Corruption: Cameroon's Former Ambassador to the US Detained!

By Neba-Fuh

Whether Mr Jerome Mendouga, former Ambassador of Cameroun to the United States of America sought asylum in the US or not, is insignificant, compared to the harm he is alleged to have caused the people of this nation by getting involved in a shady deal to buy an unfit plane for a worthless ruler.
 
Jerome Mendouga, being conferred an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree by Dickinson College (Pennsylvania, USA) in 2005.

After all, immigration officials of host nations done grant asylum depending on whether the reasons for your persecution or would-be persecution in your country of origin are necessarily justified or not.

Great thieves and butchers in the name of African dictators have been granted refugee status in  countries which are not unaware of the atrocities they caused while in power.
All the hullabaloo about Mr Mendouga seeking asylum is just unnecessary. It is his right! But what is not his right is to deprive poverty-stricken people of this Great Triangle of their daily bread.

Today, the Ambassador is being caged in a dungeon of Kondengui Prison alongside his fellow plunderers for corruption charges! We, in our normal anglosaxon culture, consider him 'not-guilty' until he is proven otherwise. And for those who have continually struggle to defend Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, this is your time! He needs you more now, not us!

The  Albatross affair has recently been the focal point of the so called  Operation Epervier( Operation Sparrow Hawk). If the 'natural' candidate had died in that technically unfit plane that much tax payers' money was wasted in the process of purchasing, who would have been the RDPC candidate in the upcoming 2011 elections? Gambling with the life of an eternal ruler is nothing less than an expensive joke. More heads will roll!

When Former President El hadj Amadou Ahidjo bequeathed an enviable economy to Mr Biya, in 1982, one wouldn't have imagined that 27 years later, this nation would limp into such abject poverty, orchestrated by white-collar hoodlums who gradually, but steadily emptied the people's treasury with impunity.  When the people cried foul! They were asked to present proofs 'Ou sont les preuves?' Corruption was en vogue! Even when the international corruption watchdog, Transparency International cried foul, by conferring on us the title of 'Most corrupt nation on the planet' twice, the chief embezzlers responded by mounting all kinds of laughable defences. How on earth will there be 'proofs' when thieves are set to chase thieves? Bretton Woods tightened their conditionalities, they reacted, because they needed more money to plunder;- arresting, charging and sentencing a few, but never recovering the people's stolen billions.

It would take the unforeseen destiny of putting the life of a 'life-president' at risk, as a result of a corruption deal, to start pointing his finger at his fellow embezzlers. But where are the other four fingers pointing? It is not when a thief catches a thief, that the former ceases to be a thief.

Neba-Fuh blogs at Voice of the Oppressed

Great thieves and butchers in the name of African dictators have been granted refugee status in  countries which are not unaware of the atrocities they caused while in power.
All the hullabaloo about Mr Mendouga seeking asylum is just unnecessary. It is his right! But what is not his right is to deprive poverty-stricken people of this Great Triangle of their daily bread.

Today, the Ambassador is being caged in a dungeon of Kondengui Prison alongside his fellow plunderers for corruption charges! We, in our normal anglosaxon culture, consider him 'not-guilty' until he is proven otherwise. And for those who have continually struggle to defend Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, this is your time! He needs you more now, not us!

The  Albatross affair has recently been the focal point of the so called  Operation Epervier( Operation Sparrow Hawk). If the 'natural' candidate had died in that technically unfit plane that much tax payers' money was wasted in the process of purchasing, who would have been the RDPC candidate in the upcoming 2011 elections? Gambling with the life of an eternal ruler is nothing less than an expensive joke. More heads will roll!

When Former President El hadj Amadou Ahidjo bequeathed an enviable economy to Mr Biya, in 1982, one wouldn't have imagined that 27 years later, this nation would limp into such abject poverty, orchestrated by white-collar hoodlums who gradually, but steadily emptied the people's treasury with impunity.  When the people cried foul! They were asked to present proofs 'Ou sont les preuves?' Corruption was en vogue! Even when the international corruption watchdog, Transparency International cried foul, by conferring on us the title of 'Most corrupt nation on the planet' twice, the chief embezzlers responded by mounting all kinds of laughable defences. How on earth will there be 'proofs' when thieves are set to chase thieves? Bretton Woods tightened their conditionalities, they reacted, because they needed more money to plunder;- arresting, charging and sentencing a few, but never recovering the people's stolen billions.

It would take the unforeseen destiny of putting the life of a 'life-president' at risk, as a result of a corruption deal, to start pointing his finger at his fellow embezzlers. But where are the other four fingers pointing? It is not when a thief catches a thief, that the former ceases to be a thief.

Neba-Fuh blogs at Voice of the Oppressed

Comments

[nju Peter]

Ah, these Americans and their love for honorary degrees!!! What exactly did Mendouga do to deserve this one? Cameroonians in the US should petition the university to rescind the degree... just as other American universities have done with Mugabe's honorary degrees...

[fonchi]

Honorary degrees are not bad. Colleges should do a little research before awarding them. To a little college, a foreign ambassador looks like a big deal, until they dig a little bit and the skeletons begin to show. Hello, learn the word "Google". She is your best friend. You no longer need a private investigator in most cases.

[Nouk Abraham]

As an alum of Dickinson college, let me shed light on this honorary degree. for over a decade now, Dickinson has a very good exchange program with the university system in Cameroon where students from Dickinson spend a Semester attending a Cameroonian university and living with a Cameroonian family. This immersion program has been one of those rare instances where Cameroon has actually kept its side of the bargain and lived up to practically all the expectations of the American counterpart. This award was in appreciation of what Cameroon has done with this program. So this was really not an award to Mendouga per se (although he played a key role in making the program a success from the US end) but an award to the country that he represented.
BTW, a google search of Mendouga in 2005 would not have yielded anything incriminating....

No justifying... just explaining...