Cameroon, Iraq Ranked Bottom In Governance

By Peterkins Manyong

Cameroon has been ranked among five worst countries in the world in terms of governance. The other countries are Iraq, Chad, Somalia, Zimbabwe and Romania.

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The information is contained in a Governance Perception Index, a survey carried out by a Harvard University team, led by Robert I Rotberg, a Professor of that American renowned institution.

The survey examines governance in 100 countries. Sweden, Denmark, Botswana and South Africa occupy the first group.

Edward Ngalah, Northwest representative at the National Anti-Corruption Observatory, said Cameroon and the other countries in the group are sending their citizens to misery and death through dictatorship, poor health, poor education, corruption and injustice.

Commenting on the recent results of the Corruption Perception Index, CPI, released by Transparency International, he said Cameroon performed far worse than in previous years, although she was not the least on the list. He said Cameroon tailed the list when the survey involved only 100 countries.

This year she was number 138 out of 163, which makes its position worse.He said Cameroon finds it difficult to improve because governance is bad, the rule of law is almost absent and there is no transparency in management."Cameroon practices voodoo economics," Ngalah said.

He said a small group of people have taken the country hostage. They include party barons, friends and tribesmen to those at the helm of the state.

He recalled a declaration by Central Committee member, Charles Ateba Eyene, who said there are some strikingly rich Cameroonians capable of financing a 30-year war in Cameroon.

Propaganda Not Anti-Corruption Fight

Commenting on Cameroon's approach to the fight against corruption, Ngalah said there is more propaganda than action. "Cameroon government's approach is haphazard and sporadic. Arresting Siyam Siewe, for instance, but leaving his work in place, is far from being the best way of checking embezzlement at the Port Authority.

What government is doing is like curing the symptoms of a disease rather than the disease itself. He said mediatising the fight is a strategy to hoodwink the international community into thinking that the government is moving ahead in the anti-corruption fight, whereas it is only turning round.

The government, he said, has the habit of announcing the amount it has allocated for projects, but never states how much has been spent. When foreign aid is provided for schools, to cite one example, the money for constructing schools is quietly embezzled.
Aid, he said, does not help. To succeed, he said government should look beyond fighting corruption and embrace good governance.

Global Good Governance

Viewing the issue of good governance internationally, Ngalah commended the approach introduced by Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese billionaire, Chairman of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, who has instituted an award of US 5 million dollars as reward to any dictator who voluntarily quits power.

The foundation is also ready to grant to such a former dictator, 200,000 US dollars annually, for 10 years.Besides, the foundation is ready to support any initiative undertaken by "clean" heads of state to improve on governance.

This approach to good governance is the best, so far, and has been supported by Kofi Annan, outgoing UN Scribe, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and Mary Robinson Prime Minster of Ireland.

He was sure President Biya would win the award if he keeps his promise to step down at the end of his present seven-year term in 2011.

Comments

[Aviche]

Is there anything surprising about Cameroon's position? I do not think so. Everything in Cameroon is voodoo-styled: not just economics. This country is a potential volcano. Only time will tell.

[rexon]

The bitter truth is, La Republique is a very devilish country and all those who dont want to accept this are merely wasting their time. I have said in this forum time and again that our poor families back home are living in hell and we need to do all we can to protect them. The rich and evil class involving the offsprings of the Angwafors, the Muna's, the Inoni's, endeley's, Ndeh's, Njeuma's, Ncho's, etc are just there to protect the system to satisfy their evil intentions.

In La Republique, there are no laws, no functioning security services, no judiciary, no business laws, no social services, no educational facilities, etc. It is just a living hell. But we see bandits masquerading as ministers, businessmen, etc coming everyday from their hideouts in La Republiques corrupt junta in Yaounde to lie to us. They always have stories to tell us about development, about the future, etc. The earlier we fight to eliminate these terrorists, the better.

[Riccardo]

Cameroon Airlines Leads The Way As The First Airline To Migrate To A Sita Ip-Based Network Solution In Central And West Africa.

Riccardo
CAADIM

[Kumbaboy]

Riccardo,

What is Cameroon Airlines? Do you mean the state carrier? It is a state carrier and not a business! Has it ever made a profit or cleared arrears for its workers? Have all roof leaks at its hub at Douala airport been repaired? It is a shame.

It is not the dress you wear that defines you but the contents of your character. Sita ip my foot.

[Mbu.B]

Riccardo
CAADIM,

May I ask the meaning of what you just pasted..can you really talk about Cameroon Airlines? If YES, what would you say about it?

About GOVERNANCE, it's really the least surprising thing.
Paul Biya is the worst thing that ever happened to Cameroon and Cameroonians from whatever consideration.

A country where ministers in disgrace must be made Chairman,BOD at important state institutions instead of paying for their crimes.

How can AHIDJO take 23yrs to build Cameroon and BIYA takes 24yrs to be painting the structures the former built?

He keeps pumping money to construct his present safety and retirement;using the army and secret cults from abroad.A president whose desire is just to be president for as long as possible.No plans as to what direction the country is taking in any aspect. Just politicking every thing.

All the most important things Cameroon boasts of as infrastructure were constructed by AHIDJO, be it airport,roads,hospitals,stadia.
The junta spin masters always blame it on world economic crisis. The only improvement we saw since the econ crisis ended was his purchase of a costly fifth-handed private jet and the privitization of the forest in the eastern province to Franck Biya and his Paris friends.

Concerned Cameroonians should pray for a miracle that would see this junta washed away quickly.As long as they stay, there's no hope.

[Ebonylad]

Hello Riccardo your article is informative but not so objective or better still constructive.Poor governance is not about Francophone - Anglophone divide.You cannot hold that poor governnace in Camr is an aspect of Francophonism because Zimbabwe is an Anglosaxon country.If a sample survey is carried out in a typical English speaking beaureacracy eg a local council in Ndian,the result will be same as in Mvilla division.Cameroon is one,French or English.Before condominium by 1917,we were not divided.European wars of 1914 should not divide our nationalistic identity.
You and me are actors and victims of the poor governance because governance is of you and me ,by you and me and for you and me.The regime is corrupt just like the grassroot.
All we need is to study strategies of overcoming such situations.Learn from other nations.Pray for a Divine intervention and we shall grow.Counter accusations are not helpful.Vivre le Cameroun,Long live Cameroon.
Ebonylad
Scandinavia.

[Fon]

Riccardo is a distraction on this burning issue.

Fellow Cameroonians, no amount of talking or censuring will change the situation of our country. What we need is action. I am always ready to contribute the little I can to see that the Biya regime a thing of the past. Our people are really suffering under this regime. Absence of war does not necessarily mean peace.

If we do not start to mount pressure now, things will even be worst after Biya. What I mean is that if we don´t fight to see Biya hand power to a democratically elected president, Biya out of shame will hand power to his own prepared successor who will continue with the bad policies we see today. In addition his successor will be one who will do everything to cover the regimes atrocities.

In summary, the worst thing that will happen to Cameroon is if Cameroonians allow Biya to hand power to someone of his choice.

[sangomonie]

In as much as I believe Cameroon is a very corupt country, I believe in the media reporting the facts. Cameroons CPI changed from 2.2 to 2.3 from 05 to 06 showing an increase of 0.1. Now, I'm not saying this is good at all or that I support the government, if anything I strongly condemn the Biya regime for promoting, no for PROMOTING corruption. The media however, is not doing any one favors by distorting the news, in some ways, it is being as corrupt as the gov't itself which I guess is true.
sango

[Ndiks]

IMF AID Junky like LRC invariably ends up in these manners.What good could come out from a laissez-fair imperium,manned by a tribal Zaibatsu?If the Essingan tribal thugs becomes above the State and its Institutions,what could we expect?And by Extension Illegally and forcibly Annexing Ambazonia,(Former UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons).

Ebonylad,
if Cameroun was one before condominium,then,you will have to go get Chad, CAR,Gabon,Congo Brazza,.Nothing was existing like "La République Du Cameroun before 1st January 1960.History and facts says so,to the best of my science.

[AGBOR]

Has anyone read the captions of all the headlines in the Cameroon news papers for the past few weeks???
"Kumbo council accused of embezzling 500 million FCFA", "Director of Buea hospital accused of embezzling funds meant for an X-ray device, "US Ambassador Says Corruption Scares Investors From Cameroon", " Bar Exams And The Non-respect Of The Rule Of Law", "Kupe Muanenguba CPDM Qualifies Biya's Rule As Reference Book", "Absence Of Accountability, Transparency Plagues Douala Council - New Gov't Delegate", "Une journaliste agressée dans son lit" etc.
THose are some of the headlines hiting cameroon news this past two weeks.
Which of those stories looks good news.
Cameroon is total hell.
The madness about it is the two extremes in the cameroonian community.
- People with very big cars/houses whose salaries for twenty years can not buy those cars even without taxes and living expenses and a second group
- those with extreme poverty who cannot even afford to buy a cup of rice to keep them living for a day or day who cannot afford a little of tap water for 10 FCFA as they have absolutely no means.
Another group involves unqualified workers "jobing" while qualified inhabitants and patriots are "chomaging" the streets with thorn dresses. I was in total distress when i saw an old friend of mine with thorn dresses, just as a result of acute and sustained stress, poverty and frustration after graduating from the university with a upper second class degree.
What are you going to characterise that country. I think 138th is a better position. Cameroon is worst than that. Everything in Cameroon is bad governance, corruption and mismanagement. Those who can border to manage are sacked. A typical case being that of Benjamin Amama. Not a reference but atleast a spectacular patriot but the country hates anyone who could be reasonable.
The administration is characterised by cowards both at home and elsewhere with its diplomas.
A typical case is that of the late ambassador of BENELUX. This woman has been there for over 15 years, is now Belgian and I know Cameroon is not a dual national state, never borders to think if Cameroonians existed in Belgium. Yet she's a Cameroon President in Belgium. I don't know if the embassy in Belgium knows for once how many LEGAL Cameroonians leave in belgium. An embassy which has no embassy card yet the person incharge is allowed to rule and dye.
I hear Prof. Ferdinand Oyono is now "ministerin"' at home.Does Cameroon has a retiring age?? A minister who ministers his ministry on a sick bed. Is everbody in Cameroon disabled. It was a similar case with Mbella Mbappe who was "Parkinsoning" when allowed to stand and talk on his own. The list is extensive.
What a country.
I'm sure the americans have favoured Cameroon position. The case in cameroon is beyond quantification and classification.
I hope those who have the authority read this and see what others think about their country.

[AGBOR]

Has anyone read the captions of all the headlines in the Cameroon news papers for the past few weeks???
"Kumbo council accused of embezzling 500 million FCFA", "Director of Buea hospital accused of embezzling funds meant for an X-ray device, "US Ambassador Says Corruption Scares Investors From Cameroon", " Bar Exams And The Non-respect Of The Rule Of Law", "Kupe Muanenguba CPDM Qualifies Biya's Rule As Reference Book", "Absence Of Accountability, Transparency Plagues Douala Council - New Gov't Delegate", "Une journaliste agressée dans son lit" etc.
THose are some of the headlines hiting cameroon news this past two weeks.
Which of those stories looks good news.
Cameroon is total hell.
The madness about it is the two extremes in the cameroonian community.
- People with very big cars/houses whose salaries for twenty years can not buy those cars even without taxes and living expenses and a second group
- those with extreme poverty who cannot even afford to buy a cup of rice to keep them living for a day or day who cannot afford a little of tap water for 10 FCFA as they have absolutely no means.
Another group involves unqualified workers "jobing" while qualified inhabitants and patriots are "chomaging" the streets with thorn dresses. I was in total distress when i saw an old friend of mine with thorn dresses, just as a result of acute and sustained stress, poverty and frustration after graduating from the university with a upper second class degree.
What are you going to characterise that country. I think 138th is a better position. Cameroon is worst than that. Everything in Cameroon is bad governance, corruption and mismanagement. Those who can border to manage are sacked. A typical case being that of Benjamin Amama. Not a reference but atleast a spectacular patriot but the country hates anyone who could be reasonable.
The administration is characterised by cowards both at home and elsewhere with its diplomas.
A typical case is that of the late ambassador of BENELUX. This woman has been there for over 15 years, is now Belgian and I know Cameroon is not a dual national state, never borders to think if Cameroonians existed in Belgium. Yet she's a Cameroon President in Belgium. I don't know if the embassy in Belgium knows for once how many LEGAL Cameroonians leave in belgium. An embassy which has no embassy card yet the person incharge is allowed to rule and dye.
I hear Prof. Ferdinand Oyono is now "ministerin"' at home.Does Cameroon has a retiring age?? A minister who ministers his ministry on a sick bed. Is everbody in Cameroon disabled. It was a similar case with Mbella Mbappe who was "Parkinsoning" when allowed to stand and talk on his own. The list is extensive.
What a country.
I'm sure the americans have favoured Cameroon position. The case in cameroon is beyond quantification and classification.
I hope those who have the authority read this and see what others think about their country.

[Ma Mary]

Ndiks- that is why we must tell and retell the truth, even it seems repetitive and boring, because the enemy had a headstart in rubbing their lies into the minds of our people, until so many have accepted such lies as truth. /

[Ndiks]

Ma Mary, AGREED!We have to step up effort and Tell it with a shrill tone even.The NOISE need to be Elevated.I just thought of one DR Odine who have once been dynamic on this board.She is missing.Hope she will come back.The ENEMY seems resourceful,since they still lay hands over our resources.Their GLOBAL LAWYERS are invariably there,the Sangomonies,Ebonies lad,etc.
Have a bless day.

[Riccardo]

Dear Patriots,

I am glad some of those who have always behaved and written unpatriotic comments here are beginning to reason with us.
Cameroon is sick.. very sick. We must all unite to find a cure.
Our Prime Minister Chief Inoni is a leading force for a change in our Country.
Let's join him end encourage all Patriots in our Country to stand up to eradicate the forces of evil in our Country.
Stay the course... We shall overcome...

May God bless and united and strong Republic of Cameroon.
"One Nation, One People, One Future!"

Riccardo
CAADIM

[Ma Mary]

Riccardo = Clueless. Inoni? Whatever. Biya will not employ someone to investigate him, the klepto-in-chief. All roads lead to Biya.

[rexon]

Mutengene: Massive desertion in police ranks!
Source: http://www.camerounlink.net/fr/news.php?nid=26122 (French)

Close to 1,000 admitted policemen into training quit the instruction center. Problems of water and poor nutrition [are] at the roots of their involuntary departure.
Dominique Ndocki
Recently nominated following texts signed by the president of the Republic, the new officials are gradually taking up their duties. From the central services, the delegate general for National Security, Mr. Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, criss-crosses the four corners of the country to proceed with the installation of some of his assistants. Installations that unfold at the moment when the phenomenon of urban insecurity seems to have [resurged] in the big cities of Douala, Yaoundé, Garoua, Maroua…. We hope as much that the installed bosses will bring a new dynamism in the governments’ crusade against insecurity; even if we deplore thru speeches the lack of personnel, [and] equipment not forgetting the unreliability of certain policemen who [aggravate] the situation with repeated acts of racketeering and corruption. Next to these shabby ewes who have completely blemished their vocation, it is necessary to encourage the bravery and the courage of the honest and [committed] policemen, even though they are not many, in the fight against banditry and criminality.
Incongruities
These nominations of the Head of state were packed with numerous errors in the chain of command of the positions of responsibility. This is the case for example with the public security commissionership of the 12th district of Nkolbisson in the city of Yaoundé and at the head of which [is] a lady, the police commissioner Nebabi Martine. Her former first assistant, police principal official Zong Mitang was transferred to Bertoua. He was replaced by a first rank police officer who, and this is the most interesting part in this [tawdry] history, is the boss to another police official who is his superior in rank. Mbakop Antoine is a 2nd grade police officer. He was nominated assistant 2nd commissioner of the 12th district and receives orders from a police officer, 1st class, nominated his first assistant. What [kind of] collaboration can we expect between these two ranking officers condemned to work together? The police officer, 2nd class, Mbakop Antoine will he actually have the heart to work knowing that he will henceforth receive orders from an individual [of lower rank] that him? This is an example of ineptness among so many others and it is high time that the DGSN, which is a champion of discipline and respect for the principles of good governance, puts an end to this clumsiness [which is] likely to demobilize this strategic component for the safeguarding of the order in the city of Yaoundé.
Initiation
The other current event in the police is the last refresher training which involved close to 2000 inspectors and peace officers at the police Instruction and Implementation Center(CIAP) of Mutenguene. One of the objectives of this return to school was to transmit new knowledge to the policemen recently graduated from the last promotion. We know that their training had been all but rushed for reasons linked, some say, to the shortage of personnel. Recruitment carried out under the [administration] of Pierre Minlo Medjo had largely surpassed expectations. The CIAP of Mutenguene was not up to the task of reasonably welcoming everyone. Conscious that some of these policemen were poorly recruited and poorly trained, this is what no doubt explains many blunders observed lately, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o has started refresher training for some time now. The only sour note here is that it is necessary to fork out 30,000 Fcfa(USD$58.8) for them to take part and to pay for their round-trip transportation ticket. To what purpose therefore are these buses and other polices trucks parked at the DGSN and at the Higher National School of police? Why were they not used for the transportation of the trainees as it happens elsewhere?
At the CIAP in Mutenguene, the policemen admitted to undergo this training will not come on a pleasure trip. On the program, the menu is robust: Police Ethics, human rights, division life, shooting, armor and many other concepts will be the order of the day. The policemen will receive updates that they were unaware of: notably from the courses on police ethics, lessons having to do with stationary posts. The stationary posts includes banks and all the other financial institutions guarded by the men in uniform, cash convoys, the guarding of certain VIPSs and others. This is also a cash cow for high ranking noncoms of the police and armed forces who enrich themselves on the backs of their subordinates by holding back complete transfer to them of 30% of the sums that they receive monthly from these financial institutions. Having been made aware of these rights during this refresher training, elements of the Mobile Intervention Group of Ebolowa threatened to engage in a strike if this injustice was not redressed. Promises were made to them for a return to normal [practice]. Will they be respected since we know that the racketeering spirit and dishonesty of the police bosses who do not always lead by shining example?
Free for all at Mutenguene
The second oddity of this improvement training will have been the large number of recorded desertions at Mutenguene. Close to 1000 altogether. Some runaways we met, under condition of anonymity, [did not have kind words for] their bosses. They especially criticized the drastic reception and catering conditions at the CIAP of Mutenguene in spite of the high expenses masses of 30,000 Fcfa(USD$58.8). 10 liters of water every three days for drinking, toiletry and bathing. Monotonous nutrition and a poorly prepared food. From which was harsh cases of acute diarrhea and malaria. The trainees who owned cars preferred staying in Douala in order to get to Mutenguene each morning. Those who did not have this freedom, but were financially better-off, stayed in the inns of Tiko and Limbé. The rest of the troops, in the absence of extended suicidal test, simply packed their bags and fled. Close to 2,000 at the beginning, it is finally about a thousand policemen who took the month long retraining course from start to finish.
At the headquarters for National Security in Yaoundé, this situation of foremost concern for the head of police. On his installations tour, Edgar Alain Takes Ngo’o plans to take the bull by the horns in the coming days. Some discussion about eventual penalties for the deserters: freezing of the rank promotions or planning for another catch-up session.
But before then, it is very necessary to establish responsibilities. Why should a structure as vital as the CIAP have supply problems in drinkable water? With [regards] the bad food, one wonders to what [purpose] served the 30,000 Fcfa forked-over by every trainee? The matter will be followed

[paulbiya]

Fellow Cameroonian,
I have been reading your contributions keenly on this forum. You guys know what? The one thing God blessed me with is the fact that you are all COWARDS. You are too good for the computer keyboard and foolish analysis...fine for me!
I enjoy some bits here anyway. keep writing and satisfying yourselves while I continue in Etoudi.
Some other group say they are SCNC or what? You gus are another bounch of serious noise makers! I enjoy your stupidity and idiotic dreams. Do you think I have any headache? Fools!!!!!!!!!
I heard some idiot say I shall step down in 2011? For another coward???
Get going guys, keep writing!!!Paul

[Ma Mary]

Paul-are you now the serial killer of Nottingham?

[Watesih]

When Cameroon started rubbing shoulders with countries that swim in mediocrity,and war mongering like Chad several months ago,I knew she was even going to equate herself with the bastion of terrorist masterminds like Iraq.We should not fool ourselves,a comparison between these two countries will fit amazingly.
Iraq is a hideout of holy killers,while Cameroon ia a hideout of satanic swindlers.
Iraq is made ungovernable by the gruesome legacy of an inconsequential dictator,while Cameroon is rendered flacid by more than 40 years of impunity,forty years of hollow promises.
We saw it coming.When a country`s Diplomacy is dead, all players on the International scene take their turns to toss it round at their convenience.We all watched with awe the other day when the Chinese President was celebrating his Mass in Beijing with African 'Paupers of State'.He took turns to chip in a word or two to those who matter to the Chinese like Sassou Nguesso, Mugabe, El Bechir.The 3,4 minutes he spent talking to the above mentioned was reduced to 1 when Biya came on.Hu Jintao quickly urged him to continue his way into the Hall of Deliberations.This was a harbinger of what the Chinese had in store for Cameroon;2.5 billion! My God,this cannot even bring electricity to the Village of a residence Titus Edzoa built there at Nsimeyong! The image that one had of Biya this day was that of a man tired with like,but who tells himself that ,lets also line up ,and receive the Chinese chicken feed,and this will serve Junior to buy his christmas shoes with.Or how do we reconcile the fact that Cameroon also lines up,bowl in hand infront of people we practically have nothing to learn from,and who can`t even feed their 1.3 billion population.That image of Biya prostrating in front of the Chinese president shows us the waywardness that takes hold of a man when he is walking down the last mile of a wasted life.
Fate always has a cruel way of bringing men of terrible, but impressive vices to their doom.Or how can we reconcile the fact that when Biya bows to the Chinese,Jacques
does so and his pointed nose almost touches the ground. When the Sudanese billionnaire instituted a price for the first African dictator that will voluntarily relinquish power,he surely had in mind Biya as the likely winner,but he forgot that Jacques Chirac should be considered as the number one African dictator.The others can come in any order.The question now is ,how is the "Meilleur eleve" going to feel when the " Plus mauvais professeur" leaves office in 2007,and subsequently picks up the price?
Yeah, because we have never seen a student who professes unconditional love for his teachers,but who turn round and tell him that the Democracy he is learning from their school is a luxury to him!

[tayong]

Ricardo et al

I just had some comic relief from that posting of yours" stay the course". hahahahah

Mr Ricardo, STAY THE COURSE - This phrase, based on a sailing metaphor of keeping an unchanged course in navigation, was popularized during the 1980 Presidential campaign.Though Republicans have helped to popularize the expression it was in 1982, according to the Washington Post, Ronald Reagan 'visited 14 states in 10 days of campaigning since Labor Day, carrying his 'stay the course' message."

This was a man in order to underpin his plan for the nation asked his people to join him despite all odds to build on that plan.

How ridiculous to hear you asking Cameroonians to "stay the course".Stay what course? Downward drain into the abyss? Stay what course? Course of more corruption and maintenance of the status quo? Stay what course for goodness sake?

.We are the 130th of 150 nations according to UN development index
.We are the first five worst governance nation
.We are the 138th of 160 least corrupt nations
.We are the 130th out of 150 nations to business world wide
.We are among the worst ten in human rights abuse
etc etc etc...........

Which of these "courses" are we then to "stay"?
What a ridicle and and maybe a comic relief to forum members to read of someone asking Cameroon govt to "stay the course".Gentleman can you tell us which of these "courses" are we to "stay"?

Tayong

[Ongola-Iwondo]

Hello Brothers and Sisters !!

Back home it might be hell BUT we are not dying. Y'all spend time here, cursing your fellow cameroonian governing brothers but what have you done?? Apart from spending pompous holidays at back home instead of spending some of the cash investing: building libraries,offering scolarships funded by ourselves, providing well projects at home (in your villages or beloved neighbourhoods). Why neighbourhoods? because I've got friends from Kembong or Akwaya who feel at home nowhere else than in Essos or Ekounou (Yaounde). Men men men , the government can't do everything. Now we are behind countries like Mali just because the Cameroonian diaspora just spends its precious time fighting : francophones vs anglophones, beti vs bamileke, SW vs NW, North vs South or the ambazonia stupid stuffs. Who should make Limbe,Kribi or Lolodorf attractive like Monaco,Mallorca , Copacabana? The Government? NOOOOOOOOOOO my friends!! It is the elite !! You dumb ass people think Muna, Foncha or Endeley etc were robbed? NO! Show me only one Muna or Endeley who is a zero... NONE! They chose what was better for all of us and that's the only way for Cameroon to be properous one day....and most of all DON'T BE SELFISH!!

"I don talk my own. Mey person wey fit talk betta thing come challenge me. I BEG WONNA!! Cameroonian ova get mop!"

Mey person no come tell me sey Biya must go because no be the solution be that (Il va partir ca c'est un fait.. Tout le monde partira!!)..even Pa fru know wetti be the solution and na why that clown no fit assemble people for this country AGAIN !!

Ongola-Iwondo

[Ongola-Iwondo]

Hello Brothers and Sisters !!

Back home it might be hell BUT we are not dying. Y'all spend time here, cursing your fellow cameroonian governing brothers but what have you done?? Apart from spending pompous holidays when back at home instead of spending some of the cash investing: building libraries,offering scolarships funded by ourselves, providing well projects at home (in your villages or beloved neighbourhoods). Why neighbourhoods? because I've got friends from Kembong or Akwaya who feel at home nowhere else than in Essos or Ekounou (Yaounde). Men men men , the government can't do everything. Now we are behind countries like Mali just because the Cameroonian diaspora just spends its precious time fighting : francophones vs anglophones, beti vs bamileke, SW vs NW, North vs South or the ambazonia stupid stuffs. Who should make Limbe,Kribi or Lolodorf attractive like Monaco,Mallorca , Copacabana? The Government? NOOOOOOOOOOO my friends!! It is the elite !! You dumb ass people think Muna, Foncha or Endeley etc were robbed? NO! Show me only one Muna or Endeley who is a zero... NONE! They chose what was better for all of us and that's the only way for Cameroon to be properous one day....and most of all DON'T BE SELFISH!!

"I don talk my own. Mey person wey fit talk betta thing come challenge me. I BEG WONNA!! Cameroonian ova get mop!"

Mey person no come tell me sey Biya must go because no be the solution be that (Il va partir ca c'est un fait.. Tout le monde partira!!)..even Pa fru know wetti be the solution and na why that clown no fit assemble people for this country AGAIN !!

Ongola-Iwondo

[Ma Mary]

Ongola-Iwondo. Please do not try to pull that one. You sit on your parrot's perch in Warsaw or wherever and write nonsense about "we are not dying". You know what, I agree with you that government in a country cannot do all. There must be private initiative, but the government of la Republique does not do its minimum. It does not maintain roads, its civil service,customs etc are filled with predators who would steal your capital. There is no rule of law. That is all government's function.

Sir, it is sheer irresponsibility for anyone with capital, indigene or not when there is no government to create a favorable business environment.

Finally, the union between la Republique and Southern Cameroons is DEAD. It is like a tree that has rotted from the inside. It is still standing, but a small breeze will knock it down for all to see.

Dzien droby, my friend.

[Ongola-Iwondo]

Ma Mary,
it isn't nonsense my dear!! You are one of those people here pooring inanities. Y'all folks go back home very rarely and think its hell... It might be from your point of view BUT WE ARE NOT DYING !!! You are still waiting for the government's minimum? "you go wait sotey tire!!" What would you change with you're critics? NOTHING!!

You say there are no rules or laws and I'm very surprised by that insanity. What have you enterprised in Cameroon and didn't work? Some, I say some people make up stories of their failure from their inabilty to manage a family business and wake up one day to say "It's the Cameroonian government's fault"...POOR YOU believers!!

Some other brothers n sisters just want to start VERY BIG things back home while they've proven nothing and need the government's assistance. In french:"Manque d'experience du terrain" - We all know THE AFRICAN (its not the cameroonian mentality but african) is very skeptical especially when there is an idea from the learned brother from abroad and a foolish complex of inferoirity wrt the European...So, instead you can start something else at a smaller scale which surely does not demand the "bureaucracy" of our authorities nor attracts a corrupting demand.

I personally and some fellow bros n sisters of different ethnic origins don't care about the Cameroonian government and we do what we want to do at home (villages and neighbourhoods)at our LEVEL and the BEST way we can, provided it helps our brothers and sisters. We go back home at least once a year to carry out some positive business. SO IT IS NOT JUST A MANNER TO TALK THE TALK 'CUZ I DO WALK THE WALK TOO. The philisophy is simple:If you can't take care of your proper well-being, NOBODY would do for you nor make a profit from IT.

My friend its: Czesc or Do widzenia. Dzien dobry its goodmorning!!

Take good care of yourself!!
Ongola-Iwondo

[rexon]

Ongolo-Iwondo,

You have introduce yourself in this forum with a seemingly Anti-Southern Cameroonian and anti-progressive rhetoric and flipflopping of the highest order. Like the evil Dr Agbormbai, your description of the bandits in that corrupt junta a "government" is a wake-up call for every rightminded person in this forum, to look at your write-ups with "cony" eyes.

You wrote:

"I've got friends from Kembong or Akwaya who feel at home nowhere else than in Essos or Ekounou (Yaounde)"

Yes, even the Muna's, the Nwalipenja's, the Tabetando's, the Ngu's, the Ngute's, etc may come from Akwaya, Kembong, Mbengwi or wherever in the Southern Cameroons. Yes, they might feel at home in Yaounde because they have sold their concience to La Republique and see no reason to defend their relatives who might be dying in poverty in Akwaya, Mundemba, Mbengwi, while La Republique benefits through their natural resources like petroleum, timber, etc and develops roads, schools, hospitals and other basic infrastructures in Yaounde and other cities where they live. Dont you know that it is thesame people, that La Republique send to their villages to lie to themselves and their relatives in their respective villages about mundane projects in the pipeline that will seemingly bring development to their villages.

Secondly, you wrote:

"Y'all spend time here, cursing your fellow cameroonian governing brothers but what have you done"

The soo called governing brothers and sisters have cursed themselves by always lying to themselves pretending to be lying to others to steal their votes and gain favours. For example, it was a governing minister Agbor Tabi, who cursed himself by placing a caterpillar in Mamfe and Lying to himself and Manyu people to vote for the murderous CPDM, it was another governing Prime Minister who lied to himself by diverting funds for Santa water project to his ranch in Santa thereby depriving Santa people of portable water.

They (the government) are the ones who always talk about development, peace, corruption, etc. Nobody here have ever forced them to say some of these things. While they have the freedom of speech to say all these lies in La Republique and go free, and spend all their time designing tactics to lie to our people, i should also be allowed my freedom to write in the cyberspace to criticise them and cite "FUTURE" lies that they are planning to tell my people.

La Republique Du Cameroun can own everything, CRTV, SDF, etc. but they cannot own this cyberspace. They cannot force me to support the injustice that have rendered the lives of our people useless. I know they are evil and i will always exposed their evil intentions in this forum.

To conclude, what we in the diasparo can do is not wanted in La Republique. Because what we can do is what La Republique does not want us to do. I tell you what, the last thing they have been unable to do is to ban western Union and other money transfer agencies In La Republique. So that is the only thing we can do now: Send money home to our relatives.

[Ongola-Iwondo]

rexon,

Southern Cameroonian? Anti-Southern Cameroonian? We are Cameroonian plain and simple. I'm against putting Cameroonians against each other. You might be a frustrated guy but please don't take innocent people into you brainwashing factory and make them follow your fallacious doctrine.

I might been intervaining here very very rarely (maybe once every 3months)but today I've got a bit of time to write what I think about some the things the frustrated majority of which you are surely part of(sorry!) thinks and writes on this very visited tribune. The people you named above, what did they do for their community and country when they where at the right places? Apart from building their houses, buying cars and sending their kids abroad, NOTHING!! What would you have done? Now, do something without those means so as for you not to be embarassed when those means will be provided to you. This is a cameroonian problem.

I'm blessed my heart beats for every part of Cameroon so, I can be very balanced in my reasoning because every region in Cameroon has been marginalised in a certain way or the other...Still very young though , I still have some fresh(good and bad) memories of Buea, Muyuka, Bamenda, Maroua, Mbalmayo, Ebolowa, Bertoua, N'dere, Garoua, Bafang, Nkonsamba, Yaounde etc... You've got to travel man and see how others live.

You write "..what we in the diasparo can do is not wanted in La Republique. Because what we can do is what La Republique does not want us to do"...Want can you do apart from crying and posting critics? Buy weapons?(The latter will never happen..NEVER!)Infact, your last two paragraphs are very incoherent and lack facts.

Best regards,
Ongola-Iwondo.

[Fritzane Kiki HK]

Welcome to the forum Ongola-Iwondo,I do believe you are not here for a word battle but for facts.If you say some individuals are frustrated because 'This year Cameroon was number 138 out of 163'in corruption in the list of Transparency International which makes its position very suspicious and doubtful in the fight against corruption then you are wrong.

Read along the line and you will realise Cameroon needs much more than just flip-flopping politicians who make monies out of the pockets and votes of the common man in the street.We still see things of yesterday today and therefore the future is bleak.I hope Biya can pass the test of his time to be given that award by 2011.

Fritzane Kiki
Hong Kong

[Ndiks]

Fealty Gobshites like Iwondo wouldn't be able to Stop Ambazonia's rights,neither his Colonial Y'de Junta.Ambazonia is not as gailkit like Iwondo who does not know his own rights and will go even further to contest it when exposed free of charge.LRC was pulverized in an uncontested Estoppel in B'da High Court HCB/28/92.Even the strickening in years tortfeasor in Y'de who signed LAW 84/001 of 4th Feb 1984 will not stop it.LRC and gobshite Iwondo uses plundered resources from Ambazonia to bribe Global Lawyers thinking that,money works all the time in buying justice.Truth is Eternal.Iwondo looks terribly nescient of the times.Iwondo thinks he can send red trigger-happy drunken cauben to kill civilians in B'da,Buea,Kumba,with weapons of mass murder and does not expect Ambazonia to be liberated with liberation weapons.Crazy.So you have the monopoly to use weapons on others?Nutscase.Iwondo have be helpful with the abduction of Ambazonians to LRC to face military kangaroo trials in the metropole on trump up charges,a crime against fourth Geneve Convention.If people want Rumsfeld to be tried now,Iwondo thinks he and LRC be swept under the carpet.Iwondo should go read beyond whathe knows of the cameroons cause your brain is soiled with filth.FOOLISH.

[Ongola-Iwondo]

Fritzane Kiki,

It's a rather a come back but nevertheless thank you! I liked you're warm introduction.

Let me tell you there should be of course a battle of words(first) because we're all learning in this forum and by so doing we should shy away from extremism... My problem isn't the position of Cameroon in whatsoever classification but the way WE(Cameroonians) tend to picture that information. I do hope being in Asia you've toured the region and can name at least 15countries Cameroon is ahead of(in the world we can name at least 40). Talking about corruption, I can name at least 2 EU countries having corrupt society as corrupted as the Cameroonian society (Note: I said cameroonian society and not Cameroon).

You know what? I think, there is also a problem of generations. The guys over the +50ers are the lost generation never took the destiny of this Country and are still governed by the Biyas (+70, +60 ers)... They were given EVERYTHING: scholarships + advantages... While most of the guys of the +40ers seem lost also... The new generation knows what it takes to succeed.Just look at the cameroonian engineers in germany, russia, canada; medics in Belgium, USA, finland etc. We have a VERY STRONG diaspora. It should be a battle of constructive words and ideas and putting down good projects back home. I'm usually ashamed to see what the Malians(they are people like us - it's just an example among others knowing what position they had in africa 10years ago) manage to build their villages WITHOUT passing through the goverment... AND now the government is pressured not from outside but from inside...

Best regards,
Ongola-Iwondo

[Ongola-Iwondo]

Ndiks ,

If you knew who I am, you could be very sorry and ashamed of what you wrote...BECAUSE I've got no Political ties with nobody and God bless I'm still very young(and strong). I just work for the betterment of my brothers'(from Yoko, Ngoazip or Guidiguis ), sisters' (form Ngoketunja, Malimba or any other part) + my family and beloved friends' situation...By so doing, I hope to help my Country.

Be open-minded my friend,
Ongola-Iwondo

[Langai]

Ongola-Iwondo:

I bet you are a mutant of Riccardo or Agbormbai or even Vally of England. This forum is used to people changing ids when their duplicity has been disclosed.
In civilised places, people want to get to power so as to implement a programme, which they tell the electorate about. When they are voted, they implement their electoral promises as far as this is possible, of course with various amendments dictated by events during their tenure. In Cameroon, power is not obtained through the ballot box. It is foisted on whoever is going to dance to the tune of the incumbent.
If a government cannot provide the basic needs of the population like schools, hospitals, roads, utilities, and a healthy climate for investment, why should it be called a government? If all a government does is to loot the resources of the country and impose hardship on the population, what is the reason for singing its praises? Who should provide amenities for the population? Is it the population fending for itself or those who put themselves forward as a government? When you charge those in the diaspora with not improving their neighbourhoods and the rest of the trash you have been paid or asked to post here, what obligation does anybody have to help people outside his/her family circles? You must certainly be living abroad on a stipend from your sponsors in the CMR government who have asked you join in rubbing pepper into the wounds they have already inflicted on Cameroonians. When you see the taxes collected in civilised countries being used to run the economy, don't you feel that it ought to be the same in Cameroon too? Except for unforeseen cases, you have electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In these countries it is well known that good governance is a development tool. You find few people pocketing the country's resources and doing nothing for the population. Rexon has told you about Western Union. Find out what marvellous things those in the diaspora do with the help of Western Union and MoneyGram. I bet the government we have in Cameroon would like to put its hands on the money transferred through these agencies. I bet someone is looking for ways of taxing all the dough coming in from abroad to relieve the suffering of the masses in CMR.
You have only just signed in today, or you claim to post a thing or two once in 3 months. Well, before you post again, try to do your homework and know that today you are accusing the wrong people. It is not those struggling Cameroonian bushfallers who contribute a lot to alleviate suffering that you should be blasting. Rather you should have a sharp word for those who spend sleepless nights creating problems for my poor brothers and sisters in CMR.
Langai

[rexon]

Ongolo-Iwondo,

We have heard those stories time and again from henchmen of La Republiques corrupt junta. It is thesame old stories, that diasparo's of Mali, Burkina Faso etc have done this or that. I have always insisted that this is a tactics preached by their children to "Buy" time to continue the theft of our resources. We saw it here when criminals like Dakole Daisalla were appointed ministers to continue the thiefery of Mr Biya's junta when other people who uses these words like you (Dr Agbormbai, Ricardo) describe the government as the best for the people.

You see, people are not fools. We have the right to criticise as we have thesame right to support our people back home. You cannot force us to shut up our mouths simply because the evil junta has provided you a mansion in europe and you are hiding there. Micro/macro policies cannot work if government policies are against meaningful development. Dont you know that Franck Biya owns all the forest in the east and southern provinces of your nation called La Republique. Dont you know that even in my country, the Southern Cameroons, there is always a theifery of barrels of petrol in a Scam that habitually involves a certain Ndime of Beti extraction, and other henchmen of the regime? Young man, we cannot vomit all here in one single write up. But let me warn you that you cannot fool us to buy time to steal our resources and render our peoples lives useless while you sleep in your luxury in poland.

[Riccardo]

Ongola-Iwondo and other Patriots in this forum,

Please keep your head up and tell the truth to those who use this forum to sing the song of division and hatry.
Progressive Cameroonians and Patriots have to think positive.
Brother Ongola-Iwondo, your statement as a Patriot tells it all! It hurts a lot of people here who dont want to hear it.
It is very unfortunate that some Cameroonians here are very bloaded with emotions and they will call anyone names who disagree disagree with them.
Potential "Big Time Dictators"
Thank God, Cameroonians are educated people to distinguish voodoo brainwashing fellows from real concerned Patriots.

"CAMEROON IS ONE AND WILL REMAIN ONE AND INDIVISIBLE" wether we like it or not...

We just have have to work together to make it a better place for the next generation...

Riccardo
CAADIM

[Ndiks]

Iwondo,i remained dogged on what i wrote previously.So just who Iwondo is?We will tell Iwondo how spite and wretched he and his LRC is long-winded,If iwondo wouldn't want to find out.Iwondo should be abashed for Ignorance and brazen arrogance.Tosh.

[Fon]

This bozo in the name of Ongola-Iwondo must be very happy that many are responding to his vapidity.The iconoclast forgets that there are international survey institutions that put Cameroon abyss in all classifications and not those in diaspora.

"we are not dying" you and who? We all know that those of you who see nothing wrong with the murderous cpdm regime are those benefiting from it.

[Ma Mary]

Iwondo, so you really perch in Poland, parroting the party line from your uncle Paul. It was morning in the West Coast of the USA when I responded to you lecture so Good morning was quite appropriate. Poland is a former communist country that is doing better than your beloved republique by all indices. I wonder what you are doing there. It is hypocrisy if you are not actually in cameroun.

I reiterate: it is government's job to create minimum conditions for business to develop. These include absence of corruption, security, rule of law, a business-friendly tax code etc. Not all of us like to cheat on taxes. Not all of us have powerful beti relatives to tweak the books and to clear the path. You want us to invest there so that your relatives can extort our funds with bribes and intimidation in order to maintain you in Poland.

Rexon points out that people in the diaspora are buoying that economy by subsidizing their relative's lives and lifestyles. A six month embargo will bring the situation to a head.

[Tabeng Tayim]

Ma Mary,

GREAT response to this traitor that poses with the name Ongola-Iwondo. These fargot underarchievers in Cameroun who pose as the ruling junta have betrayed and sold African Souvereignty. When the Southern Cameroon nation voted in the 1961 Plesbicite to join La Republique du Cameroun in a Federated State, that was an initiation of African Emancipation by Union with what we thought were our brothers. 5 decades have taught us better. The government of La Republique has become an impediment to development in Southern Cameroon.

These greedy gay puppets and sissies of any available imperialist will never do the right thing as mandated by the 1961 plebiscite until they have exhausted all other options. These fools base their handicapped logic on the assumption that they have the monopoly of military force. That is what the Serbians in Yoguslavia, turned Yogo-calamity thought. That is what the Russians thought in Latvia, Estonia, Lituania, Ukraine, Georgia, etc.

If they think that Cameroun's current and premature dispensation of annexing the Southern Cameroons is a permanent solution, then the castration of their ballooned egos awaits them. If it will take a military solution to kick this immoral and fargot annexationist out, then we, without doubt have a rendez-vous with fate.

[Fritzane Kiki HK]

Tabeng Tayim,
You are quite right here.The problem of Cameroon lies within Cameroonians themselves.I don't think we should base our minds on external powers to liberate Cameroonians from this fiasco.But we should hope for a change in the near future as the CPDM gives way with his stooges and stomarch politicians for a new era.We have no positive memories of Biya's 24 years rule than suffering,poverty and exploitation.

Fritzane Kiki
Hong Kong

[TabiSweden]

I am always very impressed with some scholars who have decided to devote a greater part of their lives in conducting researches that are aimed at examining the state of affairs in some countries. This expression is strictly implied to the just ended research condusted by a team of professors at harvard university to determine the state of affairs in some choosen countries in the world based on governance. I am however dissapointed and would like to criticise such research works for failing to site the posible implications on the part of some unscrupulous heads of governments who believe that results of such surveys are mearnt just to consume and yet remain indifferent about the whole thing. Cameroon is a tipical example where the government has never reacted positively to any survey result despite the ill-image and shame that such results bring to our nation. The government always receive these results and think that the persons who gave up their most precious time to conduct such research are fools. Its time things start to go the write way and I'm calling on all those government officials who think that they are been influenced by the head of state to do things that are not their taste to reconsider their stand and change for a better Cameroon. For they should beer in mind that when ever the head of state is summon to judgement, they will also follow suit (As the case with Sadam and hus followers). We have suffered alot in Cameroon, a country which has been transformed into an island of wealth so much so that even the poor would want to prefer 100cfa to governance.

I wish to inform the head of state finally that its still not to late to make a decision for a better cameroon. I beg you to say that it doesn't cost you any thing except your effort to put the country straight so why not do it. You already have enough for yourself for all is varnity and you would die and leave them behind in Jesus name I pray.

Amen.

[Ongola-Iwondo]

Hello !!

I'm very supprised by the inability of some of you to conduct an intelligeable battle of words without being frustrated. Let me reply to some of:

@Fon
Is your family dying of hunger back home? If yes, that's your fault. Is your neighbour dying? If yes, you are the fault because you've done nothing to help. If you are so tired with the cpdm, why can't form your own party and start building a good political framework (though that isn't the only solution and I thin it isn't even a solution). The fact that some people are responding shows that there is some truth in what I say and a real intention to debate though they don't know how to start.

@Ndiks
I can just compare you to these neo-nazist kids in some parts of eastern europe who don't really know what the are fighting for. They only know one phrase:"Go home, I hate you!" But when asked why, they just keep on repeating the same thing.

@Fritzane Kiki
That's what I'm trying to say. The problem lies within Cameroonians and there is no sense trying to divide our fatherland. Cameroonians just have to work together independently of their origins (whether at home or not but doing it for the betterment of our Country).

@Langai
I'm no mutant brother, rather a person with a head and a brain at the right place. Don't just rely on stories told by others but verify. I've never had any problem with Western Union nor MoneyGram(whatsoever humble amount have intended to send). Man, talk what you know: Franck Biya owns no forest. He can own the whole Mvomeka'a if his father wants but that's not how things are done. I still remember the way people potrayed the president's village saying things like: there is an airport, a hotel like hilton, golf courts etc. But when his first wife died(r.i.p ) we all saw that Mvomeka'a wasn't the paradise people thought... So, my friend VERIFY every piece of information.

@Tabeng Tayim
I'm no traitor nor traitor to be(in any field. Je suis un homme intègre!) because I've got no political ties with whosoever. IF by so saying means you thought I'm from SW nor NW (which doees not matter for me all), I'm sorry. Though I got my education from the prestigious schools of the latter regions, I'm not even a bit connected by far or near to your way of viewing things(or to some of you).

@Ma Mary
The fact that I'm reponding from Poland does not mean that's my base. You said because of the time difference you said Goodmorning? Pardon me but I think at the end of a conversation or letter you can't say that...I can maintain myself in any part of the world thanks to my education, audacity and tact so, I don't need any financial "help" from whosoever...as simple as that. Keep on vociferating here rather than using your brain to change the system in which your fathers and uncles are founding members.

@Y'all
Are your hands and brains not with you? Has Biya and his clique taken them? NOOOO!!So?