Serail: These Strange Maneuvers Of Biya To Dishonor The Betis

There is no need to claim divine attributes to find that the man who wanted to bring a momentum of dynamization for Cameroon has failed miserably.

Although the griots interested in prebend and the rewards for service rendered say, the story will retain Paul Biya he has been a lax president, lacking in vision, unable to thrive the enormous potential that abound Cameroon and its inhabitants.

However, when he was brought to the highest office in 1982 by his predecessor, the majority of Cameroonians want to see in him a talented, ambitious and patriotic man who would do himself the duty, the obligation to instill a new dynamic, with the sole objective of boosting the economic and social performance of our country.

Stamped with the buzzy brand of "the Man of Renewal", he will be pragmatic and voluntary at first. Renewal first political because in Cameroon, the need for freedom in the expression of individual and collective opinions completely confiscated under the old regime, was urgent. But Paul Biya will quickly become locked in a security and dictatorial logic that some analysts blame the failed military coup of 1984.

Serail: These Strange Maneuvers Of Biya To Dishonor The Betis

The brutality with which the alleged perpetrators of this failed coup will be treated would complete to reassure Cameroonians that the man allegedly "Renewal" was simply the fruit of his time: outrageously violent as all his peers heirs of the colonial power and above all incapable of embodying a collective vision rooted in the uncompromising building of a strong Cameroon, respectful of its citizens and prosperous.

After the "Renewal" farce, he presented himself to the nation in the 1992 pluralist elections with a new pompous slogan, "Paul Biya: the best choice".

It was the gradual beginning of a blackmail hallucinating to the Cameroonian people, who were insidiously brandishing the threat of disturbances to peace if ever the person who claimed to be the incarnation was democratically forced to leave power.

But the peace he is relying on can not be reduced to a demonstration of good intention or a simple slogan in opposition to reality as experienced and felt by Cameroonians. Peace is a social construct, a building that we take the trouble to think and shape with concrete actions.

After five long years of sleepwalking and traveling abroad, Biya reappeared in 1997 under a new label: "The Lion Man". This time, he went to draw on the legend of the peoples of the forest, because the Lion is associated with royalty, ferocity, courage and invincibility. The Cameroon boat, however, is still waiting for this visionary captain, this pugnacious leader, this dodgy warrior who would tackle with ferocity the multiple problems of Cameroonians who are growing.

In this long-awaited expectation, 2004 and 2011 would be the height of mockery, with the man alternating between "big ambitions" and "great achievements" as new leitmotifs that make no one else laugh than himself. The new goal that we are bumped into ball is to make Cameroon an emerging country by 2035.

All conditions are met, however, so that these old men who govern us are no longer there at that time for the people to ask them accounts. This is another rude trick. More than 50 years after independence, all Cameroonians still do not have access to drinking water and electricity.

In Douala, for example, since December 1, 2014, load shedding has resumed, plunging people into turmoil and leading to growing insecurity, on the eve of the celebration of the end-of-year celebrations.

In the meantime, the few successes that were fiercely won under the reign of his predecessor continue to suffer the managerial mediocrity of the new team and are gradually collapsing under the helpless gaze of Cameroonians, privileged witnesses of the collapse of their country.

Infrastructure, health, education, justice, national defense, diplomacy, employment are all neglected sectors or simply managed with the greatest complacency, to the point of pushing Cameroon back into the African hierarchy. . To these evils is added the impunity that has given free rein to all sorts of stigmata in the Cameroonian society.

Cameroonians are daily witnesses of the bankruptcy of the Biya regime, which allows gangrene to invade it and it is when it becomes incurable that so-called commissions of inquiry are set up, which will take years and sometimes will never deliver their conclusions. .

The last find of the prince concerns Operation Sparrowhawk whose pedagogy is wrong and the contested foundations. Instead of making highly publicized arrests of some of the prevaricators of the public fortune, it would be more interesting for the people to know that these thieves are returning the sums stolen.

Their stay in prison where they are comfortable does not meet the expectations of the people. In addition, there is growing suspicion that this operation is a political settlement weapon. Judicial justice in one word!

The person responsible for this lapse is well known to everyone. But in the shameful display of his inability to manage Cameroon, Paul Biya has taken hostage an entire ethnic group that is jointly responsible for his balance sheet and guilty in the collective unconscious of being the parent of a man who has been harmful for Cameroon.

The reputation and image of the Betis are unfairly associated with all the failures of Paul Biya with the direct consequence of discrediting men and women whose only crime is to belong to the same ethnic group as the latter. They are thus openly accused of being incompetent, of pleasure, of thieves and of incapable. Some parents are even reluctant to marry their daughter to a Beti whose condition begins to be assimilated to that of a national pariah.

In his essay "Paradoxes of the Organizing Country", the late Charles ATEBA EYENE already noted the unfounded nature of the allegations that the Betis in general, and the Southerners in particular, would benefit from the largesse of the power held by one of their own.

The majority of populations in the South live in extreme misery, with the notable exception of the minority who enter the circles of power and who is self-centered thinking only of their own families or immediate entourage. .

It belongs therefore to the one who is the craftsman of this collapse of the label Béti to restore him his letters of nobility. This is only possible if he strives today to take advantage of the last few years of his last mandate to work for a Cameroon whose democracy is consolidated, justice freed from the yoke of the vultures who use it, contained corruption, resuscitated meritocracy, reinvigorated diplomacy, redesigned education, redefined health.

A Herculean task which, having regard to the ridiculous record of the last 32 years, is certainly unachievable by the one who has never shone by his activism. But the restoration of the dignity of the Beti people imposes on him the moral obligation to define himself finally a simple roadmap: to take advantage of the remaining years of his last mandate to achieve what he will not have succeeded in the near future. half a century of reign.

He would thus help to repair all the evil he has caused and could benefit from the forgiveness of the Beti people who do not recognize the genes of passivity and indolence.