Opinions of Friday, 18 July 2014

Auteur: Leon Tuam

"Puppet Leadership" has turned the nation to a place of confusion

Recently, two measures have been taken by Mr. Paul Biya and his team, which will harm the life of citizen tremendously. The rumors turned out to be true as Mr. Biya weakened and gave in under intensive pressures from the International Monetary Funds (IMF) and the European Union (EU).

Our puppet corrupt leaders recently failed once again to move close to the people, by making a cut on fuel subsidies and butane gas (14-15 percent for fuel, and 8 percent for bottle of butane gas price rise.) It was and is a big blow to a people whose faithful companion for decades had been Poverty.

The second disastrous measure came when Mr. Biya approved the Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU. Ah, from blunder to blunder our leaders go, as they do, from treason to treason. After all the Europeans have done to Africa, can’t we learn our lesson?

Any Cameroonian who knows a little about our history understands very well that this EPA will not benefit African people. Obviously, the intense pressures which accompanied the approval of this Agreement by our authorities, pointed out in fact that it wasn’t and isn’t something destined to improving our people’s quality of life. It is a calamity. It is a club in the face of our weak embryonic economy.

With the partial cut on fuel and bottle butane gas subsidies, it is certain that Mr. Biya is just at the beginning of his ordeal. And historically, it is what unavoidably awaits any power thirsty dictator at the twilight of a selfish reign.

With this partial cut on fuel and butane gas, the IMF is still flying into a rage . It remains unsatisfied and wants a complete cut on subsidies, to definitely push into deep pit the passive apathetic people of Cameroon who are already on the knees. And maybe from that abyss everybody would wake up; who knows?

Though divisions persist among Cameroonians when it comes to protests against bad decisions taken by their authorities which affect their lives. Daily, more and more people realize that there is nothing good for them in these puppet corrupt leaders’ agenda, and are ready to sacrifice a lot this time for a better tomorrow.

These people are neither ready to accept the recent price rise on the fuel and butane gas nor to any additional cut on subsidies, which means more burden for them. They are not ready to give up.

Knowing all its consequences, the social skyline of the country looks darker with future protests which might escalate or sink into violence, as the oppressive regime of Yaoundé would try to contain and silence the demonstrators. Mr. Biya and his corrupt government must understand that 2014 cannot be 2008.

Cameroon is a great country with great people and huge resources. But its puppet corrupt leaders or neocolonial agents by misusing our resources and wealth, by dividing the people, by ‘sowing’ injustice at all level and by removing the lands from the hands of the people to steal from them or hand them to international predators against our growth, liberation and sovereignty.

The inconsistency and lack of patriotism which symbolize that Cameroonian authorities had put the country under the dictatorship of the WB and IMF. These two groups are around just to plundering or preying on our wealth. They don’t help poor nations to develop; but the lazy, good Prisoners who rule upon Cameroon let it happen.

With good leaders, with our huge natural resources and all the brave and intelligent men and women we have in this country, we should have not invited these Gangsters on our Land to tell us what to do. Prisoners, who had been in office since the killing of Um Nyobé, had left the nation’s wealth open to their masters.

The first Prisoner of the country, Mr. Paul Biya, had chosen during his time in office not to tell the truth to the people and get them at his side. His recent decisions came, at the time instability from Boko Haram, conflict in CAR with flow of refugees into our Land and other unknown groups, remain a big threat.

With no intention of prophesying the outcome of his recent reckless decisions, I strongly insist that Mr. Biya’s blows to his impoverished reified people mark the beginning of the end of the long disastrous power of this very selfish man.