LOSS OF FAITH IN THE LEADERS OF CAMEROON'S SO-CALLED OPPOSITION PARTIES

When a people are in bondage, and have a history of a failed attempt at liberation during which they paid a heavy price, they become cautious when it comes to whom to throw in their lot behind to attain freedom and liberty. When they pin their faith on someone, give in their lot and realize in the end that the someone was not genuine, their faith in a liberator becomes shattered in the process. That is the case of the Kamerunian people. Fru Ndi and the other so-called opposition leaders ended up as nothing but "False prophets". They never had the prudence, temperance, fortification and sense of justice that is required of leaders that are capable of righting a wrong or changing the anachronistic French-imposed system. They in the end betrayed the struggling Kamerunian masses, the struggle and the memory of those who died for a free, liberal, united and prosperous kamerun.

If we are not honest with ourselves and criticize and reject not only the system, but those who contributed to its survival by their half-hearted or false opposition to the system, then the Kamerunian people shall for ever be trapped in the deception and shall never realize change to found the "New Kamerun" and a desirable society.

It is not surprising. I have indicated several times that the rot in the SDF was by a clique many people  often referred lightly back in the late 1990s as "The Ntarikon mafia" , “The Baforchu mafia”, "The Ngemba mafia", etc. That clique had Fru Ndi at his head. Simply, the chief spin-doctor in the Fru-Ndi led mafia in the SDF was Mbah Ndam. They are heavily tainted by much of the vices that we criticize in the horrible Biya regime. With their self-interest unveiled, it becomes clear that the Fru Ndi-Mbah Ndam etc clique just wants a share of the "supposedly" national cake, that is all. They have become as irrelevant in the struggle for the "NEW CAMEROON" as much as Bello Bouba, Ndam Njoya, Koddock etc who sold out to the system and its French masters years ago.

They have all lost the essence of the struggle, and as stated earlier, I consider them as traitors to the noble ideals of the Kamerunian struggle to change the anachronistic French-imposed system. They betrayed the union nationalists and revolutionaries of the SDF and above all, they betrayed the struggling Kamerunian masses and the hundreds of thousands of Kamerunians who died for a free, prosperous, liberal and united kamerun.

Janvier Tchouteu | Wednesday, 23 February 2005