Peterkins Manyong With Online Reports
4 July 2008
A Swiss-based activist group has said it is imploring Swiss authorities to freeze President Paul Biya's account in that country and repatriate the stolen money.
The Chairman of the Cameroon Action Group for Change, CAGC, Daniel Tabeng, said they sent a memo to the President of Switzerland copying the UN.
"Investigations will take time but the result will be fruitful. 700 US million dollars stolen by late Nigerian dictator, Sani Abacha, were frozen. Mobutu's too. Sensitisation is already on. We are launching CAGC this month and installing branches in all parts of Europe. The UK branch will be launched on July 26," Tabeng told The Post online.
He noted that many Swiss NGOs that could have given the Biya regime financial aid are afraid to do so because the money would end up in Swiss banks.Promising hell for Biya, Tabeng recalled that in the memo he sent to the UN and Swiss government he also called for the release of those who were convicted for the February riots.
According to the activist, the fact that Biya's children attend school in Switzerland is another reason why any upheaval there gives the Cameroonian president nightmares.
"You know Switzerland is a very sensitive country to African leaders who have embezzled huge sums of their people's money and stashed in banks there. So, it's like when Switzerland quakes they wake because of their private interests there."
He promised to make Switzerland uncomfortable for Biya if he continues to oppress Cameroonians.Tabeng condemned the President's decision to postpone the appointment of ELECAM members, describing Biya as an even greater trickster than Robert Mugabe.
"He is jittery about anything that can loosen his stranglehold on power," he said.
He stated that CAGC's aim is to sensitise the international community on acts of human rights violations like arrests and torture of political opponents and subjugating Cameroon's Anglophones.
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Hi , I'm a Cameroonian living abroad , every day I woke up from bed I look at myself through the mirror and I ask my self a question "when will I see my home land glitering like Newyork , Chicago, Pennsilvenia . Phily , Paris , berlin , swiss etc?". This has always been my worris from the day one I enter this so called free country. from the air I started seeing things and Istarted asking question to this people how did they get all this things done . They told me that they archive all thise through defferent leaders of the country . That any leader who come into power wants to do more than what the others did . From that day I started thinking about how my people back home think about abroad as a safe heaven for them . They all have forgotten that this heaven was build by humans like them . then as each day goes by something new comes in to my mind about how even our won head of state think that way too . If our own Head of state think that life is better up some where and not at his own fathers house(his country). that means he does not look at his own fathers house as his refuge . Then I looked at asylum seekers and asked my self why should it be only amongst the blacks why not that arabs , not the asians or the Latinos its only Black africans . they way we think makes us what we are today . Above all is that this same state holders go abroad and buys houses while thier fathers houses has no roof and enrich foreign banks with poor peoples money . look at some ones like Noko mbele who was proud to declear that he got a house in the US . among with other ministers .is this not a shame to all of us we don't even have a good road but biya has a street in paris "for what ? ". Why are we making Africa look like where Lucifa lives where even after selling our own blood for slavery we still want to sell the land to the whites .What kind of heart does Cameroonian , africa people have ?. why can't we build our won focus on how to make life better? . but instered we we are trying to extinct africa people from the world . to all who are concern to this cry what has this land and this peace and loving people done to deserve this toture ? when will smile come to thier faces . You have taking thier children away from them still thier happiness isn't that enough? Now you want thier blood ? Lord when will you come to save my people from these scamers in the name of poplitics . I wonder what we have now as traditional rulers they are all thiefs . . these are all bunch of scamers still . they do not serve thier people but their people serve them .Hand clappers to killers Unless we alearn to make our won land our heaven we will have smile on our faces . Lord God hear my cry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Hugan,I read your outcry.I read how you decried the belly politics we have in our land.My advice as a last resort is for you to never cease praying.These people together with their white accomplices are the very embodiment of demonic forces roaming our planet today.Don't think u can beat them by just talking.The only One to end this open exploitation is God Himself;but (unfortunately for us),we want it now. He is not deaf,He listens to our cry.Just a little while longer and all crying history will be concluded.Never mind,that day is fast approaching.I see it rising with an emerging glory over the horizon.
camerooniantoo01
Wow! As a Cameroonian all I can say is wow. LOL. A bit slow are we. It's about time.