Fua/Maitre,
I share your opinion that so far from what we know about the events, there cannot be any successful criminal prosecution of the students and or the lecturers. I believe that the Vice Chancellor and her supporters know that they are standing on legal sand in attempting to prosecute the students and lecturers. This is evidence by the fact that even though listed as PW1 in the criminal indictment, the Rector has not shown up to face the music from smart defense team members of the accused students. I believe strongly that what these individuals in authority are trying to do is bare intimidation. They think that they can cow present and future individuals who question their administrative styles. Yes, the system of appointments that we have in Cameroon is inherently flawed, marred by corruption and inefficiency. However reasonable people know that it is not enough to fight and get appointed. Once appointed, the appointee must live up the expectations of the job. I am not sure that the overall boss who appoints wants to see the state institution over which one is appointed go down the drain. The Cameroon University system has had appointments for as long as we can remember. Never before since the creation of UB and other state Universities have we witnessed anything close to what is happening in UB now.If I can make any prediction, it will be that those administrators in UB doing this mess have come to edge of the precipice. Their days are numbered and sooner or later they will be out of that job. If I have read the list of lecturers being questioned by the police, there are names of lecturers who signed the petition urging the government to respect its own laws (Decree creating UB). There is just no plausible explanation why the Decree creating UB talks of electing senior administrators but yet, they are being appointed. I only wish some good lawyer goes on record by challenging those appointments even if that will be only an academic exercise.
From: Chief Charles A.Taku <Charto_us@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 10:19 AM
Subject: [LECUDO-USA] Fw: 10 University of Buea Lecturers Questioned by the Police
I share your opinion that so far from what we know about the events, there cannot be any successful criminal prosecution of the students and or the lecturers. I believe that the Vice Chancellor and her supporters know that they are standing on legal sand in attempting to prosecute the students and lecturers. This is evidence by the fact that even though listed as PW1 in the criminal indictment, the Rector has not shown up to face the music from smart defense team members of the accused students. I believe strongly that what these individuals in authority are trying to do is bare intimidation. They think that they can cow present and future individuals who question their administrative styles. Yes, the system of appointments that we have in Cameroon is inherently flawed, marred by corruption and inefficiency. However reasonable people know that it is not enough to fight and get appointed. Once appointed, the appointee must live up the expectations of the job. I am not sure that the overall boss who appoints wants to see the state institution over which one is appointed go down the drain. The Cameroon University system has had appointments for as long as we can remember. Never before since the creation of UB and other state Universities have we witnessed anything close to what is happening in UB now.If I can make any prediction, it will be that those administrators in UB doing this mess have come to edge of the precipice. Their days are numbered and sooner or later they will be out of that job. If I have read the list of lecturers being questioned by the police, there are names of lecturers who signed the petition urging the government to respect its own laws (Decree creating UB). There is just no plausible explanation why the Decree creating UB talks of electing senior administrators but yet, they are being appointed. I only wish some good lawyer goes on record by challenging those appointments even if that will be only an academic exercise.
From: Chief Charles A.Taku <Charto_us@yahoo.com>
To: lecda-usa@yahoogroups.com; cameroon patriots <Cameroonpatriots@yahoogroups.com>; ambasbay@googlegroups.com
Cc: "lecudo-usa@yahoogroups.com" <lecudo-usa@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 10:19 AM
Subject: [LECUDO-USA] Fw: 10 University of Buea Lecturers Questioned by the Police
Taking the route of inviting a repressive wing of the police to intervene and harass lecturers is a grave mistake for which those who initiated the process will come to regret. From a legal perspective, I still have not figured out what forms of criminal participation can be alleged against these University lecturers and professors. Advising striking students and helping them to write out their grievances in an attempt to resolve the University crisis to me is not a criminal offense. Even advising students to assert a constitutional right by going on strike to press their demands is again not criminal. A strike action is not per se criminal. What is criminal are the crimes perpetrated in the course of asserting a right afforded by law. The report from which I am making this observation has not alleged that the lecturers are accused of any form of accomplice criminal liability and charged as such with the alleged principal perpetrators. The allegations made by one Ako Eno in his internet posting are crimes which if proved are crimes against the security of the state and can hardly be placed within the context of the University of Buea. From the forms of participation alleged, those that come close to fitting would have been aiding and abating and conspiracy to commit the crimes alleged against the 26 students who are standing trial. They cannot be stand alone crimes as such within this context. As I have done in previous postings on this matter, the VC and persons driving her agenda in initiating this process may have ignorantly provided a tribune for students and lecturers to ridicule her, and exposed the matters that for years have been kept under a seal of confidentiality at the University of Buea. In this perspective every theory may be explored and private and public lives torn apart. The losers may not be these lecturers and students after all, because many of them will walk home free as a matter of law. The loser will be the University of Buea administration officials who by this action may have invited many cases against them as individuals and in their official capacity. With this ill-advised court process, the doors to the University of Buea may as well be shut to make room for a long and painful court process while lecturers and university administrators spare it in the courts; a manner of legitimizing the strike action subject of the cases afterall. In a posting in another forum, I stated that the goings on in the University of Buea is an indictment of University and Faculty Administration in Cameroun. It is indeed an indictment of the political system that pays lip service to its own laws and text governing public administration. It is the bane of the Camerounese prison Republic and system of governance in which individuals are appointed at the pleasure of the President and once so appointed they install a system of impunity using the repressive powers of the state to impose rules that are inconsistent with the laws of the Republic that sword to defend and protect. The system of appointment is inherently criminal and corrupt. Inherent in all these repressive acts is the intension to control, administer and syphon as much money from the budget of the institution(s) as much as possible. And this can only be possible by violating all mechanisms of transparency, checks and control and free and critical thinking. This explains why when ever some one is appointed to a position of responsibility in Cameroun, tribal hordes, families and friends come out dancing and even send motions of thanks to the President. This is also provides the framework of tribalism, favoritism and nepotism. Once the individual losses favor with the appointing authority or is arrested and imprisoned, the same tribal sycophants quickly abandon him/her and do as much as possible to work to keep the person(s) in jail as long as possible. This reality is playing in our very faces even now. In an interview I granted the Washington Post with James Rupert of the West African Bureau in 1996, I aptly pointed to a system of governance where all appointments to government institutions and public institutions from village level start and end with a criteria of subservience to the President as the fundamental foundation on which the crime syndicate that reigns in Cameroun is established. The overseers of this system are trained in an ideological school called ENAM and for several years now, University lecturers were coopted into this class. The easy way to promotion was for compliant stooges appointed to administer public institutions to paint their colleagues who exhibited signs of critical thinking and academic freedom as enemies of the regime. This blackmail succeeded to the extent that an appointment as a VC provided easy passage to Ministerial appointments. But few have ever asked themselves what became of several Cameroun ministers who abandoned academic freedom for a career in political cannibalism. Some were among the best brains the nation had but their sad end should be a warning to the uninformed and those seeking a career path that the evidence shows leads to destruction. For the Camerounese nation to be rescued from self destruction, the system of paternalistic and opportunistic appointments that promotes corruption, ineptitude, mediocrity and vengeful proclivities must be eliminated. Foremost, ENAM must be declared public enemy number 1 and banished forthwith. To conclude, I advise once more that these senseless cases should be withdrawn and those saddled with the administration of this institution should initiate a peaceful approach to resolving the crisis afflicting UB. The court process cannot and will not impose peace. It has never done so under any circumstances. This case will inconvenience some people but it is unwinnable in a credible free and fair court process. If any thing, the state will abandon this process once its potential for violating fundamental human rights is exposed as it seems already to have done. That way, the battleground will shift to international institutions at a time Cameroun is sensitive to international criticism of its appalling human rights record. The UB may in the process lose worthy partners in distant and foreign lands and some of those who initiated the vast human rights violations that are highlighted increasingly in and out of court will lose their international academic credentials. I advise that it is not late even now to withdraw these ill-advised cases and senseless investigations and settle this within a the University family. Chief C. Taku --- On Tue, 6/4/13, solomon atanga <soloamabo@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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