(Today 09/23/2020)
The Maurice Kamto-led MRC (Cameroon Renaissance Movement---Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun) still has the mindset or
mentality of a political party operating in an orderly political framework;
however, it uses the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement, albeit one without
the accompanying structures and ideals. This puts it in the same position as
the SDF after 2002, after the SDF lost its way following developments of the
2002 legislative and municipal elections. The MRC has not fully embraced
Kamerunism (Cameroonian union-nationalism). It is only recently that the MRC took
the tentative step of echoing some of the goals of a "NEW CAMEROON" that has
been around for decades, even though it did so without embracing its
fundamental tenet--- THE DISMANTLING OF THE FRENCH-IMPOSED SYSTEM.
The question then is: Does the Kamto-led MRC, like the
Fru Ndi-led SDF after 2002, or like Ndam Njoya's CDU and Bello Bouba's UNDP
after 1991, have the inner strength, aptitude, all-embracing clout, and
self-sacrificing nature to evolve into the movement that Cameroonians of all
works of life can have deep faith in, to the point of allying with it without
reservations, and to the point of
putting their lives at risk for it by fully confronting the putridity of the Biya
regime and the French-imposed system, so as to bring them down once and for
all?
The answer is simple. What is also simple is the fact
that the Biya regime and the system are moribund; albeit as negative
perfectionists. But we have failed to be positive perfectionists in a
collective manner, which is the main reason for our quagmire as those involved in
a struggle to right a century of wrong on Cameroon, but who seem to be
suffering from incomprehension.
September 23, 2020,
By Janvier Tchouteu is the author of Triple Agent, Double Cross
