Re: Fw: [cameroon_politics] Ze J. Blaise: Quintessential Cameroon Regime Man!

On 5/3/15, 'Greig Batey' via ambasbay <ambasbay@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2015 6:22 AM
> Subject: [cameroon_politics] Ze J. Blaise: Quintessential Cameroon Regime
> Man!
>
> ZeJ. Blaise: Quintessential Cameroon Regime Man!
> Ze J. Blaise is said to have been a billing agent ("agentde facturation") in
> the Cameroon Postal Services (CamPost) who, between 2011and 2013, succeeded
> to embezzle some 3 billion FCFA from CamPost! He is said tohave raised false
> payment documents which he sent to the Central Bank (BEAC)from where chunks
> of the money from CamPost account were paid into accountsopened by his
> relatives and agents in various local banks in Cameroon. Therelatives are
> said to have included Meva'a Ndounga Dieudonné, Oyono OyonoTimothée,
> Abessolo Etienne, and Wodjo Assoumou F. Moise. We are told that apartfrom
> Meva'a Ndounga Dieudonné who is under arrest, all the other three accusedare
> on the run. This is the information filtering to us from the Special
> CriminalCourt in Yaounde.
> The case, like many others,is a damning statement about regime people in
> Cameroon and the system withwhich the country has been governed during the
> last 30-some years. Indeed, ZeJ. Blaise is a quintessential CPDM regime
> man!
> While the rest of us behave likeoutsider fated to watch adrift, seeming
> incapable of making anything happen, discipline,integrity, morality,
> patriotism, transparency, and accountability have been thrownto the dogs, to
> let nepotism, clientelism, and cronyism to reign supreme. Politicalhacks and
> regime loyalists without training, experience, integrity, andmorality, are
> regularly appointed to take charge of our destiny. That is where ZeJ. Blaise
> is coming from.
>
> The system of governance in Cameroon is porous, andleaves our commonwealth
> at the mercy of all types of people, who manipulate thesystem to their
> advantage, at their whim. It is a system based on windowdressing with bogus,
> ineffective control instruments like state control (Consupe), national
> agency for financial investigation (Anif),national anti-corruption
> commission (Conac), national governance program (Png),inter-ministerial
> committee of ethics and the fight against corruption, Audit Benchof the
> Supreme Court, Special Criminal Court (Tcs), and many others! Newspapershave
> recently been awash with information that Paul Biya has sent some
> regimepeople to smoke out and repatriate money lodged in foreign bank
> accounts byregime people! And we are not being told the role of any of these
> numerousoutfits in this new theatrical action!
> It is unimaginable that an individualcan so easily move 3 billion FCFA from
> the account of a company sosuccessfully, and disappear from the scene before
> his exploits are discovered! Ifwe consider the show the regime puts up when
> citizens decide to follow theirfiles in the various ministries and
> institutions in Yaounde, trudging from oneoffice to the other until they
> have the feeling that no comma wrongly placedcan pass unnoticed, Ze's
> exploits would really be considered unimaginable. Butnot in our Cameroon of
> today!
> There is a plethora of Ze J. Blaises inCameroon who have easy access to our
> commonwealth, and use it as and when theylike. The control systems are
> ineffective because they are manned by fellowbackscratchers, backslappers,
> and profiteers. Citizens likeZe J. Blaise belong both to society and to
> themselves. His case - like manyothers - challenges us to focus attention on
> the relation between the behaviourof the individual in society and his or
> her social responsibility for theiractions, inactions, or compromises. We
> have to look for the psychodynamicexplanation for why people like him steal
> so much money; why their selfishconsiderations are so prone to trump
> selflessness and the general interest; whythey so easily turn into monsters
> whose consciences are untroubled by theembezzlement of such huge sums of
> money.
> Journalists and academics need to go beyond simplereportage to seek
> clarifications for these worries. The case of Ze J. Blaisebrings again to
> the fore the fact that the explicit and implicit conventions bywhich people
> handle budgets in Cameroon are inefficient and ineffective. It bringsagain
> to the fore the bizarreness of the CPDM politics of
> administrativecentralization and territorial unification of an absolutist
> state in which thecentre exercises a monopoly of reality, and decrees
> appointments from Yaounde, basednot on merit but on nepotism, clientelism
> and cronyism.
> There is an urgent need to establish structural andsystemic transparency and
> accountability that make it impossible for anyindividual or cabal to so
> easily violate the safety of our commonwealth. If wefail to do this, we
> would suffer the citizen guilt of betraying our collectiveresponsibility for
> a shared enterprise by showing complicity and compromise,and acting as
> willing accomplices in the perpetuation of the continuing pillageof our
> commonwealth.
> Ze J. Blaise is so obviously a window through whichwe can view the contours
> of the corruption playing field of our ruling regime. Heshould be properly
> profiled so we know where he came from, how he got to where hewas, why he
> operated so successfully, why the documents he sent to BEAC wereconsidered
> authentic, where he has escaped to, what are the concrete steps beingtaken
> to recover the 3 billion of our tax money carted away. When we getanswers to
> these questions, it will certainly be obvious that his fellow regimepeople
> are just staging the chair dance usually staged by nursery schoolchildren,
> and hoping that the rest of us will not know that Ze J. Blaise is anepitome
> of badly dressed disorder; that Ze is just a front man of a cabal. Whenwe
> get the answers to the questions, it will become obvious that he is
> analbatross just because of the proverbial act that always turns out to be
> onetoo much - the last straw, the last drop, or the act after the 99th!
>
> Ze J. Blaise is both an issue that needs to bediscussed and a problem that
> needs to be solved. The CPDM regime needs to knowthat we are not just here
> to consume the bounty of today; we need to invest fora much greater one
> tomorrow. The Ze J. Blaises may probably suffer individualguilt, but we will
> suffer greater citizen guilt if we continue to fail to payour debt to a
> challenging present that impels us towards a future befitting forthe
> generation of the second decade of the 21st century and beyond.We cannot
> continue to pretend that our teaming youths can prepare for thatfuture by
> watching these sickening activities of their grandparents on thestage!
> Tazoacha AsonganyiYaounde
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