IS AYAH PAUL A TRAITOR?

IS AYAH PAUL A TRAITOR?


The Hon. Ayah Paul Abine, a member of the opposition People`s Action
Party (PAP) has accepted and been formally installed as
Advocate-General of the Supreme Court of Cameroon. So from now on, he
will be operating from the Court`s headquarters in Yaounde, the
national capital of the Republic of Cameroon.

The Founder and Secretary-General of PAP was appointed to that
position among other top officials in the judiciary recently by
President Paul Biya, Head of State of Cameroon and also leader
(National President) of the ruling Cameroon People`s Democratic
Movement (CPDM).

While the appointment has surprised many observers, it is perhaps
Ayah`s acceptance of the post that appears to have shocked people even
more. For one thing, Ayah was an ardent opponent and a vociferous
critic of Paul Biya and his regime. What is more, Ayah who even won
his parliamentary seat initially on the ticket of Paul Biya`s CPDM
ticket, at one point, quit the CPDM boisterously and formed his own
party. That was not all because he went further and stood as a
candidate against Paul Biya at the last presidential elections held in
2011.

Ayahs`s appointment to the post of Advocate-General is very
significant for several reasons. Firstly, he is not a new person to
the judiciary. As a matter of fact, he was Vice President of the
Appeal Court of the South West Region prior to his election to the
National Assembly. His new appointment is prestigious and relatively
lucrative. That is why in a recent interview in The Recorder, he saw
the nomination as a right because as he puts it, the period he spent
in the National Assembly was one during which he was simply on
"detachment". He goes on to explain that "at the end of your period of
detachment, the law provides that you come back to your former
department as of right." He also affirmed: "This is a matter of law as
I have said and I, as a man of law should not be the first man to go
against that law".



He defends his acceptance of the post again by saying that those who
urged him to go into politics offered him little or no financial
support for him to sustain himself, coupled with the fact that after
quitting the Bench, he lost his salary for fifteen months. He adds :
"Those who heard the appointment and those who are reading me would
understand that, I was raised to the highest point in the Judiciary; I
was raised to Index 1300, backdated to July 1, 2012, which means that
by now in accordance with the law-the statute on the Judiciary I have
clocked Index 1400.I don't see how I opted for a career and all of a
sudden I would turn away in favour of politics and lose what may help
me in the end. What may help me in the end in the sense that, my
pension would be calculated on my index level? So, I have to prepare
my future. You cannot work for the society without being alive,
without having the means to work."

He also stated that: "So working for the society is one thing, but you
have to work for yourself as another thing. And, without working for
yourself, you cannot work for society. My Priest recently told me that
the only useful person is the person who is alive. I don't see how I
can do politics without a means of livelihood."

Even so, a lot of people have criticized Ayah for accepting the
appointment, with some even calling him "a traitor". Some say by this
act, he has slapped the Anglophone SCNC movement in the face because
"not so long ago, he was elected its National Chairman in replacement
of Chief Ayamba who died". But the truth of the matter is that this
claim was more from the media and other persons than Ayah himself. As
things stand, Ayah did not publicly declare that he was the new
Chairman of the SCNC, although he also did not quash the rumours. In
fact, when The Recorder put this question to him, he responded: "My
reaction, first, is that I have decided not to say anything about SCNC
in the time being. I may give you another opportunity to come for an
interview on the SCNC on a subsequent date. So, I would not say
anything in that regard now."

Nonetheless, a critical look at the current situation indicates that
Ayah has become even more distant from the SCNC than before. One
reason is that it is hard to see him being . . .

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