Re: [camnetwork] Re: Mr Agbor Enow and the Docility of Cameroon Opposition Parties

Dear Mishe Fon,
My intention here is not to question the rationale behind your suggstion that folks gather under an invention of yours - serious or otherwise - called CAAP.
My intention is to educate us all in what is actually going on. It is for this reason that I intriduce the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation - SCAPO.
SCAPO is FOR AN INDEPENDENT Southern Cameroons.
The struggle of the people of the Southern Cameroons is to obtain international recognition of their right to self-determination.
We all know the frontline role SCAPO has played - and continue to play - in decisive self-determination pathways like the 2002 Abuja High Court Process, the Ongoing Banjul Processes concerning Communications 266/2003 and 377/2007, the Ongoing Bamenda High Court Process, etc.
SCAPO will very soon formalize its intention to translate into - this is very important - A SOUTHERN CAMEROONS POLITICAL PARTY with the political intent being FOR AN INDEPENDENT SOUTHERN CAMEROONS and the ECONOMIC INTENT being a REVIVAL and a FAST-TRACKING of the holistic development of the Southern Cameroons which development has been arrested since 1961.
It is for this reason that SCAPO's Political and Economic Manifesto has been ready since 2009.
That Manifest mentions many, many, many items. For example, the translation of the Besongabang Airstrip into an International Airport, the Federal Capital at Bachuo Akagbe, etc.

How NICE INDEED will it be to be HOME AGAIN!

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Mishe Fon <mishefon@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

Massa Agbor Enow

In essence, you are not serious about your brilliant article on the "Docility of Cameroon Opposition". I was engaging you to get more substance and have you put more "beef" on the skeleton I thought I discerned in your missive. Now you are asking me to support "my friend"  Pa Fru Ndeh's PAAWCE foolishness? How is wishing that an "Anglophone" becomes a President...a Political ideology or platform? OK so something terrible happens tomorrow to the incumbent and 96 year old Bameta-Bafaw-Kumba (PAAWCE) Pa Chief Nfon Mukete is catapulted President of Cameroon as per the present Constitution...will you Agbor Enow or other Cameroonians be better off? Please, Give me a freaking break. I was sincerely holding you in very high esteem...just from reading some of your input here in Matango House. I simply hope I was not mistaken. I know we have a lot of "Very Crazy Ideologues" in cyberspace who will say and write any damn "Banza Washiwara" that pops in their cerebellum, just to sound relevant. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Mishe Fon

From: Agbor Enow Augustine <Enow007@yahoo.com>
To: cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [cameroon_politics] Re: [camnetwork] The Docility of Cameroon opposition parties

 

Dear Mr. Mishe Fon, Why form CAAP? Your good friend is already a leader of PAACE,just give him all the support he needs.Pa Fru Ndeh will not be happy to hear that his friend does not belief in him. Augustine Agbor The outcome of my life is not more than three lines: I was a raw material I became mature and cooked And I was burned into nothingness. Rumi --- On Mon, 5/27/13, Mishe Fon <mishefon@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Mishe Fon <mishefon@yahoo.com> Subject: [cameroon_politics] Re: [camnetwork] The Docility of Cameroon opposition parties To: "camnetwork@yahoogroups.com" <camnetwork@yahoogroups.com>, "ambasbay@googlegroups.com" <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> Cc: "cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com" <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, May 27, 2013, 11:57 PM   Massa Agbor Enow   You write a very good "Story Line". I will not even dispute a single word of some of the arguably disputable analysis you've injected in your brilliant narrative. OK! So the SDF and by extrapolation, the entire Cameroon Opposition has collectively failed...and you have the solutions. Square and fine by me. I agree with you INTOTO. For arguments sake, let us screw the CPDM and their new wife, SDF (the two compradors and cankerworm that have destroyed Cameroon DEMO-CRAZY). Forget the "Fon" that is attached to my name and consider me "blindly for now" as an avid supporter of anything righteous i.e. someone you can trust (even with your wife) no "Herd Mentality", No Raffia bag of tricks, No tribalism, No Mago Mago business, No negative epitaphs usually associated with retrograde, careerist opportunistic Political Animals; No Bamendrousness, No Bamilekeness, No NW vs SW, No Banyangui vs Bakweri, No Bafaw vs Bameta, No Francophone vs Anglophone (Yet)...non of those Negatives that stifle TRUE DemoCrazy...   OK. Now; I want you to form a brand new Political Party (let us name it: Cameroon Advanced Action Party "CAAP") with a Manifesto that depicts what you sincerely believe in and which (except I read you wrong...I am still in my first cup of Hennessey) you so intelligently articulated in this beautiful prose here below. When that your/our Party CAAP is eventually formed (to replace the failed SDF & CPDM) you can and should consider me one of the first and very loyal MILITANTs who will fight tooth and nail to uphold the ideology and philosophy you so strongly believe in. That way, you and I (so-called Internet Politicians) will not be seen as mainly criticizing the status quo, but actually proposing something concrete in solving the myriad of problems the CPDM and their third wife SDF(after incestuously sleeping with UNDP, PAL, UPC(Koddock, Hogbe Nlend, Dakole, Tchiroma) have bequeath to the younger generation of Cameroonians and the complete quagmire our country finds itself in right now. As they say; The ball is in your court...Monsieur le President AGBOR ENOW...Over to you. Your CAAP Organizing and Publicity Secretary...to be. Mishe Fon NB: President Agbor and myself need a professional to translate CAAP into French. Don't give us that google crap of "Avancement d,Action du Parti Camerounais". Nonsense. From: Agbor Enow Augustine <Enow007@yahoo.com> To: camnetwork@yahoogroups.com Cc: cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 4:45 PM Subject: [camnetwork] The Docility of Cameroon opposition parties The Docility of Cameroon opposition parties: The anocracy in Cameroon was not introduced by the autocratic junta of the CPDM led regime to further democracy. In fact, multipartism was promoted by Biya as a means to hang on to power, by averting the threats from violent strikes and mass actions that had engulfed the country during this era. The ruling Cameroon peoples Democratic Movement has assumed a sense of superiority over national polity, which it has no title; and embarked on a quest to turn all Cameroonians into a docile, dependent, and obedient mob. I will not waste my time to talk about the CPDM as a party, because it is nothing more than a corrupt crowd of old cowards locked in a tiny hut playing drums, while many self-conceit, obstinate, and docile laypeople jump helplessly and hopelessly round and round to catch a glimpse. Some Cameroonians even call it Cameroon Productive Destructive Movement (CPDM); and I concur with them, because the best resource the country has (its people) are produced and destroyed by the regime. While my intention is to reflect on the docility of opposition political parties in Cameroon, it will be dishonest not to acknowledge the oppression of opposition parties by the authoritarian regime led by the junta Biya Paul. The Social Democratic Front (SDF) is a macrocosm of the more than 200 political parties that exist in Cameroon, most of which are satellite parties of the CPDM.  Opposition parties are supposed to be watchdogs for scrutinizing and criticizing wayward government decisions, as well as providing alternate sense of direction. But in Cameroon, we have an ethnically fragmented political opposition desperate to be bought up by the Biya regime. Opposition parties like the SDF are experiencing rapid erosion of public confidence, increasingly weak internal organization, and the eroding of grassroots membership. The demise of political opposition parties is due to external and internal factors that characterized the political environment in Cameroon. The first external factor that affect political opposition parties, hence forth SDF, is the authoritarian rule of regime junta Paul Biya and his coterie. In such authoritarian settings, elections are just placards to legitimize the autocratic power of the junta. Elections are just shams and does not chose the government, for the junta does; and legislative bodies play little or no role. Political opposition parties are supposed to force the junta to either pay a higher cost for electoral fraud or public repression, but not contest to win elections. In fact, stealing elections in Cameroon has become too cheap for regime junta Paul Biya. The frequently asked question is why would anyone oppose an authoritarian junta like Paul Biya through elections if they are going to lose anyway? I would argue that the SDF contested and won the presidential election of 1992 that was stolen, but the SDF that won the presidential elections of 1992 is no more. The SDF is now a party without a defined program, and fully dependent on the personality of its chairman of 23 years Ni John Fru Ndi. The official opposition party is less of a threat to the junta Biya, because it now depends on the junta's largesse for survival. You cannot benefit from the largesse extorted from the people by a regime junta, and still play the role of a relevant opposition. Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam have their tails between their legs, and should both resign for the good of the party. Let me repeat this again, opposition political leaders such as Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam have their hands in the pockets of the person whose hands are in the till; they cannot look him in the face and called him the thief that he actually is. Other external factors affecting the performance of the SDF is the fragmentation of the opposition in Cameroon. The fragmentation of opposition political parties is the exact divide-and-rule tactics that play into the hands of regime junta Biya. Because most supporters of political parties in Cameroon give their loyalty to party leaders and not party ideology, it is difficult to coordinate the opposition under specific ideologies. Most of the time, parties are in the hands of elites who are the nemesis of democracy in Cameroon. Weak financial position, ethnic and regional loyalties; and just like the CPDM, these political opposition parties are democratic institutions without democrats. The internal failures of the SDF are where one should pay much focus. The CPDM led dictatorship in Cameroon has failed, but the SDF has also failed to provide clear, articulate, and coherent alternative policy options. Can anyone tell me what the position of the SDF is on issues such as the strike at the University of Buea, the Herakles Farms debacle, the mess at Fecafoot, youth unemployment, rising poverty, and the huge balance of trade deficits, just to mention a few. The SDF has not only failed to provide alternative policy directions, but also cannot tell the people of Cameroon how it can do things different from the CPDM. In fact, there is complete mistrust between all political parties and the public. This is not good for the SDF, as it needs the people's support to dislodge power from the regime. The nexus between all the failures of the SDF is its leadership. Like the CPDM, it is the blind leading the stupid, or the stupid leading the blind. Given that the man in the driver sit of the Cameroonian economy is old, worn-out, and blind, we do not need another old and blind person to replace him. That is why; Ni John Fru Ndi can never be the right choice to compete against Biya. The puppet Biya is there for 31 years, and he is SDF leader for 23 of those 31 years. While the party's constitution, ideology, symbols, membership, and organization are products the shape its competitiveness, party leadership is the single most important product. It is the most visible indication for what the party stands for, and what it is likely to deliver if voted to power. This is what Biya and Fru Ndi stand for-outdated leadership around retirees.  But almost 70% of Cameroon's population is youthful; an opportunity for leaders who look and feel like them. They need leaders who understand their demands, and not civil dictatorships. We need leaders who can isolate themselves from the corrupted crowd. Another leadership failure within the SDF is that because junta Biya controls patronage and precious state resources, opposition figures like Ni John Fru Ndi and Mbah Ndam have jumped ship, and are now political entrepreneurs servicing the hegemonic Cameroon Peoples Destructive Constructive Movement (CPDM). The leadership of the SDF has no ambitions, other than waiting for elections to extort part of the state largesse under junta Biya's control. Lastly, the SDF has no strategy to win power from the dictator Biya. Strategically, you cannot defeat an autocracy by vying for the same vote as the autocrat. In the political spectrum the CPDM canvass for votes from those in the center. Opposition strategies should be towards voters at the extremes; so it is important for opposition political parties to appeal to dissident groups, social movements, and protest demonstrations. It is also important for opposition political parties to build successful coalitions based on a common ideology, respect and trust. This coalition should be sealed behind close doors before coming out to the public to make statements. Recently, we all heard the news of opposition parties coming together; the public do not need this kind of information. Finish your negotiation behind close doors before making any announcements. I see these statements as a ploy by opposition political party to say to junta Biya, "you better bring in more money, because we are to form a strong coalition against you." The hegemony of the CPDM in Cameroon polity is as a result of electoral fraud, biased electoral rules, neo-colonial protection from France, voter repression and suppression, and the uneven access to state resources. But the docility of the Cameroon opposition led by the SDF to move away from their radical anti-status quo position to the status quo position. It will help to know that political parties that lack internal democracy are characterized by isolated and unchanging leadership; marginalized party members, and poor internal communication. This is where the SDF and CPDM find themselves. For opposition political parties to effectively challenge the junta Paul Biya's dictatorship, we all have to tell the old foxes, such as Ni John Fru Ndi to get lost. Augustine Agbor Enow The outcome of my life is not more than three lines: I was a raw material I became mature and cooked And I was burned into nothingness. Rumi

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