Tche Irene Morikang
4 July 2008
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There are certain attitudes that are hard to explain. Like what goes on in the minds of people who decide to collect and stock empty containers of expensive drinks in their cupboards. In this lot can be added a new category of "big ogas", who have decided not to part with a certain piece of paper. And the paper? That entry pass, call it "laissez-passez", into the State House.
Can you imagine that more than eight weeks after the banquet at the State House on 20th May, some people continue to carry the little access tickets on the windscreens of their cars? What for? And to please who? One might ask.
Well, one thing is certain. The papers cannot be there by mistake. Not after the cars have been washed and rewashed! They couldn't have forgotten them, anyway. Conclusion: the owners of the cars want them there. Probably to show whoever cares that "I was there".
The message such guys want to pass across is simple. It's something like: "Hey, look where I took supper on 20th May. I am not just anybody. So, be careful with the way you treat me. I have connections that matter". Cameroonians and influence peddling! To think that a mere piece of paper on the windscreen is now considered as status symbols! Funny.
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