Peterkins Manyong
21 September 2008
SDF Chairman, John Fru Ndi, has hailed the government and opposition in Zimbabwe for finally signing a power-sharing deal.
Fru Ndi, who also hailed the people of Kenya for a similar move, poured scorn on the Biya regime for its anti-opposition and anti-Anglophone sentiments.To him, Zimbabwe was an even better place than Cameroon where an opposition leader (himself) is put under house arrest for winning an election.
The SDF Chairman, who spoke on 94.0 a Bamenda-based private radio station, chastised the Biya regime for diabolizing and stigmatizing the Northwest, because it spearheaded the democratic process in Cameroon.
He contrasted the collaboration among political forces in Kenya and Zimbabwe with the arrogance and dishonesty in Cameroon in which the ruling CPDM party has rejected dialogue, but is implementing (though poorly), SDF's economic policies.
The SDF Chairman had harsh words also for some Western diplomats who are a drawback rather than an encouragement to democratic change.He cited the case of one who rather than condemn the seizure of his victory in 1992 wanted the SDF to accept that Biya had won simply because other political parties had done so.
Asked why he and Biya had not sat to discuss the problems of Cameroon, Fru Ndi put the blame of intransigence on Biya. He said he had booked for audience with Biya in the interest of good governance but till date, the audience had not been granted.
He mocked all those who say he is wining and dining with Biya, whereas the President himself had often said he had never met with him."If Biya cannot invite me or accept my own invitation who is to blame?" Fru Ndi asked.
He recalled with vexation the February uprising when Cameroonians in various parts of the country rose up against the Biya regime and were ruthlessly crushed, as another proof of the President's lack of inclination to dialogue.
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