.
AS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE WRITEN USING OTHERS NAMES.KNOW THAT GOD IS SEING YOU.I SAID BEFORE THAT IF THE CONVENTION IN YAOUNDE DOES NOT HOLD,THEN PROF NGWASIRI WILL REMAIN THE GREAT MAN WHO CALLED FRU NDI TO ORDER.ALL WHAT FRU NDI IS DOING NOW IS TO PLEASE THE PEOPLE THANKS TO THE PROF.HE HAD SOLD SDF BEFORE NOW.HE IS JUST TRYING TO BE SOMEONE.
GOD BLESS NGWASIRI.

[momo]

mukete is a star.
IF NOT WHY ARE MANY PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT HIM?.IF HE HAS NO TRUTH THEN WHY DO SOME OF US EVEN CARE TO WRITE BACK.I THINK THERE IS ALOT OF TRUTH COS EVERYBODY REACTS JUST WHEN HE WRITES.OH MUKETE KEEP ON AS I ALWAYS SAY.
AS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE WRITEN USING OTHERS NAMES.KNOW THAT GOD IS SEING YOU.I SAID BEFORE THAT IF THE CONVENTION IN YAOUNDE DOES NOT HOLD,THEN PROF NGWASIRI WILL REMAIN THE GREAT MAN WHO CALLED FRU NDI TO ORDER.ALL WHAT FRU NDI IS DOING NOW IS TO PLEASE THE PEOPLE THANKS TO THE PROF.HE HAD SOLD SDF BEFORE NOW.HE IS JUST TRYING TO BE SOMEONE.
GOD BLESS NGWASIRI.

[BenB]

14 May: Doomsday-12

At the time the early dissidents left the SDF, the fear for the unknown was still strong in the SDF. Article 8.2 was still most dreaded like the guillotine. Militants and middle-level officials could not openly follow the dissenters even if they understood and supported their cause.

Now, dissenting SDF officials say Fru Ndi has so over-used 8.2 and thus cheapened so much that few are scared anymore. They say Fru Ndi now needs 8.2 in a spraying machine because he would be facing a crowd of dissenters.

Never before have so many officials, within NEC itself, and among provincial officials, openly challenged the Chairman. It took about half the members of NEC and some officials from around the provinces to sign a memorandum in Febbruary, calling on NAC under Ngwasiri to step in and halt the downward drift of the party.

That led to what has been described as the "Ngwasiri-NAC coup" but which Ngwasiri and his supporters consider the most historic radical step towards salvation in the SDF.

Some more officials within NEC are just watching the tides. Other provincial and local officials along with their militants are being cautious just not to be crushed under the feet of the tussling elephants.

Back to the 1990s, each time a party official was 8.2ed, we said he had no constituency and so he left the SDF alone. We fooled ourselves that the party remained “strong” even after several departures. We forgot that even if militants don’t walk out with a departing dissident, the impact down the ranks could never be measured. many die-hard militants quietly loss faith in the movement though they don't walk out openly.

Political adherence is most visible when it is passionate, either we are chanting “pawa to de pipo” or we are expressing disapproval. When it’s not passionate, it’s quiet. It just wanes and withers and gradually, before we know it, the love has waxed cold.

That’s when, as we’ve witnessed, fewer and fewer militants show up at rallies. Rallies where, in the past, pulled such huge crowds that left no space even for a pin to drop.

Of course, we might not have heard any militants declaring they were quitting the party. Militants’ voices would hardly be heard even if they spoke out.

Officials are more in view so they are heard. The reason why we often say only the intellectuals are making noise while the grassroots militants are solidly behind Ni John. Look again.

Just look around you and think back to the roaring 1990s, you’ll see how many early day diehard militants have become skeptical and lost steam. Most of them haven’t joined another party. A few might have returned to the CPDM, perhaps to secure daily bread than because they admire the CPDM.

They are still SDF militants at heart, but they have sworn they won’t have anything to do with the SDF as long as the present leadership holds the reins. We know many of such. You know some too. Many of those militants and others still “within” are waiting on the sidelines to see the outcome of the Convention(s).

In fact, many are just looking out for a chance to punish the present leadership and would follow just anyone who’s giving Ni John and his group a hard time. Who knows, perhaps that’s where Ngwasiri’s confidence stems from.

This is how bad things look as we sit back, dreaming and allowing two or one-and-a-half, or one-and-one-quarter conventions to hold.

Doomsday-12, less than 2 weeks to go.

BenF

[momo]

BenB
that is just the truth about the sdf for now.what you see is what true sdf militants see.I have seen that you are really concern.but there is nothing we can do as there people here who are so blind and still hold that only fru ndi can keep the party on.Yes fru ndi will win.but what will be the future of sdf?is it going to be strong as before?.let us stop fooling ourselves that the sdf can be like before.except fru ndi also admits his fault.

[momo]

BenB
that is just the truth about the sdf for now.what you see is what true sdf militants see.I have seen that you are really concern.but there is nothing we can do as there people here who are so blind and still hold that only fru ndi can keep the party on.Yes fru ndi will win.but what will be the future of sdf?is it going to be strong as before?.let us stop fooling ourselves that the sdf can be like before.except fru ndi also admits his fault.

[rexon]

Mbu B,

Your ideas, criticisms and suggestions are well taken.

Regards.

[Mbu.B]

I pay homage to Rexon,BenB as well as,to all contributors of this forum, who push forward the spirit of brotherliness.
Only a big mind knows how to make things up, incase a brother feels slighted.
There is no battle winning or points heaping.If my guess is good as yours, some of us will be politicians in that part of Cameroon posterity drives us to. So this forum turns out to be a huge political science university.
People like Mukete who sees himself winning in a never-say-die attitude should have something to learn.
Cheers!

[Klemenceau]

BenB

There is going to be no two or two and a half conventions as you may put it. And there is no way you can compare the 1990s and 2006. Know that a new marriage or love is always very strong and enjoyable but as time goes on that relation gets old too and sometimes the love gradually reduces/fade. If rallies are not as full as they use to be in the 90s, it is not solely because of the leadership of the party. We have all said we need a change in the SDF but let no opportunists come in to cause confusion and divide the party because of selfish reasons.
Since 1990 the SDF has been fighting and don't forget also that the CPDM has been changing strategies. Many people have decided to join the CPDM because they want to survive their family from poverty. There are many who are in the CPDM and still vote for the SDF during elections.
BenB, there will be one and only one convention and that will be in Bamenda. Anyone who is ready to challenge Fru Ndi should do so in the Bamenda convention. I know the delegates will vote Fru Ndi if there is no one fit to replace him. We are careful not to let the SDF fall into the hands of adventurers who will sell it to the CPDM.
No fear man, the SDF will bounce back stronger after the convention in Bamenda.

Shalom
Klemenceau.

[mukete]

Mbu

If I have committed a crime by not congratulating all the suggestions you have been making, then let it be so. I will never! "People like Mbu B. who sees himself winning only when people respond positively to his write ups should have something to learn". (In line with your last sentence above)

Even if you have to write Part 100 of all what you have been writing, I will not have a say on it. It is funny you do not see the clear fact that there are people in this forum using my name to insult others and to blackmail me. And what do yu say of others like Christopher Ngwasiri who also praise me? If I made mention of myself - call it praising myself - it was simply because other readers were using my name to give me a different identity and false representation. Strangely after reading all what I wrote, you came out only with the fact that I praise myself. And even if I do, what is wrong in it. If I have light in me, it is my responsibility to personally bring that light on the table for others to see and use. And when I bring the light, I have to project it as something good. I do not need others to come in front of me and be singing whether the light I carry is good or not. I SING THE PRAISE MYSELF IF THE CONDITIONS DEMAND THAT I DO SO! I DO NOT APPEAL TO READERS TO SO ...

I want to tell you that I have been reading your write ups with a very critical mind and with a watch and see position, because many have taken such soft, apparently neutral appeal-seeking tendences only to finally expose their selfish interests. You should be frank to accept that despite the many "parts" you have been writing and intend to be writing, I have never commented, although I have been writing on a daily basis.

Writing in "parts" has much to say. It gives the impression that there may be something in the background and in the writer's mind, which is yet to come out. This is even taken seriously if the reader does not know how many "parts" the writer has prepared. The very first "parts" could be mere "introductions" that talk only of "Generalities" that covers all the camps and groups involved. In such "Generalities" the author merely gives the views of the different camps or groups without commenting or judging. Some readers use this as a trap to get the opinion of most readers before finally deciding on how and when to bring out THE MAIN POINTS AND POSITION THEY BELIEVES IN. This is exactly what you, Mbu, have been doing here.

You started with GENERALITIES, pointing out the positions of the different groups here (Ni John Fru's supporters, Those against Ni John Fru Ndi, The SCNC, etc) without saying which is correct or wrong, or better still where you stand. After watching readers react and take position, you are finally landing with the position you have in mind. I deliberately refused NOT to fall into such "intellectual" traps.

I do not live by inertia and so I do not just dive into praising or not praising the INITIAL "PARTS" of people's write ups, especially when not fully sure of what the next parts would look like. When you meet a house on fire, you immediately propose solutions aimed at saving the lives of those inside the house. It is only after saving the lives of those trapped inside the house that we start asking what happened and why, so as to be better prepared for the future. You took the wrong approach in your apparent attempt to save the "fire" in this forum.

I suspected you right from the start of your "Part 1", and it is my right to be careful. You couldn't have met the SDF or Cameroon on FIRE as you rightly want readers to believe, and then you start by going back to the HISTORY that we ALL know. Do you think there is any strange in your initial write ups? If you have solutions or treatments to bring, you shiould have done so immediately. By diving into irrelevant and time wasting and well known history, the fire could have destroyed and killed everyone. Or did you minimize the reasoning abilities of readers before writing in parts for them to easily understand? If this was the case, Mr Mbu, then you made a big misjusdgement. Even if I never went to University, I must assure you that you are dealing here with intellectuals who do not need to read in bits to understand. And even with my own low level of education, you must have realized from my write ups that on one dare doubt the intellectual capability of any Cameroonian. The Almighty God made all of us "genuses", and I am no exception. Call this praising myself if you like.

Keep up writing and please allow those who want to comment or throw praises on you to do so. If you need to pass judgement, do not hit on those who do not have the "RESPECT" to openly comment on what you have written. Write tons of suggestions - which is your right - but rest assured that I will not say whether it is sweet, bitter or sour. The only time I will come in - and forcefully too- is when I realize that you want to make this forum a congregation to offer praises to some particular people while at the same time either refusing readers their rights to praise others or to criticize the person you praise. Until you reach this highest level of provocation - which I pray you don't-, rest assured that I will have completely nothing to do with the "parts" you write.

Look Mr Mbu, many people have come up in a gentle, soft, neutral and appealing manner just to end up exposing their true colours. But when they do, I make sure I use all my strength, energy, soul and might to protect this forum from one-sided sermons. In this you can trust me. And believe me, if anyone dare raise a "personal war" against me, I will react with a language, style, method and force that I alone determines appropriate. Remember, when you go to war, especially a war initiated by your opponent, no one tells you how to fight or what weapons to use.

Excuse me, but even my greetings on a Sunday like today, you WOULDN'T have it. And I think it is my right not to give you.

"From theire ways, you will know them."

Mukete

[Boy]

Klemenceau,
Why bother yourself explaining things to this BenB/F of a guy and his so called doomsday if two conventions hold.Reflect on this guy,s write ups more critically and you will find that his real wish is that there should be two conventions,but now that the possibility of a Y'de convention is almost zero, his wish is that there should be no convention at all,then he comes up with this his famous word RECONCILIATION.Following the trend of events since the start of the SDF crisis it is very clear that there can be no reconciliation at this point in time,maybe later and we are not afraid of two conventions and there will be no doomsday.the only doomsday will be for Ngwasiri and gang who would have their names burried in cameroon politics after may 26 because of their treachery to the will of the people.the only difference between BenB/F and mukete is that the former chose to play the fox,pretending to be objective but when you put his write-ups under the microscope you see him cleary.Here him,Fru Ndi has all what it takes to win elections,but at the same time advices him to postpone the B'da convention,mobilse militants to Y'de to disrupt a Ngwasiri convention.this proposal can tell you what this guy thinks of Fru Ndi.They are going to soon face the doomsday,not the SDF.

[Mbu.B]

Man I couldn`t help laughing.
Mukete,What are you really appealing for or why try to be sentimental? Two or three paragraphs,could be enough to say whatever hell you think I need to know.
It is ridiculous to say, a gentleman will want to write because he expects others to heap praises at him.It`s not last week that I started writing on this forum and suddenly you think praise singing is a thing I enjoy as much as you.I had to re-read how Ngwasiri Christopher appreciated you...I guess that should be real important.It`s really unfortunate some contributors had to impersonate you, but these are the things that happen when you get morethan involved in neck squeezing here.
On more friendly terms, I`ll tell you this; Sometimes you wear an expensive and well fitting suit with flip-flops so it makes it difficult for me to say you dress well.You get the point and just turn around to mess up everything with inventions peculiar to you.It`s so appalling.Don`t you think these inventions are enough provocations to other readers?
I know the language you have been using to castigate those with divergent views.I see you`re very intolerant and even talk about a personal war.Have you choosen your opponent?
Should you come up with something reasonable, I`ll let go my egocentricity and acknowledge the education in it.But rhetorics won`t help.
Cheers!

[knganjo]

I salute the suggestion that the think tank crew should should come up with proposals which could help influence decisions at the Bamenda convention in order that the sdf emerge stronger and more united.In this respect I am also calling on all social democrats to foward their proposals to the address posted above if we all have faith and trust in that address.If we were to do that sooner than later it would be wonderful so that the organisers of the convention will have enough time opportunity to digest,peruse and reflect on our proposals.I am also calling on the think tank crew to ignore Mukete because as the number one devil on the forum he is trying to derail us from the real important issue at stake.No one doubts the fact that there is going to be only one convention and that will be in Bamenda.We are welcoming suggestions from all Cameroonians of goodwill both from within and out of the forum.May I also suggest that at the end of the exercise we shall be forwarding the suggestions to Bamenda with the names of all the contributors.I am refering to our actual identities and not individuals with fake names such as Mukete2,Muktete 3 and Mukete4.We are doing everything with genuine intentions and so there should not be any room for fear and suspicion here.

[mukete]

Mbu,

I told you that I have suspected you right from the start of your "part 1". You shouldn't have waited until recently to tell the forum that my write ups are invention. Why didn't you mention this right at the start of your "Part 1"? Why are you revealing this important discovery of yours only now? Why couldn't you declare your position at the start? You think playing the seemingly wise game you had in mind would also "Fish" me?

The way you have finally come out proves that I had all reasons to ignore your apparent neutrality. I do not take introductions important. It is the conclusion that matters, but unfortunately you had to take long to come out.

Although I respect the right for you to reason the way you do, I have given you the only conditions that will make me face you in this forum. Readers should follow how events unfold.

You will only be joining the thousands who feel their positions are threatened, although others were courageous enough to make their position clear.

Mukete

[knganjo]

Correction,

Enough time and opportunity

[Che Sunday (Dr.)]

Mukete,
Point well taken on the logistics of the errors, or lack of in the SDF Constistitution. Would you, sir, come up with a technicality in that constitution that allows for the reslolution of differences by forming a splinter group? Even if the NEC is an illegal arm of the SDF as has been declared by law, then what Ngwasiri should be fighting for is declaring the outcome of the Bamenda convention null and void. They should not be binding if they organized under the auspices of the illegal NEC. Planning to host a Yaounde convention is just creating another error. What legal documentation is Ngwasiri using to justify his position? Would two errors make it right? We Cameroonians have a perchant to be governed more by emmotions in our political deliberations than legal suation. I am no fan of Fru Ndi, but we must learn to render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's and unto Christ what is Christ's.
I still hold that a Ngwasiri controlled convention in Yaounde, or any other city is tantamount to an infringement on the property rights of the SDF party.
I am sure you are well informed on the SDF constitution and its history, but I speak from what lies before the publics eye and the perceptions being generated.

[Mbu.B]

"When I hear a man preach,I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees"
Abraham Lincoln

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday"
Abraham Lincoln

My 'PART III' of our forum and country`s sociopolitical trend will not be pressured. I donnot know how much I care to be neutral or how much I care, not to get at odds or develop urgly feelings here or if at all I care about bickerings.This is a forum where we dig even when it seems flat.Anyone frightened or cautious about being misconstrued shouldn`t venture at all.It comes from the mind and I don`t think it shows sympathy to myself.
Cheers!

[samleyin]

Hi Ben B,

I want to first of all acknowledge your propositions in the restoring of our darling SDF indeed. I very much appreciate your sincere effort to cull public opinion. It is a great effort. I was embarking on my alternatives of making my daily bread so I had to come back this late. But honestly it is from your own angle of reasoning. Your own point of thinking.

You first of all blame the SDF hierarchy for relinquishing the constitutional conference of Professor Kalle. That was then Ben B. That was an option then to revive our country from the untold slumber it was being deluged into. There was a better option and every Cameroonian was out for the best. At that point in our political whirligig, everybody was for the best option. We never knew Biya will be so fast in changing his rigging strategies. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf succeeded in beating Weah Opong’s Congress for democratic change because she promised the people of Liberia to bring back their stolen wealth and bring Taylor to Justice. With this best option and with the absence of any election rigging mechanism, she had to be successful as she promised to stop the leak of the oil. Even if we had failed, this point should not have been brought forth now as you will only do well to attribute blames and reasons the party is still using its metronome up till now. What if the constitutional conference proposition was adopted and still the party did not succeed in ascending to power. Won’t we be chanting the other way round at this time? Why should a group of people ready to bring about a positive change be skeptical in implementing their game plan?

Actuallly, I don’t think dissenters are the ones being excommunicated from the SDF. Several differences in opinion have been resolved in several NEC meetings. Maybe another word will actually fit here for those being article 8.2ed. To the best of my memory in which I can recount as of now, Yoyo and others came up with the amendment of article 8.2. This is actually an act of dissension and a big question mark should cross our mind why they haven’t been 8.2ed. Mrs Magarette Nyah on several occasions has denounced the application of 8.2 and up till now she is still standing for the amendment of the said article. Why hasn’t she been 8.2ed.

The greatest crowd pulling rally as you say is no significance of the feebling of the SDF. In Bamenda, the greatest crowd pulling rally was the last presidential campaign in the Municipal stadium in which the chairman declared that since the birth of the SDF, he had never stood to address such a mammoth crowd in the name of the SDF. In Douala, just as the carefully concocted sham of Biya’s dead set the Douala populace on its feet to rejoice in the streets of the city, so did the last campaign set the city shuddering. Even if diehard militants as you say leave the party because of the existence of JFN at its helm, then it is not reasonable. They should have rather waited for the right time-the, party’s convention to challenge him. Even if they stay in the CPDM because of JFN occupying the highest office in the party, I think they owe a confession to make to existing camerooninans and to generations of Cameroonians unborn. I don’t see why they should exercise wickedness by taking side with a party whose existence and policies was the reason for the birth of the opposition party they all created. If you do say they are to punish Fru Ndi then it is no punishment. The recipient of a punishment should always be aware of the cause of his tribulations. To my own point of view, staying out of the SDF because of somebody, a mere mortal, is no punitory but wickedness unto your own people.

Mind you Ben B, grass route militants are not what you are taking them to be. They don’t act under any person’s spell. They are not the backward, numb and dull ones. Many of them have got education too. I think you know that Cameroon has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa. Don’t think they just sit and get swayed by the fist punching hard in the air-‘pawa 2 de pipo’. They are able to reason constructively and objectively with a course. This is 2006 for God sake and nobody will sit and wait for somebody to win his/her bread. This is the reason I will tell you and always tell you that grass route militants have the potential to realise that politics has an ascending order, we not just find ourselves in the highest rung someday. It is a step by step process that demands public trust and support.

Terribob,

Nothing is baffling me because I had already read the article when it was posted weeks ago. I just did not find anything new or reasonable to take it over again. I see you are finding salvation in Ben B just like Momo found salvation in Mukete. Keep ya head up anyway ‘cos he is pretty good.

[Tayong(Copenhagen)]

Dos and Donots in here:

About Ngwasiri:
I read with dismay an article someone posted here rejoicing over the ordeals Prof Ngwasiri is going through.Rejoicing over his hospitalization etc.This is real immaturity. Its never done even in polilitics to rejoice over the misfortune of an adversary. Remember he who must destroy to succeed must have destruction awaits him at the end of his success.

About Prof Nkwi:
Its abnormal to challenge the educational background of someone simply because you disagree with him. Challenge his ideas and probably not whether he is competent Prof or not. Both Nkwi and Ngwasiri have their political blunders(who doesnt?) but going as far as asking where they got their PHDs is indicative of immature politics

About Fru Ndi:
With a highly devoted Mukete or determined Ben F ready to whip and whip well their protangonist or a Fon Lawrence and Klemanceau ready to swallow liquid fire mixed with brimestone behind Fru Ndi, honestly and objectivity should reign.

The anglophone issue:

Here is where the real debate lies .While all in here agree that the anglophone problem exist and demands utmost solutions many be they that differ in approach. Others want total separation(SCNC), others want a return to the federal state that was killed by Ahidjo masquerraded by Foncha , still others want four states federation ,still others(radicals) want a military option immediately etc

All in all, there is a problem and must be solved.

[Che Sunday (Dr.)]

Dear Tayong,
I will comment on the last point of your post, i.e the anglophone problem. It does exist and all the schools of thought offered, the two most dangerous ones are the military and the SCNC options.
Why? to a very large extent, we have a very uneducated, corrupt and arrogant military. If they gain the reigns of power, not even the francophones will be safe.
The SCNC option speaks eloquently of lofty times ahead, but are as blind as bats. I do not want to see francophone Cameroon become another Eritrea. Nigeria has always had secret designs and ambitions on our territory. Becoming a separate state will only heighten those ambitions. We sit on a not well explored oil wealth and both our neighbors to the west and east if we do break away will never let us rest. I will not want to party to placing our youth at the frontline of an endless war. The SCNC has used the sufferings of the anglophone as a disguise to foster a secret agenda of greed. There is also a north/South dicotomy within the anglophones that is deeply seated and could flare into open confrontation if care is not taken.
A plausible solution to the anglophone issue, one which we should vigorously pursue is regionalization. I will like to a Western entity with a regional government comprising of the North West and Western province, A South west region comprising of the South West and yet to claim Bakassi region. A southern entity, and so forth. I believe if we re-align the country along such lines, the North West and Western Province are educated enough and have mutual respect for each other to allow biligualism truly flourish.
Its my take on the issue. Lets hear options along this line of thinking. Lets not allow our sufferings to drive us into hate mongers and ultimately destry us all.

[Watesih]

Langaisins,
I will humbly want to propose that we should term all the propositions that we will be sending in at the end of the day; VOICES OF THE COMMITTED.I know
Klemenceau,Fon Lawrence,Kgnanjo and all social democrats may come up with something more original.But i would like us to take a break from that idea of PROGRESSIVES,because
this word has fast become synonymous to rebellion.We are not rebellious subjects,but
constructive builders.All those rebellious subjects who have left the party under unwarranted circumstances always brand themselves as PROGRESSIVES.

[BenB]

15th May: DoomsDay-11

Two Conventions? On the same day? And both by US (us, not U.S.). Not by THEM as in the past. That would mean the first HOME split in the SDF. In which case, all of THEM, (non-Anglophones) who have been unsure about attempting another dissent after the failures of Kandoum and Souleymane, may now be warming up to join the Ngwasiri group.

If for nothing else, if not for love of Ngwasiri and Ben Muna, perhaps just to punish those who have created a shell around OUR party, leaving THEM outside to only peep in through the window. And I know many, very many who love and are happy for Ngwasiri’s courage. After all, the SDF, as its birth testifies, is first and foremost a courage show. Ngwasiri, by this act, demonstrates a good measure of it.

Many disillusioned militants may want a second courageous launching that breaks the jinx for them. They may want it but lack the courage to do it, so they may want to rally behind anyone, just anyone, who’ll do it for them with minimal risk of being tagged French/Biya agents like Kandoum and Souleymane suffered. This time it’s a HOME split so that may give THEM courage to line up for cover behind Ngwasiri. And it really looks like they are doing that.

Just see how quickly NEC officials crossed over from Fru Ndi’s camp to Ngwasiri’s. It’s so dramatic. Look at what happened in the Yaounde court on 24th April. At least two more NEC members. Odette Ngatoum and vice president Odille Mengue Mballa were, only weeks before, on Fru Ndi’s side in the legal dispute with Ngwasiri.

Their names featured as witnesses for Fru Ndi against Ngwasiri. Then, they crossed carpet to Ngwasiri’s side and on 24th April in the Yaounde court, when the judge called them to testify against Ngwasiri, they instead testified against NEC led by Fru Ndi, leading to Ngwasiri’s victory in that ruling.

With such visible dramatic mobilisation for Ngwasiri’s group, imagine what human and material resources might be behind Ngwasiri and Muna at this time. We may console ourselves by pointing accusing fingers at Biya and France when the problem may be with US, we ourselves.

I repeat, even one-and-a-half or one-and-one-quarter conventions will spell doom for the SDF. The sooner we stop daydreaming and act, the better.

DoomsDay-11. Less than two weeks to go.

BenF

[Klemenceau]

Che Sunday you have made a very pertinent point about the Anglophone problem. The big question is how can we achieve these regional or federal entities as I might put it? The Biya regime controlled by France seemed to be comfortable with the plight of the Anglophones. It is true war is the worst thing to think of. Those who witness and experienced the events during and after the Biafran war will tell you that you can survive in war sometimes but not able to survive the peace after. This is because of the crises that follow after every war. So war is what we should avoid by all cost.
But we need to be very careful because there is no option for a man who has been pushed and is at the verge of falling into a river where he will drown. When this happen such a person has no other way out apart from accepting the fight because he knows either ways might still take away his life.
If and only if those at Etoudi and Chirac were humane enough to listen to the Anglophones and solve our problems, I think there wouldn't have been anything as the SCNC. Remember before the SCNC, we had the AAC 1 & 2. If the government listen to the complaints presented to them during this period and followed up to keep the promise, there would never have been any SCNC. The Southern Cameroonians have suffered and some are prepared to take it the hard way and the only way.
I Pray For God's intervention in the Anglophone problem. Only a divine intervention can help us out of it.

Shalom

Klemenceau.

[Klemenceau]

Che Sunday you have made a very pertinent point about the Anglophone problem. The big question is how can we achieve these regional or federal entities as I might put it? The Biya regime controlled by France seemed to be comfortable with the plight of the Anglophones. It is true war is the worst thing to think of. Those who witness and experienced the events during and after the Biafran war will tell you that you can survive in war sometimes but not able to survive the peace after. This is because of the crises that follow after every war. So war is what we should avoid by all cost.
But we need to be very careful because there is no option for a man who has been pushed and is at the verge of falling into a river where he will drown. When this happen such a person has no other way out apart from accepting the fight because he knows either ways might still take away his life.
If and only if those at Etoudi and Chirac were humane enough to listen to the Anglophones and solve our problems, I think there wouldn't have been anything as the SCNC. Remember before the SCNC, we had the AAC 1 & 2. If the government listen to the complaints presented to them during this period and followed up to keep the promise, there would never have been any SCNC. The Southern Cameroonians have suffered and some are prepared to take it the hard way and the only way.
I Pray For God's intervention in the Anglophone problem. Only a divine intervention can help us out of it.

Shalom

Klemenceau.

[Klemenceau]

Che Sunday you have made a very pertinent point about the Anglophone problem. The big question is how can we achieve these regional or federal entities as I might put it? The Biya regime controlled by France seemed to be comfortable with the plight of the Anglophones. It is true war is the worst thing to think of. Those who witness and experienced the events during and after the Biafran war will tell you that you can survive in war sometimes but not able to survive the peace after. This is because of the crises that follow after every war. So war is what we should avoid by all cost.
But we need to be very careful because there is no option for a man who has been pushed and is at the verge of falling into a river where he will drown. When this happen such a person has no other way out apart from accepting the fight because he knows either ways might still take away his life.
If and only if those at Etoudi and Chirac were humane enough to listen to the Anglophones and solve our problems, I think there wouldn't have been anything as the SCNC. Remember before the SCNC, we had the AAC 1 & 2. If the government listen to the complaints presented to them during this period and followed up to keep the promise, there would never have been any SCNC. The Southern Cameroonians have suffered and some are prepared to take it the hard way and the only way.
I Pray For God's intervention in the Anglophone problem. Only a divine intervention can help us out of it.

Shalom

Klemenceau.

[Akoson]

An Open letter to all forumites of postnewsline.com

CAMPAIGNE TO CONCENTRATE ON THE ISSUES AND GET THE FORUM MORE MATURE...

...ignore Mukete and his Fiction - he's the primary cause...

Hello friends,

I understand how difficult this may be. I plead with everyone in this forum to ignore Mukete with all their strength. He's gonna attack guys just to seek notice. This guy has vehemently left all the ISSUES that are, to center on persons. He uses some kind of style such that one can't just sigh over it and fold their arms. Infact, we know the nature of his write ups. They carry NO single truth, NO fact...NOTHING! We're bored reading them. You may be interested to know that I've NOT read from him recently. I just scroll down and ignore. ALL his contributions to this particular article has been ignored. I mean it!

Mbu B., No one should intimidate you. You're only answerable to the postnewsline ONLY. If you think that there's TOTAL transparency in what you do, you've got only your conscience to talk to, NOT Mukete. I enjoin you continue you good analysis so that we can shun malice, and jealousy in this forum. Keep it up!

By this contribution, I enjoin everyone to IGNORE Mukete - the fiction expert. Please, just do it for Christ's sake. It's very easy to scroll up and NOT read and NOT reply to his frame ups. If you care to read, read but DON'T address him.

Watesih, I appreciate the idea of proposals for the convention. Unfortunately for me, I wouldn't have time to even hurry through one. I guess your contribution will at least reflect 80 percent of mind. In this light I'd like that you send me a copy of what you've come up with at magamestref@yahoo.com so that I can go through and criticise constructively. If there's any other person interested to have someone proof read their write ups before they submit, just drop it at my email address above. Your contribution, I promise'll be kept secret and no trace of it published before the convention. However, prior to any publication I'll seek permision from your desk.

I hope to benefit from (Y)our mighty comprehension.

PS; Send the contribution for a proof read to ma email cos I wouldn't read on this forum in the coming days.

Your fellow contributor,

Eyes Of A Tiger,
Son Of Ako, LSE.

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[Akoson]

Hey Watesih,

The Bamenda convention'll have the FOLLOWING. Our man, the matador in Bamenda and Conscience of Cameroon undoubtedly has the FOLLOWING. This has been proven beyond all reasonable doubts.

I therefore recommend to Langaisins and all others that "THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE" which I think, at least finely conforms with the popular slogan of the party.

I'm I heard???

Son Of Ako, LSE.

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[Klemenceau]

BenB

Continue talking for Ngwasirir and leave those for the Bamenda Convention in peace. Let those who feel that they have been left out by Fru Ndi go for the Ngwasiri's Yaounde convention.
If at all there is anyone with a heart for the SDF, that person will go for the Bamenda Convention.
Please don't cry more than the bereaved. It seems to me that you are crying for Ngwasiri who political life is dead and will son be buried on the 26th of May in Bamenda. Ngwasiri himself made it clear that he wasn't prepared for any reconciliation. Let all the NEC members who followed Ngwasiri join him to organise the Yaounde Convention. He has the majority as he said anyone with the majority will surely win in an election.
Shalom
Klemenceau

[Nkosi Jacob]

Che Sunday (Dr.)
I agree that it is not necessary for us to take options that will balkanise our territory and compromise the future of our youth. But suing for a regional option with

"regional government comprising of the North West and Western province,"

is certainly going in for too little. Let us ask ourselves these questions: why did radical organisations like the SCNC and SCYL emerge? Why is there a popular clamour for the TOTAL INDEPENDENCE of the former Southern Cameroons? The government of Cameroon as it is today has disrespect for us Anglophones. When Dr Munzu, Professor Anyangwe and Ekongtang Elad after the AAC II on behalf of all of us asked the government for talks, when this group of learned gentlemen made proposals to the "GRAND DEBAT" that metamorphosed to a "LARGE DEBAT"; a supposed constitutional conference, their proposals were roundly rejected. Later Biya and his group concocted a shady constitution dividing Cameroon into ten provinces. Now if we just settle down for a union with the WEST province, we would have suffered so much only to end up taking what is not commensurate to us. When we argue and chant, calling for separation, it is because we have our way of life, our system of governance in which human rights are respected, where development is people-oriented. Our present mixture with these Francophones has messed us up. It is preferable to be our own managers.
Dr Che Sunday, your suggestion that we settle down for a twin up between the North West and West provinces is simplistic and makes the issue at hand a child's play. Remember the Yorubas in Nigeria and the people in neighouring Benin and Togo are the same. Should such people put away their national identity because they respect each other? My take on this issue is that we go our own way, by whatever means possible.

[TABI (SWEDEN)]

Can we learn to summarise facts here to be able to benefit from a larger audience? From experience, many would find it boring to read a message with considerable lenght even though the idea might be plausible. An alternative is for all to subject their messages.

[Bugiba]

In your first reaction to Prof. Paul Nkwi above you had this to say and I quote “Why did he not reply one minute after professor Ngwasiri wrote what he is telling us? Why did Ni John Fru Ndi wait until May 26, 1990 to launch the SDF? Why did Ni John Fru Ndi waited only after he was defeated in CPDM parliamentary elections before deciding to create the SDF? Why did Professor Paul Nchoji Nkwi (PhD) wait only for the SDF to be created before nursing the idea to be involved in active politics? Why has NEC waited for years before finally calling a convention? And if the postponement of previous conventions was due to lack of funds, "WHY ONLY NOW" are the funds there?”

Now, you turn around to blame Mbu for having waited until recently to tell the forum that your write-ups are inventions. You continued and I quote “Why are you releasing this important discovery of yours only now?” What a contradiction? I think Mbu has his right too to react to any thing here at his own time.

You should know that this is outrageous on your part because it is indicative of the fact that you are dishonest, you lack integrity, you lack respect for people and above all you are stupid. My advice to you is to try and identify yourself with some line of thought that you can stand for so that you can also keep track of your path here. I think your ability to reason at some level is impaired, and this is not good you know.

[Rexon]

Hi Che Sunday (Dr),

Can you please elaborate on this statement before i land

"The SCNC has used the sufferings of the anglophone as a disguise to foster a secret agenda of greed"

You can also add your constitutional rights as a Cameroonian that can be explained by your ability to hold strategic ministerial positions and also to one day dream of becoming the president of la republique francaise du cameroun. Furthermore, i will like you to justify the following;
1-why sonara has been paying its taxes in douala.
2-why delmonte has been paying its taxes in douala.
Why plantecam has been paying its taxes in douala.
4-why less than 5 percent of the workers in sonara are southern cameroonians.
5-your constitutional rights as a cameroonian.

etc.etc.

I dont want to elaborate here. i Will only have something to say after your responses.

[wallyman]

"Heavenly and merciful Father,you have got the whole world in your hands.There is nothing you cannot do.I beg you o God by your unending love and kindness,reachout and touch Prof Ngwassiri in Jesus name.Heal him of everything that is jeopardizing his health.Strenghten him and give him wisdom.In Jesus name i pray,Amen."

[Fon Lawrence]

Langaisins,
I travelled over the weekend and have just returned to my base.

First I wish to appreciate you for the responsibity you have taken concerning proposals for the convention in Bamenda.In addition to what Watesih and others have said to guide you in the task,you shall concentrate only on contributions from those who are in favour of the Bamenda convention;intruders will not be allowed to soil our names.In this regard,concentrate on non anonymous contributions;in other words contributions should carry a name and a contact address.If we are sincere,then we should not conceal information about us
Concerning you decision to concentrate only on the first 200words;my advice is that you should be a little bit flexible.You find meaning in somebody´s contribution who probably has more to offer.
I will try to find time out of my tie schedule so and to meet the deadline set for the contributions to come in.
Akoson
I had said it long ago that Mukete keeps writing his chunk of rubbish because we keep reacting to it.I had long declared him persona non grata.

[Atangha]

Dear Readers!
To begin with, let's pray for the fast recovery of Prof. NGWASIRI. He's mentor has abandoned him and is now in France. The going is getteing tougher & rougher for the duo. Meanwhile, Zamboue & a few others are finding the terrain more difficult in Y'de. To those fiction writers & doubting Thomases: THERE WILL BE NO CONVENTION IN YAOUNDE!

Reconciliation is between NGWASIRI & the SDF not FRU NDI. Remember, NGWASIRI was dismissed by his Ward, District & Province and not FRU NDI. NEC only confirmed the decision of the base. More so, there is not provision in the Constitution of the SDF allowing NAC to run the SDF. To those who want to be honest with themselves: the 'illegal NEC' appointed NAC and NGWASIRI had long resigned as president of NAC. And again, the Mfoundi high court did suspend both NEC & NAC. It was NGWASIRI who took SDF to court and not the other way round.

All NGWASIRI has done is to have added his name among the most infamous names in the minds of Southern Cameroonians - MUNA & MUKETE.

[Watesih]

Akoson,
You are heard.THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE is preferable,Langaisins will surely be happy to put all our thoughts under this
caption.

Fon Lawrence
I put all my ideas in point form,to avoid any rambling,and render them easy to read.
If we put them in point form,then the 200 words Langaisins is talking about is ok.

Akoson,you will not be a stranger to my mind! Soon.

[Watesih]

Akoson,
You are heard.THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE is preferable,Langaisins will surely be happy to put all our thoughts under this
caption.

Fon Lawrence
I put all my ideas in point form,to avoid any rambling,and render them easy to read.
If we put them in point form,then the 200 words Langaisins is talking about is ok.

Akoson,you will not be a stranger to my mind! Soon.

[Klemenceau]

Wallyman and Atangha

I say AMEN to your prayers. Prof. Ngwasiri will be disgraced in the political field but will be strong in health. I pray that the Lord God almighty should grant Prof. Ngwasiri quick recovery in JESUS mighty name. Amen

Watesih, Fon Lawrence and others, I will be bringing my own suggestions for the Bamenda convention soon. I have been a little distracted so much so that I can't concentrate to bring up some good ideas. I won't want to rush over it because it is very important for the party.

I will as from now take to Fon Lawrence, Akoson and others advice to ignore Mukete. Let him continue to blow his trumpet of arrogance.

Shalom
Klemenceau

[Fon Lawrence]

I wish Prof.Ngwasiri a quick recovery.He should recover so that he will have the opportunity to give testimonies of his political blunders for others to learn from it.Also so that the shortsighted will never have the oppotunity to pretend that Ngwasiri had a "vision" for the SDF and ended up in a sad way.
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[Langaisins]

To All proponents of the Bamenda Convention:
There is a slight hitch. We are still short of a conveyor (of your proposals) to the Convention Organisers. As long as you keep reacting to distractions in this big marketplace and not sending your proposals as suggested, you are making the task big for me in the end. I promise to be flexible. Put your ideas in point form and as soon as possible. The name of the proposals or the group making the proposals is not important for now. Concentrate on the substance and leave ramblers alone. Once more, I will process only those opinions that are not hostile to the Bda Convention. Please, leave the marketplace alone. Stay blessed.
Langaisins

[knganjo]

I am like many on the forum wishing Prof Ngwasiri A QICK RECOVERY.May the Almighty God grant him good health.

I will be fowarding my contribution to the think tank crew as ASAP.Watesih I share in your suggestion with regards to the caption of our proposals.I also concur to Fon's suggestions that we should not welcome anonymous contributions.

[BenB]

Some of us here are betting that Ngwasiri would be alone with his wife in a Yaounde convention.

It may well just turn out to be so. But we know that if the Yaounde convention pulls numbers, someone will certainly turn round and say, “Ah, na SDF militants dem dat sef?” They’ll say those are Marché Centrale boys recruited at 1000frs each to swell numbers at the Yaounde Conference Centre for Ngwasiri and Muna. Or, They are CPDM militants sent by France and Biya. People are always ghosts when they’re not Ni John’s people.

Even sef, if Marché Centrale boys and “Sauveteurs” (hawkers and other struggling youngmen) turn out in numbers to back up delegates at the Yaounde Convention, that would be a big revival of a major constituency (mind you, constituencies are not only geographical and ethnic).

“Sauvetaeurs” are a major group who staked so much for the party in the early days but drifted away when some greedy people surrounded Ni John, deceived him and took the party hostage.

“Sauveteurs” were about the most MILITANT militants in the early 1990s. If they returned en mass to the Yaounde Convention, it would be good riddance. And that may just be because they would have found hope in the SDF anew, if they think the Ngwasiri group represents their aspirations.

Speculative thoughts I have here, which to some are just wild thoughts. But who knows? I rather try to read the times and guess what the future holds than say for sure. Only Klemenceau, soothsayer Klemenceau, has already seen the future and knows cocksure that there WON’T be even one-and-one-tenth conventions. I DON’T KNOW.

What I know is that, even one-and-a-half or one-and-one-quarter conventions will shake the SDF to its foundation. On the eve of two crucial elections next year (Parliamentary and Municipal). Someone, please do something before time runs out.

Cardinal Tumi, are you there?

Doomsday-11. It is staring us menacingly.

BenF

[Klemenceau]

BenB

You have been talking about someone do something. Who is the “someone” you want to do something? Cardinal tried but didn’t succeed. I am not like saying that you are not making a point but I think it is almost if not too late for any such arrangements as reconciliation
From the look of things, it is certain that there will be no reconciliation. Prof. Ngwasiri made it clear that he is not out to reconcile with Fru Ndi. So what then should we do? Again reconciling with any person who is out to sell the SDF is uncalled for. If Ben Muna and Ngwasiri really have the support of the majority as they claim, let them carry on with their Yaoundé Convention. Others tried before and failed. Maybe they can succeed this time around.
If there is anything I can say it should be that we should concentrate on arrangements for the Bamenda Convention. BenB if you really don't want to see two SDF conventions on the 26th of May, that should be the more reason why you should instead concentrate on making arrangements and convincing others to go for the Bamenda Convention. Anything short of that will not help at this moment.
Shalom
Klemenceau.

[Nga Adolph]

Whatever our Political and philosophical leanings are as far as the present imbroglio within the SDF is concerned;the convention in Bamenda on 26th May is going to hold.Whether you see Ni John Fru Ndi as an illiterate who has outlived his usefulness within the SDF party;the Convention in Bamenda is going to hold and Sdf party will come out from that convention stronger than never before.

ALUTA CONTINUA.

[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.

Someone, please bring those fighting elephants together. We have less that 11 days to go.

Cardinal Tumi, please!

BenF

[Che Sunday (Dr.)]

Nkosi,
Thanks for pointing out the Togo and Benin nations situation. Infact, Togo should have been part of Ghana, but this linguistic thing made them opt for self governance. However, these two locations do not have what anglophone Cameroon has. CDC is still the largest state controlled agro industry south of the Sahara. Its coastal regions sit on an undetermined oil wealth. The Bakasi peninsula is the only gateway to Nigerian marine vessels operating out of a base in Calabar. Right now, Nigeria is warry about having an open confrontation with 15 million people as opposed to 3.5. It will take us a considerable time to build an army to fight a franco-supported war coming from our francophone brothers from the east who will not want to go if asked to, and ward off a western colonising force from Nigeria. Remember, Nigeria all of a sudden stopped paying rents for its control of Obudu ranch which actually sits inside Cameroon but is a tourist resort operated by Nigeria. She is dragging her feet on handing Bakassi back. Do you think she will be more responsive if we become a republic? These are the danger signs in the horizon. Equatorial Guinea was quick to form an alliance with Nigeria allowing the latter to prospect for oil in its territorial waters and sharing the returns on an agreed percentage. Why didn't she sign the same accord with Cameroon? Because the Island of Fernanda Po actually sits inside Cameroon's territorial waters. All nations have a right to claim 12 neutical miles of territorial waters. Fernanda Po lies within 12 nuetical miles off the coast of Cameroon. Equatorial Guinea is on record calling Cameroon "the aggressor" in our case with Nigeria. Look at the enemies around us!
My suggesting that the North West be merged with the Western province is an attempt to debunk this theory of hatred between our french and English brothers.There is commonality between the peoples of this region; a spirit of hard work and entrepreneur. I am from the Northwest, and very sensitive to how I am perceived. The Southwest has some very gunuine complaints. Its time it is given a chance to manage its own resources and determine its own destiny. I lived in Nigeria before and during its civil war. Prior to the war, the Igbo's had the country in the palm of their hands. Then came a northern resentment that cost the Igbos dearly. Some of them have never recovered from their losses. I do not want to live to see that happen in Cameroon. If I get called a "come no go" in the Southwest, and "les biafras or les anglos in Douala or Yaounde, it hurts no less. Therefore, I will take my chances with a new partner, one who is from next door, with little regards to his linguistic inclinations. Lets all keep exploring the options that will make us a better people, not create a more tiny nations that will continue to function as lackies for some western capitalist nations.

[Che Sunday (Dr.)]

Rexon,
Your whys are the reason you need decentralization not seccession. Get this, companies get incorporated in cities where both fees for incorporation are cheep, and other tax incentives are granted to them. Doesn't it cross your mind as to why they are all paying taxes to Douala and not Yaounde? Its not just because Douala happens to be located in the francophone part of the country that they prefer to pay royalties to Douala. If it were a matter of paying taxes, their payments should be headed to the federal treasury in Yaounde, not Douala. A lot of companies in the USA are incorporated in New Jersey, and continue to pay fees of incorporation to that state, eventhough they don't do business there. But in Cameroon, you will be quick to point at discrimination and marginalization to sway uninformed members of the public to support your cause.
You ask if I can exercise my right as an anglophone to aspire to the post of president. I should be able to do so if other blind bats had not tarnished the road. In the days of control from the grand North, our anglophone leaders actually put pen to paper allowing for the president to be francophone, and the vice to be anglophone. What happened later? Ahidjo eliminated the position of vice president. If that document is still valid today, our francophone brothers could actually use it to annul the aspirations of all anglos wanting to become presidents.
Paul Biya did not walk into Limbe without the assistance of some of us rolling out the red carpet on which he stood and sold your birthrights.
When the Chad/Cameroon oil pipeline was being constructed, you had small communities from the Eastern province standing up and asking to be employed, to be given compensation for their property rights, to be recognized. Did any of this happen when pinelines were being laid to be carrying oil from Sonara to Douala? Did anyone from the Southwest asked why the port of Limbe should not have been activated to allow for oil loading? How long has timber transported over land from Tiko to Douala for processing into plywood been going on? Have you raised a finger as to why it could not be transported via tug-boat to Douala to save the roads and carry more timber per trip? It could actually led some employment for the indegens. But I see no activity in the region, except tell me a breakaway is tell me a breakaway is the only answer. Your obsession with seccession is based not so much on the freedom of the Anglophone people, but a chance to lay your hands on the oil wealth. If that is part of your thinking, bear in mind that that oil was sold in advance or mortgaged below market price and that is why Cameroon is not making any money from oil, even with rising oil prices. Until the leadership of anglophone Cameroon show a thinking that is devoid of "its my turn to eat" mentality, the fight for seccession will remain a dream at best.