Chief A.S. Ngwana
23 November 2008
We are very disappointed to read that on Wednesday, November 12, President Paul Biya signed a decree transforming the 10 existing Provinces to Regions.This is a worthless change of names.
Cameroon requires States not Regions; Cameroon wants a Federal System of government, not a Unitary System of government with decentralisation.In the Federal System of Government, the people vote their own Chief Executive (Prime Minister or Governor), who owes allegiance to his electorate and is answerable to them.
In the present system in which we are, the Unitary Government, the Governor or Chief executive of the Region is appointed by the President, and he owes his allegiance to the President and not to the people of the Region. He is just a senior civil servant who can be sacked or transferred by the President at will.
Fellow Cameroonians, Cameroon is a bilingual country, and if we want it to be happy and prosperous, if we want Cameroon to remain one corporate unit, we must return to the Federal System of Government. We must return to the 1961 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
That Constitution guaranteed equality of status between the Anglophone State of West Cameroon and the Francophone State of East Cameroon. It guaranteed equality and equal opportunity to all Cameroonians.
Since the abolition of the Federal Government, Cameroon has not been the same again. Anglophones have suffered from marginalisation and discrimination. Subsequent manipulations of the Constitution have further driven the Anglophones to desperation.
Today the majority of Anglophones are fed up with Cameroon and some even want a break up of the country. Every action of the CPDM government headed by a Francophone for 47 years since independence, has alienated and provoked Anglophones more and more.
In the interest of peace, economic development, happiness of all Cameroonians, please let us return to the Federation. Only in the federation will all Cameroonians feel a sense of belonging, only in the federation shall we guarantee the corporate existence of Cameroon.
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I Know nothing good can come from a chop brock pot. Cameroon is caught by a storm. A storm which is created by greed. No one should expect any good from a psycho in the person of biya. He is dement, he is suffering from dementia. At a time where every well thinking citizen of the world is thinking of positive and realistic change, mad men like biya are thinking of destruction of the human race.