The National Chairman of the Cameroon Democratic Union, CDU, Dr. Adamu Ndam Njoya, says the upsurge of socio-political injustice perpetrated by the state through electoral fraud has caused a potentially explosive breeding ground for an impending civil war in Cameroon.

Speaking at a press conference at his party's headquarters in Yaounde on October 9, the CDU Chairman reviewed the spiraling nature of violence in the country, warning that it could lead to a civil war. He said Cameroonians were living in the hell of injustice and a kind of terrorism perpetrated by the state itself.

Citing the fact that the forces of law and order recently killed unarmed civilians in Abong Mbang, East Province, Mokolo Market in Yaounde, Foumban and the University of Buea. He blamed the Biya government for pushing Cameroon to the precipice of a civil war.

He said such events should not be taken for granted but as the harbinger of a more explosive situation in the country that will be difficult to control. He said by organising the press conference to talk about such a chaotic situation, CDU was taking its responsibility with a republican spirit to warn stakeholders against impending danger.

According to Ndam Njoya, who is also the Mayor of Foumban in the West Province, electoral fraud mounted by the Biya regime is the very source of danger that looms over Cameroon.

He said the culture of electoral fraud was quite entrenched in many youths in Cameroon regretting that one youth in Foumban voted 10 times during the July 22 twin elections, and was later congratulated by the CPDM hierarchy.

The politician said it was unfortunate that Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, the Speaker of the National Assembly, promised to give a fabulous sum of money to polling agents if they made the CPDM to score 100 percent victory in one polling station in his constituency.

He said Cameroon's electoral process was heading for the worse, noting that the so-called computerisation of the electoral system has turned to be the main vector of fraud.

Ndam Njoya condemned the fact that administrative officials who have been pocketed by the ruling CPDM party take delight in refusing to register suspected opposition militants.

Even those who fight to have their names printed in the electoral register end up not having their voters' cards, while cards with fake names are given to kids as young as 12 years to vote for the CPDM.

He claimed that buying of voters was very common with the CPDM on Election Day. Going by him, some 35 CDU militants who denounced electoral fraud in Magba, Noun Division on July 22 were still being detained by the authorities under trumped-up charges like, "They bunt result sheets and so on."

Ndam Njoya said the observations the three western Embassies made about the July 22 elections were pertinent and should be taken seriously.He said the reaction of government to the issue as presented by the then Minister of External Relations, Jean Marie Atangana Mebara, was illegal and remains a pointer to the fact that there is something seriously wrong with Cameroon's electoral system.

He dismissed claims that the diplomats violated Cameroon's sovereignty as total nonsense. To him, it is unreasonable for the government to be talking about election as a matter of national sovereignty when indeed it is a global issue. He also said the diplomats made the statement in good faith, noting that election matters do not have any frontiers because poorly organised elections could spark conflict that would have far-reaching repercussions all over the world.

Ndam Njoya cautioned Cameroon authorities to take what the diplomats said about the twin elections seriously because they are people who weigh every word they pronounce.

He said two of the three ambassadors who signed the joint press release, come from countries that are members of the UN Security Council and must not be treated with levity.

Corroborating the views raised in the release, the CDU chieftain said the twin elections were a missed opportunity to advance the country's democratisation process contrary to popular expectations. He said the elections were rather a threat on the democratisation process.

To him, Cameroon needs a moral revolution that will ignite a change in the mentalities of

those who have continued to rig elections in search of appointments. He warned that if mentalities were not changed, even the most independent electoral commissions would not succeed to organise free and fair elections.

Going by him, it is a scandal that the administrative officials who organised elections are those perpetrating rigging while police officers and gendarmes who are supposed to maintain peace and order are those who provoke violence all the time.

He said many of those who are passing around for police officers are people who were recruited in a dubious manner and poorly trained. To him, it is part of a solution to the problem of insecurity for government to recognise that violence is caused by unqualified policemen. He condemned the lack of political dialogue in the country, blaming the state for always using force on armless civilians.

Despite the explosive situation, Ndam Njoya called on the various stakeholders in the country not to allow the already bad socio-political situations to go worse and degenerate into uncontrollable proportions. He called for the respect of human rights and violence and the fight against poverty.