RE: Ahidjo, Foncha, Endeley Ignored At Reunification Jubilee

Biya eats alone!
 

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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:49:10 -0800
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Subject: Ahidjo, Foncha, Endeley Ignored At Reunification Jubilee
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Ahidjo, Foncha, Endeley Ignored At Reunification Jubilee
Friday, February 21, 2014

By Bouddih Adams
 

CameroonPostline.com -- Prime architects of the Reunification of Cameroon like Ahmadou Ahidjo, John Ngu Foncha, Emmanuel Mbella Lifafa Endeley and Augustine Ngom Jua were virtually spited at the celebration of the concept, which finally held on February 20.
 

The Reunification celebration, coming 53 years after, sidelined Ahidjo and his Reunification disciples. The effigies and banners, the songs and slogans, that dominated the march-past, bore neither the names of Ahidjo, Foncha, nor of EML Endeley, S.A George or the others who contributed to the Reunification.

Only President Paul Biya’s effigy and praises such as “The Father of True Reunification” overwhelmed the occasion. The whole ceremony, both in sound and sight, was like the birthday of President Biya. One of the banners hanging in front of the Opportunities Industrialisation Centre, OIC, read: “Manyu Welcomes President Paul Biya, Father of The True Reunification.”
 

Even when Biya talked about the ‘noble’ idea of Reunification, he did not mention names, but simply referred to “... the architects of Reunification.” But for the banners, the Reunification itself was shoved to the back burner as all songs praised but Biya. “Paul Biya our President...”, “Paul Biya, Father of the Nation”, “Long Live President Paul Biya” and so on, rented the air at one moment or the other.
 

Most of the more than 20,000 people who turned up from all the Divisions of the Southwest Region were either dressed in outfits made out of the ‘Biya Wrapper’ or the fabric of the Reunification celebration. Meanwhile, militants of President Biya’s CPDM ruling party transformed the occasion into a party affair as they occupied every other space. They marched longer than any other group, with their Chairman, Biya, clapping for them.
 

Consequently, one went away with the notion that it was Biya, the individual rather than a re-unified Cameroon that was being celebrated on this day. However, other political parties like the Social Democratic Front, SDF, National Union for Democracy and Progress, NUDP and MERCI took part in the march-past. On the economic domain, all hotel rooms were taken up and some visitors had to put up in neighbouring towns. 
 

During the countdown to February 20, shops remained closed while business operators were pushed into a compulsory clean-up campaign. At the Mile 17 neighbourhood, at least, four vehicles were smashed by elements of the Presidential Guards for the simple reason that they were parked in such a manner as could have “constituted an eyesore to the Presidential convoy”. Food items and drinks were equally looted from the few shops that dared to open and in some cases destroyed around this same area.
 

Meantime, political mathematicians had calculated that President Biya would use the occasion in Buea to create or grant certain Government structures. But his speech, read in English and French, rather trod a measly memory lane to name the ‘achievements’ that the unified Cameroon has made in the over 50 years, in the domains of education, health, road infrastructure and so on.
 

Biya did not tell the people the conditions in which education, health, road infrastructure, ports, airports and the human population were operating in; whether good or bad. He was also careful not to make any promises, a custom that had become his signature of sorts in most public pronouncements.
 

Earlier, in his speech, the Mayor of Buea, Patrick Esunge Ekema, remarked that Buea needed to be up-graded to a City Council, after observing that Buea is the only Regional Headquarters which is not the capital of its Division and that Buea is the only Regional capital that has Regional institutions located elsewhere.

First published in The Post print edition no 01506

 

http://www.cameroonpostline.com/Content.aspx?ModuleID=1&ItemID=11162

A nation is known not by how it treats its highest citizens but how it treats its lowest citizens. Madiba Nelson Mandela

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