Re-conquering a lost electorate,''Re-conquer MEZAM Division so that it becomes once more a CPDM bastion under the New Deal.This is a personal challenge that destiny has placed on me and which I have to take up in June 2007.
ABSTRACT OF MY POLICY STATEMENT
1. a) The Head of State has not marginalized the Northwest Province. Here is a list of the great services that H.E. Paul BIYA has rendered to the Northwest Province and its people in 24 years. A sign of concern, which this province has failed to make use of.
b) The political unselfconsciousness of the Northwest Province, the betrayal of the Head of State's trust, the permanent double dealing and the political failure of the elites have relegated the Northwest Province to the background of national politics.
How can we ignore H.E. Paul BIYA's outstretched hand to us and today complain of not being sufficiently represented in the Government?
c) Re-conquering a lost electorate: Strategy and Prospects. The end of the absence of a good political vision. The rebirth of a new generation of coherent and courageous politicians who are closer to citizens and free of all political calculations based on personal ambition and egoism.
Paul ATANGA NJI's message to the Northwest electorate
2. Why I would be a real political representative of the people, capable of defending before national institutions, development of the Division, the province and of all its then people at home and in the Diaspora.
Mr Paul ATANGA NJI political, economic and socio-cultural balance sheet in 20 years. An indefatigable support for the institutions of the Republic and the Head of State. My opponents will have to present a more convincing balance sheet to the electorate or else they will be disqualified automatically by the laws of nature, for God is first of all just before being merciful.
PAUL ATANGA NJI'S MESSAGE TO THE ELECTORATE OF THE NORTHWEST PROVINCE
My dear brothers and sisters of the Northwest Province,
Today, I wish to inform you of my decision to be a candidate for the June 2007 parliamentary elections in Mezam Division (Bamenda Central).
For 16 years, our province has turned its back to our Great National Party, the Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM) for no good reason. Faced with this suicidal political backsliding, which has relegated the province to the background, I have, as a redeemer whose mission is to re-conquer the lost electorate, decided to present my candidature to you six (06) month before the parliamentary elections.
In the political document made public here today and available in English and French, I have listed all the services, which H.E. Paul BIYA has rendered, to our dear province in 24 years.
In politics, you should always remember that if you do not know where you come are coming from, you will never know where you are going. With supporting elements, I will show you and prove to you that it was with the Northwest province that H.E. Paul BIYA signed his first political alliance as from November 6, 1982.In politics, you should always remember
Do you remember that barely three (03) months after acceding to the Supreme magistracy, it was in Bamenda that the President of the Republic paid his first official visit within Cameroon on February 9, 1983 He spoke to us in English. He was made FON of FONS and the King of the other Kings.
During this historic visit, the Head of State confirmed the bilingual nature of Cameroon by making his speech in fluent, coherent and pertinent English. Remember the famous phrase "BAMENDA IS MY SECOND HOME''.
Remember also that eleven (11) month after his first visit, the Head of State came back to Bamenda to inaugurate the Agro-Pastoral Show which has remained indelible in the history of the agricultural and pastoral development in our country.
Do you remember that nine (9) month after the Pastoral Show, H.E. Paul BIYA again came to Bamenda for the Ordinary Congress of the Cameroon National Union which gave birth on 24 March 1985 to the Cameroon People Democratic Movement (CPDM) whose pertinent Charter you know as well as I do?
Let me ask you one question, if H.E. Paul BIYA did not want to make our province economically prosperous and politically strategic, would he have come to Bamenda three (3) times in twenty five (25) months (February 1983 - March 1985) whereas the other provinces were still dreaming of being in communion with the Head of State? Apart from these official visits, what has the Head of State not given to the North-west Province and its people?
Do you know that in 24 years his H.E. Paul BIYA has given us 2 House Speakers of the National Assembly and 1 Prime Minister, Head of Government? Do you know that four (4) of our brothers have been appointed Ministers of Transport, 2 of them appointed Ministers of Mines, Water and Energy; 2 of them Ministers of Agriculture, 2 of them Ministers of public Works, 1 of them Minister of Public Health, 3 of them Rectors of State Universities, 2 of them Secretaries of State in the Ministry of National Education for 14 years, just to mention only a few?
Do you know that (06)of our brothers have been appointed General Managers of strategic and sensitive State Corporations like the Ship Yard, the Cameroon Development corporation, MATGENIE, the Civil Aviation Authority, MIPROMALO, just to mention these?
Do you know that despite the illegal launching in Bamenda of the Social Democratic Front (first opposition party) in 1990, which can rightly be considered as an act of treason and provocation, H.E. Paul BIYA appointed a son of the North-West Province (Mr ACHIDI ACHU) to the post of Prime Minister, Head of Government on April 1992?
Do you also know that after the 1992 presidential elections and despite the landslide victory of the Social Democratic Front in the Northwest Province (SDF 93% - CPDM 7%), the Head of State confirmed Honourable ACHIDI ACHU as Prime Minister, Head of Government on 27 November 1992?
What do we really want? Where are we today?
My brothers and sisters,
Despite all these important posts which logically would have made the Northwest Province the first development pole of Cameroon, I am not only surprised but also scandalised to see that some of our brothers of the province including the intellectuals continue to say that Anglophones of the Northwest province are marginalized and treated as second class citizens in Cameroon.
If sovereignty and development ministries (Transport, Public Works, Agriculture, Public Health, National Education etc) have been entrusted to sons and daughters of the Northwest Province, it is to enable the plenipotentiaries of the province to efficiently solve all their development problems in this part of the country (construction of roads, construction of hospitals and health centres, construction of classrooms, electrification of Divisions, Sub-Divisions and Districts, provision of drinking water to everybody).
In short, no son or daughter of the Northwest Province can stand up today and say that H.E. Paul BIYA has not given us the opportunity and means to develop our province.
I must reiterate that those who claim that the Head of State has marginalized the Northwest Province are of bad faith and are guilty of intellectual irresponsibility and political dishonesty.
President Paul BIYA has indeed stretched out his hands to us but what has he got in return? Political ingratitude, sterile contestations, advocating for secession and poor election results.
Today, I am therefore bringing to you the massage of truth, of loyalty and of unity by telling you sincerely and with conviction that we must imperatively adopt a new political behaviour, a new civic spirit and a new republican culture.
I call upon you today to be wise. Let us come together. Let us stop behaving like lost sheep. Let us know what we want in politics. I am here today to help you adjust before it is too late.
I have come to invite you to join me so that together we transform Mezam Division into a real CPDM stronghold for, despite our political breach of the past, H.E. Paul BIYA has always reacted positively to our preoccupations.
We therefore need to renew our trust in the Head of State and show him our efficiency and fidelity. CPDM must win next year's parliamentary elections in Mezam Division.
THE PROCESS OF POLITICAL RECTIFICATION, NOW OR NEVER.
AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FAILURE
I am starting as from this day, a process of political rectification in Bamenda for it is obvious that all the opportunities that H.E. Paul BIYA has given us have been wasted and poorly exploited because of lack of a political vision.
In reality, intrigues, slandering, the struggle for position among elites, egoism and permanent double-dealing have taken the upper hand on entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that should help us to ensure the welfare of everyone.
The absence of dialogue between the elites and the base, the bourgeoisie politics that separates some elites from grass-root militants, arrogance and contempt shown by elites towards their fellow citizens, have created an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion among brothers and sisters of the same province who should be working hand in hand for progress. This province should henceforth put an end to sterile contestations and antagonism. We have to make a more than 90% turn around to embrace a new political order.
''POLITICS NA NJANGI''
Politics is a game of interest and compensation must be proportionate to political commitment. That said, in life, you couldn't plant maize and expect to harvest groundnuts.
From the analysis of politics today in Cameroon, we can rightly conclude that the Northwest province has failed and this failure is justified by fact that since 1982, President Paul BIYA has always wanted that our strategic province plays a leading role on the national scene. Unfortunately, the elites of the province have failed to understand this.
POLITICAL PERSUITS MAY REMAIN PERMANENT, BUT ALLIANCES CHANGE BASED ON WHAT IS AT STAKE
If stakes are permanent in politics, alliances may necessarily not be, given that these alliances are modified according to events and certain strategic interests to ensure an equilibrium, which consolidates the nation's rights and reinforces its institutions.
Alliances can shift from the Northwest to the West, from the Southwest to the Littoral, from the East to the Adamawa, from the North to the Far North and from the Centre to the South.
It is therefore important to take advantage of the privilege we have, especially when the Head of State chooses a province like ours to play a leading role in politics. It is certainly in this domain that the North-West Province has failed woefully in accomplishing its historical mission.
That is why in politics you must have a vision, defined objectives and put in place a strategy to reach them. In short, in politics, you should never act blindly but ensure that you are always on the potentially wining side. It is not optimism, but rather realism and pragmatism, for when you are sick, you consult a medical doctor and not an architect.
When you want to have a good football team, you look for a good coach in the same way that when you want to build a solid house, you start with a solid foundation.
It is therefore clear that some elites of the Northwest province have contributed directly or indirectly to the political failure which today continues to place thousands of innocent citizens of the province on the disadvantage.
We should therefore adopt new ways of doing politics in the North-West Province.
Allow the best militants of the CPDM who are capable of obtaining good results, not only for themselves but also for the good of the entire province, to be at the forefront on the field.
The best players should act on the field because re-conquering the lost electorate of the Northwest Province is not only a political imperative but an emboldened duty of the conscience and experience.
More than even before, the CPDM can win in the North-West Province only with the best and not with the mediocre. For this to happen, individual values have to be taken into consideration.
We should remember that the first quality of a good politician is humility, availability and the desire to serve and not to be served, for, we know that according to the word of God, humility is virtuous, it supersedes fame, while pride precipitates failure.
IT IS INDEED HUMILITY THAT WILL PERMIT US RECOGNISE THE COMPLIANTS AND PREOCCUPATIONS OF OUR GRASS ROOT MILITANTS.
As a matter of fact, the grass root militants have always complained about external elites, and rightly so, who come to them only during periods of elections.
As soon as elections are over, they all disappear and contact is cut off. This political duplicity, which in reality constitutes intellectual dishonesty, destroys all the efforts deployed by men of good will for the implantation of the CPDM, especially in a sensitive area like the Northwest Province.
I am determined, therefore, to wage a new battle given that the trend has to be reversed for the Division, which is the birth place of the CPDM to be conquered.
Let us live and experience a militancy of proximity for we are condemned to live together, think together, eat together, pray together, work together and win together.
Together, we have to develop a winning strategy. It is with this notion that I am coming to sign a new contract of trust with the people of Mezam Division.During the coming six (6) months, we must re-implant the CPDM in Bamenda. We shall do it by word of mouth; that is, going from house to house and from quarter to quarter.
For our actions to be credible on the field, they must reach the less privileged people of our society. Together we shall put in place a strategy of political marketing. From now on, we will be campaigning for new membership into our Great National Party.
Every month, we must register between 500 and 1000 new members to be able to reach our objective of re-conquering and fostering loyalty among our electorate. Lost and floating militants since the advent of the multiparty system in 1990 must come back to the fold. We have to be offensive, we have to gain ground and if we win our bet, we will be credible in the eyes of the public and I assure you that H.E. Paul BIYA will take it into consideration.
I therefore call upon you to join me in the CPDM boat for the way to salvation is with H.E. Paul Biya who, during the 3rd Extraordinary Congress on 21 July 2006, restored the political rights of the grass root militants.
For the Head of State, the CPDM should be a party of militants and not a party of leadership. The CPDM should not be an electoral machine whereby elites come once or twice every five (5) or seven (7) years to meet militants. The communion between political actors and grass-root militants should be shared every second, every minute, everyday and all time. In fact, the communion should be constant.
During this 3rd Extraordinary Congress of the CPDM, the President sensitised militants on the role of resource persons who flock to the field and sometimes make difficult, the work of grass root militants who master the area better.
It was more than ever before a moment of clarification and H.E. Paul BIYA had to clarify the role of everyone to avoid confusion, which hampers the good functioning of the Party.
I want to believe that in the attempt to shed more light on the functioning of the Party, the North-West Province will no longer experience the many failures decried and condemned by the National President of our Great Party.President Paul BIYA encourages concerted effort. Lazy people and those who take easy shortcuts have no future in the New Deal era.
Addressing the youths, the Head of State declared, and I quote: "It is by overcoming the obstacles of life that one becomes mature and responsible". President Paul BIYA likes devoted effort and encourages those who are patient. He likes endurance and has never approved of the behaviour of those who take easy shortcuts.
Lazy people have no future in the New Deal era and every effort is always rewarded. (I know what I am talking about). Furthermore, there is no dignity for those who expect everything from others. Only a collective effort will make us politically credible on the field.
Politics is therefore not a one-man show. It is a collective effort and the sum total of converging ideas. Politics is not done in luxurious villas or by sitting at the back seat of our PAJEROS and MERCEDES BENZES.
Real politics is done through direct dialogue with all the cross sections of our society. Politics is done by going to the ghettos and shantytowns. To be credible in politics, you have to work hard, sweeping the town with hawkers, eating KWEM, ACHU, SANGA, MBONGO TCHOBI, KONDRE, and ERU (Cameroonian dishes) with your electorate.
It is through this way that you can truly get to know the problems of your fellow citizens and propose concrete and appropriate solutions to them. It is for this reason that H.E. Paul BIYA came about with the notion of "Proximity Politics": the surest and only way to guarantee the common good.
Consequently, it is not by chance that I am asking you to join me to make Mezam Division a real CPDM stronghold. I have 20 years of political experience, which I wish to share with you. Reading through my detailed political and economic balance sheet in the candidature declaration document which I am handing to you today, you will discover that at the international level, I had the historic privilege to be received in audience by some high personalities who have made us in our era proud (Heads of State, officials of International Organisations, first class political leaders, etc).
At the national level, I have been active for the past 20 years. I have been by the side of the underprivileged (orphans, the handicapped and the aged). In 1988, at the age of 27, I donated 57 million CFA to nine (9) Ministries of this Republic, offered, among other things, an ambulance and beds to the Yaounde Central Hospital, gave donations to the Police and Gendarmerie and provided tricycles and sewing machines to the Ministry of Social Affairs (for the Etoug-Ebe Handicapped Centre), and this was with the authorisation of the Head of State.
After the launching of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) on 26 May 1990, we were less than 100 CPDM militants who were courageous enough to wear the Party's uniform in Bamenda to condemn the illegal launching of this Party, which to us, was not only an act of provocation, but even a challenge to the authority of the State.
In 1991 when the "Ghost Town" phenomenon was declared in Douala, I financed, at age of 30 years, the purchase of 70 taxis which transported people free of charge, thereby reducing the suffering of the population who were victims of the opposition's radical will to paralyse the country through some irresponsible declarations. I did this because I was anxious to support the institutions of the State.
To defend the efficiency of the 'New Deal Policy' masterfully led by H.E. Paul BIYA, I have in 20 years, written and published 450 articles (the equivalent of a book of 1300 pages) in many newspapers (Cameroon Tribune and the private press).
I defended the democratic process in Cameroon and the political success of H.E. Paul BIYA through more than 200 interviews granted to many radio and television channels, as well as to press organs amongst them CRTV, RFI, BBC, AFP, VOA, and AFRICA N0 1.
In 1994, at the age of 34, I opened the 8th private commercial bank (presently under restructuring) in Cameroon.
For close to 20 years now, my social actions on the field have affected about five thousand (5,000) needy Cameroonians in the country and abroad.In politics, you have to be credible. That is why you have first of all to present your balance sheet of political, economic and socio-cultural services before telling electors what you will bring to them in the future.
This is because we shall all be judged by our actions. You should especially prove to electors that you must not imperatively occupy an official post (Minister or General Manager of the State's Corporations) before engaging in charitable works geared towards the general interest and common welfare.
Considering the above-mentioned facts which proof my political and economic achievements in Bamenda, Douala and Yaounde for the past 20 years, you should be convinced that I am politically efficient, intellectually courageous, overflowing with energy and personally available to meet up with the present challenge. It is a personal challenge which destiny wants me to embrace.
It is even a question of life and death.Before concluding my reflection on the political drifting and division of our province, I would like to remind you that on this earth, just as in heaven, there is a time for everything: a time to cry and a time to laugh; a time to sow and a time to harvest; a time to think and a time to act; a time to fight and a time to reconcile; a time to live in darkness and a time to live in light; a time for war and a time for peace; a time for rainfall and a time for sunshine; a time to close the eyes and a time to open them.
My brothers and sisters of the North-West Province,The time has come for you to open your eyes or else we would have to be accountable to our children and to history. As for me, I am not blind and my personal political career for 20 years is a clear testimony of my engagement in public life.
I once again call upon you to join me for the way out is the National New Deal. It is by the strict application of the political, economic and social options defined by the Head of State, H.E. Paul BIYA, that we will be able to develop our province.Let us not lag behind whereas the other Sub-Divisions, Divisions and Provinces are advancing.Let us start working right away.
My political option for the last 20 years has been my unflinching support to H.E. Paul BIYA. It is a total and an unshakable support to the institutions of the Republic incarnated by the Head of State since November 1982. It is a political option which I fully assume today and will continue to assume tomorrow.
I am convinced that the re-conquering of the Mezam electorate by the CPDM will open new prospects which necessarily will be profitable and can be capitalised by the province and its origins.
The battle will be rough but not impossible to win, for when there is a will there is a way, and it is by trying to achieve what others consider an impossibility that our world will be transformed everyday. Those who limit themselves to what appears possible to them have never progressed in life.
Signed
Paul ATANGA NJI
CPDM committed militant
President of the ARC-EN-CIEL Movement.
This post should stop fanning the ideologies of bootlickers and criminals. As i saw this picture of this criminal in CPDM robes, i have fallen sick.
Posted by: rexon | Monday, 11 December 2006 at 03:54 PM
Well spoken Mr committed CPDM millitant.
Yes, Your paul has compensated his cronies as you have enumerated.
Tell us one thing that he has done that has benefited just 25% of the people of NW Province.
Continue day-dreaming
Bush man.
Posted by: ADAMA KWIKEH | Monday, 11 December 2006 at 05:27 PM
This man really needs to be imprisoned for crimes against humanity. I have gone through his article and all what i realise is that these criminal like most CPDM bootlickers is as evil as, in any given opportunity, he will destroy the entire institution which he is supposed to govern. He is looking for nothing but an opportunity to plunder any resources at his disposal.
Posted by: rexon | Monday, 11 December 2006 at 07:30 PM
The Lamentations a beliggered Idiot.
For 20 years, our Mr Committed parliamentary aspirant has awaited the falling of manner from the Etoudi palace to no avail. For 20 years, he has been spending his wealth, which we know not how he got it" thinking that we was planting it on a field. Now that he's failed reaping any benefits, he now has to devise a means of retrieving "That wealth". ELETIONS.
Cameroonians certainly have become matured enough not be fooled everytime. Listen to the thoughtless bootlicker
"...In 1988, at the age of 27, I donated 57 million CFA to nine (9) Ministries of this Republic, ..."
Suppose he was that rich at the age of 27: to be able to throw away money-Just like that, how much richer should he be today? Sometimes we wonder what people really want when they get into politics. Let's give simple logic to this claim and reason like matured men and women: We have University graduates today with MA degrees roaming about the streets who can't even boast of a single 500frs coin for a week. The Ultimate cause being the sordid government ruling Cameroon. Only if he or one of his Children had suffered from what our brothers and sisters are undergoing in Buea today, He won't want to paint the image he's been painting of the "Chop People Dem Money".
I wonder why the Mr Parliamentary Aspirant failed to make mention that It's been nowhere else in Cameroon except in the North Province the Paul Biya chosed as his Chemistry lab to conduct his deadly Lake Nyos gas experiment. I wonder also why he failed to mention how the Biya regime had closed down what used to be the only hope for some people. I cite the Wum Area Developmet Authority (WADA), The Santa Coffee Estate,and I wonder what the status of MEDINO has been reduced to. It is true that Simon Achidi Achu was once the PM of Cameroon. What legacy did he leave behind? He helped multiply police and Gendarmarie posts which are ready to torture and rape the citizens they are supposed to protect. Oh yes, the cows can now drink pipe borne water and have electricity up in the hills in Santa. Mr "coco nut" head should be smart enough to tell the Mezam voters where he will take pipe borne water and electric supply to.
Who says many funny things aren't happening in Cameroon today. I'll supply him with a statement on how 27 years old Cameroonians are suffering because of the uncompromising regime in Yaounde.
Thanks for reading
Chiefcol
Posted by: Bone | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 01:07 AM
Heavenly Father, please give me the courage to read through Paul Atanga's idiosy...A fool at forty.
Chiefcol,
Thanks for the reminder about lake Nyos. We need to pray for our people, sacrificed like goats by Biya-Israel network.
Posted by: Mbu.B | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 03:27 AM
One word: ASS-KISSER
Posted by: nahjela | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 04:25 AM
Going to Bamenda one hundred times to extend the colonisation of mentalities through movements like the Cpdm,and killing traditional authority through a movement of Oliver_Twist like beings called fons,is what makes this Cpdm dare-devil proud of Biya.We should all thank this utopic idealist for the hardwork he put in to publish his MEMOIRES .We are thanking him,because in it he has mentioned all the things that will make Cameroonians vomit him the more.We have learnt from him that during the twenty years he has been working for his party,his party members have been doing politics in Pajeros,
and Mercedes benzes.By trying to remind us of this rush for ostentation only after 20 years is really abusing the intelligence of Cameroonians.Twenty years of seeing your comrades ride in cars that cost 60 million each,yet you seem not to have pity for Cameroonians.The worst thing any Cameroonian
and especially northwesterners would like to hear is somebody professing his 'unflinching support for Paul Biya,and an unshakable support for the institutions of the Republic".Which institutions of the Republic is he talking about here? The ones that have
rigged all organised elections,the ones that
will set free CharlesTaylor-like dictators from prison to continue maiming the population,the institutions where homosexuality is a norm,the ones that send drunkards and rapists to murder,and rape students indiscriminately?
Mr Atanga,you are right to say there is a time for everything.Now it is the time for you to forget!The bleak picture you have painted of the long years of your party in darkness shows the people of the Northwest don`t even realise that you and the Cpdm exist.You are certainly one of those Ondo Ndong sponsored to defend the policies of this bloody regime for so long a time.You are really honest to tell us that you did this dirty job on RFi,VOD,BBC,CRTV,AFRICA.
But your master Ondo Ndong is already in prison,you must be made to join him there.
There`s no single Cameroonian who at age 30 can finance the purchase of 70 taxis,and at age 34 open a bank.If you earn a salary of about 170,000frs a month,where will you have money for such ventures.The worst thing you say is that you did this to support the institutions of the State. So your taxis were not transporting people because they were suffering ,but because you wanted to support the institutions of the state.So at that time you were the enemy of the people work were fighting against dictatorship.Now that you need help,go back to the state, don`t come and tell stories here.
The launching of the SDF was a provocation as you say,but your quest to be a leader is even more of a provocation.You are not different from Frank Biya,financing 70 taxis at age 30,and opening banks at age 34.
When people donate to the less privileged
,you donate 57 million to Ministries,the Gardarmarie.This is the same money the Gardarmes use to buy guns to kill our students.With the authorisation of the head of state,you donated sewing machines to Etoug-Egbe.Is it still the Head of state who wants you to be leader now? Your donations mostly went to Yaounde,so go there and ask them to vote you! Where could a 27 years Old man have 27 million to donate to the Garmarmerie? How much have you donated for the Ringroad? How much have you donated to Bingo,Acha Tugi?
Finally,the Northwest has not failed,it has rejected imperialists,pimps,homosexuals
occultists,and will continue to do so.
Posted by: Watesih | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 06:27 AM
Atanga, You can offer what ever you have no matter you political position. You still look thirsty for money to loot.
Above all the north west where you know the situation. The uniform in the picture should indicate that victory for you is slim and with better elections no way.
Posted by: Ottou | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 08:49 AM
Haba magida,should i jump into colonial politics?Mr Atanga's Policy statement is instead the enumeration of his achevement,and thinks,the candaille should stuff the ballot for him and the colonial party he bootlicks for.Mr Atanga calls SDF Illegal Ipso facto CPDM too.Biya and CPDM were ILLEGAL in the Southern Cameroons after LAW 84/001 of 4th Feb 1984. Propaganda,wether a true or a false one will certainly carry elements of true in it.
Qouting Atanga:
Politics is therefore not a one-man show. It is a collective effort and the sum total of converging ideas. Politics is not done in luxurious villas or by sitting at the back seat of our PAJEROS and MERCEDES BENZES.
In reality, intrigues, slandering, the struggle for position among elites, egoism and permanent double-dealing have taken the upper hand on entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that should help us to ensure the welfare of everyone.
The absence of dialogue between the elites and the base, the bourgeoisie politics that separates some elites from grass-root militants, arrogance and contempt shown by elites towards their fellow citizens, have created an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion among brothers and sisters of the same province who should be working hand in hand for progress.
Lazy people and those who take easy shortcuts have no future in the New Deal era.Unquote.
And Atanga wants to use now that shortcut to sustain the suzerain manned by tribal slobs and village politicians like himself with a track record of exquisite mayhem and destruction. Atanga is just a small hungry grim jong.
Posted by: Ndiks | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 10:10 AM
these brother has a point.maybe its better to take another strategy to get there.we can look at his ideologies carefully with an open mind and see rather than just sturborn.after all what have we got to lose?the sdf is winning at the moment,what have we gained?am not sure.less than nothing,i assume.lets stop being sturbone and follow the winning team.what is wrong in a man thinking of another strategy to experience the change from what has been happening since the sdf gained controll as from the early 90's.remember people we might be just being stubborn to face the truth or reality.people politics as we know is a wash my back a wash u back deal.let these politicains work for the people rather than themselves and let the people not be fouled into voting for he who has no guarantee to deliver for the betterment of the lives.after all cpdm is still the leading power and cameroon is no federal republic.peace.
Posted by: espoir | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 10:43 AM
Atanga can be described as a sycophantic kabukabu, political nonentity with a mind as corrupt as that of a zombi.
Shame on to him! It is hard to imagine that people like him still exist in Cameroon. People who are so blinded by their senseless egotic desires that they fail to see or feel the malignity and the fiendish cruelty of the C.P.D.M. regime.A regime that mocks the meat it feeds on. Bad business.
Atanga, wake up from your dreams, wash your brains with some gallons of detergents and declare the devil a liar. Denounce the C.P.D.M.criminality,fraud,corruption,lies,
election rigging, embezzlement, forgery,
manipulation, murdering the innocents and blackmail.
You will be healed.
B. Bwang ( U.S.A.)
Posted by: principal | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 11:01 AM
That guy looks like a hungry fellow. Vote him and see what he'll do!
Devils!
Posted by: Akoson | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 12:58 PM
Another bootlicker masquerading with the colonial title "espoir" and flirting with the murderous CPDM junta will rush in here to preach to us to follow the murderous CPDM claiming it is the winning team.
Who wants to win anything (financial and otherwise) from such a dirty party?
Posted by: rexon | Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 01:27 PM
These are guys who pretenciously betray their people and claim not to know the plight to their excrutiating poverty and malice back in the village.They enjoy the flanbouyancy of Biya's corrption and know they can always fool their people.We are sick and tired of this election propagandas and campaigns at the verge of elections.I guess we are wiser this time to know that these CPDM bootlickers are just puppets who take orders from Mvomeka and doesn't care about what is happening down there.
Fritzane Kiki
Hong Kong
Posted by: Fritzane Kiki HK | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 04:43 AM
mr. rexon,the problem here is we seem not to realise that political parties donot make peoples lives better,its people who make peoples lives better.ideologies and strategies and implimentations of intelligent and great leaders can change things.which party is the clean party that u want to win with anyway?because at the moment non of them seems to be close to good or perfect.they all got their secrets and misdids.so dont come here and tell us some other party is perfect.or is it scnc?.every time people like u come up here and poison the minds of patriotic and progressive cameroonians with u unrealistic and "get us no way views".mr.rexon,all this sturborness in us as english specking cameroonians would take us no way.what i figure out is that we are not talking or walking towards improving our lives rather we just sit and criticise.men,u can see the type of politics our fathers are playing.very stupid.fighting like mad cats.is this how we are going to succeed with all this fighting among ourselves?men,i know nothing much about the inner activities of politics and politicains but my humble opinion is they should work towards the betterment of our people.thats every common mans draem,i assume.and we have to work together and agree to disagree in order to reach there.i dont care which party is at the helm in bamenda,all am saying its that the people have to benefit.and the sincere question is who can see to our needs to the fullest?i can read that mr.president is saying if u dont care about me why should i care about u?for how all are we going to turn our backs and suffer."the famous saying goes if u cant beat him joint him".am talking as a cameroonian youth who grew up to experience the dawn of multipartism,and most of the time our fathers have been busy with the loud mouths talking unrealistic change such as forming an amazonian republic.so we are sick and tired of those preaches.we want to send a message that we want to walk step by step to build our beloved country.so all those kind hearted leaders out there,should be given a chance to serve us and i hope history would tell the rest.peace.
Posted by: espoir | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 09:31 AM
While Papytex crumbles a bit from the power of troth and resoluteness,from justice restorationist, Fad and small time scout for retribution like Tita espoir resurfaces from hideouts.The troth is here to stay. Keep defending the moth-eaten colonial butchers.Blots in Africa!
Posted by: Ndiks | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 10:32 AM
Please brothers let us forget about this idiot called Atanga. he is leaving in the 16th century am sure. We should tell him about issues of the 21st century. Massa this guy with yi face like accident na real yesterday man.Am sure he has been decieved by Abel Ndeh, J B Ndeh and even Pa Santa the chief corrupta to fall in this pit. Bros Atanga we forgive you for your ignorance about today's happenings.
I will not go away without congratulating the Post newspaper for a job well done. Get all this money from this kind of idiots and hand them over to us to crucify.
Atanga any comment from me about this 16th Century Bamenda history will be waste of my time and energy. you are a nice fool.
Posted by: JCKING | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 11:00 AM
My fellower North Westerners, having read Mr. Atanga's dire manisfesto, I would strongly advice you to take this man seriously and make sure come the elections next year he does not win. This man is a rich fool who thinks you the electorate are that gullible to fall for such bunkum. Some of his assertions are so pathetic to warrant a reply.
Only a fool can still today assert that the launching of the S.D.F was illegal! Can somebody give him a copy of our constitution please.
Why would anybody give money to a government ministry anywhere in the world if he/she is not plum loco? It is said that a fool and his money are soon parted. This nincompoop must be looking at the bottom of his barrel, which is why he needs your assistance to steal.
In passing can I advice this idiot to employ the services of professionals in the preparation of such documents that will be read and scrutinized by the public. Your manifesto was a cobbled up job which could only have been prepared by a skinflint!
The people of Bamenda you have been warned.
Posted by: Danny Boy | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 06:12 PM
Tita Espior,
You dropped the name Tita,in order to sound completely dogmatic like the other S.n Tita who wants to do Politics with stones in Limbe.These are your assertions:
- "I don`t care which party is at the helm in Bamenda...and the sincere question is who can see to our needs fullest".A party is represented by people,so how would you not care about the party that is at the helm,and at the same time you care about the person that will see to your needs the fullest?
- "If you can`t beat him join him". These are Cpdm catch phrases. Do you mean Atanga can`t beat the SDF in Bamenda ,and should therefore join them? Or you mean we should join your rotten CPDM since they rig all elections for us not to beat them?
_ " Mr President is saying that if you don`t care about me why should i care about you".
Yeah,nobody has been caring about Mr Atanga for sixteen years,so why does he care about people have have not cared the damn about him for so long? Let him go and care about the Ministries he sent millions to.
Tita Desespoir,some of you will even go from Papytex to Popoultex,to Biyatex,Muketex
Vallyex,Momoex,FBteribobex,but when you come back here you will still run into a stone wall.
Posted by: Watesih | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 11:33 PM
Nice Christmas gift for the man.
Posted by: Ma Mary | Wednesday, 13 December 2006 at 11:54 PM
brother Ndiks,my opinions are my opinions and its better and civilised when we respect each others opinion and agree to disagree and stop giving names to people who dont share the same ideas like u.thats civilised for a start.it takes great wisdom to respect u oppnent and with all the education people like u got,u still believe in arrogance.thats "UNCIVILISED".U NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN ANYWAY.
brother watersih,concerning partism and individuality in politics,all am saying is we need good and humanitarian leaders who are prepared to serve the people no matter which party they come from.and they bottom line is are we going to reap the fruits of their leadership at this stage in time.so all those people or politicians who they people think they can benefit from their leadership should be voted into power no matter which party.but we must be inteligent and understand that as i said in this stage in time there is a winning team in cameroon.we like it or not come the results of the paliamentary elections we will see.so Bamenda people must stop being unrealistic and go with the flow.men cameroons political scenerio is very complex and anglophones need to be very intelligent to succeed and forget about beating around the bush tactics.its time wasting.thank God cameroonians have been gifted with a high level of educational stamina and knowlege among its people.they know whats good for them.
concerning the question of who's joining who?,my answer is let the people join the team that can deliver the most or the see can deliver the most.thats my view.
and when i refer to "mr. president"am refering to mr.Atangas over-all boss.he pulls the shuts i assume.if we plant maize we should not be expecting to harvest rice.peace.
Posted by: espoir | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 03:57 AM
Tita Espior,
My man,you seem to be on a campaign trail already!You are tossing Cpdm slogans in the air with a lot of assurance.
Here you," ...as i said in this stage i time,there is a winning team in Cameroon" hahahaha!My dear Tita is this your Christmas gift to Cameroonians? Telling them that there`s a winning team in Cameroon.Winning means different things todifferent people. May be when your team wins the world cup of the most corrupt country,worst governed ,worst than Somalia and same as Iraq,that is victory to you.Sir there`s a winning team in Cameroon ,so what makes Pauul Atanga run.Let
him continue to be part of the winning team.
Why is he coming to solicit help from losers?
All the spin-doctors in your team only appeal to Anglophone sense of self when they come to ask them to join "the winning team",
but when you people murder,rape Anglophone students you take Anglophones for playthings.
We have heard this over and over,"If you plant maize ,you should not expect to harvest rice".You are absolutely right.My Atanga planted maize in Ministries,the Gendarmerie in Yaounde,so why does he want to harvest rice in Bamenda? Hahahahaha!
Posted by: Watesih | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 05:11 AM
Tita Espoir,
The way you present your ideas really supposes that the CPDM is the real evil against Camerounese citizens. How can your party reduce itself to comparing with another political party on childish issues. What i have realised in the past decade is that CPDM politicians invest on destroying the SDF. They do this through bribing corrupt politicians of the SDF (like Muna, Ngwasiri, Mbah Ndam, etc), bribing journalist to write bad things about the SDF, control councils through government delegates and secretaries to destabilise realistic projects to be executed by the SDF, etc. Then after doing all these, they turn around and say they are better than the SDF as the SDF would have been more corrupt had they taken over power.
Aren't you CPDM guys stupid. Why dont you guys measure your ability to govern on what you are actually doing but on what you "THINK" the SDF will do if it takes power? All over, it is thesame story by CPDM militants, no clear-cut political or economic agenda, no development goals, etc. All we hear of the CPDM is how this or that Pundit have stolen billions, how students have been shot through their orders because they wanted to fight fraud, etc. And when anybody wants to complain, they turn to the problems of the SDF, as if the evils that the Biya regime through its CPDM junta has done to Cameroonians has been energized by the problems of the SDF. How are the problems of the SDF connected tothe theft, corruptio, shootings, fraud, underdevelopment, etc. that has been going on in La Republique? You guys need to grow up in your thinking. It is like you want to us to legalise corruption instituted by la republique, for some irrational reasons.
Posted by: rexon | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 08:00 AM
Mr Tita, i wouldn't want to talk much on matters that besieged the ruling invading Junta in our Land.You were not seen condemning the tribal militia of the junta raping,and killing students in Buea,even the candidate you defend here.You are certainly one of them.But,one thing you have to know is that the Junta is manned by humans,it is not robotic.You may be a robot of the Junta.Therefore, IT IS NOT INVINCIBLE.
Posted by: Ndiks | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 09:23 AM
Where is Tita Espoir? Intervene and help your Shamble FAILED STATE.Living on LIES.
Haan threatens Fifa action
Martin Etonge
BBC Sport, Yaounde
Cameroon coach Arie Haan has threatened to report his employers to Fifa over claims that he has been absent from his post for the past two months.
Officials of Cameroon's football federation, FECAFOOT, said on Tuesday that the Dutchman has not been at post since October and that his absence contravenes the terms of his contract.
But Haan says he has postponed his return to the central African country until FECAFOOT retracts the statement.
"I want the FECAFOOT to officially withdraw the statement or I will go to Fifa. I cannot accept this," Haan told the Cameroon Tribune on Thursday.
"They already admitted that they know I was in Vietnam (in November to monitor the players of the Cameroon Olympic team during the BV Cup).
"How can FECAFOOT officials say they don't know where I am and what I am doing?
"This is a catastrophe for me because the news has gone across the globe."
Haan also denied the allegation that he turned downed friendly games against France and Brazil.
"The issue about the friendly matches is also a lie. I never refused a game, especially not against Brazil or France," Haan said.
"I asked at the beginning of September for a match on 15 November but they (FECAFOOT) were not able to organise something.
Haan's contract stipulates that he should be resident in Cameroon but the Dutchman says he has not been provided with a stable accommodation.
"As for permanent residence in Cameroon, there is no problem but I still don't have a house or apartment."
Haan signed a two-year contract in August with the promise of a renewal if Cameroon's Indomitable Lions qualified for the 2008 African Nations Cup tournament in Ghana.
He succeeded Portuguese Artur Jorge who quit in February after the former African champions failed to clinch a place at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Posted by: Ndiks | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 09:55 AM
Mr Tita Espoir et al,How much is the pay wage of your president in the palace of DISUNITY?.....
Kenya leader rejects his pay hike
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki
Mr Kibaki came to power promising to fight poverty
Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki has rejected an $18,000 monthly salary increase given to him by parliament.
He said he had turned down the offer because "there are other priority projects in need of urgent funding".
Last week, MPs agreed to raise his basic pay and allowances from $26,000 a month to more than $44,000.
Critics and opposition politicians had objected to the president's salary hike, as 60% of Kenya's population of 32m live on only $1 a day.
It is imperative that remuneration due to public officers be a true reflection of the economic and social times of the nation
President Mwai Kibaki
Does good pay stop graft?
Mr Kibaki, who faces re-election next year, came to power in 2002 promising to end decades of corruption and improve the living standards of Kenyans.
"I have taken note of the decision reached and weighed its implications under the current economic conditions prevailing in the country, and do hereby turn down the offer," the president said in a statement on Wednesday night.
"It is imperative that remuneration due to public officers be a true reflection of the economic and social times of the nation."
In the parliamentary debate last week, opposition MP William Ruto had said there were civil servants who earned "peanuts" at about $57 a month, were in more urgent need of a salary increase.
Several groups of workers, such as university lecturers have held strikes, complaining of low pay.
Over the past four years, Mr Kibaki's administration has been hit by a multi-million dollar corruption scandal which has damaged the president's credibility with Western donors.
Some donors have estimated that up to $1bn had been lost to graft between 2002 and 2005.
Posted by: Ndiks | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 09:59 AM
Last night after reading this piece of self-indictment by this wannabe politician, I kept asking myself, what more does the anti- corruption police need to charge this man with corruption? If he had made his donations to his beloved party fine, but he made these to various institutions of state. How were these donations to be included into budgets allocated to these ministries?
It is patently obvious that this man is guilty of bribery and corruption. In his self-delusion he wants us to believe that he was simply doing what any sane Cameroonian would. Nuts! If I read anywhere that a Cameroonian businessman/woman has been jailed for tax evasion, that to me is understandable. Nobody wants to pay taxes,that is a fact of life. Then why would anybody carry his hard earned money and give to the state? Think about it!
If this shady character wants the Bamenda electorate to vote for him, he should present them with his curriculum vitae(cv), not a hotch-potch of his misdeeds cobbled together in the form of a manifesto.
Cameroon post, we know he must have paid handsomely for you to devote so much column inches to his drivel. Please think of the ulcers many will be having from reading such asinine assertions and proclamations. Cameroon or specifically Bamenda has not gone to the dogs yet.
Posted by: Danny Boy | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 10:22 AM
This, guy is opinionistic. He is courageous! Who will be so bold to speak with this foolishness. If he is bootliking, he must be a real idiot. His father the "biya" will atleast be happy with him. But what is funy for me is not that he has taken this foolish step but it is that even in some of the comments over the web, he has got a following.
When shall we learn a lesson. Foncha lamented on his way to the grave, Muna nashed his teeth into the coffin, Fonka pled for forgiveness when it was too late. And now this one is going the same road? I usually think that it is because of ignorance that people buy into CPDM ideas, but this is direct wickedness to side with a demon.
Now, after Biya's many "comings" to NW,in three months, why did he stop coming the rest of his life? If there is no party in NW and especially in Mezam, we can vote for a sheep rather than vote for any person who identifies with CPDM. I do think that CPDM is a symbol of wickedness. Begin from the recent killings in Buea University, go to maltreatment of Tea Estate Workers, stop in Ndu and Kumbo to visit those who for life have been affected by Gerdarme Harrasements, rapes, murders and detainments. I don't want to read this idiotic article anymore.
Posted by: Kajiri | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 01:24 PM
BREAKING NEWS:
.....THE VICE CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF BUEA SACKED.....
still to be confirmed
Posted by: tayong | Thursday, 14 December 2006 at 01:47 PM
Salaam,
The policy statement/manifestor/history notes/time line on the North West Province-CNU/CPDM workings/relationship in the period under review; is what I would like to describe the politicians presentation.
However may I add also that the ability of a piece of work/writting to generate a response at all is an achievement in its own right.
Like before, I desire to call on us luck to have this oppotunity to think again, the times are rough and have been for very long, the atmosphere never gets less hazier than it was the previous day.
However we must remember that these on-line dicussions we hold are automatically forming the archives of our own individual and collective contribution to building a future for the Nation, our future, our Nation - Cameroon('la republique' or 'Southern'.
It is possible to develop an idea of where we are heading in reality and synchronise it to where we want to be.
Its not late, we can begin to think about it now, possibly begin discussing it sooner.
I mean FACING ISSUES & making every effort to AVOID the INDIVIDUAL, as old fashioned and low-key as it sounds, i think it should be an option.
We have the right to be angry at the same time we have an option to avoid the keyboard untill we'd had a good laugh.
We have a reason to hope, this I say because I am sure none of us envys Ivory Coast.
I am proud of every contributor, especially the very reglar brothers and sisters but above all the courage of the editorial team at 'The POST-on-LINE'
Thank you
Mallam harisu j. mai
Posted by: mallam | Monday, 18 December 2006 at 04:26 AM