Curbing Cameroon's Endemic Corruption

Corruption in Cameroon can be brought to a minimal level. Stalin accomplished that using a heavy-handedness that hinged on terror. Social solidarity did the job in the Scandinavian countries, rigorous implementation of the laws curbed it in the native English-speaking countries, a culture of  honour and integrity   suppressed it in the Germanic-speaking countries of Europe, and a recognition of the fact that corruption  impedes growth and progress compels the globally competitive countries of the world  to try to nip it in the buds.

The New Cameroon in its initial phase, using a combination of  different tools, can  nurture a generation that  would see corruption as an anathema. The corrupt nature of the system has hurt us all in one way or the other. Either by losing a loved one who could have been saved had we a functioning  health system; to deaths from motor accidents due to bad roads, non-enforcement of the road safety laws, the forces turning a blind to vehicles that are not roadworthy simply because they have been bribed etc.

The system in power lacks the will to build a modern New Cameroon, because they have no sense of direction and because corruption is their modus operandi. It is like asking a thief to investigate himself, judge himself, sentence himself and lock himself up in prison. Only a new force can dismantle the system and build "The New Cameroon".