> Subject: Succession Drama Unfolds in Cameroon....
> To:
> Date: Friday, April 4, 2014, 2:36 PM
>
> Biya in
> Succession Dilemma....
>
>
>
> Cameroon Journal,
> New York, March 24 –
>
> Cameroon President, Paul
> Biya, believed to permanently keep a copy of
> Machiavelli's "The
> Prince"
> under his pillow, is grappling with what may be the
> defining riddle of his presidency. The Cameroon
> Journal has
> been informed that the French are putting severe pressure
> on him to pick his adopted son Frank Biya, as a
> successor.
> Frank
> Biya, the French believe will be the most reliable of the
> political players
> in the country to work with and will give them unbridled
> and exclusive access to Cameroon's enormous
> resources.The CJ gathered that France is
> very concerned about the aging President and are afraid
> his sudden demise could leave the French scrambling among
> very unpredictable and ambitious political class for the
> country's leadership. Within
> Biya's entourage, there is deep division, as the 81- year-
> old Biya's memory loss, prostate cancer and
> incontinence, is becoming a cause for concern, at least
> to the
> French. At a recent public event, members of the guard of
> honor reported
> uncontrollable farting from Paul Biya, who could not
> hide his embarrassment. Our
> sources said French President, Francoise Hollande, is
> demanding that Biya appointments a vice president to
> avoid a succession crisis in the event of his sudden death.
> As a result, Biya is planning to convince the National
> Assembly, to modify the constitution and insert the
> position of vice president.
> He is
> eying a docile personality, who will use the administrative
> and military institutions to facilitate the victory of
> Frank Emmanuel
> Biya in a projected election that will pit him against a
> large field of straw
> candidates. In the meantime, Niat Njifenji Marcel,
> the president of the Senate will facilitate the dirty
> job. The
> French do not want to see a repeat of the crisis in Central
> Africa extend to Cameroon. They have vowed to take
> advantage of the crisis in the Central African Republic
> to solve the succession problem in Cameroon, before it gets
> out of
> hand.
> A
> French Aircraft carrier with about 350 troops, 10
> helicopters and 100 armored personnel carriers, is
> berthing in the Douala port to intervene in case
> of any eventuality. This view is buttressed by the
> French decision to
> garrison their troops in Cameroon rather than Chad,
> which originated the CAR crisis. With French, military
> convoys rolling through Cameroonian territory and the
> French Ambassador increasingly having a say in the
> affairs of the country, the stage seems to be set for
> imminent intervention at the least
> provocation.
> For
> subservient plantation countries like Cameroon, the French
> we gathered, will assist Biya by micro managing the
> succession, to allow his son to accede to power, as was
> the case with Faure Eyadema in Togo, and Ali Bongo in Gabon.
> The French are confident that after the election, which
> of course will be a selection, any popular protest will
> be nipped in the bud by French paratroopers and gun- boat
> helicopters that are already positioned in Douala,
> Yaoundé and other strategic locations in
> the country. The
> French are anxious to avoid the Ivorian mistake that brought
> Laurent Gbago – an anti- French rabble- rouser to
> power, forcing them to resort to a bloodbath to oust him
> and reinstate Ouatttara, their lackey. The CJ gathered that
> Frank Biya has already constituted a coaching team
> comprising of Seraphin Magloire Fouda, and Luc Sinjoun to
> initiate him in the art of wielding
> power.
> But
> other apparatchiks of the regime like Edgar Alain Mebe
> Ngo'o, Rene Sadi, and Laurent Eso, we gathered
> are arguing that forcing Frank Biya on the
> Cameroonian people is a recipe for disaster, and that it
> would serve the
> interest of the French, if a more mature politician was
> propped up to take Biya's place rather than his son.
> The competition among aspiring Cameroonian presidents to
> show their bona fides, is taking place in Paris, rather
> than in Cameroon. Each candidate has his own
> constituency of French lobbyists, promoting them in the
> corridors of the Elysee. With
> the incarceration of Marafa Amidou Yaya, and the propping up
> of late Ahidjo's daughter, the belief in a Northern
> vendetta for the massacres of April 1984, has made most
> southerners wary of handing over power to a northerner. The
> incursions of Boko Haram in the North seem to confirm
> this fear. But as Amadou Ali has intimated, Biya is
> the last southern president to enjoy
> unanimity in the north. With more than a dozen cronies
> with a war chess and seething anger to boot, all the tinder
> for an explosive situation seems to be ready in
> Cameroon at Biya's exit.
> With
> aggravating unemployment in France and the shrinking of the
> protected market for its low- grade products,
> maintaining control over Cameroon, the beachhead to its
> central African possessions is a matter of
> survival.
> The
> excruciating economic conditions in Cameroon, coupled with
> growing insecurity and acute youth unemployment do not
> auger well for a peaceful
> transition. To the average Cameroonian, still
> suffering from the pangs of the
> betrayal of the epicurean opposition, wallowing in
> alcohol is the only respite. Cameroonians are said to be
> too hungry or too drunk to care a hoot about who takes over
> from Paul Biya.Political pundits say, the genie is out of
> the bottle, that France can no longer have the same clout
> it had in the 1960s in handpicking the next Cameroonian
> leader. The days of Paul Aujoulat or Jacques
> Foccard are over.
> Cameroonians now see through French
> chicanery, and the Bamileke are poised to use their
> numerical majority to stake their claim for the presidency.
> Will the
> French allow Cameroonian nationalism to thrive? The days
> ahead will
> tell. -
> See more at:
> http://www.cameroonjournal.com/Succession%20Dilemma.html#sthash.yDnBi3gF.dpuf
>
>
> To:
> Date: Friday, April 4, 2014, 2:36 PM
>
> Biya in
> Succession Dilemma....
>
>
>
> Cameroon Journal,
> New York, March 24 –
>
> Cameroon President, Paul
> Biya, believed to permanently keep a copy of
> Machiavelli's "The
> Prince"
> under his pillow, is grappling with what may be the
> defining riddle of his presidency. The Cameroon
> Journal has
> been informed that the French are putting severe pressure
> on him to pick his adopted son Frank Biya, as a
> successor.
> Frank
> Biya, the French believe will be the most reliable of the
> political players
> in the country to work with and will give them unbridled
> and exclusive access to Cameroon's enormous
> resources.The CJ gathered that France is
> very concerned about the aging President and are afraid
> his sudden demise could leave the French scrambling among
> very unpredictable and ambitious political class for the
> country's leadership. Within
> Biya's entourage, there is deep division, as the 81- year-
> old Biya's memory loss, prostate cancer and
> incontinence, is becoming a cause for concern, at least
> to the
> French. At a recent public event, members of the guard of
> honor reported
> uncontrollable farting from Paul Biya, who could not
> hide his embarrassment. Our
> sources said French President, Francoise Hollande, is
> demanding that Biya appointments a vice president to
> avoid a succession crisis in the event of his sudden death.
> As a result, Biya is planning to convince the National
> Assembly, to modify the constitution and insert the
> position of vice president.
> He is
> eying a docile personality, who will use the administrative
> and military institutions to facilitate the victory of
> Frank Emmanuel
> Biya in a projected election that will pit him against a
> large field of straw
> candidates. In the meantime, Niat Njifenji Marcel,
> the president of the Senate will facilitate the dirty
> job. The
> French do not want to see a repeat of the crisis in Central
> Africa extend to Cameroon. They have vowed to take
> advantage of the crisis in the Central African Republic
> to solve the succession problem in Cameroon, before it gets
> out of
> hand.
> A
> French Aircraft carrier with about 350 troops, 10
> helicopters and 100 armored personnel carriers, is
> berthing in the Douala port to intervene in case
> of any eventuality. This view is buttressed by the
> French decision to
> garrison their troops in Cameroon rather than Chad,
> which originated the CAR crisis. With French, military
> convoys rolling through Cameroonian territory and the
> French Ambassador increasingly having a say in the
> affairs of the country, the stage seems to be set for
> imminent intervention at the least
> provocation.
> For
> subservient plantation countries like Cameroon, the French
> we gathered, will assist Biya by micro managing the
> succession, to allow his son to accede to power, as was
> the case with Faure Eyadema in Togo, and Ali Bongo in Gabon.
> The French are confident that after the election, which
> of course will be a selection, any popular protest will
> be nipped in the bud by French paratroopers and gun- boat
> helicopters that are already positioned in Douala,
> Yaoundé and other strategic locations in
> the country. The
> French are anxious to avoid the Ivorian mistake that brought
> Laurent Gbago – an anti- French rabble- rouser to
> power, forcing them to resort to a bloodbath to oust him
> and reinstate Ouatttara, their lackey. The CJ gathered that
> Frank Biya has already constituted a coaching team
> comprising of Seraphin Magloire Fouda, and Luc Sinjoun to
> initiate him in the art of wielding
> power.
> But
> other apparatchiks of the regime like Edgar Alain Mebe
> Ngo'o, Rene Sadi, and Laurent Eso, we gathered
> are arguing that forcing Frank Biya on the
> Cameroonian people is a recipe for disaster, and that it
> would serve the
> interest of the French, if a more mature politician was
> propped up to take Biya's place rather than his son.
> The competition among aspiring Cameroonian presidents to
> show their bona fides, is taking place in Paris, rather
> than in Cameroon. Each candidate has his own
> constituency of French lobbyists, promoting them in the
> corridors of the Elysee. With
> the incarceration of Marafa Amidou Yaya, and the propping up
> of late Ahidjo's daughter, the belief in a Northern
> vendetta for the massacres of April 1984, has made most
> southerners wary of handing over power to a northerner. The
> incursions of Boko Haram in the North seem to confirm
> this fear. But as Amadou Ali has intimated, Biya is
> the last southern president to enjoy
> unanimity in the north. With more than a dozen cronies
> with a war chess and seething anger to boot, all the tinder
> for an explosive situation seems to be ready in
> Cameroon at Biya's exit.
> With
> aggravating unemployment in France and the shrinking of the
> protected market for its low- grade products,
> maintaining control over Cameroon, the beachhead to its
> central African possessions is a matter of
> survival.
> The
> excruciating economic conditions in Cameroon, coupled with
> growing insecurity and acute youth unemployment do not
> auger well for a peaceful
> transition. To the average Cameroonian, still
> suffering from the pangs of the
> betrayal of the epicurean opposition, wallowing in
> alcohol is the only respite. Cameroonians are said to be
> too hungry or too drunk to care a hoot about who takes over
> from Paul Biya.Political pundits say, the genie is out of
> the bottle, that France can no longer have the same clout
> it had in the 1960s in handpicking the next Cameroonian
> leader. The days of Paul Aujoulat or Jacques
> Foccard are over.
> Cameroonians now see through French
> chicanery, and the Bamileke are poised to use their
> numerical majority to stake their claim for the presidency.
> Will the
> French allow Cameroonian nationalism to thrive? The days
> ahead will
> tell. -
> See more at:
> http://www.cameroonjournal.com/Succession%20Dilemma.html#sthash.yDnBi3gF.dpuf
>
>
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