FEN

Unfortunately, Majority of those 41 MPs are CPDM Party hawks. At the end of the day, their "One Party Mentality of Party Loyalty and how they were "Selected" to become Parliamentarians" will be flashed at them and they will all chicken out. Even the few SDF in that crowd...when flashed with a lucrative proposal of a brand new Peugeot 604 or Toyota 4WD Prado, a 1000sq/m piece of Land near Etoudi or Makepe and perhaps proposed membership of a Presidential delegation abroad...na right there Torri go Change waka. That is when you will start hearing from ordinarily reasonable people going on Talk Shows and declaring...

"Yes, I know there WAS an Anglophone problem in Cameroon. But that was before President Biya took over the Government. You see, the problem with us Cameroonians is that we are too emotional and impatient. Paul Biya has performed wandas and miracles for this country. The man has great plans for our Kontri. We now have two International Airports with planes moving in an out like a flock of birds. The President plans to build a New Stadium and he has increased your salaries. Have we not qualified for the World Cup? It is just that the man does not boast about his achievements. He has locked up even his own brothers who stole Government monies. Look at how Cameroon is a peaceful country.Go to Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and other Anglophone countries and see the level of chaos and anarchy in those countries. Please, you guys should not come and spoil the peaceful co-existence between Anglophones and Francophones. Our President is a shrewd savvy administrator. Cameroon is fine the way it is. Anyone who is not happy should go and form his own Cameroon"....

That is the kind of cynical language we are already accustomed to from these CPDM types. Not to be preposterous, all I can tell you and not to dampen your fresh enthusiasm on these folks is to take these recent gesticulations with a pinch of salt as the activities of individuals "seeking for notice". You asked the right question. What stopped these "Deputes" from following Parliamentary procedures and tabling this all important subject on the floor of the House? I have discussed with several "High Ranking" CPDM authorities "off the record" and they all share the same disappointment with the lack luster performance of their administration. So what stops them from telling the truth? What stops a CPDM Parliamentarian who has children abroad from bringing up the issue of Article 31 of the 1968 Law on Nationality (Dual Citizenship) for discussions? Simple answer: The fear of losing their Perdiem and other advantageous emoluments. It is as simple as that.

Mishe Fon

On Monday, December 30, 2013 4:18 AM, Divine Rhyme <hittback@yahoo.com> wrote:

CUE,
Cameroonians are difficult to reason with - and their government is worse. Most Cameroonians think they can debate anything and make sense out of it using Cameroon laws. Most hardly seem to understand how the government operates. Cameroon laws are well written in both impeccable English and French. They do not leave anybody in doubt as to what they mean. But the government pays little attention to them. The government respects its laws only when it will directly benefit from it. If you think a country can be running with two different constitutions at once and still get away with it, do you think the determination of the nationality of one common musician will mean anything to them? I don't know why that woman minister decided to invalidate the man's election into the useless outfit anyway. This is an organization that is allowed to impose taxes on Cameroonians and has become a lucrative source for people to enrich themselves when they enter its executive organ. Maybe the minister gets a cut from this business, I don't know but some preasure was put on her to reverse Ndedi Eyango's elections. How would anybody make sense of anything like this?
Now Cameroonians will be faced with the issue of participating well at the world cup or taking a decision to force government to uphold Eyango's election. Whatever the constitution says about dual nationality, I think Cameroonians should by now have understood that laws mean nothing to the Cameroon gov't as long as whatever interpretation it makes from it helps to improve on the popularity of the ruling party.
I was expecting Anglophone Cameroonians to be in hot debate on a historical development from the National

Assembly. For the first time in history, forty Anglophone MPs have jointly signed a petition and submitted it to the PM's office and other related Ministeries protesting the threat the recent changes in the Educational sector off Cameroon is having on Anglophones and the general bi-cultural nature the Cameroon nation is supposed to be built on. Its a very important development because for the . since 1972, Anglophone parliamentarians have never acted as a distinct group in the assembly. Secondly, when in about 1983 the government, without consulting Anglophones took a unilateral decision to "Baccalaureatize "(to alter its format to be like the BAC) the GCE, Anglophones rose like one man and forced government to abandon the project. Such a strong opposition to government excesses aimed at destroying Anglo-saxon culture forced government to allow the GCE Board to be created and then an all Anglo-saxon University be established in Buea and now another recently in Bamenda. But you might be surprised that not a single Anglophone parliamentarian said a word in support of these citizen mass movements to stop government assimilation efforts. The struggle played itself out on the streets with Anglophone citizens doing running battles with police tear gas and water canons. The international image of the CPDM government too a very good beating and they had to succumb to Anglophone demands.

Today out of the blue these parliamentarian have decided its time revisit Cameroon's education one more time. Its a very important issue because that is all that the Anglophones are hanging on as cultural identification in the Cameroon nation. The moment we loose that separate identity we will be swallowed in as an another undesirable minority that can be found in many other countries in the world. Since the government succumbed to preassure to create an Anglophone Examination Board and a university for Anglophones,it has also embarked on a creeping covert and devious plan to reverse all the changes it was forced to make a little over two decades ago. These parliamentarians have broken the taboo and spoken for the first time ever. What will become of it is yet to be seen but I would have loved Anglophones to seize upon this initiative and make this a real national issue rather than the ordinary petition that it is at the moment. I wonder why as MPs they did not put this as a legislative package and use the weight as a minority block to force it on the floor of the NA. It would have had a punch nothing else had ever had in Cameroon's history. It would have even established a new front in Cameroon's politics the government would not take lightly.

But instead of putting effort on issues like these, my people are talking about a musician who wants to be head of a corrupt organization whose relevance to Cameroons development is just as good as corruption itself.

FEN

On Monday, December 30, 2013 8:14 AM, "edosomwanlaw@gmail.com" <edosomwanlaw@gmail.com> wrote:

People,
What's the point in all this if it isn't to give an amoral leadership the entitled impetus to go after real or perceived enemies in the polity? Ndedi Eyango can't head a Cameroon parastatal on an area of his core expertise but we can beg others of his same dual nationality status to come play for Cameroon!
Wandas!
CUE

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Subject: [camnetwork] World Cup: Cameroon seeks to convince dual nationals to play

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/sns-rt-uk-soccer-world-cameroon-20131227,0,4549691.story

Cameroon seeks to convince dual nationals to play

10:01 p.m. CST, December 27, 2013

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The Cameroon football federation is to send a delegation to Europe in a bid to convince players of Cameroonian origin to make themselves available for selection at next year's World Cup in Brazil.

FECAFOOT said they were focusing on four players in particular who had been capped by France at junior level.

The quartet comprises three 20-year-olds - Axel Ngando at Ligue 2 club AJ Auxerre, Samuel Umtiti at Olympique Lyon and Jean-Christophe Behebeck at Valenciennes - and the 21-year-old Paul-Georges Ntep de Madiba, also at Auxerre.

"We want to convince them to play for Cameroon, notably in the World Cup but also in the future," the federation said in a statement on Friday.

"The idea is to clarify their status and then seek FIFA permission to change their nationality."

Cameroon will be competing at their seventh World Cup and have been drawn in Group A alongside hosts Brazil, Croatia and Mexico.

(Reporting by Tansa Musa; Editing by Mark Gleeson and John O'Brien)