Re: ROADMAP: The Southern Cameroons Independence Const - Order in Council, the First Schedule, and the SCAPO Draft Contitution

Prophet,
     The moral's there for all to get. It has always been a case of I-lead-others-follow, of my faction being the one that must succeed. Could those so-called leaders for once pool their efforts together for the final sprint?
VANTA

On Monday, January 13, 2014 5:16 PM, Ofege Ntemfac <ntemfacnchwete@gmail.com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ntemfac Ofege <ntemfac@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:15:49 +0100
Subject: The Southern Cameroons Independence Const - Order in Council,
the First Schedule, and the SCAPO Draft Contitution
To: Paul Ayah <ayah4cameroon@gmail.com>
Cc: atematem@yahoo.co.uk, gwannua73@gmail.com, afndangam@gmail.com,
ntemfacofege@yahoo.com, annelyonga@yahoo.com

The Rt. Hon Paul Ayah, sir,
Find herein posted some key documents that should set the framework
going forward.
King regards
Ntemfac Ofege

On 1/13/14, Ntemfac Ofege <ntemfac@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lady and gentlemen,
> I was meditating on our collective challenges regarding teamwork even
> as concerns the Northern Cameroons and this Parable of the Two Donkeys
> came to my Spirit.
> Happy reading.
> Prophet Ntemfac Ofege
>
>
> Success is Teamwork!
>
> By Bigg Success Staff
> 06-25-08
>
> Life skills
>
> Two donkeys so the story goes,
> Were tethered each to each,
> When lo, they neared two shocks of hay,
> That seemed within their reach.
>
> Each sought his own: the rope grew taut,
> As though each would apply
> His utmost strength to take his share
> Or know the reason why.
>
> They pulled and scraped and pawed and kicked,
> As though indeed insane –
> But not by foolish stunts could they
> One single bite obtain.
>
> Till, wearied, turning face to face,
> They talked the matter o'er
> And mutually agreed that they
> Would thus behave no more.
>
> At peace, they soon one shock devoured,
> And ate the other, too.
> How good their joint refreshment seemed,
> None but those donkeys knew!
>
> Ye humans, crude and stubborn willed,
> Respect the common tether;
> Be wise, confer, agree, co-work,
> And "eat your hay" together!
>
>  - Author unknown
>
> On 1/13/14, Ntemfac Ofege <ntemfac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Lady, Chairmen, gentlemen,
>> You may find Mr Ibrahim Gambari's statements and a still cut from a
>> letter to Ambassador Fossung, very interesting.
>> Ibrahim was the former Political Advisor to the UN. SG. he is now the
>> Special Advisor.
>> He is a Nigerian.
>> Kind regards.
>> Ntemfac Ofege.
>>
>> On 1/11/14, Paul Ayah <ayah4cameroon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> January 6, 2014
>>> PAUL BIYA ENDORSES PAUL AYAH
>>> BY
>>> AYAH Paul ABINE
>>>
>>> That Paul Biya is eight letters and Paul ayah is exactly eight letters
>>> is a fact both striking and notorious. Apart from this striking
>>> comparison, the two politicians are conspicuously contrasting. But a
>>> few days back there was neat convergence in their visions: the one
>>> flowing from the other.
>>>
>>> As Mr. President once told the world, he is the "meilleur élève" of
>>> President Mitterand. This time around, Mr President has in all
>>> subtlety made himself Ayah's best student. This is not a laughing
>>> matter – not an instance of being pejorative either!
>>>
>>> It would be recalled that Ayah has been consistent in crying out that
>>> for Cameroun's enormous endowment in natural and human resources,
>>> there is no reason whatsoever for Cameroun to lag behind neighbouring
>>> countries in development when those countries are far less endowed.
>>> Ayah has on several occasions cited, for instance, Equatorial Guinea
>>> that buys sugar cane and even sand from Cameroun; and yet it is aiming
>>> at becoming an emergent state in 2020 with proceeds from petrol alone:
>>> fifteen full years before Cameroun that is so variously and enormously
>>> endowed. Ayah has repeatedly blamed it all on waste, lack of
>>> patriotism (disregard for the general interest), inertia, lawlessness
>>> – (Mr. President may have preferred the subtle phrase "absence of
>>> coordination") – etc. The most polite way one can put it is that Mr.
>>> President, in some portions of his speech of December 31, 2013, did
>>> literally paraphrase Ayah Paul.
>>>
>>> What was curious though is that, after enumerating all the vices and
>>> failures of his government, including the inability of that government
>>> to execute the 2013 public investment budget above 50%, Mr. President
>>> failed to go on to sack the government for inefficiency and
>>> mediocrity. That is the least a serious and reasonable leader ought to
>>> have done.
>>>
>>> What is all the more curious is that Mr. President resorted to the
>>> past failed habit of posing questions most discursive. It would be
>>> remembered that a few years back Mr. President asked why African
>>> countries (especially Cameroun, one should emphasize) were stagnating
>>> while Asian countries that at the time of independence were at par
>>> with African countries in terms of development have become economic
>>> giants, launching rockets into space.
>>>
>>> Someone may wish to tell Mr. President that the people have given him
>>> their mandate to manage the natural and human resources of the country
>>> on their behalf. He owes the people a duty to account to them for his
>>> stewardship: he is responsible to the people. It never can be the
>>> other way round as Mr. President never gave any mandate to the people!
>>>
>>> It baffles much more because Mr. President has never missed an
>>> opportunity to preach that the truth and the good example come from
>>> the top. The top is Mr. President. If things have gone wrong, it is
>>> incumbent on Mr. President to re-examine how good the examples from
>>> the top have been; how honest the truth has been! There is no duty on
>>> the commoners so to do: no duty to account, one should repeat!
>>>
>>> Mr. President knows how, even as a member of the United Nations
>>> Organisaton, he has ignored the authoritative voice of the scribe of
>>> that organization to dialogue with Southern Cameroonian leaders. Mr.
>>> President knows how he has similarly ignored the presentation of
>>> double maps and flags to him in the furtherance of the Southern
>>> Cameroons' status of sovereignty. Nor has Mr. President paid any heed
>>> to the ruling of a subsidiary organ of the United Nations that
>>> recognized Southern Cameroonians as "a people" and called for dialogue
>>> between them and Mr. President. Strangely contrastingly, Mr. President
>>> has availed himself of the ruling of another organ of the United
>>> Nations against the law-abiding Nigeria.
>>>
>>> Banking on those exemplary good examples of disregard for legality and
>>> justice from the top, the Prime Minister sat on the judgment of the
>>> Full Bench of the Supreme Court in favour of some helpless Camerounese
>>> for seven years. Even a written parliamentary question from the
>>> people's representative that Ayah then was was ignored. It took Ayah's
>>> sound counsel for the matter to be filed with the UN Human Rights
>>> Commission for the government to satisfy the judgment, some 8 years
>>> after the highest judicial authority of the land had passed it.
>>>
>>> Like father like daughter, the Minister of Culture has systematically
>>> ignored judgments of the Full Bench of the Supreme Court declaring
>>> SOCAM a nullity. And that has she done with impunity and with the
>>> benediction of and protection from the top in the pot-kettle game of
>>> mutual smear. She is up to the time of writing these words thriving in
>>> confusion consequent upon her arrogant illegality – lawlessness if
>>> that she prefers!
>>>
>>> Proceeding from those imperial good examples from the top, Mr. Peter
>>> Agbor Tabi is inflicting pain upon all he suspects are not promoting
>>> his unbridled vaulting ambition to become prime minister. True indeed,
>>> Mr. Peter Agbor Tabi right at the tip of Mr. President's nose is
>>> sadistically inflicting collective punishment on holy innocence by
>>> transferred aggression.
>>>
>>> Naturally proceeding from those divine good examples from the top too,
>>> and, as if by contagion, the Minister of Justice by a mere letter did
>>> annul the law of the legislature setting up regional administrative
>>> courts; and he did transfer their jurisdiction to the Administrative
>>> Bench of the Supreme Court with hands long proclaimed tied. And as the
>>> best students of their Minister, the courts did arrogantly twist the
>>> law in their new CPDM robes that cut across their oath of office!
>>>
>>> Aside from illegality and lawlessness, Mr. President did regret the
>>> absence of coordination in his over thirty governments since taking
>>> office in 1982. This again was only in line wih Ayah's consistent
>>> position. It would be remembered that Ayah has kept harping on the
>>> fact that no leader does it alone, or all by himself. Leadership is
>>> the duty to coordinate. If done efficiently, the leader takes the
>>> credit. Otherwise, he takes the blame. It is idle then to plead such
>>> hollow contention as "Biya himself is good, but the people around him
>>> do let hm down". Mr. President is the captain. He has to steer the
>>> course. He does know that the ship stays afloat with him or sinks with
>>> him. He is inextricably glued to the team in good or bad weather.
>>>
>>> The plain truth is that Mr. President has surrounded himself with
>>> dishonest and inefficient mediocrities. These egocentric collaborators
>>> have raised an opaque wall that has estranged Mr. President from the
>>> people, and cut him off from the realities of his country. Lazy as
>>> they are those collaborators have surrendered themselves to intrigues
>>> and sordid machinations that paint black the true Camerounese patriots
>>> in consolidation of their unproductive self-serving positions. The two
>>> most intelligent and efficient ministers, Messrs Marafa Hamidou Yaya
>>> and Atangana Mebara, who would have cleansed the filth in a little way
>>> found themselves fatally struck by the political sledge hammer
>>> christened "Operation Epervier" in expensive euphemism. Mr. President
>>> is discovering belatedly that even his personal security in the end
>>> does become vulnerable the moment 500 francs is brandished before
>>> those he thought all along he could count on.
>>>
>>> Therefore would one have liked to suppose that Mr. President would
>>> have immediately sacked his senile collaborators, having realized the
>>> futility of continuing to entrust the fate of Cameroun to the very
>>> failures who do take refuge behind a façade papered with perforated
>>> CPDM livery against a threadbare backcloth. That is the least any
>>> reasonable person would have expected! But how could it be otherwise?
>>> Who is that reasonable person that can believe that those who had
>>> failed when full of youthful energy would draw road maps in senility
>>> today and implement them successfully when already sapped of vitality?
>>> Who says that a government with the sole youngest cabinet minister
>>> above 45 (ten full years above the UN ceiling for a youth) would still
>>> have faith in a future they would regrettably behold only in their
>>> graves in comprehensive passivity? Who is that person?
>>>
>>> Let someone tell Mr. President that the key to development is WORK.
>>> There is no room for any argument here. Is not it true that thousands
>>> of hours of public holidays to celebrate the vile victories of "Lions
>>> Indomptables" have not moved Cameroun any one point forward? Who can
>>> seriously argue that any country seriously prosecuting for development
>>> does deplete state coffers of billions of francs for such idle
>>> fictions as laying a foundation stone for a project; many more
>>> billions for partial inauguration; and even much more for final
>>> inauguration? How can a country develop when to lay a foundation stone
>>> the venue is an inter-regional road, with the resultant paralyzing of
>>> economic activities as public transport vehicles are immobilized four
>>> kilometers in either direction for a dozen hours? Who wants to tell
>>> that a country would develop where, as it is the case for about a year
>>> now in Buea, every one of five days is an illegal public holiday,
>>> baptized "keep Buea clean", during which time all businesses are shut
>>> down as the people are told to await the arrival of Mr. President
>>> indefinitely, even for a fictitious event?
>>>
>>> Poor Camerounese! Thay have even lost the count! None now remembers
>>> that Cameroun was about the same level with Ivory Coast in the
>>> production of cocoa at independence. Imagine the gaping chasm today!
>>> Ivory Coast was on 1.22 million tons as of 2009. Only for Cameroun to
>>> set for herself the target of 260.000 tons in 2014! More than just
>>> shame isn't it? But that would well be Mr. President's next question
>>> on December 31, 2014! In the slough of despond! Even going dizzy!
>>>
>>> But there is hope! I believe not that it was by error that Mr
>>> President let lie the fiction dressed up as "50th Anniversary of
>>> Reunification". The noose is obviously tightening around some
>>> chimerical monster's neck! Chaos and lawlessness are tumbling down the
>>> lethal abyss. Official corruption much faster! Oppression in a
>>> sheer-drop!
>>>
>>> A new dawn is in the horizon! Heralded by freedom! Soon to be watered
>>> by legality! Nurtured by love! And crowned with sharing! The new era!
>>> Long live Southern Cameroons!
>>>
>>
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>> I soar with wings like an Eagle:Eagle.
>> "Eagles don't flock--you have to find them one at a time."  H. Ross Perot
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> I soar with wings like an Eagle:Eagle.
> "Eagles don't flock--you have to find them one at a time."  H. Ross Perot
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