Self-declared
political analysts who fail to see the whole nature of things in the political
arena called Cameroon
easily mortify advocates of change with their parochialism and distortion of
the country’s reality. They fail to
understand its history, the confluence of world powers over its control and
fate, the force of global business entities that make a mockery of the balance
of interest and values equation espoused by the countries they hail from. They even fail to understand that in Cameroon, most of the famous are the infamous.
For nine years now,
since I quit the SDF that Fru Ndi's mafia had hijacked, I have been stating
that Fru Ndi’s SDF and the French-imposed system under Biya are in a symbiosis.
They sustain each other. It is sometimes disheartening when some Cameroonian pundits (self-declared and
recognized) fail to acknowledge the insightful words of Cameroonian union-nationalists and revolutionaries who were deeply involved with
the SDF at all levels when the party embodied the soul of the Cameroonian
struggle and carried the torch dropped by the historic UPC of Um Nyobe, Felix
Moumie, Ernest Ouandgie and Ndeh Ntumazah---patriots who put the struggle above
their personal well-being,and in so doing paid a high price for it--- in most of the cases,
the ultimate price.
I found out from the
CPDM's biggest wit in the UK
in 2002, that Fru Ndi's SDF with Ngwasiri as the front man had signed a pact
with the CPDM to take the seats the regime allowed the SDF to win in the 2002
parliamentary elections, when the SDF was two days away from debating it in a
NEC meeting. And of course Fru Ndi overrode the NEC decision and sent his boys
to parliament, feeding on the monthly cuts he was getting from them.
This election is the
last gasp of Cameroon's
political megalomaniacs, including Paul Biya. It would clearly identify the
ranks and camps, that is, those who understand what the struggle is all about---
those who embrace the unifying vision of THE NEW CAMEROON; those who reject the system, its
custodians, its masters and its beneficiaries; those who identify, support and stand with the camp of the cheated,
patriotic and struggling Cameroonian majority; those who embrace the humane forces of the world and and strive to
make Cameroon a part of the world of
civilized nations. It would identify these genuine advocates for change from those who betrayed and are betraying Cameroon.
In a nutshell, the
aftermath of this election will pit those who identify with the tenets of
CAMEROONIAN UNION NATIONALISM against THE EVOLUES who sustain the system and
are taking Cameroon
into abyss. The aftermath of this election would be a fight to redeem the soul of
Cameroon.
It would be hard and merciless for the advocates of the New Cameroon, but it
would be our only salvation. And only an
alliance between the soldiers of the last phase of the struggle (the
post-independence generations) and the under-30s age groups, guided by the
vision of the NEW CAMEROON and versed with our turbulent history, shall we be
able to sweep away this evil anachronistic system and confine it to the dustbin
of history.
We are less than three
weeks away from a historical revelation that will change the ball game in an
arena that some of us naively call Cameroonian politics involving Paul Biya,
but which in reality is the Cameroonian struggle against a Foccart-DeGaulle
system installed almost seven decades ago under the guise of fighting
communism, a struggle given a blind eye
by the western powers who gave France a free hand in Africa. It is a struggle
against a mafia setup in Cameroon
and Africa that involves corrupt politicians
and big businesses that espouse their interests but not the universal human values.
Janvier Tchouteu
September 21, 2011
Janvier Tchouteu is the author of " The Mistakes To Be Avoided in Building The New Cameroon"
Cameroon: France’s Dysfunctional Puppet System in Africa
by Janvier Tchouteu
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