Martin Eyong Tabe
9 May 2008
The public is once again having its ears polluted with the so-called motions of support in favour of the 2008 constitutional amendment.
They go through this during the rainy seasons
It is such a shame that a people who have been marginalised over the years can cook up such political claptrap in order to secure their ill gotten posts and the like.Akwaya Subdivision, one of the oldest subdivisions in the country, was created as far back as 1963 by the late President Ahmadou Ahidjo.
Akwaya has an estimated population of 60.000 people, yet in 40 years it cannot boast of a mere footpath. No water, no electricity, not even the floors of their thatched houses are cemented.
Akwaya citizens have never even seen a car, yet we find ourselves in the 21st century. Akwaya has been in conflict since December 2007 and it had to take half a year for the government to react. Yet the so-called Akwaya external elite, if at all there are any elite, will cook up some crap called a motion of support to Biya's life president bid. WHAT A SHAME!
After all, the CPDM is a party of empty heads, sycophants, bootlickers, prostitutes, single women, barren couples, murderers, ex-convicts, scammers, eunuchs, homosexuals, tax evaders, and the litany continues.
The CPDM is the only party that has politicians without constituencies, where resource persons are top government officials or heads of companies. After all, there is no distinction between the party and the state- the state is the party and the party is the state.
As such, a few eunuchs who have never been to their villages can come up with a motion of support and the song birds at CRTV can echo it on roof tops. We are all aware of the fact that a new cabinet is in the making; as such, ambitious people can stoop so low, even to the point of surrendering their behinds to the powers that be, in exchange for their unbridled ambitions.
It is common knowledge that appointments are not based on any merit.I happened to have visited Akwaya in 2006. The people sleep on the trees, like monkeys, and spend the most part of their lives in the jungle, chasing their brother apes. They use caves for classrooms. Wild pepper and "akpu" are their staple meal.
When they hear the sound of a bike, they run for their lives and climb on trees. Akwaya is the only part of Cameroon where one must get a transit pass from a neighbouring country in order to get access to his own country. What a pity. For more than 10 years now, Akwaya has been allocated FCFA 200 million yearly for their road project but what is there to see?
One must be prepared to foot it for some 20km in the wild jungle, wading through dangerous rivers and precipices to get to one's own village. In spite of the six-month long conflict that has led to the death of many people, houses destroyed, and a population displaced in the heart of hamartan, the so- called external elite can send a motion of support, thanking Biya for keeping their women and children in the cold for six months, without any food, shelter or medical care.
Who can imagine a part of this world where young children have never had access even to drinking water or a place where children are betrothed in the womb due to penury?
I wouldn't even want to talk about the so-called chiefs we have in this part of the country.
Traditional caps and beads are sold for peanuts, so anyone can procure and the next day, he calls himself a chief. Chiefs have become so cheap and can now be bought at any price.
Sure, the Akwaya chiefs are copying the example of their elder brothers in Banyangi land and the rest of the Southwest.
The Banyangi have wallowed in misery and dejection for donkey years. God alone knows what they have achieved for all their years of allegiance to the regime. The only thing they are famous for is the immeasurable layers of dust that clad their earth roads.
Manyu Division has hardly ever lacked a ministerial portfolio from the days of Ahidjo to present date; yet what is there to show for, if not for the unbridled ambitions of certain individuals who are clamouring for appointments? Manyus are the only people who are afraid of their own villages and the Manyu man hardly ever builds in his village.
We can hear all the rubbish on the airwaves like the Manyu world conference and all the like, but what have we achieved for six decades. There can be so-called intellectuals with all sorts of degrees in the US, Britain and even on the moon but there is nothing to show for all that, while the Division remains the most enclave, most backward and the most underdeveloped in the whole province.
This Division is among the oldest in the country, yet 60 years later Manyu is where it is.
There is hardly a day when Mamfe can go for two continuous hours without an electricity outage. Of all the German colonial centres, Mamfe is the only town without taxis.
My advice is that the Manyu man should enter his cave, have some fufu and eru and bask in the warmth of carnal desire and lick his sores. God save Cameroon!
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