I must begin by compassionately
thanking God for this most blessed country on earth; Cameroon – the bread
basket of the Central African Region, the only country with a Sahel, a Savannah
and an Equatorial, the only with a harmony of rainfall and sunshine all year
round, the only with a cavalcade of natural and human resources, the only with
the widest variety of cash crops and food crops, the only with more than
fifteen species of beans, more than two hundred and fifty different cultures,
and one of the only two bilingual countries on the planet. How much more can
God bless a country? What then is the problem with Cameroon which makes life at
home extremely difficult for her youths, and they tend to find economic rescue
in the western world? What becomes of the unfortunate majority which is unable
to go overseas? Whose duty is it to find an anti-virus for this devastating
virus which has eaten to the very fabric of every Cameroonian citizen like a
canker-worm? Or ours is a problem without a solution? Not when confronted by my
discourse onslaught.
Other countries on earth are
saddled with a multitude of problems ranging from drought to famine, from
famine to earthquakes, and from earthquakes to assorted natural and artificial
catastrophes. But Cameroon has only one problem. And this one problem alone is
responsible for the economic depression and chronic under-development in the
country. This problem is SUSTAINED NEGLIGENCE by the
Presidency of the Republic. In order to protect its ruling party interest, the
Legislative has completely neglected the liaison between the Executive and the
public at large. The Cameroonian parliament votes bills, the Presidency enacts
them into law and assigns them to the ministries, but it never goes to the
field and supervises the work and makes sure that it is being done to the
satisfaction of all and sundry. The day-to-day ‘big business’ of the Presidency
is to send off outgoing and receive incoming ambassadors and top-ranking
diplomatic cops. While it is busy doing this, the ministries are in the
background putting the whole country in a shambles. All the ministries in
Cameroon are consummate strongholds of bribery, corruption, tribalism,
favouratism and the lot of administrative bottlenecks. The poor citizens are
the victims being mercilessly crushed under the giant diabolic footsteps of the
ministries. Due to SUSTAINED NEGLIGENCE by the Presidency of the Republic, it is
never aware of this ministerial massacre of peaceful Cameroonian citizens.
According to the Presidency, all is well with everyone; of which in reality,
all is hell with everyone.
I am almost inclined to believe
that perhaps, in order to keep the ruling party buoyant, the Presidency
intentionally neglects all the malevolent practices of the ministries. Yes,
because it does not lack the prerogative and provisions to go down to the field
and find out if the ministries are doing effective work with the huge budgets
voted for them by parliament. And when the ministers embezzle these hard-earned
public funds, they are arrested and sent behind the bars. In what way do these
arrests and detentions revamp the country’s economy? If I were given the
opportunity to give mouth-to-mouth counselling to just one person in this
country, it would be the Head of State; His Excellency President Paul Biya. I
would earnestly entreat him to go round all the ten Regions of Cameroon and see
their deplorable states with his own very eyes. He should see the number of
unemployed youths roaming the streets with his own very eyes. I sent three dissertations
and three full-fledged publications on patriotism to His Excellency President
Paul Biya (2011-2013), and somewhere along the way, his conscienceless henchmen
threw them into the dustbin. If I persuade myself to compose a special
discourse for them on this account, they would all resign upon its reception.
And nobody would sympathise with them. Neither their age-battered ailing
colleagues nor their misery-beaten families.
It would have been the duty of
opposition political parties in Cameroon to address the problem of this country
by urging the Presidency of the Republic to stamp sanctity on the all-corrupt
ministries. But unfortunately, there is no trustworthy opposition political
party in Cameroon. They parade false colours; claiming to be defending the
rights of the people, but their hunt in the vicious cycle is to fill their
stomachs with pork to protruding point. If there was a genuine opposition
political party in Cameroon with a sincere bent for nation building, this
country would have seen better days today. In the overall, the political party
system of government has failed by and large. All the leaders of all political
parties on earth are failures. I hereby advise them to either resign or
proclaim the RULE of LOVE. Let love lead.
You are not a successful leader
by loving yourself more than others. On the contrary, you are a successful
leader by loving others more than yourself. When you lead with love, you prefer
to die for others rather than others dying for you. The following is my divine-inspired
solution to the only problem of Cameroon which I have identified and
cross-examined – if you truly love something, you won’t neglect it, you won’t
throw it to the dogs to pull to pieces, you won’t serve it to carrion birds to
peck. For decades uncounted, the Cameroonian people have suffered from SUSTAINED
NEGLIGENCE by the most superior authority at their disposal. It is now
about time they are given the love and respect which they deserve. Whoever is
in the position to give this timely-rescuing love and respect to the
Cameroonian people should give it to them before his or her day of reckoning.
God has spoken. And His word is final.
Nkwetatang
Sampson Nguekie
London, United Kingdom
