ELECAM Antics and Fraud in Canada

By Dr. Peter Wuteh Vakunta

Fellow Cameroonians, dear compatriots, in several of my write-ups in this forum I have blown the whistle on a zillion fraudulent activities orchestrated by Mr. Paul Biya’s gigantic election-rigging contraption code-named ELECAM. I have pointed out countries where ELECAM has convened bogus meetings supposedly to inform Cameroonians living in the Diaspora about the upcoming simulacrum called presidential elections in Cameroon billed for October 9^th 2011. We have heard lamentations and cries of despair from our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora, patriotic Cameroonians who have been hoodwinked and misled into believing that the jackass of our President is serious about organizing free and fair elections in Cameroon.

 We know full well that all his comedy of errors are shielded by a very thin veneer and that before long both friends and foes of Cameroon will know that Mr. Biya is an outlaw not fit to stand elections in Cameroon again. Today, I am bearer of yet another piece of bad news:  Mr.Biya has decided to wash its stinking garments in public by exporting ELECAM’s despicable acts of gerrymandering and fraud to Canada. What follows is my translation from French of a communiqué from a Cameroonian Human Rights League, la Diaspora pour la Modernité [Diaspora for Modernity] based in Canada.Read on:

Dear compatriots living at home and in the Diaspora,

Undoubtedly, like members of the Diaspora for Modernity in Canada, you have been inundated with backdated messages, in order words, messages sent out after the event, issued by the Cameroonian High Commissioner in Canada convening Cameroonians to a so-called consultation meeting organized by a delegation of Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) sent to Canada by Mr. Biya to set up a commission charged with the task of establishing (and reviewing) voter registers in Canada.

It should be noted that this is a gigantic fraudulent scheme, a farce, and attempt to veil facts on the ground. The Cameroonian Community in Canada has never been convened to any kind of meeting whatsoever by ELECAM.

As a matter of,

1. The ELECAM delegation arrived incognito in Canada and met secretly with targeted members of the CPDM, in other words, members of the party in power in Yaoundé for more than 30 years headed by the dictator Biya. The ELECAM delegation had one objective in mind: pave the way for electoral gerrymandering and fraud in Canada by making it impossible for members of the opposition in the Canadian Diaspora to participate in the upcoming poll.

2. None of the many Cameroonian communication channels in Canada, namely radio stations like Cameroonvoice, Icicemac, Camfoot, Alloafrica and more was invited to this meeting which clearly was intended by ELECAM and the Cameroonian High Commissioner in Canada to secret.

3. None of the Cameroonian community organizations in Canada such as the Cameroonian Association in Canada (CAC) was invited to this meeting; none of its members were informed of the holding of this   ELECAM meeting.

4. None of the Cameroonian civil society organizations in Canada like the Cameroonian Diaspora for Modernity was invited to take part in this meeting.

5. No Cameroonian political party other than the CPDM was convened to this meeting.

6. Last but not the least, the three communiqués (088/HCO/CC of 8/19/2011, 009/HCO/CC of 8/22/2011 and 0/0/HCO/CC of 8/22/2011 sent out  by the  Cameroonian High Commissioner in Canada thinly veils the Commissioner’s intention to not hold a bona fide consultation meeting with Cameroonians in Canada. In fact,  communiqué No. 088/HCO/CC of 8/19/2011 published on 8/19/2011 supposedly intended to convene Cameroonians to a meeting on  the same date in Ottawa, capital of this vast country as communiqué No. 0/0/HCO/CC of 8/22/2011 clearly indicates the hidden intent of the communiqué.

In a nutshell, this simulacrum of a consultation meeting intended to rally Cameroonians all over Canada to a meeting convened by ELECAM is simply a fiction of the imagination of members of the delegation and of the Cameroonian Higher Commissioner in Canada. In brief, we are dealing in this circumstance, with a gargantuan fraud intended to cover the real intention of the party in power: re-elect the tyrant Paul Biya to serve another seven-year term as president of Cameroon.

Faced with this undeniable imposture on the part of Mr.Biya’s government, Cameroonians need to rethink the whole idea of participating in the upcoming presidential poll. Some naïve compatriots argue that boycotting this upcoming election would be tantamount to handing over the presidential palace to Biya on a silver platter. We contend that participating in the poll would not prevent members of ELECAM, Biya’s odious fraud machine, from rigging the election in favor of the dictator either.  

Considering all the anti-democratic fraudulent activities masterminded by ELECAM during visits to countries where Cameroonians live all over the world, it is imperative for every Cameroonian to do an examination of conscience. We need to ask ourselves in what way our participation in the upcoming elections that have been rigged beforehand would prevent the fraudulent re-election of the torturer of the Cameroonian people, Mr. Biya.  

As far as members of Diaspora for Modernity are concerned, the response to this question is simple and clear: participating in this simulacrum of an election would only serve the purpose of giving legitimacy to the coup d’état hatched by Mr.Paul Biya using ELECAM. In this light, we are asking all our compatriots to not only boycott the upcoming presidential election but also to contribute, each in his or her capacity, to sabotage this election.

To follow through with this decision to boycott the big fraud called presidential election, Diaspora for Modernity is taking the following steps and urges all patriotic Cameroonians to do likewise:

·  Work actively in tandem with other patriotic organizations in the Diaspora and at home to boycott this farce of an election.

· Inform and update all countries in partnership with Cameroon on all ELECAM fraudulent activities backed by documented evidence as time goes on.

·   Inform and update all relevant international organizations on all ELECAM fraudulent activities backed by documented  evidence as time goes on.

·    Most importantly, Inform and update the Cameroonian people on all   ELECAM fraudulent activities backed by documented evidence as time goes on.

It goes without saying Biya and his accomplices will accuse us, patriotic Cameroonians, of conniving with the international community to destabilize our country.Let this allegation be dismissed as half-truth concocted by the dictator and his henchmen to dissimulate facts on the ground.

In point of fact, those who are exposing our country to the whims and caprices of the international predators who may seize the moment to consolidate their design of re-colonizing Cameroon is Mr. Biya and his CPDM party.

The dictator Paul Biya will not be given the chance to impose a regime characterized by laziness, incompetence, systemic decadence, chronic poverty and unemployment, misgovernment, dictatorship and electoral gerrymandering and fraud on Cameroonians.

Mr. Biya has the time he needs to institutionalize true democratic structures in Cameroon that guarantee the true economic and political independence of Cameroon. By doing so, he will be averting the untoward likelihood of seeing our country falls into the hands of post-colonizers.

In other words, Mr. Biya has the choice to give the leeway to neo-colonizers to re-possess Cameroon or ‘institute genuine democracy’ in Cameroon. Failling to respond to the aspirations of the Cameroonian people, Mr.Biya and his associates will be held accountable for the eventual intervention of the international community in Cameroon.

Dear compatriots, let us remain united and organized as have been our predecessors in this struggle:Rudolph Douala Manga Bell, Martin Paul Samba, Um Nyobe, Ernest Ouandié, Ndeh Tumasah, Albert Mukong and all the illustrious patriots who preceded us.

Long live our Fatherland, Cameroon!

Michael, Fogaing, Spokesperson of Diaspora for Modernity

http://www.icicemac.com/actualite/11398/la-diaspora-pour-la-modernite-invite-les-camerounais-boycotter-les-elections-preside

 

Comments

[research paper]

Great article! Thanks a lot.

[Wanaku]

Until Camerouneses accept the fact that they have been ruled and dictated to by Non-Camerouneses (Ahidjo + Biya) for 50+ years, they will be stuck in mud.

Dismantling the resultant mess is a complex mathematical problem. As long as the happiness of the individual citizen in this region (and within the global context) is not taken seriously, the present posturing by various spheres of influence is a waste of time. Some people have a generous supply of this - time. Some don't.

[jipnb]

Learn from Ivory Coast, Tunisia, eGYPTY, Yemen. These peoples wanted freedom, and they got it. Not for the cheap, blood was spilt, and now Libya is free. CAMEROONIANS ARE CHICKENS. WE ARE TIRED OF THESE LONG AND USELESS ARTICLES. Get on the street, and free countries will get behind you. Until then eveybody should shut up. Dr. Peter Wuteh Vakunta get off the internet fly to Cameroon and start a protest march. Until then your aticles are useless.