Interview conducted by Innocent Chia
In Confucius Africa, a disregard for the law and State institutions - in favor of personality cults like President Biya – has left concerned citizens scrambling to provide out-of-the-box solutions to the political conundrum. Among Cameroonians in the Diaspora there is no confusing the vociferousness of Kenneth Ndeh (aka Pa Kenneth Ndeh) on having an aboriginal Anglophone as President of Cameroon on the aftermath of the Biya dynasty. Central to his proposition is an implicit argument based on past practices, that the default design of the Cameroon Presidency is a rotating model. In this exclusive interview with the Chiareport, Kenneth Ndeh*** - echoes a historical argument and layers it with commonsense reasoning to say why President Biya is morally obligated to pass the relay baton to a Patriotic Aboriginal Anglophone of West Cameroon Extraction.
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Ten Reasons Why Southern Cameroons Should Not Join La Republique Du Cameroun (with a slight modification)
By Dr. E.M.L Endeley's CPNC Party
Reason No.1
There is no Southern Cameroons if we go to Yaounde. There is no Senate there, and in fact, no valid Federal Constitution between Southern Cameroons and Cameroun Republic has been drawn up!
Reason No. 2
If you vote for Cameroun Republic, you will endanger the interest of our chiefs, because there is no House of Chiefs in Cameroun Republic, and Mr. Ahidjo has made it clear to Mr. Foncha that he does not intend to create a House of Chiefs.
Reason No. 3
Southern Cameroons at present has a system of land ownership where there are no European settlers. In the Cameroun Republic, the law permits Europeans to become SETTLERS and to acquire large areas of land for their plantations, leaving little or nothing for the natives.
If you vote for Cameroun Republic, your little farmland will be at the mercy of white French men. These Frenchmen are reliably understood to be planning to take over the CDC plantations in Victoria and Kumba Divisions and to stop the native banana trade.
Reason No. 4
But anyone who has been to the Cameroun Republic will agree that their French money is very unsteady. Today you change UI for one thousand dollars; tomorrow UI can fetch you only six hundred dollars and so on.
But if you vote for Cameroun Republic, you shall be inviting their UNSTEADY money and you will at once, notice that your bananas, your cocoa and your coffee will fetch you less than if it was bought with Nigerian money.
Reason No. 5
Nearly everyone in the Southern Cameroons has heard of the word FREEDOM: what it means to move about freely; to speak in public freely; to worship freely, to speak out our minds without fear of molestation… if you vote for Cameroun Republic, you will invite a new system under which everyone lives in fear of the Police and the Army. You will not be free to move about; you cannot lecture freely or discuss your political views in public; you must carry your tax receipt round your neck like a dog, and you can be arrested and flogged by the police and even imprisoned without a fair trial. Freedom is too sweet to be thrown away to the dogs.
Reason No 6
If you vote for Cameroun Republic, confusion will immediately set in because British and French laws are NOT the same. Under the French system, you cannot have fair trial. Anyone accused of an offence in the Cameroun Republic is manhandled and flogged and is generally treated as a guilty criminal. Even the most junior policeman there seems to have the power of "life and death" over the common people! This is a bad system and must be rejected by the voters.
Reason No. 7
A vote for the Cameroun Republic will be the signal for new economic troubles in the Southern Cameroons. All attempts by Mr. Ahidjo to borrow money from the World Bank have met with failure. Mr. Ahidjo sent two Economic Missions to the World Bank, but he was refused the money he wanted.
Reason No. 8
If you vote for Cameroun Republic, you will forever fail to secure independence for the Southern Cameroons because Cameroun Republic is still a COLONY of France. French troops are still stationed in Douala and Yaounde.
It is no use for the Southern Cameroons to move from the British COLONY system to the French COLONY system.
Reasons No. 9
The [elite] spearheading the movement of unification with the Cameroun Republic, is not even sincere to its own conscience. They… are noticed shamelessly receiving […] financial assistance… The result of such double-face policy will be to drag the Southern Cameroons into a whirlpool of intrigues between government … and the opposition parties there!
Reason No. 10
Voters are … warned not to waste their votes for the Cameroun Republic. Who amongst you would like to live in a country where your life and property are constantly in danger? Who amongst you, peaceful citizens of the Southern Cameroons, will like to live in a country where you may be shot at as you move along the street, or your wife killed as she toils on the farms?
Who amongst you would like to live in French Cameroons, a country red with blood of thousands of innocent victims killed by terrorist and the Ahidjo regime?
Who amongst you, good citizens of the Southern Cameroons, will like to live in a land where people's houses and shops are burnt everyday and looted; where you can be arrested without a fair trial?
Who amongst you will like to live in a country, which lacks complete respect for human dignity and where you cannot speak out your mind freely or pursue your business in peace?
Who amongst you will like your children to grow up in servitude?
That is what will be our lot if we join French Cameroun. If you wish to save yourself from the aforementioned indignities make sure you vote for the Southern Cameroons…
Ps: I will be happy if Southern Cameroonians and their friends in La Republique who have always found a home and refuge in Southern Cameroon should amplify these points... and message.
It's a systemic and cultural problem. Much more and No less.
Posted by: OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS | Wednesday, 19 May 2010 at 12:59 PM
WE MUST KEEP THE FORCES OF HISTORY BEFORE OUR EYES AND OUR VISION.
NO ONE MUST BE 'ROLLED' OVER (They call it 'rouler' in Camerounese). NO ONE MUST BE 'LAPIROED'.
NO ONE MUST FALL PREY AGAIN TO THE SDF DEBACLE AFTER THE FIRST POST-MULTIPARTY ELECTION AFTERMATH.
WE MUST KEEP THE PAST AND THE FORCES OF HISTORY BEFORE OUR EYES AND OUR VISION.
WE HAVE FAR MORE THAN CONCRETE EXPERIENCE LASTING 50 YEARS TO BUTTRESS ENDELEY'S TREATISE.
IF HIS TREATISE IS NOT IMPREGNABLE, LET ANYONE TELL US, WHAT IS?
IT IS A SYSTEMIC AND CULTURAL PROBLEM, NOT ONE OF CHANGING PERSONALITIES AT THE TOP.
Posted by: OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS | Wednesday, 19 May 2010 at 01:17 PM
Kenneth Fru Ndeh???!!! Is that what Anglophones are truly worth? High-spirited clowns? Energetic day-dreamers? Motivational wishful thinkers? Begging college misfits? Smash-and-grab opportunists? Overtly despondent cry-babies? Irrational, egomanic quislings? Man! Who is this zealous joker?
Posted by: Ras Tuge | Wednesday, 19 May 2010 at 07:37 PM
Endeley's compact piece has been unassailable for 50 years. Nobody can challenge its truth. If a Southern Cameroonian or anglephone should ascend to president of Cameroun, he or she would still have to be an instrument of the same powers that control Paul Biya. It is a fool's errand Mr Fru Ndeh, and you keep peddling the same rubbish for the past few years. Such a Southern Cameroonian will still be an enemy of our freedom.
Posted by: Va Boy | Wednesday, 19 May 2010 at 10:31 PM
Where is the guy coming from with such ideas, never has a Southern Cameroonian thought of a thing like that. If you were sent by your La repulique masters in convincing Southern Cameroonians in loving La Republiques regime then you have failed.
He must be one of those CPDM brainwashed buffons.
The Southern Cameroonians of today are different from those of the past. We know our History and the enemies we have as La Republiques neighbours.
Mr. Chia please look for better people and conduct your interviews.
Posted by: Chief Ayuk Arrey | Thursday, 20 May 2010 at 10:45 AM