CAMEROON :: CABRAL LIBII: PEACE AND HONOR OF THE LIVING OR SURVIVORS ARE ALL AS IMPORTANT :: CAMEROON
What I unfortunately remember as a Cameroonian, from the immense intellectual production of Professor Hubert Mono Ndjana, is that he was the one who conceptualized, formulated, defended and validated, in the most accomplished manner on the intellectual level, the policy of tribal apartheid, which has become the omni-variable of governance in Cameroon.
From now on, of this Republic of doldrums of which Paul BIYA has been the architect and builder for 41 years, tribalism is the leaven. He directs everything, he governs everything.
CABRAL LIBII MUST TAKE ITS FULL SHARE IN THE CAMEROONIAN NATIONAL PROJECT AND NOT LIMIT TO CUTTING ITS SHARE FROM CAMEROONANS
The injunction to silence on the intellectual crimes of Professor Hubert MONO NDJANA, followed by a hymn to his beatification, made by Cabral LIBII is in reality the manifestation of the political expression of these heirs of “Monofascim”, stuck in laziness political, intellectual and philosophical which enjoins them to imagine the future of Cameroon only as a jumble of ethnic groups, fragmented, superimposed, which would be protected from others… It is in this context that concepts which are in reality xenophobic proliferate such as allogeneic, indigenous; that managerial nonsense such as “regional balance” is consecrated, that ideas germinate which freeze people in their essence such as the “Community Federalism” of Cabral LIBII.
It is therefore intellectually legitimate to suspect in the President of the PCRN the subliminal intention of protecting the intellectual ethnicism of the late philosopher by allowing him to survive, in a political formulation, after his death.
Therefore renouncing national ambition, Cabral Libii, as mimicking the BIYA regime, which has cleverly inoculated in the people, the idea of election and selection by the tribe, wants to cut off its portion of the Nation in its Regionalism Community.
In reality, this has only one purpose, to help the CPDM regime retain power. The national project cannot accommodate endless reigns, we chose in Cameroon to move away from it and the reigning order has metastasized in part of the opposition.
The debacle of such a system is obvious: we built in Cameroon an essentially mono-ethnic power and we recruited in certain others, elements to make its veneer… Finally, BIYA and this opposition accompanying the dictatorship have made Cameroon a Gehenna from which the youth only dreams of escaping through emigration.
It is therefore criminal today to have the ambition, in the name of a certain political realism, to make an ideological alliance with this mafia establishment which works hand in hand to preserve power, by essentially protecting itself with the fissile materials of ethnicity. As well as any political approach aiming to resolutely take power will quickly be presented as the aggression of an ethnic group against the Republic. The Republic here being the dominant, mono-ethnic power. In this vein, we spoke in 1984 of the Northerners, in 1990 of the Anglo-Bami, in 2018 of the Bamiléké…
The major political challenge in Cameroon is the construction of a Nation. To achieve this, we must resolutely reject the political indigeneity of the CPDM to offer the National dream to Cameroonians. A leader who does not dream, who does not make people dream, is incapable of facing the challenges of Cameroon that Paul BIYA will leave behind tomorrow.
GET OUT OF THE ETHNICITY TRAP
If our diversity and cultural wealth are what make this country uniquely charming, identity cannot have a certain primacy over life, over citizenship. It is on this unique basis that a political majority is built in a democracy. A Toupuri voice is no less important than a Bamiléké, Béti or English-speaking voice and vice versa.
We must be able in this country, emancipated from this ethnic straitjacket in which the colonist and the neo-colonist have confined us, to think that to be elected, we must simply be able to obtain the majority of votes cast. An elected official having obtained 55% of the votes made up mainly of votes from the regions of the far North has indeed beaten the one who comes in second place with 45% of the votes cast from voters distributed in the 7 other regions.
If we want to build a Nation, we must have the ambition and the courage. We must be able to make Cameroonians dream, we must give ourselves the ambition to move away from the colonial and neocolonial model of ethnic confrontation of “divide and rule”.
The managerial and political intelligence of democratically elected leaders, on the basis of an ambitious National Project, must make it possible to combine the extraordinary resource of our plural identities.
My conviction is that we cannot do worse on the national construction site than what the BIYA regime has done.
We must therefore stop scaring Cameroonians on these subjects.
Suffrage and alternation in power ensure the punishment of bad leaders or the reward of good leaders.
