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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Re: [camnetwork] SAF: The Last Word on the UB Thuggery Episode from the Guru

I take no umbrage at the quest for refined communication online. The caveat,though, is that communication is a double-edged weapon: miscommunication, shoddy communication, skewed reasoning, absence of finesse and intellectual dishonesty have occasioned wars, including the world wars that we are all conversant with.The trouble with Cameroonians is that the bulk of us are victims of the kind of phenomenon that psychologists have termed the 'split personality syndrome' which makes us see the world through befoggled double prisms.

How to communnicate this 'hermaphrodite' personae through the written word remains a thorny problem for the generality of Cameroonians at home and in the Diaspora. If you read some of the stomach-churning hollow claptrap that is being spilled out in Cameroonian social networks such as CAMPOLITICS, CAMNEWS, CAMPATRIOTS, AMBASONIA, AMBASBAY,and more, you'd begin to get a glimpse of what I am talking about here. I have the conviction that the time has come for Cameroonians to begin to harness human capital in a bid to achieve laudable goals rather than rave and rant like demented dogs. I think about working in unison in a bid to produce literary and non-literary stuff that not only stand the test of time but also projects a truly Cameroonian national identity.

Vakunta,Ph.D



On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Emmanuel Konde <ekonde07@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

SAF: The Last Word on the UB Thuggery Episode
There is little doubt that my ideas are superior to yours and those of the "Pretentious One" combined, and many times over. But I do not entertain any illusion about the power my ideas can exert on decision-makers in Cameroon or anywhere. Decisions are made on considerations far removed from purely intellectual constructions based on philosophical notions of right and wrong, proper and improper, conduct. Whenever political considerations enter the calculus of decision-making, the results can be astounding. Political logic is overly-loaded and different….
With respect to what the minister told Minang, unlike you who accompanied the young thug to Yaounde, I was not a party at your meeting. Therefore, I have not the privileged knowledge that only those who attended can now confidently divulge publicly. Grace to you, SAF.
Nevertheless, I am comforted to learn that this gory episode of thuggery, the violent kidnapping and hostage-taking by students of the highest-ranking administrative officer in the history of higher education in Cameroon, is finally being brought to a close. There is indeed hope that all will be fine at UB, if from this experience students learn to be students and, accordingly, cease to infringe into the sphere of administrators; and desist from employing violence as right of expression even when instigated by some disgruntled power hungry staff and faculty.
 
The Guru
 
"The problem of power is how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public." Robert F. Kennedy
From: SAF <suhade@yahoo.com>
To: "camnetwork@yahoogroups.com" <camnetwork@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [camnetwork] UBSU THUGGERY & THE RULE OF LAW IN THE CAMEROON POLITICAL SYSTEM
 
Dr. Konde,
 
Is this epistle, which looks like a 180 degree turn, your mea culpa?  There is something in politics known as "face saving."  In order not to belittle the VC, the Minister asked the student president, Mr. Minang, to make this public apology.  Get this in your head once and for all.  There was no kidnap of the VC; no Long Cable from Buea; no violence supported by UBSU; no staging of Minang's kidnap and torture. 
 
The judicial system which you praised so very well yesterday will vindicate all the student leaders.  We saw the writing on the wall over the weekend and cautioned you; but you were too headstrong to listen.  You still went forth spewing garbage, spewing ethnic hate mail on the net.  I don't understand how you, of all people, could not read the hand writing that was so visible on the wall. 
 
These students were not asking to move the Buea Mountain a few meters in any direction.  All they asked the administration to do was to create an enabling environment for learning.  The lack of people-management skills on the part of the administration led to the Feb 6, 2013 student unrest.  I think the VC has learned a lesson and a very good at that. 
 
The one lesson you, Dr. Konde should learn from this is that students are customers in a university.  In business lingo, the customer is never wrong.  He is always right.  If you make that mistake and think the customer is wrong; you will be out of business before long.  Got it? 
 
SAF
 

 
From: Emmanuel Konde <ekonde07@yahoo.com>
To: Cameroon Network <camnetwork@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:01 PM
Subject: [camnetwork] UBSU THUGGERY & THE RULE OF LAW IN THE CAMEROON POLITICAL SYSTEM
 
            UBSU THUGGERY OF FEB. 6 AND THE RULE OF LAW
                       IN THE CAMEROON POLITICAL SYSTEM
By Konde the Guru
The rule of law is not in every society or political system applied the same
way. An understanding of how any society operates is derived from studying
its culture and becoming conversant with its political system. I have time
and again warned YOU not to extrapolate from what obtains in the United States
or Europe and interpolate it to Cameroon. These societies are different and the
laws by which Cameroon is governed are derived from, and tailored to, the social,
cultural, political, and historical experiences of the Cameroonian people living in
Cameroon.
Accordingly, resolution of the UBSU kidnapping and taking hostage of the Vice
Chancellor will be executed in accordance with the concepts of justice espoused
and validated by the System.
The government of President Biya has always pursued a policy of peace and
stability. With respect to the recurrent student crises at the University of
Buea, it is alleged that the Cameroon government is wary of those protests and has
adopted a policy of appeasing those apparently restive students. If indeed this is
true, there isn't much that one can do to change the course of conciliation that
Vice Chancellor Nalova Lyonga has initiated vis-à-vis the students who kidnapped
and held her hostage for three or more hours. As a university administrator, Dr.
Lyonga is a government employee and its is her duty to administer government
policy.
However, policy does not speak to right or wrong, proper or improper, conduct. It
speaks to what the government has adopted as its preferred course of action.
Government cannot altered its standing policy helter-skelter in response to every
aberrant development. Given this reality, mine and Louis Mbua's views are superior to
those of SAF, Esale and our numerous other detractors, including the ill-educated UBSU thugs.
Victory? Not so fast, UBSU. Not so fast Esale, SAF, and the host of others who
have been supporting the violence wrought on the Vice Chancellor on February 6,
2013. Why not victory? Because the ultimate aim of the UBSU thuggery, which
was the removal of the Vice Chancellor, has not been accomplished. If there was
any doubt about this, the N. M. Sango bloody attack on Ernest Molua, entiled "Dr.
Molua Ernest: Xenophobia at UB" revealed the plot as well as those on whose
behest the UBSU had acted.
After the alleged invitation of Minang Ronald to Yaounde, and upon his return the Vice
Chancellor's invitation for Minang to attend the University Senate's meeting tomorrow,
where he is expected to apologize for the heinous acts he and his gang members committed
against the V.C., we can only hope for the best for UB from tomorrow onwards.  The Vice
Chnacellor must be commended for her pragmatism, adroitness, and devotion to UB.
 
There's beauty in the freedom of expression, which we must guard jealously with all our might.
Hence, resolution of this "UBSU Thuggery Affair" shoukd by no means deprive us from expressing
our views on what happened, or passing judgment on those we consider villains and thugs
on the one hand, or angels and freedom fighters on the other. But respect we must the policy of
the Cameroon government, which is now being implemented by the Vice Chancellor. For the interest
of UB, whose custodian the Vice Chancellor is, and the university's continued adherence to its mission of
 educating the young, are more important than our arguments.
 
 
 
"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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