THE LAST WORD
A usual, Emmanuel Kunde fails to see the forest for the trees
People, let me speak in parables.
UB has a critical shortage of infrastructure.
UB has always had a critical shortage in infrastructure.
The current crisis has its genesis in the difficulty of managing POVERTY.
What the current VC has been doing is MANAGING POVERTY or the now
critical dearth of infrastructure at UB.
Managing POVERTY is hard because children always fail to understand that.
Amazingly, the same people indulging in POLITICISED ETHNICITY are the
same people who are doing everything to undermine the construction of
a 2500 room MODERN CAMPUS at UB?
That project takes care of basics like photocopy machines etc...
Let me leave it at that for now by holding myself in..but they will
hear from me when push comes to shove.
And that is a PROMISE.
On 3/27/13, Peter Wuteh Vakunta <vakunta@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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