September 7 Cabinet Reshuffle:Another Cabinet Reshuffle, Another Disappointment

By Francis Wache

Since the official proclamation of the results of the July 22 twin elections, the cabinet reshuffle had been awaited.

It had been so awaited that, in the words of the Prime Minister, this had virtually grounded government work as Cameroonians awaited - and speculated.Then, on Friday, September 7, President Biya acted. He signed a decree announcing a cabinet reshuffle.

The reshuffle was a disappointment on several scores.Firstly, it was generally expected that Biya would trim the bloated cabinet. He did not. Rather, he split the Ministry of Economy and Finance into two. In the present as in the past, there are Ministries, which, after the October 2004 Presidential elections, were created to compensate cronies.

Although it is not clear why the government needed another Vice Prime Minister, Biya created the post and gave it to a longstanding acolyte, Jean Kuete. And, so, with Amadou Ali at Justice, Prime Minister Inoni will, henceforth, be hemmed by two Deputies.

Battle For PM's Post

During the July 22 twin elections, politicians of the different regions had urged their populations to vote so that, after good showing at the polls, they could harvest Ministerial posts

The contest for the post of Prime Minister was waged between the Northerners, Northwesterners and Southwesterners.The Northerners felt that the position of Speaker of the National Assembly was purely ceremonial. They were alleged to have written a memo to the Presidency requesting that Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, who has reigned at the National Assembly for 15 years in a row, should be dropped and another Northerner be appointed as Prime Minister and head of government.

In the Northwest, the battle was rugged and ruthless. The "Baforchu Mafia", for instance, vowed that they would - by means fair or foul - capture the Santa Constituency and use it as a bargaining chip to conquer the Star Building. They failed.

The Southwesterners were bent on maintaining their grip on the Prime Minister's post. Inoni, they argued, had performed remarkably well and should be given another chance. To demonstrate their loyalty they won all but one of the parliamentary seats in the Province.
In the end, Biya maintained Inoni.

It is difficult to predict what CPDM diehards in the Northwest - who moved from one parliamentarian to nine in the last elections - will tell their supporters after peddling the illusion that, by winning, the plum job of Prime Minister would be handed over to them.

The Fall Of The Baobabs

In the reshuffle, heads of baobabs of the regime rolled. There was the senescent chum of the President, Ferdinand Oyono, who, of late, was alleged to stay for months without going to work. Cameroon's culture, critics said, suffered as a consequence.

The highflying Polycarpe Abah Abah, who headed the influential Ministry of Finance and the Economy, was given the boot. Before his fall last Friday, he was generally believed to have the President's ear.

Another eminence grise of the New Deal regime, Jean Marie Atangana Mebara, who had served in the key position as the Secretary of the Presidency before being transferred to the Ministry of External Relations also received the Presidential nod.Olanguena Owono has headed the Health Ministry for long. He was already being seen as an untouchable. Biya axed him.

A perplexing departure is that of Professor Njoh Mouelle, formerly the boss of the Ministry of Communication. On the day of the cabinet reshuffle, he had chaired the Board meeting of CRTV. He was relaxing with guests at a sumptuous reception when, ostensibly, he was tipped about the impending changes in government. He had hardly ensconced himself in his ministerial limousine when the news broke: He had been sacked. Mouelle joined the government in 2006.

Anglophones Fare Better

In the last cabinet, there was only one full Anglophone Minister. This time around, the number skipped to an insignificant two. Ama Tutu Muna, erstwhile Secretary of State for Commerce, was elevated to the rank of a full Minister. She is now in charge of the Culture portfolio. Another Northwesterner, a political dark horse, Paul Atanga Nji, was appointed Minister in charge of Special Duties at the Presidency.

Biya Dumps Allies

On August 14, following the proclamation of the results of the July twin elections, Biya addressed the nation and announced that even those parties which did not fare as well as they might have would not be sidelined in the business of running the nation.

This was understood as a wink to the opposition parties. But, in composing his September 7 cabinet, not only did Biya ignore the opposition parties; he went further and dumped his long-time allies, namely, the maverick Dakolle Daissala (MDR) and the survivalist Augustin Frederic Kodock (UPC).

Beti-Grand North Hegemony Maintained

As was glaringly evident in the last cabinet, the 'Beti-North Hegemony' has been maintained. Although Beti heavyweights were dropped, they were, in most cases, replaced -numerically-by other kinsmen.

The North, on its part, has a Vice Prime Minister, two Ministers of State,  …Ministers, Ministers Delegate and../ Secretaries of State.
Biya has still operated his confidence on an ethnic basis. The key Ministries - have been entrusted to faithfuls of his region of origin, notably, Finance, Economy, Defence, External Relations…The September reshuffle has demonstrated - as all the others in the past - that Biya is a maestro of political contradictions and an unpredictable manipulator of political egos.

By and large, the cabinet reshuffle was a big disappointment: those Cameroonians in general who thought the president would prune the number of Ministerial posts and reduce the exorbitant expenditure that caters for the Ministers power, privilege and prestige. It was equally a huge disappointment for the opposition who could have participated in a government of national union to jumpstart Cameroon out of its present stalemate.

To the civil society, this cabinet confirms the fact that those who are not vociferous supporters of the ruling party can never hope to participate in developing this country.
On the whole, Biya reshuffle his cabinet every two years. Going by that, the next cabinet is expected in 2010 on the eve of the crucial presidential elections.

Perhaps, then, Mr Biya might contemplate not disappointing the aspirations of his compatriots.

Comments

[Tita Mofaw]

Now Cameroonians are using their brain. Support Paul Biya and you will be compensated with a ministerial position.

Hmmmmm.Lets see which regions are competing for PM? Seems it is no longer a birth right of the Bakwerians now. The North is eyeing, the NW too, and I won't be surprise if the Western Province start complaining that they want a cut. The whole country should just vote for CPDM and may be Popo might try a new system with 10 PMs. He might also increase the number of ministeries to 1 million. What a genuius plan to create employment opportunities. But then there are about 10 million Cameroonians of working age who would all want to be ministers? If all the one million ministeries have 5 vice each and each vice has 2 vice then we could all be ministers in this country.

[Ernest]

Mr Biya wants to plunge the country into a delimma before he finally give up, if he will ever. He knows fully well that the country is spending much on these good for nothing ministries. The more reason why he is creating these so called ministries with the same functions is just to compensates those who are very loyalt to him. The post of PM is eyed by everyone and that is why they went as far as selling the future of their children just that. All the ten provinces of Cameroon want the post and Inoni had shown a firm grip to that post.

[simplice]

Tita for and Ernest; your comments were brilliant.

[JEW]

ARE WE READY TO ANSWER THE CALL TO FREEDOM?

Biya has continued to thrill the human conscience and universal norms of morality with his excessive infatuation and romantic clinging on the saddles of power in Cameroon. The recent cabinet reshuffle spells in crystal terms that the Nazist who rules Cameroon can never recant from his well-cushioned belief in the band of thieves around him.

It is indeed pathetic that the four walls of a catholic seminary could not have a sobering panacea to this feat of greed, wickedness and demonism ingrained in the Biya persona. A stroll across the streets and villages of Cameroon, Africa in miniature, reveals the sordid faces of despondency, disillusionment and surrender - the cries of unemployed youth, the anger of a forgotten people, and the spree of blood from a country bleeding out of the bruises of a one-man, one-region, one-tribe political apartheid.

I choose to believe in Dante, that ''the hardest part of hell is reserved for those who in period of moral crises like ours, choose to maintain their neutrality''. No one nation, no one people, no one era under the shackles of slavery, have ever extricated themselves by idle complaint, alcoholism and mean-care abandonment. Everytime injustice triumphs, it is because the human conscience has gone so dumb to the nerve shrieking call of freedom, so blind to the bright side of sacrifice, so emasculated to take the walk of sacrifice across the gilotine of patriotism.... afraid to die fighting evil, that others may live fostering good.....

We have all failed Cameroon! Why? Because we spend every iorta of courage that once made us a great people complaining, Because we have refused to see beyond ourselves and our differences, we have all failed, for making all those who rape and plunder the largesse of our country believe that we are too sterile, too stupid, too enfeebled to comprehend the call to freedom swirling and echoing around us!

Until we rise above mere hypotheses and see practice, until we heap-off our differences and remember that we were once a strong people, until we re-awaken to the resolve that Cameroon has enough God-given endowments of Gold in Ndian, Petroleum in Limbe and Kribi, Rich Timber confederacies in Bertoua, Beautiful panoramic flora and fauna in Bamenda, to mention a few -

that we do not deserve to be a people so scorged at the back and caressed by the persistent hands of abject poverty, so brutalized by a clique of spineless and amoral homosexuals....... until then, we deserve to be in the dungeons of misery...
I have failed Cameroon, you reading this has failed Cameroon, we all have failed this nation, cradle of our fathers....

But the difference is simple.... every single time I get summoned by history to see a tragic spectacle unfold, to see Biya play more than 20 million people to a monotonous tune of whim Machiavelli in commandeering feat, to see him offset intellectuals in a game of stark demagogy because they are blinded by wealth-thirst,...

Every time I savour the bitter truth that the most momentuous thieves in a generation like Abah Abah can go scott-free because some fraternal, tribal, or superhuman cohabitation with the ''commander-in-chief'' creates the corridors for them to walk head high, ....that Louis Paul Motaze, a well celebrated long-arm in the national coffers can get appointed a Minister.... I feel I am ready to answer the call to service... but Cameroon is not yet ready....
The Cameroon citizenry has slept far too long that it has now slipped into a comatous state

When Beer shall taste like water in the mouths of Cameroonians, when the lure of ill-gotten wealth shall stink like abomination in our sight, when sodomy and cultic enticement shall lose their grip over our souls... when the intellectual class -now the chorus singers to the biya Malevolent bandwagon - realise and heed Bernard Fonlon's call to genuine intellectualism which questions and calls to the purpose of truth,... Until we rise beyond the quicksand of tribalism, until we cross the valley of nepotism God-fatherism..... Until we stop seeing ourselves as Anglophones or Francophones, and embrace a new CAMEROPHONE identity, then we are not ready.....

When we will be, God will be on our side, and truth shall triumph, and Cameroon shall be saved! why, because as Martin Luther King chronicled ''truth pressed to the earth shall rise again, the arm of the moral universe always bends towards justice''.... When Cameroonians are ready, God will lead us to a MOSES.... Until then, Pharoah Biya will be in charge....BUT not for Long, Justice is on its way... on a chariot of fire and rage riding fast towards Cameroon, and it shall come when no one ever expects...God Bless Cameroon.. with a better tomorrow''

[Danny Boy]

Hi Folks,
I personally take offence at the elevation of Paul Atangha Nji, from some non-descript post at the Ministry of Health to a Minister with responsibilities at the Presidency. This is an insult to the North Westerner and to all Cameroonians of good faith.
Atangha Nji is corrupt and he says so himself. He on this forum told us how he gave almost 50 million francs to a few ministries of this regime. That is enough for me to indict him!
To have made him Minister, it means Biya is scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the cream of North Westerners within the CPDM.
Rather than attack each other on this forum, why don't we start training our guns at these useless up-starts? Surely Atangha and his relatives, visit this forum. They will know how much we of the cyber-cafe think of him. The fear factor alone should dog his every step for as long as he remains Biya's poodle.
Blessed be our fatherland.

[7512wilson]

My message to the newly appointed ministers including Paul Atangha Nji is to start counting their days. Biya is a dead man walking and all those who have served as minister or secretaries of state in Biya's government at any one time will answer to a "Truth and Repercussions" committee when the time comes. There will be no place to hide. We will smoke you all out. The wave of change is on its way like a tsunami and nothing, not even the greatest military force in the world can stop it. We have no guns, we have no moneys, we have mansions, we have no DOs and SDOs, we have no gendarmes or police. We only have God and thats all we need.
Wait and see.
God Bless Cameroon.

[Ndi O]

Andre Fouda, moving from Public Works to Health. "Abba! Na whaoo, Catechist son". He also extended to Ako. I hope he does same for Nwa. Head teachers/teachers in those areas gonna be in trouble more than ever before because Delegates and MPs in those zones are evil. No future at all for kids in those areas. I weep and weep.
Biya together with his incapable agents may twist the country as they want. They may create more ministries. I simply wanna make them understand the night is not going to be long. " The years eaten by the Locust must one day be restored so the Holy Book says. All Ministers, Govenors, SDOs etc, "Watch out". Your pay day is coming. Good Luck Dr Paul and your choir members.

[rexon]

Ntemfac Ofege: The time is not for apportioning blame but the time is to right a wrong situation. Divide and Rule, had been the formula by the regime to undermine the British Southern Cameroons and its sovereignty. Read Prof Richards Gaullist Africa. It has a succinct chapter on divide and rule. You, Mr. Azonga, you are also a tool of this divide and rule strategy. Through your ignorance and cupidity. The regime always gets some ignorant Anglophone to fight his own brothers and sisters. Or it gets the mediocre and unprincipled persons among them to pass around for leaders. Muna against Jua, Muna against Foncha, Foncha against Endeley, etc. Can you not see that it is for the same reason that a con man and an ex-convict like Atanga Nji Paul is made minister? Atanga Nji Paul owes the crumbled banks upwards of 49 million FCFA. By his own account, he spent 63.000.000FCFA for the elections which he lost. He might have spent more. Mr. Simon Fobi, showed copies of counterfeit 10,000 notes distributed in Bamenda by Atanga Nji. Where did this money come from? Were they counterfeits? Today the man who spread out counterfeits is Minister! If the 63.000.000 plus was Atanga’s money, they what do you think he will now do in his new position. Replenish of course. Or that petty contractors like Ama Muna (Femi Construction) and Gentry (Road contracts); persons who bought and sold votes are Mr. Biya’s collaborators? Gentry tells all that he has spent more than 50.000.000 for the CPDM in Ako-Misaje, my constituency. What do you expect this Gentry man to do now that he’s minister? When you have such corrupt and unprincipled individuals around you control them by controlling their dirty record. May this not continue to be your portion, Mr. Azonga. Mishe, you are standing for a vile, demoniac and corrupt system. May my God show you the light, if you are willing.

[rexon]

Enseignement technique
Les anglophones exigent leur Enset
Cameroon teachers trade union (Cattu) et Union of parents teachers association (Upta) dénoncent l’annexion du sous système anglophone.

Le hall d’un restaurant de Bamenda a servi de cadre, en fin de semaine dernière, à un séminaire sur la rentrée scolaire. Organisé par la Cameroon teachers trade union (Cattu) et l’union des associations des parents d’élèves (Upta), cette rencontre a porté essentiellement sur la rentrée scolaire qui a eu lieu hier, lundi 3 Septembre. Le thème, “ Enseignants et parents ! Stratégies pour un partenariat effectif avec le gouvernement pour une éducation véritable au Cameroun ”, était évocateur à plus d’un titre.
Nkwenti Simon, secrétaire général exécutif du Cattu, a saisi cette occasion pour fustiger l’annexion de l’éducation et principalement du sous système de l’enseignement technique anglophone par le sous système francophone. Cet ordre d’enseignement anglophone souffre d’un manque criard d’enseignants. Conséquence, ce sont les enseignants francophones qui tiennent la craie dans les Cetic et lycées techniques de la partie anglo-saxonne du pays. Les enseignements sont dispensés dans un anglais approximatif, si ce n’est du simple pidgin. Pour Nkwenti Simon, cela s’est toujours reflété sur la formation des élèves. “ La translation des épreuves au cap et Bac technique 2007 étaient terribles ”, révèle Nkwenti Simon, avant d’ajouter : “ Certains candidats au cap industriel ont menacé de quitter la salle des examens à cause de la translation approximative rendant incompréhensive les épreuves. Nous les avons supplié et ils sont restés. Les résultats sont là ”.
Pour lui, il serait inconcevable que des enseignants formés à l’Eniet de Mbengwi pour les Sar-Sm soient affectés comme c’est le cas présentement dans les Cetic et lycée technique. Sur les 350 candidats admis à l’Enset cette année, 5 seulement sont anglophones. “ S’il y a une école normale supérieure annexe à Bambili pour la formation des enseignants de l’enseignement général anglophone, pourquoi pas une Enset annexe pour les enseignants de l’enseignement technique du sous système anglophone ”, s’interroge Nkwenti Simon. Pour lui, il est temps, pour le gouvernement, d’en tenir compte et surtout d’y apporter une solution. “ C’est un véritable génocide du sous système anglophones. Nous sommes prêt à faire face aux flèches que nous recevrons du gouvernement ”, tempête le Sg du Cattu. Il a également annoncé un combat contre les chefs d’établissement et délégués (provinciaux et départementaux) qui s’ingèrent dans la gestion des frais d’Ape.
Le délégué provincial Awuru George des enseignements secondaires pour le Nord-Ouest a salué cette coalition Cattu-Upta. Il a rappelé que ce sont de telles initiatives qui ont favorisé, dans les années 90, la création du Gce Board.

[Atangana]

The appointment of Atanga Nji is the turning point of Biya´s recklessness.

[reverend]

Can someone enlighten the forum on who "Fuh Calistus Gentry" is? Seems to be an Anglophone appointee but there's no background given on his credentials.

[casara]

Reverend,
Go to hell.Looks like your place is hell,imposter.

[Kumbaboy]

Dr Calistus Gentry Fuh

Those who know him say he could be the most educated member of Government yet.

He finished from the University of Yaounde and went on, they say here in England, to easily bag a PhD from one of the toughest engineering schools in Western Europe - University of London Imperial College. Don't know what he read there. Mr Biya certainly sent him there on scholarship and can now eat his cake.

Dr Fuh's sense of duty and manerism in the campaign shows something different between him and the old dull politicians. The Dr sticks to a clear and davastating message, landing hot shots against the Opposition. The Opposition has no response.

KB

[Kumbaboy]

Also found this entry on a website: "1902, Calistus Gentry FUH, The geothermal and structural controls on gold mineralisation in the Colomines area: a pan-African belt of Eastern Cameroon".

The guy has an eye for gold. He might be a mining engineer. My kind of people have an eye for cocoa.

KB

[reverend]

Thanks for the enlightenments KumbaBoy. I found them very illuminating.

I really don't know what Casara's problem is but I can certainly help him spell "impostor" properly.

I think Anglophones have fared quite well in this reshuffle and we should maybe for once be grateful to President Biya.

I suggest that the diaspora community write a motion of support and gratitude to His Excellency Paul Biya, President of the Republic, Head of state, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.

Ma Mary, Rexon, Pa Ngembus, I entrust you with the task of drafting the motion of support. Keep us updated with developments.

[Paa Ngembus]

Reverend,

You stupid ignoramous.

Go lick Mbia's ass if you want, but don't expect the rest of us to partake.

Anglofools fared better in this cabinet?

You most be kidding Bozo.

Out of more than 50 full ministers (not counting deputies and state secretaries), 2 are anglophones and you want to send a motion of support to Mbia?

If we go by the logic of your La Republique, you anglofools make up 30% of the population, so there should be a minimum of 15 Anglofool ministers.

YOU ANGLOFOOLS ARE REALLY YOUR WORST ENEMY.

So, go to hell you stupid buffoon.

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[john-begheni-ndeh]

My fellow Cameroonian children,

I am His Excellency JB Ndeh, your former Minister of Transport and currently GM of MIDENO. It is a great pleasure for me to join the Post website and be able to communicate with you all especially telling you of the remarkable achievements of our beloved President His Excellency President Paul Biya.

Indeed we need to thank the North West for gradually opening their eyes and turning away from the opposition which cannot offer them anything. Only trust and faith in the CPDM and President Biya can bring us the development we need.

As you can all see, this is just the beginning. President Biya has scratched our back thoroughly with our daughter as Minister of Culture and the other appointments. I am sure more will follow. Development is the on the way by way of roads, schools, bridges, industries and you name the rest.

I encourage you to continue to support the New Deal and the CPDM. Please shun the SCNC especially at this crucial time when 1st of October is approaching and the SCNC is making empty noise.

Have faith in your Head of State who is also the Fon of Fons.

I thank you all.

Yours Sincerely,

HE JB Ndeh,

Former Minister of Transport
GM of MIDENO
CPDM Section President

[Fon]

Paa Ngembus,
I don´t know why you took that humorous piece from Reverend so serious;isn´t it obvious that it was a jocular one blended with irony/sarcasm?

[Paa Ngembus]

Fon,

Some of us eat toads.

As a toad eater, I judge the poisonous ones to avoid by their camouflage.

Knowing Reverend, I think you are the naive one.

BTW, I do have a nose for sarcasm, but harbour a keaner eye for poisonous toads.

See you later man.

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[Watesih]

Mr JB Ndeh,
You guys really take Cameroonians for fools.You have been Mideno GM for ages ,and the ring road has been rotting away.Instead of coming out ,and telling us of new roads you built,you start celebrating the appointment of another Minister.Because a new minister has been appointed ,development will flow in through the window.Why do you only see development in terms of ministers being appointed? WE really see how the President has scratched our backs! Hasn`t he appointed somebody who spent above 50,000,000 frs of fake bank notes to finance projects in Biya`s ministries in times of difficulties? The Northwest will never turn away from the opposition! Only ex-convicts like the one that has been appointed as Minister will continue to be used to defraud elections.
This is the worst thing you have done for your person.To rush to this forum because two ministers ,out of 60 have been appointed from the Northwest.WE don`t want to be arrogant to you,because you may run away.We want to have a debate with you here.
And the debate can only begin from your own doorsteps.Our first question is to know what Mideno has done so far under your tenure.
This because we all know that the patches of the ringroad that have been tarred are as a result of the largesse of the African Development bank.
Why do you think that when the President appoints criminals this is not empty gesticulations,but that the Scnc is making empty noise when 1st October is approaching?
Do you really think that after keeping the Northwest in the cold for ten years ,it is worth the salt to start appointing ex-convicts as ministers? Is this the policy of scratch my back i scratch your own? Do you know that we have the information of somebody from Menchum,who left school in form one in Government Technical college,and is said to have used 100 million to bribe everybody in the town of Wum to vote for him? Is this what you call turning away from the opposition? Anyway start the debate with us.We can only judge you from what you did as Minister,and GM,not because the president has appointed our daughter.The father used to dine with the President on the same table ,but only ended up building a prison.

[Paa Ngembus]

Wateshi,

Stop wasting your time.

This is not JB Ndeh. This is an impostor. May be Reverend.

The real Ndeh does not have the balls to come to this network. Biya crushed all their balls in the process of Rose Croix initiation.

Even his son Paa Fru Ndeh who lives in the Washington DC area tried this forum and it was too hot for him, so he escaped.

You will soon discover who he is.

A+

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[john-begheni-ndeh]

I am indeed JB Ndeh, General Manager of MIDENO.

I usually read the Post on paper but was encouraged by CAMASEJ journalists last week that The Post has a website where citizens can share their ideas for the development of Cameroon.

It is a good idea I think, especially as many people are now travelling a lot and need to keep informed.

Mr. Watesih, if you are in Bamenda you can come to MIDENO near Ayaba Hotel and give your name to my secretary. I can show you MIDENO and GP DERUDEP achievements on paper and give you more statistics in line with our struggling resources.

I am glad you also noticed the bigger job we are now able to do thanks to the support of the African Development Bank.

[tayong]

Kumbaboy
I respectfully disagree with the last part of your comment about Dr Gentry.You commented thus...

" ...The Dr sticks to a clear and davastating message, landing hot shots against the Opposition. The Opposition has no response´"

I will like you to bring out the hot shots he landed against the opposition which by implication gave him victory. This isnt about the Dr's CV or resume but his bona fide vis-à-vis a terribly flawed elections and campaigns. What difference did be make?

Someone foreign to Cameeroon politics would be misled to think the present cream of CPDM politicans lack the intellectual capacity to resist political manoeuvring but far from that Sir, birds of a feather flock together.

What was his message that distinguished him from others, not resume not his Imperial College Status!Henry Hogbe Nlend will tell you better! Dont tell me he's brought up by Brits.

[Paa Ngembus]

Mr. Ndeh?,

To prove you are who you claim to be, call your son Paa Fru to prove that you are who you claim to be.

We will then know that Mbia did not crush your you know what, during your initiation to the Rose croix.

A+

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[UnitedStatesofAfrica]

Mr. JB Ndeh or whoever you claim to be
You have the nerve to come to this forum and say that the dictatorial regime of that blood-thirsty vampire and devil in ETOUDI has accomplished a lot of things for Anglophones. You really have balls. And what achievements has that devil accomplished for Anglophones? bad roads, no seaport despite the fact that we have natural harbor in limbe, no jobs, no recognition in the government, no funding for our universities, no regard for our anglo-saxon culture, no international airport despite the fact that the first international airport in Cameroon was in Tiko, are these the achievements?
We know that you have sold your soul to that ETOUDI devil for money and fame, we all know. So just go and sit in your rat hole and enjoy your money. Don't come here and say something as atrocious as Biya has accomplished a lot for Anglophones. You really have balls. If I could send my hand through the computer screen, I will send my hand through your computer screen and punch your fat bloated stomach, packed with the shit of corruption.

[Paa Ngembus]

USAfrica,

Man?????

What happened to you?

You are beginning to sound like ngemGOAT.

Are you sure it's you?

I hesitate to call you by you real name FuckAm alias Francois Nche.

If this is your awakening, then it is highly appreciated, but if you are trying to play the chameleon, watch out for ngemGOAT is still around.

Take care man.

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[Tchouteu Janvier]

Well said UnitedStatesofAfrica. I like your objectivity and intellectual honesty. A progressive mindset I must add, and perhaps a deep soul that dwells on the advancement of humanism.

I see you are a kamerunian patriot and nationalist who has clearly discerned the ills of the system in power,understands without being biased who those responsible for the malady are, and have an encompassing notion or idea of the way forward. Being such a clear-headed kamerunian is a psychosocial advancement the post-independence generation should emulate. Dishonest and blinding utterances from Mr. JB Ndeh and co of the system or the other detractors in the corrupted opposition, or even the nihilists within the one-sided forces for change(the seccessionists and ethno-centrists) should be denounced for what they are. Weapons of the enemies of the kamerunian people and obstacles to change.

[rexon]

Excerpts from speech by Nicholas Sarkozy, given at the University of Dakar, Senegal on July 26th, 2007
…The colonials came, and looted, helped themselves, exploited, took resources and wealth that did not belong to them. They stripped the colonised of their personalities, of their freedom, of their lands, and of the fruits of their labours.
They took, but I would like to say, with respect, that they also gave: they built bridges, roads, hospitals, chemists, schools. They made virgin soil bear fruit, they invested their concern, their labours and their knowledge. I want to say it here: The colonials were not all thieves. The colonials were not all exploiters.
There were bad men among them, but there were also among them men of goodwill, men who thought they were carrying out a civilising mission, men who thought they were doing the right thing. They were wrong, but some of them were sincere. They thought they were bringing freedom when they were feeding alienation. They thought they were breaking the chains of obscurantism, superstition and servitude. In fact they were forging far heavier chains and imposing a far more onerous form of servitude, one that weighed on spirits and souls. They thought they were bringing love without realising that they were sowing the seeds of revolt and hatred.
Colonialism is not responsible for all of Africa 's current difficulties. It is not responsible for the bloody wars that Africans fight against each other. It is not responsible for genocides. It is not responsible for dictators. It is not responsible for fanaticism. It is not responsible for corruption and prevarication. It is not responsible for wastage and pollution.
But colonialism was an offence that was paid for by the bitterness and the suffering of those who thought they had given their all and didn't understand why people were so angry with them about it.
Colonialism was an offence that destroyed its subjects' self-esteem and gave birth in their hearts to that self-hatred that always ends up being turned on other people.
Colonialism was an offence but in this offence was born the embryo of a common destiny. This idea is particularly important to me.
[…]
I have come to tell you that you should not be ashamed of the values of African civilisation, that these values do not drag you down but elevate you, that they are an antidote to the materialism and individualism that enslave the modern man, that they are the most precious of inheritances in the face of the dehumanisation and homogenisation of the world.
I have come to tell you that the modern man who feels a need to reconcile himself with nature has a lot to learn from the African man who has lived in harmony with nature for millennia.
[…]
But I have also come to tell you that there are within you, youth of Africa , two inheritances, two wisdoms, two traditions that have fought each other for so long: that of Africa and that of Europe .
I have come to tell you that this split between the African and the European within you forms your ruptured identity.
I have not come, youth of Africa , to preach.
I have not come to moralise.
But I have come to tell you that the European part of you is the result of a terrible act of arrogance on the part of the West, but that this European part of you is not unworthy.
For it calls you to freedom, emancipation, justice, and equality between men and women.
For it calls you to universal reason and consciousness.
The tragedy of Africa is that the African man has never really entered history. The African peasant, who for centuries has lived according to the seasons, whose ideal is to be in harmony with nature, has known only the eternal renewal of time via the endless repetition of the same actions and the same words.
In this mentality, where everything always starts over again, there is no place for human adventure, nor for any idea of progress.
In this universe where nature is in charge of everything, a man may be free from the anxiety of history that dogs the modern man, but he remains immobile, caught in an unchanging order where everything seems as though it has already been written.
This man never projects himself into the future. It never occurs to him to break free from the repetition and invent a destiny for himself.
This, if you will allow a friend of Africa to say it, is Africa 's problem. Africa's challenge is to enter history more fully. It is to find the force, the energy, the desire and the will to listen to and to marry her own history.
Africa's challenge is to stop forever repeating and going over things, and to free herself from the myth of the eternal renewal; it is to realise that the golden age that she always harks back to will never return for the simple reason that it never existed.
Africa's problem is that her present is permeated with nostalgia for the paradise lost of her childhood.
Africa's problem is that she judges the present according to a wholly imaginary notion of original purity that no-one could ever hope to revive.
Africa's challenge should not be to invent a past, however mythical, to make the present more bearable, but to invent a future with the means she has at her disposal.
Africa's challenge is not to get ready for misfortune to strike again, as though it too were destined to repeat itself eternally, but to get the will and the means together to defy misfortune. For Africa has a right to be happy just like all the other continents of the world.

[simplice]

JB Ndeh, I have a question for you. If the SCNC were in power today, won't you support them?. If the SDF were in Power, won't you support them aswell?. And if Biya were to be overthrown via a "Coup d'Etat", won't you start scratching the back og the next government?. This your "scratch your back" political ideology simply eloquently testifies, you're a stomach-driven politician,ready to embrace any regime.
I'll consiquently advice you with due respect,to tell us personally what you're doing for Cameroon. Before I get an anwser, I'll tell you what I know:
-you participated in rigging the last twin elections
-most of your children are abroad because you've told them, there's no solace in Cameroon
-you're ready to lick Biya's ass for a Prime Ministerial post
-you celebrate the victory of a Northwest Minister(ethnocentricity)
Prove me wrong.

[john-begheni-ndeh]

Thank you all for your reactions.

But I suggest you respect my person as an elder and a senior statesman and do not throw uncalled for abuses if you want us to have an intellectual debate.

Firstly, our new strategy now in the NEW DEAL is to win the hearts and minds of people. That is people now joining the CPDM and rallying around President Biya not because of appointment, promotion, contracts, money or food and drink but because they are now convinced that only the CPDM holds the hope and future of Cameroon. The CPDM which, remember, has been able to maintain us as an island of peace and stability in a region and continent of conflict and disaster.

You only need to read our Head of State’s speeches to see the good plans he has for Cameroon.

Remember how His Excellency said during his last address to the nation that we can all have our differences but all those who agree with the “primacy of the national interest” are welcome to bring in their own bricks to contribute in building the Cameroon edifice. Unfortunately the SCNC has self-excluded itself because they threaten our national unity and want to reverse the tremendous gains our heroes and nationalists fought and died for.

But we should treat them with love and understanding. After all they are still our brothers and sisters even though erring. As I said above, the way forward is winning their hearts and minds.

[reverend]

Pa NgemGoat,

Can you please leave my name out of your frustrated ranting?

Whatever you have going on with John B. Ndeh that is your business. Please don’t drag my name in it.

Better put your little asylum monies there in Belgium to better use than spend it on cheap internet time to publish nonsense.

JB Ndeh I encourage and salute your initiative. It’s not every day we such openness amongst Cameroonian politicians

[Fon]

Rexon & others,
What do you think of Nicholas Sarkozy´s speech? I read it with lot of enthusiasm; I saw it pregnant with a lot of wisdom and maturity.
I am one of the few Africans who has long ceased to continue to blame the west for our problems. Africans are responsible for their present situation.

I strongly believe that the suffering Cameroonians that form a majority of the population will be far better off under colonial rule than being under their own present leaders. On the other hand,no western nation can accept today to colonise an African country; it will be a burden.

[Kumbaboy]

Mr. Ndeh,

Are you saying the SCNC has supplanted the SDF as the Main Opposition? Here are the achievements of the SCNC to date:-

(a) With reference to the Mount Mary Summit, the SCNC single-handedly stopped the stealthy frenchification of the SW and NW Provinces by successive presidential decrees by Mr Biya, leading to a forced consolidation of Anglo-Saxon insitutions for the betterment of all citizens in Cameroon. Francophone culture is a French deceit with limited international scope to Cameroonian children - the future. Mr Biya's decree to francophonize the State were as good as his misguided liberal economic policies that decimated the treasury in the 80s. He permitted spending like a drunken sailor and had no reserves for the rainy day. For example, in the 80's Cameroon imported more champagne than Great Britain - effectively exporting oil revenues to French vinyards. That was economic stupidity under Mr Biya's watch.

(b) The SCNC radicalized Anglophone nationalism leading to greater political consciousness and the creation of the University of Buea. Cameroonians, especially those of us abroad live under the impact of Mr Biya's partisan decrees - 99% of overseas missions are headed by Francophones who treat anglophones with suspicion, including London, Paris, Washington and New York (UN). The New Anglophones are savvy and can see the bias in Mr. Biya on things that count.

(c) The hightened Anglophone nationalism has opened the door to 3 successive Anglophone Prime Ministers. Mr. Paul Biya's initial preferences are Northerners (Bello Bouba, Hayatou, etc.). Now he nows, the 1961 Act of Union does impose certain constitutional imperatives that cannot be violated, as he attempted at the start of his reign, with impunity.

In a nutshell, Mr Paul Biya's wayward policies created the SCNC. The SCNC is an indissoluble idea that cannot be decreed into extinction. It will take a new Cameroonian at the helm who recognizes the bicultural backbone of the country and can steer the body politic to focus on what the future can bring to a united federation.

KB

[UnitedStatesofAfrica]

Paa NgemGOAT, I earlier told you, I am not against the southern cameroons cause. What I am against is the SCNC because I think they have been doing a very bad job.When I point out certain things that they tend to overlook, they all fall on my head and call me a traitor. How can a so-called “pressure group” refuse to take advice from the people they want to liberate? What an irony. The SCNC is made up of snobby, know-it-all, intellectual-wannabes who think they are better than the average Cameroonians and refuse to admit any fault. What kind of liberators are not humble enough to admit a fault? ask yourselves. You guys lack the capacity to suceed and you are blinding the people of southern cameroon with false hope.

[Paa Ngembus]

FuckAM alias Francis Nche alias USAfrica,

My little ragamuffin.

You were quiet for a while (unlike you) and I was afraid you had run away like your other Froggie siblings; the Riccardos and the Janviers and the Henriettes.

You have to make up your mind where you stand.

Either you are confused (quite likely with numbskulls) or you are trying to play the chameleon (likely too with traitors).

I don't get it.

How can you be fighting so hard to advice an organization (the SCNC) whose objectives you DO NOT SUPPORT?

Will you like such an organization (the SCNC) to SUCCEED with your GOOD COUNSEL.

You must be kidding Bozo.

You are a DAMNED LIAR and you know it.

Keep dreaming.

The SCNC will succeed.

There is absolutely nothing you can do to preven that success.

We shall drag idiots like you kicking and screaming to a liberated Southern Cameroons.

We will still give you the option to go back to your rat hole in La Republique though.

Later MA BOY.

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[Paa Ngembus]

"Mr Ndeh?"

You have not proven that you are who you claim to be.

I told you what to do to prove yourself.

Once you do that, we can have a debate on your warped views of Cameroonian reality.

Until then, keep rambling.

Reverend, you still sound like the JB Ndeh impostor.

A+

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

[UnitedStatesofAfrica]

JB NDEH or whoever you are,
You have come back again preaching the propaganda of the Biya regime. How dare you, how dare you say that CPDM is the only hope for Cameroonians? you have the audacity and the cheek to open you bloody mouth and utter such complete BULLSHIT. Listen, you are nothing more than an opportunist. You have sold your soul for money and it is very clear. Like I earlier advised you, just go and sit in your shit hole and enjoy your blood money, don't come here and try to act like the CPDM has the interest of Anglophones at heart. YOU BUFFOON, our ancestors have cursed you for saying such an abominable thing. After centuries in power, what has Biya done for anglophones? .
What if you are one of the millions of students who graduate every year from the university of Buea and can't find any job? what if you are the student who graduates from high school and his parents can't afford for his college education? what if you are the one of the millions of anglophones who are plagued with low wages but saoring taxes? what if you are the limbe life gaurd who earns 10,000 FCA per month? what can 10,000FCA do to a man in cameroon? Have you seen the number of youths leaving Cameroon and walking across the sahara desrt to get into Europe? do you know why they are escaping Cameroon? is it because the CPDM has done nothing for them? If the CDPM was actually a party of hope, why would all these out talented youths be walking across the sahara desert in search of greener pasture? eh? answer? what if you were one of these suffering people, will you open your filthy mouth and say CPDM is the only hope for cameroonians?
Look, we all know like S.T Muna, you have signed your blood pact with the devil. You and your party can be enjoying all the money and power now but remember, there is life after death. Christianity talks of forgiveness, yes but don't forget that you are African and you have ancestors. God will hand you over to your ancestors to be judged. Our ancestors will have no mercy for agents of the devil like you. People who have suppressed their conscience for wealth and fame will pay the ultimate price.
If you come back to this site again and talk such nonsense, I will pray to God to give me the power to send my hand through the screen and box, thoroughly box your corrupt, fat stomach until you shit out all the money you have stolen.

[Watesih]

Hey Fon,
You don`t sound like you there .The first thing is that Sarkozy`s speech is pregnant with a lot of scorn ,and superiority complex.He came across as a giver of lessons.Jacque Chirac said Democracy was a luxery for Africans,but Sarkozy came out telling Africans they had missed their entry into History.He tells us that we should not be nostalgic about the Golden Age, which according to him has never existed.With all what the West has got from Africa,how could a man like this start doubting our entry into History.My man,this is somebody who wants us to forget history,by telling us that the younger generation is not to blame,or held responsible for some of the worst crimes against humanitylikeslavery,colonisation, committed by the older generation.According to him we should only live the present,and this present can better be enjoyed if we enter into a partnership with what he calls "Eurafrique".So you see,having discovered that the other club of thieves called francophonie is being vomitted by Africans,he skillfully comes up with another subsequent gatherings of Heads of State,where they will map out strategies to eternally keep us in the tether.Sarkozy even said Africa doesnot have much to offer his country now,only to go over to Gabon in his first official outing ,and boost the image of one of the worst dictattors Africa has had,and later contradicted himself in Niger by saying the country was very important to France,since he signed accords there for the exploration of Nickel.Is Niger not in Africa? You would have noticed Sarkozy`s stupidity comparing the taking of human resources from Africa to the bridges that were used to go into the hinterlands ,and capture these slaves.This tells you that he still has the idea that you can carry out some cosmetic measures in Africa while taking away the best of them.
According to Sarkozy the European civilisation is superior,though he describes it as being arrogant.This is the same arrogance that made Europeans to carry away the best AFrica had.The was insult somebody can tell you is that you are living according to the rythmic cyclical movements of the seasons.It is as if you were a robbot,doing the same thing day in day out.Having forcefully maintained us in a very uncomfortable situation for so long,the French leaders cannot come out today ,and make a mockery of us.Fon ,there`s so much to be frowned at in this speech,i don`t just want to continue!
Somebody cannot treat Africans as people who never project themselves into the future
and you treat his speech as mature.Which future is he talking about when France has military bases all over in Africa? Which future is he talking about when France intervenes to perrenise the rule of inconsequential dictators everywhere in Africa? Look at Cote D`Ivoire, look at Chad,
Congo,Central African Republique,Cameroon etc.You say you think a majority of Cameroonians will be better off under rule,than under their present leaders.Our present leaders are offshoots of colonialism
,thats why they have been they for 20,45 years.Most African countries are still under colonisation today.The Doha round of talks should teach you a lesson.This is an open attempt not to let off the grip on our economies.They protect their own economies,and technologies,but want us to open our own markets for their goods,while at the same time exploiting cheap natural resources here.This is my first gist on this issue man.

[UnitedStatesofAfrica]

The rebel goat, Pa NgemGOAT
Sorry to disappoint you but I am not confused. I stand for anything that will improve and elevate the lives of southern cameroons. Like any othe person in the world, I have my own beliefs but if the SCNC brings prosperity to southern cameroons, why should I condemn them? this is exactly where my problem lies. From what I have observed, the SCNC doesn't have what it takes to bring prosperity to our land.
I remember when I attended my first SCNC informational meeting while doing an exhange program at the University of Buea. I was invited by an ardent SCNC youth leader, Che Godlove. Some of you in Buea might know him. While at the meeting, I asked some questions. Why does the SCNC intend to suceed wihout grassroot support? why are they figting La republique before trying to get the people's support? don't you get the nation behind you before you lead a revolution? The common woman in the market knows nothing about the SCNC. The youths in Buea no nothing about the southern cameroon interim government(www.southerncameroonsig.org) that was formed in exile. How can you form an interim government when the people who want to govern do not know that you have formed one? I posed a lot of questios but I was called a traitor and detrator,
It is the same in this site, when I pose these questions, they refuse to listen. They instead send their bulldog, Pa NgemGOAT to bark at me but fortunately he cannot bite. He barks but can't bite.Paa ngemgoat and your people,if you don't listen to advice, You will still be fighting your battle after 100 years.
Cheers!!!!

[Paa Ngembus]

FuckAM alias Francis Nche alias USAfrica,

This bloke is interesting.

I love the message you are sending to JB Ndeh and his ilk through his impostor the Reverend Devil.

I will never agree with you on what you are saying about the SCNC.

La epublique is arresting SCNC activits in Limbe, Kumba, Mamfe, Buea, Bamenda, Wum, Ndop, Kumbo, Nkambe, etc., etc., etc. and you claim nobody knows about the SCNC?

You must either be a JB Ndeh in this case or just simply in denial.

Go to any divisional (county) capital in the Southern Cameroons and ask for the LGA (Local Gov't Area) Representatives and they will tell you what is happenning on the ground.

I agree that because of the colonial repression and the presence of traitors like you in our midst, many Southern Cameroonians will fein knowledge of our cause.

Believe me, we understand them as long as they are doing what is required of them to advance the cause.

Take care mon petit.

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALL BE DECOLONIZED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY