Ministerial Betrayals

Dear lovely people,

Cameroon is home to some of the leading lip-service, hand-clapping and buffoonery Ministers who in every shameful respect display blatant willingness to sell out their own very people and family for perceived personal gain? They spend a greater part of their mandates betraying their home towns by engaging in outrageous lies and supporting fake national policies designed to accelerate impoverishment and misery of the masses such that they can then use their ill-gotten wealth to keep them permanently in bondage. If left unchecked, this brand of merciless Ministers will eventually put much of the country into total jeopardy.

Is it conceivable that a Minister in this country will on national television deny the existence of an Anglophone problem? You see, I’ve often said that crime has a subtle destructive power than meets the eye. It has a way of getting into your brains and turning you into a play-thing to those who hold the four Aces. African dictatorial regimes have a track record of identifying hardened criminals, putting them in positions of power and then using them to achieve their diabolic agendas.

Once you are hooked to a spot within the regime, you start behaving like Lapiro de Mbanga’s ‘Johny-4-Foot’. You become visionless, can’t see beyond your nose and can only eat at the spot where you’ve been tied up. In the current universe of the Anglophone Ministers in this country, the time honored Anglophone problem is not a pressing concern or should be dismissed. Ephemeral power has made them to forget that on 20th May 1972, Cameroon’s federal structure was abolished through a Referendum in which the numerical majority from East Cameroon foisted a unitary structure over the numerical minority of West Cameroon and that in February 1984, the name of the country was changed from United Republic of Cameroon to just ‘Republic of Cameroon - a name that the Francophone Cameroon had before the 1961 Plebiscite.

How unfortunate for Anglophone Ministers to profess that by including Anglophone elite within power circles as it has been the case recently where state corporations that used to be headed solely by Francophones and even decorative Ministries are being headed now by Anglophones. This however, limits its impact only to the family and client survival strategy much against the holistic and constitutional grievances of a marginalized group.

On state media channels, come see Anglophone Ministers boasts of “fighting for all Anglophones” and in that vein, offer suggestions on how to cope with marginalization. Once more, they have betrayed the entire Anglophone community. Their agenda consists chiefly of enforcing dissonance, blocking emergence routes and growing psychopathic roots that will keep the Anglophone community enslaved and emasculated. But in the big picture, they have forsaken their people.

Filled with trepidation, their compatriots have already begun to barricade their communities against the ominous advances of La Republic’s tidal surges. I dare warn that failure to heed to the general and authentic call to revert to a federation as the only solution will only lead to increased intensity of recurrent civil strives and the catastrophic damage that frequently ensues.

With a cool calculating North and Southwest regions figuratively and literally in “the eye of La Republic”, you would think no politician would be more likely to tackle the Federation agenda than the bunch of sell-outs called Ministers hailing from these Regions. But many in the Anglophone community defy logic. In the case of these lip-service Anglophones, their dereliction raises another nagging question. If they are prepared to gamble with the future of all who support them among Anglophones in order to achieve personal short term political advantage, what could we expect from them being in Government?

Finally, these octogenarians boasts they are agents of change with new, forward-looking policies. When it comes to the Anglophone problem, however, they displays no recognition of the altered Anglophone dynamics that require a transition to federation. Instead, they espouses the discredited old nostrums that perpetuate the cosmic dilemma bedeviling Anglophones in this country.

The solution is therefore about facing rather than ignoring the fact that Anglophones in this country have unfinished business that needs settling and settling them right now.