Fellow Cameroonians (Camerounese, Kamerunians),Upon the demise of 2011 and on the birth of 2012, it behoves us well o cast a bird’s eye look at the annual ground we have traversed, and to project into the upcoming year. None can dispute that the future belongs to God the Almighty alone. But hope entitles us to plan for tomorrow that may never be ours, yet in the hope that our Father in heaven will approve our projections.
As we are already all aware, the biggest event of the dying year was the fraudulent presidential election that never was. To recur to the point I have made before, the “re-election” of Mr. Biya is the worst thing that ever happened to our country. In saying this, I am not unaware that the Pauls almost invariably succeed at the end. Mr.Biya’s frantic effort these days may not be at variance with that observation.
But the effort to reconcile himself with us without a parallel effort to establish an acceptable process of peaceful transition does not augur well for our rich nation. To pretend not to see that there is every probability that upon his exit CPDM will be split is inconsistent with the love of nation – patriotism! The aftermath of such a split will invariably be the split of the nation. The cracks in the wall are developing into rift valleys – call them gaping chasms if you please. Even the blind can feel them!
Yet must we remember always that God is good! Another chance has the Almighty in his love for our nation given us to cleanse the filth that has been leaped on our nation for three decades. Not only is 2012
special for being a leap year, but it is our last chance to elect a functional parliament: parliamentarians that will fearlessly cater for the interest of the nation – the general good. The CPDM automatic majority has ruined our nation for far too long! It has reduced our parliament into a formality institution where every Bill is applauded and sails through like a meteor! So similar to garbage in garbage out!
Nor are our councils functioning any better. Devolution from several ministries has left little impact on the ground. It is an open secret that the real managers of councils are administrators who are now styled “Government representatives” – previously referred to supervisory authorities. The fact of the appointed lording it over the elected is a serious contradiction in terms. As the loquacious Government spokesman, Mr. Issa Tchiroma, shamelessly told us recently with uncouth arrogance, appointees are answerable to the “Head of State and not to the nation”. The role of appointed administrators at the level of the councils is to collect the little that is apparently sent to us for our development and share with Yaounde. In the end,pipe-borne water in the local communities is a luxury, not any less electricity and basic medical amenities!
No tale we tell that a country we know around us that has only groundnuts as its cash crop; and yet it is far more developed than Cameroon. Another has only cotton and it is not any less better off.
Outside oil and minerals, Cameroon has groundnuts, cotton, bananas,rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm-oil, maize, millet, sugar cane, a good variety of food crops…A pastor has been quoted as saying recently that Canaan - the land flowing with milk and honey that God promised to lead the Jews to – was most probably a miss-pronunciation of Cameroon; because the Jews were in fact led to a desert… The pertinent question
then is: why are Cameroonians suffering on the land of plenty?
The answer simply is that our wealth has been confiscated by a tiny minority under the CPDM government. The annual budget is there all this to substantiate. The huge salaries received by the members of
Government, a fact jealously kept from the public, tell it all.Therefore is it in the interest of justice and equity that it was high time we got our country back – the time we effected change. Not the change of persons! The change of the way of doing government business!A systemic change!
It is in line with such bid that the national chairman of PAP has published “My Vision of a Born Again Cameroon” which outlines the best system of government for our country: the federal system that will
empower the local communities to manage their own affairs. A system that will enable the women to stand side by side with men as to moiety in the running of the country! A wonderful system where no woman ever
again shall be behind any successful man! A system where the youth shall prepare the future that is more theirs than of adults by occupying 60% of public offices, including ministerial positions! A system that will rid Cameroon of senility in perpetuity!
CPDM is in power. There are parties of the opposition. PAP is the Third Option! The midway house, sticking to a happy medium! PAP is the bridge the youth have to cross to take power from the senile! PAP
embodies the future of Cameroon! The future where occupants of public offices shall be servants of the people: serving with probity, effable and accountable to the people rather than to the “head of State” who
himself shall be an exemplary servant of the people! A future where there will be no purported gods in human form, aloof and spiteful!
PAP is the ultimate train of victory! That train is gathering speed!Come on board soonest and take a comfortable seat! Wait not for theevening train; not even that of noon! Such other train may be too
late!
May 2012 be the best of your years so far on earth!
Long live People’s Action Party – PAP!
Long live Cameroon (Kamerun?)!
Long live Cameroon (Kamerun?)!
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