The Genuine Intellectual is this rare breed of person who uses his God-given knowledge for public service rather than abuse learning to join the permissive and pernicious cabal that runs the Camerounese state.Our francophone brothers ought to read "The Genuine Intellectual" by Bernard Fonlon.Aaron, give Mr Owona-Nguini space, will you?He has a rope, he will hand himself with it.Allow Mr Owona-Nguine explicate the tragedyHerewith some random notes to show us that the tragedy of the Joseph Owona "Jealous Constitution" had happened before - under Ahidjo.........Notes from Den of Lions Vol 1
After Ahidjo was vested with full powers, the Assembly went into recess and the Prime Minister set up an extra-parliamentary Constitutional Committee; a committee with no real power. 54 Only hardcore Ahidjo stooges in the National Assembly were co-opted into the so-called Constitutional Consultative Committee. Refuseniks like Mgr Thomas Mongo, Bishop of Douala; Soppo Priso, Daniel Kemajou, Théodore Mayi Ma-tip, Dissaké Hans, Mbottey Joseph, and many others walked out of the constitutional Consultative Committee. [1]
It has now filtered that that "the supreme law for Cameroon was drafted in one night by two French advisers, Jacques Rousseau and Paul Audat55 and was later proofread by a French political science expert, Professor Maurice Duverger, who, for a fee, agreed to be part of this legal farce.56 It is reported that because the initial provisions were too liberal, Colonel Jacques Richard, the French Commander of the Gendarmerie in Cameroon, persuaded Duverger to include certain repressive sections in the draft constitution to counter the ongoing rebellion.57 As described sarcastically by Gaillard, in the absence of a secretary "an eminent professor fashioned the draft constitution for Cameroon according to the dictate of a policeman".58
Naturally, the Frenchmen who drafted the 1960 constution drew heavily from successive past French constitutions and related laws notably:
1. The French Constituition in 1875 or the Third Republic;
2. The French Constitution of 1946 ot the Fourth Republic IV notably the segments setting up Elf and petroleum exploration in the colonies.
3. The French Constitution of 1958 or the Fifth Republic;
Subsequent constitutions of French Cameroun also drew inspiration from the constitutional order in France notably:
4. The 1961 French Cameroun Annexation Law
5. The 1972 French Cameroun Constitution which violated Article 47 of the 1961 Annexation Law crafted for French Cameroun by Frenchmen.
6. Modifications of the 1972 French Cameroun Constitution was at the behest of France;
7. The Biya 1996 Constitutional Modification;
8. The 2008 Biya Constitution to make Mr Biya a life president.
The draft was then handed over to Ahidjo by the then French Ambassador, Jean Bénard. (Kamga, 2015). France has always enacted laws intended for France and Frenchmen but extended to the colonies. Some of these laws have not been repealed. French presence in Cameroun is itself government by vaious legislations (even the French constitutions) extending French laws either fully or partially to to French Cameroun. There is even a French decree authorizing Ahidjo to impose the French language to Ambazonians.
On August 6, 1961, the national assembly amended the constitution of March 4, 1960 by 88 YES votes, zero NO votes, and 6 abstentions. According to La République du Cameroun, the constitutional amendment made on August 6, 1961 on the constitution of the République du Cameroun of January 1, 1960, was to accommodate the Southern Cameroons as the western part of German Kamerun. Carlson Anyangwe expostulates that this constitutional Amendment, executed by Yves Bie'ville, the French jurist who drafted the constitution of March 4, 1960, was a mockery of international law, the international community, and the United Nations. The amended constitution could in no way become a Treaty of Union in international law as prescribed by UNGAR 1608 (XV) of April 21, 1961.
Notwithstanding the fact that the population voted massively against the draft, the French administration and its local compradors stuffed the ballot boxes and produced doctored tallies as they had done in the 1953-1954 elections, the constitution was promulgated on March 4, 1960.
[1] Manassé Aboya Endong, 'Parlement et parlementaires au Cameroun: compte-rendu de l'histoire d'un contenant sans contenu?' Solon, revue africaine de parlementarisme et de démocratie, Vol. 1, 1999.
--2016-05-29 7:33 GMT-07:00 Nyangkwe Agien Aaron nyangkweagien@gmail.com [cameroon_politics] <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com>:Dr Mathias Eric Owona Nguini
Je n'ai aucune admiration pour l'homme. Ce sont les valeurs que
l'homme incarne qui tiennent lieu. Pour l'intellectuel, c'est sa
rigueur tandis que pour l'homme tout court, c'est son honnêteté.
Je reviendrai sur votre mail plus en profondeur. This is because, you
cannot bamboozle me
A demain
Agien Nyangkwe
On 5/29/16, owonanguini owonanguini@yahoo.fr [cameroon_politics]
<cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Cher Thierry Amougou, j'ai la Vérité de mon Côté . Le Projet du Comité
> Technique dit Comité Owona n'a rien à voir avec la Constitution du 18
> Janvier 1996. Cela est observable et constatable.
>
> Le 29 mai 2016 14:14, "thierry amougou74@hotmail.com [cameroon_politics]"
> <cameroon_politics@yahoogroups.com> a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bonjour à tous et à toutes
>>
>>
>> Le débat que nous avons sur notre Constitution depuis quelques jours est
>> très important et vital pour notre présent et notre avenir. Dans l'absolu,
>> une Constitution est, comme le diraient les Anglo-Saxons, « the glue that
>> links us together ».
>>
>>
>> Nous devons malheureusement d'une part, avouer qu'une Constitution
>> camerounaise qui consacre et publicise les catégories « autochtones » et
>> « allochtones » cesse immédiatement d'être « the glue that links us
>> together » et, d'autre part, qu'elle renforce une inégalité entre citoyens
>> au sein de la nation en donnant tous les pouvoirs à un homme, le président
>> de la république sans contrebalancer cela par un devoir digne de son
>> rang : il n'est responsable de rien pendant ses mandats. Le pouvoir
>> politique cesse d'être un bien collectif qui implique des responsabilités
>> pour devenir un bien privé qu'on utilise à sa guise. Quand de façon
>> générale celui qui a tant de pouvoir doit avoir la responsabilité pour
>> principe cardinal d'action, notre Constitution sacralise le contraire…
>>
>>
>> Plusieurs dimensions de ce débat ont été très bien évoquées dans ce forum
>> par plusieurs d'entre nous. L'axe dominant n°1 du débat me semble celui où
>> une opposition argumentative se fait jour entre compatriotes qui pensent
>> que Joseph Owona a été désigné dans l'équipe chargée de confectionner la
>> Constitution de 1996 parce qu'il est un Béti, et ceux qui pensent que
>> c'est à cause ou grâce à ses compétences en droit constitutionnel. L'axe
>> dominant n° 2 du débat est celui qui oppose ceux qui disent que la
>> Constitution de 1996 a bien été inspirée et écrite par Joseph Owona et son
>> équipe, et ceux, notamment Owona Nguini, qui soutiennent que ce n'est pas
>> cette équipe-là mais des Français qui, à la demande de Paul Biya, ont
>> écrit la Constitution camerounaise de 1996.
>>
>>
>> Cher amis et amies, je pense, malgré l'importance du débat tribalisme
>> versus compétence et du débat origine endogène versus origine exogène de
>> notre Constitution de 1996, qu'une question plus importante existe aussi.
>> La saisir exige de ne pas oublier qu'il n'y a pas mieux qu'un Africain
>> pour être averti, via l'histoire coloniale de son continent, des dégâts
>> paroxystiques d'un pouvoir prédateur sur les hommes, les choses, les
>> structures sociales et les imaginaires. L'Homme nouveau dont nous parlait
>> Frantz Fano
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Aaron Agien NYANGKWE
P.O.Box 5213
Douala-Cameroon
Tel. 237 673 42 71 27
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