The Cameroons Sit on Time Bombs

The Cameroons Sit on Ticking Time Bombs Ready To IMPLODE & EXPLODE

- I Want to Meet Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, Barack OBAMA and Francoise Holland; and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon;

- Time to take action to defuse the bombs was yesterday;

- Implosion & Explosion mighty enough to distabilise entire Sub-Saharan Africa.

The shape of Africa looks like a gun. Cameroon is the trigger. This means that everything Africa begins from a certain point called Cameroon -- you trigger off from there to the rest of the continent.

The unrests of the past and present across Africa would so much pale in comparison to the fracas that would be quaked when Cameroon goes up in flames. Apart from the catastrophe, this so-called peaceful heaven may soon become a safe haven and a rear map for regrouping and trainings for dangerous militant groups such as Niger Delta Boys as well as Africa's most violent and daring terrorist group, Boko Haram. The interests of the French and the Americans in Nigeria are too enormous for them to shrug off the reality of Cameroon -- in both Northern and Southern zones -- constituting a location to foster the activities of troublemakers.

Being a very strategic location for Western interest (I am talking of quid pro quo!), Cameroon must be treated as an egg: mistakingly dropping it, the consequences are untoward indeed!

Beginning Mid June through July, some 500 young African leaders (20 from Cameroon) will be undergoing training at top US institutes under the auspices of the 2014 Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders - the flagship programme of President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative Network. An important concern of the programme amongst others is to strengthen democracy and secure the peace and security in Africa.

The US African policy drafters may want to take a keen look at Cameroon and review their Sub-Sahara policy.

For selfish reasons, current position of Cameroon's octogerian leaders (people with little or no vested interest of the Cameroon of tomorrow) would want to hide the following realities that need to be handled with greatest precision and care:

1. More and more youths of 'English expression of Cameroon' (Southern Cameroonians) clamour for what is righfully theirs -- the complete and unconditional independence of the Southern Cameroons. Southern Cameroons youth politicians no longer have trust in the fake one Cameroun dispensation. Worse of all, the Southern Cameroons Youth League formed by radical young leaders have now prescribed their motto as the 'argument of force', rigorously preparing to strike and push away the colonial and repressive regime of La Republique du Cameroun from their territory;

2. A sudden death of President Biya would automatically lead to power tussle as current and past ministers and army generals who've amassed huge wealth would start seizing different parts of the country. Ahamadou Ali, current minister delegate at the presidency in charge of relations with the National Assembly was caught on Weakileaks tape dividing Cameroon into Grand North (the three Northern regions - Adamawa, North and Far North regions), Grand South (Center, South and Estern regions) and the Grand West (the Southern Cameroons, Littoral and Western regions);

3. The ongoing conflict between the Tivs and the Ojukum/Fulani graziers in Nigeria recently spilt over to Akwaya, Cameroon. HRH Hon. Lord Justice Ayah Paul Abine -- SG of one of most popular political parties in 'English speaking Cameroon, a very respectable household name in all of Cameroon and a Second Class Chief of Akwaya) also had information that Boko Haram has taken advantage of the situation to enter the Benue State of Nigeria for the first time!

4. It is a fact most notorious that an overwhelming majority of Camerounians (estimates in the neighbourhoods of more than ninety percent) have their back against the wall. Someone with their back on the wall have no option lesser than doing away with the enemy. The slightest provocation such as hikes in household utility costs would rebirth the 2008 nationwide strike scenario that would most propably result to a deadly revolution especially, as an experienced opposition would join forces to burry the regime once and for all.

Any of the aforestated scenarios means instability in Cameroon and a very peaceful terrain for terrorist, militant, rebel groups from Nigeria, Central Africa Republic etc to play ball -- game severe enough to distabilise the entire Sub-Saharan Africa.

I am no political prophet of doom but I can only point to the clock. It is ticking: tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock ...

Akoson A. Raymond,
PAP National Secretary for Organisation,
Youth Politician Cum Activist

 

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"…Time has come, I believe, for our leaders to start training the youths to take over the baton. Effective, efficient and rigorous training does not constitute issuing subservient roles; rather, it involves sitting side by side on the round table for law, policy and decision making and thorough brainstorming on the normative values that undergird progressive issues. Ayah Paul of PAP takes great pleasure in working with the youths. I am proud to work with him..." Akoson A. Raymond.

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