Cameroon: Amending the Constitution for One Man - The Post

Following the recent upheavals in Cameroon, the regime got the people's message very clearly: that the people do not want the constitution to be amended to give Paul Biya the chance to continue to hang on come 2011.

Author: ndikumdee

I WISH TO COMMEND THE AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE. I HAVE BEEN READING HIS WRITINGS FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. EACH TIME I READ ANY OF THEM, I ALWAYS MARVEL AT THE INCISIVE CUT THAT HE MAKES OF THE TOPIC HE SELECTS. CHANGING ARTICLE 6 { 2 } OF THE CONSTITUTION IS AN ATTEMPT NOT ONLY BY BIYA TO PERPERTUATE THE REGRESSIVE NATURE OF HIS REGIME. IT IS ALSO BEING PARADED BY MANY OF THE REGIME'S FOOT SOLDIERS AND, A CADRE OF UNDERLINGS, WHO FEEL A SENSE OF COMFORT, PSEUDO AS IT IS, IN MAINTAINING THE STATUS-QUO. IF THERE ARE PERSONS WHO BELIEVE THAT THE REGIME IN YAOUNDE WILL GET UP ONE MORNING AND SUDDENLY VEER TOWARDS AUTHENTIC, PROGRESSIVE GOVERNANCE, THEY BETTER THINK AGAIN. THE REGIME, IN MORE THAN A QUARTER CENTURY, HAS REFUSED TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE UPSWELL OF PUBLIC ANGER, POPULAR CALLS FOR REFORM, AND PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER TO THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY. BY ITS BEHAVIOR, IT HAS LOST ALL ASPECTS OF LEGITIMACY. NEVER MIND THAT IT HAS CONTINUED TO PRESENT A FALSE SENSE OF LEGITIMACY. THIS IS A FACADE. IT HAS LOST ITS REASON OF BEING, AND ITS ONLY MEANS OF SURVIVAL HAS BEEN TO USE THE ARMY TO BRUTALIZE DISSENTERS. NOT LONG AGO, OTHER AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES, RATHER THAN BE SWEPT OUT OF POWER, BEGAN TO INTRODUCE MEANINIGFUL SOCIO-ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL EMANCIPATION ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PERU, SOUTH KOREA, TAIWAN, INDONESIA, ETC. ARE NOW THE ENVY OF THE WORLD. CAN THE REGIME IN YAOUNDE WAKE UP NOW, OR IF IT CHOOSES TO CONTINUE DOWN ITS CURRENT PATH, IS IT ALSO TOO MENTALLY WEAK THAT IT CANNOT SEE THE DEEP HOLE IT HAS DUG FOR ITSELF? CAN IT WISE UP AND HEED THIS ADAGE: THAT ONCE IN A HOLE, STOP DIGGING.

Author: lidshu

please see wat kamerun obosso is doing, we are planning to see him out!visit www.ko.org.za he has signed the worst he will account! we will scrab that and see cameroonians free in in their fatherland! Kamerun obosso! thanks for this!

Author: lidshu

please see wat kamerun obosso is doing, we are planning to see him out!visit www.ko.org.za he has signed the worst he will account! we will scrab that and see cameroonians free in in their fatherland! Kamerun obosso! thanks for this!



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