Hmmm! What do I mean by that? The President, Paul Biya, and his Ministers are snoring away all plans or I should say all the broken promises they have made to the people under their care. They promised to fix all roads, but nothing has happened! In the rainy season, life is difficult for drivers and their helpers called ‘motor boys’, as they struggle when buses or vans and cars come to where it is really bad without tar or road, only mud. The drivers and the motor boys will come and start using physical strength to push the car, van or truck which is stuck in mud.
Power
When these so-called Ministers and all the other people in authority want to get the people’s attention, they use their bleak points like their bad roads, like no good hospitals, no good schools. When it’s close to their election or voting of any kind, they will come and promise the people all the things they think people need. Power! Is that what they are looking for? Power. Power to be in authority over them. Power to make broken promises that will bever be fulfilled. Go to Cameroon in the rainy season and try to take a little tour around, or a little tour in the rural areas. Come back and tell me what your eyes have seen. Broken promises.
Visit schools
Whenever you visit Cameroon or Cameroun, go and visit schools around and most especially schools in the rural area. Some don’t even have benches for children to sit on. A country known for its quality timber production, but its schools don’t have chairs for its pupils to use! What are they doing with all this timber they cut every day? Sell them abroad to pay their debts. The President Paul Biya and his cabinet have shipped all the country’s money to their second homes abroad, they have emptied all monies and resources abroad, and the poor have to carry the cross. Broken promises.
Visit hospitals
Pay a visit to Cameroon’s hospitals. It stinks like an abattoir that has been unattended and it smells like hell. Go to an accident ward! You will not want to sit anywhere just because of the smell. I could go on and on. Maternity wards lack the facilities to care for pregnant women, some of whom die before even giving birth. Sometimes mothers die with their children, sometimes both mother and child will die. What a world! Is this how the world should be? President Paul Biya doesn’t care who dies. I have just mentioned these few departments of the hospital, but it’s good to take a stroll to all the departments and see for yourself. All broken promises.
Water
In a country like Cameroon, with good streams and good rivers, they just need close attention to purify it for people to drink. But Cameroon still suffers from cholera now and again because the government doesn’t mind since they drink the more purified water. Whoever dies doesn’t concern them. Another broken promise.
All these things mentioned are vital to the people’s day-to-day living. How can humans live like animals which live on other animals for food? How can the government not just try and look back and think of how to improve this country?
To round up,I want to let the president of là Republic du Cameroun Paul Biya to know that, what he has planted his children will reap it with blood in their eyes. Because all this innocent lives that has been taken shortly will cry until the world end.
Long live southern Cameroons.
By Vivian Ngum Fomukong