DIASPORA - Cameroonians Abroad

 

DIASPORA - Cameroonians Abroad

The GRC is engaging Cameroonians from abroad in the capital city of Yaounde,

this end of June in the Year of Our Lord 2017.

The engagement of persons of Cameroon origin in what used to be the Federal

Capital city of Yaounde is at best in bad faith and in many ways extremely

disingenious.

The sole reason that the GRC in 2017 is very publicly engaging the Cameroon

diaspora is specifically because Patriotic Aboriginal Anglophones of West Cameroon

Extraction - PAAWCEs - have, since November 2016, been expressing their 

total disapproval of a government that has continuously practised state terrorism

against her very own citizens in the English Speaking region of the country, that

is West Cameroon, or what used to be called "Southern Cameroons".

The GRC knows very well that since 1990, after the forceful re-introduction of

multi-party politics following the launching of the SDF, there has been a mass exodus

of PAAWCEs abroad.  PAAWCEs thought with their feet and left the country because

there was no place for them inside the territorial boundaries of what was the

United nation state of Cameroon.  The GRC views almost every Cameroonians who

lives abroad with utmost suspicion as being against everything that the GRC stands

for.  This unfortunate perception comes directly from the Presidency of Cameroon.

Ever since the 1990s attempts to have a cordial and good working relationship

with the GRC have failed.  Not only have these attempts failed, but the attempts

have fallen absolutely flat, thanks to an egotistical attitude that emanates 

directly out of the Presidency of Cameroon.

In 1995 during the United Nations Golden Jubilee, attempts were made by

Cameroonians in the USA, more specifically Washington DC, to work with the

Cameroon Diaspora at large.  Several meetings were held in Washington DC for

a period of over four(4) weeks.  A message or memo was hand delivered, at least

so we were told, by then Ambassador Jerome Mendouga (RIP) to President Biya in 

New York.  I was the Secretary of the meetings that held.   The contents of the

letter or memo have never been taken seriously.

A few years down the line, when the American Association of Cameroonians - AMACAM 

was launched, several overtures were made to the GRC, via the Ministry of External

Relations, the Prime Minister and the Presidency of Cameroon.  Some of the proposals

in the correspondences included having a Directorate in the Ministry of External 

Relations to work with Cameroonians abroad.  A few years later the GRC complied

and created the directorate.  That directorate is almost non-functional very like

any other bureacratic position within the civil service.

Outrcy after outcry has fallen on absolute deaf ears at the level of the Presidency

of Cameroon, which by implication has stagnated if not retarded the development of

Cameroon.  The developmental index of Cameroon that ought to have been improved upon 

by 2020 is now being talked about in a fictitious offering by ENAM graduates to 

"Emerge" in 2035.  They now toy with the word "emergence" that is de rigeur to them.

Cameroonians abroad decided to hold their own diaspora conference in Burkina Faso

and in some other country, probably France.  The GRC wrote to the Burkina Faso

gov't to cancel the conference.  The GRC again wrote to the other country discouraging

the other conference.

The GRC diaspora conference has been done before this year 2017.  But, like with any other

thing that the GRC is involved in, it was just a whitewash for things to appear as if

they are being done, whereas there is nothing serious.  A smoke screen.

This year 2017, the GRC via their embassies abroad, has decided to hand pick Cameroonians

that they were going to work with.  This time around in the USA, they hand picked 

Dr Samuel Dongmo.  In the past, the GRC hand picked their CPDM-USA representative

Mr. Joseph Mbu.  

The GRC has never been interested in working with Cameroonians in the diaspora.

The GRC rather views Cameroonians in the diaspora as a real threat to their existence

rather than a cooperative force for the development of Cameroon.

When the nation state of Nigeria was about to have their first conference of Nigerians

in the Diaspora - NIDO - I was an invitee to the Nigerian Embassy in Washington DC,

whereby all groups in different sectors of the economy met and carved out a development

platform of their contribution.  This resulted in a group of their elected representatives

meeting President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in a conference.

In the case of Cameroon, the Presidency of Cameroon rather expects Cameroonians abroad

to line up streets abroad and clap to welcome them, a mentality steeped in nativity. Then

the Presidency via its embassy hand picks representatives who are subservient to their

tribal inclinations or political affiliations.  A policy that has absolutley nothing 

whatsoever to do with intelligent Cameroonians abroad. The GRC does not believe in the development

of the nation state of Cameroon at all, but rather those controlling the GRC, believe

in their instinctive survival of perptrating themselves in power into perpetuity.

These unpleasant set of circumstances is what has led to the FODIAS 2017.

The leaders of the PAAWCEs who have been complaining through strike action via the teachers 

and lawyers have been arrested and flown across state lines to the capital city Yaounde.

Obviously they receive the support of Cameroonians abroad.  These same Cameroonians abroad

have throughout the years been directly supporting the economy of Cameroon via remittances

that far exceed what the World Bank and IMF give the GRC.  Rather than negotiate sincerely,

the GRC is busy committing crimes against humanity, and then uses a Diaspora Conference

as a smokescreen to get to other PAAWCEs who are abroad.  The GRC is busy creating fictitious

projects as make-believe scenarios with un-suspecting Cameroonians who live abroad.  It

is via this smoke screen that the GRC shall get information that they shall later use to

maim, kill and arrest other Cameroonians abroad.  The GRC already killed their very own

Bishop Balla of Bafia.  

On the other hand the GRC is arresting, torturing and maiming other Cameroonians who

hail from the English Speaking part of the country who land at airports in Douala and Yaounde.

English Speaking Supreme Court Justice Ayah Paul Abine in jail, has been retired. Agbor Balla,

Mancho Bibixy, Fontem Neba etc.. are in the GRC dungeons, for crimes of terrorism according to 

the GRC. Tassang Wilfred, Eyambe, Bobga and so on have fled to Nigeria and the USA.

The GRC because of its manner of handling the crises in West Cameroon has rather radicalized

the vast majority of Cameroonians within the West Cameroon homeland and abroad who are now

clamoring and working hard tooth and nail towards the independence of the Southern Cameroons.

In conclusion, the motivations of the GRC in organizing a much publicized conference on the

diaspora are sinister and gathering of intelligence via un-suspecting participants in order

to commit crimes against humanity in the future.

Cameroonians Abroad are taking appropriate steps to re-dress this sordid state of affairs

especially via International Courts in Europe and in Africa.

June 29, 2017

Pa Fru Ndeh

Washington DC