Re: [camnetwork] Explicating the Onslaught Against Ernest Molua

1. Victor Julius Ngoh - Eton + Ernest Molua - Ibibio, as Coup Plotters
against the regime of Prof Navova Lyonga via typical vile intrigues
and manipulation of the native chiefs.
2. Emmanuel Kunde - Bassa as Spokesman-Spinless Doctor of the Coup Plotters.
Victim - the Southern Cameroonian aka Anglo-Saxon University of Buea

On 3/23/13, Emmanuel Konde <ekonde07@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Explicating the Onslaught Against Ernest Molua
> By Emmanuel Konde, the Guru
> At issue is not how Dr. Ernest Molua conducts his politics, tribal
> affiliation, or intellectualism. The issue is UBSU kidnapping and taking
> hostage the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea. N.M. Sango, Ph.D.
> little prose, which deviates totally from the issue at stake, cannot even be
> classified as Sophistry. It is a spirited character assassination onslaught
> unleashed on Dr. Ernest Molua, whose only source is envy--the cancer that
> afflicts Cameroonians everywhere. No attempt is made by Sango and Group
> members to quote and refute, as intellectuals are trained to do, what Molua
> wrote or said. This failure is ample evidence of calumny and speaks
> directly to the degeneration taking place at UB among some faculty and
> students. I embark here below to demonstrate by example how we execute the
> criticism.Summary
> N.M. Sango's "Dr. Molua Ernest: Sowing Xenophobia at UB" is a contrived and
> highly concerted effort by many to besmirch the character of Ernest Molua,
> an outspoken rising star at the University of Buea. One can read the anger
> oozing out of this Sango-signed write-up. That anger comes from many
> angles: A synopsis of that raw anger, spiced with understandable
> frustration, may be summed up as follows:
> (1) Molua has been privileged at UB from the vice-chancellorship of Titanji
> to that of Lyonga. Sango quips: These privileges did not stop him from
> resigning as HOD and returning without transition, once Titanji retired and
> Auntie was appointed. He was even allowed to sign results of courses he did
> not teach!!;
> (2) Molua has access that Sango & Co. would rather have. Accordingly, the
> unprivileged intone: Lots of credibility questions plague Dr. Molua's
> personality and make him less likely as a mole in the tribal war he is
> expected to wage against other ethnic groups. He is not even an influential
> thinker in his generation. The recent developments on campus
> speak volumes. He is not the principled type!;
> (3) Therefore, Molua must be destroyed by any means necessary and
> available. Consequently, Sango and his group delve into intellectual
> dishonesty by making this strange and inept comparison between "The
> Entrepreneur" to the Radio Mille Collines, thusly: …he has turned his
> Entrepreneur Newspaper into a paper equivalent of the Rwandan Radio Mille
> Collines. It should be recalled that in the early nineties, the Radio Mille
> Collines was used to propagate the ethnic hatred that led to the bloody
> massacre of 800,000 Hutus and Tutsis.
> (4) Significantly for the new intellectual-nationalist that Sango is and
> pretentiously portrays Molua as not, the patchwork of jealous rant avers by
> minimizing the UBSU kidnapping and hostage taking of the Vice Chancellor:
> How a minor student demonstration led to a massive outburst of ethnic hatred
> is not clear, but it seems like those behind this unfortunate
> development had been waiting for an opportunity to take on anyone who sees
> the world through a different prism.
>
> Analysis
> The University of Buea has been transformed into a cesspool of power
> struggle. The groups involved in this power struggle are three: the Bakweri,
> the Graffi, and the non-Bakweri/non-Graffi, who are caught in the middle.
> Sango and his coterie probably represent this Third Force.
> Historically, the power struggles at UB have been contested by the Bakweri
> and Graffi. Unfortunately for this new and emergent third force, it has
> never benefited from lending its support to either of the two dominant
> contestants. As a result, the third force, represented here by Sango as
> scribe, has decided to insert itself by trying to isolate, localize, and
> destroy Ernest Molua who probably represents the bulwark against the
> realization of their aspirations for a place at the table where decisions
> are made.
> Notice that in this shrewdly crafted indictment of Ernest Molua, no other
> individual's name is mentioned. Even where the Fako Chiefs' statement is
> introduced, "Dr. Molua Ernest Sowing Xenophobia at UB" skillfully dribbles:
> It is no secret that Molua Ernest once coveted the Sasse chieftaincy until
> nationality questions finally dislodged him. It is not surprising therefore
> that he was trying to play chief when he (joined by two other university
> staff) drafted the incendiary communiqué threatening the use of orthodox and
> unorthodox methods for them to sign, and then coming out in full force to
> defend the position he had crafted for them.
>
> If not envy, why does the Sango Group delve into Molua's involvenment in
> Bakweri chieftaincy politics when the question at hand is about UBSU
> kidnapping and taking hostage of the Vice Chancellor? Indeed, Sango & Co.
> minimize the thuggery of UBSU, which is at the center of the recent crisis,
> by calling it "… a minor student demonstration." Surely, it is the vogue of
> the new intellectualism at UB championed by Sango, Ph.D. to relegate
> terrorism to that status of minor student demonstration. This
> characterization lends credibility to Sango's narrative whose sole purpose
> is to "decapitate" a rising star and render him one of the les privileged at
> UB.
> Envy of Molua is no doubt the leitmotif of this "DR. MOLUA ERNEST: SOWING
> XENOPHOBIA AT UB" piece by a group of disgruntled faculty members under the
> by-line of N.M. Sango, Ph.D. This is not the work of one person. From all
> apparent indications, the GROUP behind this thing tried to chew too much and
> the end product is a compromise disjointed document.Prediction
> Given the history of successful coups at U.B., and the public emergence of a
> Third Force in the wake of the first ever foiled coup, the University of
> Buea will never be the same again. Although this Sango & Co. vendetta
> against Ernest Molua is regrettable, it nevertheless provides a new
> perspective from which to examine the multilayered and multifaceted issues
> of tribe, sectionalism, and power that afflict the University of Buea.
> Now that the major actors know the positions of their adversaries, one can
> only hope that an equitable and durable resolution to the question of "who
> gets what, when, and how much" at UB will be arrived at. Conclusion
> Central to this discourse is the kidnapping and taking hostage of the Vice
> Chancellor of the University of Buea. There is no country, no government,
> and no university in the world that would condone such action from students.
> Like the UBSU thugs, Sango & Co. have made no attempt at all to present a
> compelling narrative of events different from what was televised. In their
> righteous intellectualism, Sango and his Group tell us that it was "a minor
> student demonstration." But, how minor was that demonstration? Silence
> greets us.
> Something happened on the campus of UB on February 6, 2013. A coup plot
> contrived by some disgruntled faculty members in connivance with UBSU was
> foiled to the utter dismay of the conspirators. This episode marks the
> first time in the history of the University of Buea that a faculty initiated
> and student executed coup failed to dislodge a sitting Vice Chancellor.
> Ernest Molua, was probably very instrumental in foiling that conspiracy.
> "DR. MOLUA ERNEST: SOWING XENOPHOBIA AT UB" explains why the anger of the
> conspirators is directed at the mind behind the strategy that made mince of
> the coup.
>
>
>
> "The problem of power is how to get men of power to live for the public
> rather than off the public." Robert F. Kennedy


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