Use of "Instability" by a Regime Decided to Impose Tyranny.
06/11/2004 - With the hoax about his death, far from being able to politically capitalize a feeling of compassion that Cameroonians do not have any more for his person and his life, president Paul Biya clearly showed instead that he is the source of the major instability that haunts Cameroon.
Ndzana Seme
The rumor that Paul Biya circulated last weekend about his own death –- following the footsteps of Lansana Conté of Guinea Conakry, who had announced himself as dying then dead before he ruthlessly dealt with "those who want (his) death", or of the attempted murder of the Thailand’s Prime Minister on March 2001 with his plane’s explosion having thrown doubt over the patiently cultivated image of most stable nation in Asia and having caused the flow of new American assistance to reinforce his government -- aimed at the use of terror by the Yaounde regime, with the goal to ultimately modifying the Constitution so that there would be no democracy anymore in Cameroon.
Try to figure out what would have happened if we, The African Independent, did not get into the party on June 5, that we did not make public, minute after minute, all information we received from all sources, including the telephone number of the place within which the presumed deceased lurked, coolly "laughing", that we did not deploy strategies able to expose a hoax and to disaggregate the effect that its authors were seeking.
It is certain that as of last Monday, Cameroonian independent newspapers were going to circulate, some political leaders were going to speak, in order to calm Cameroonians thus put to rout and finding the Etoudi’s silence insupportable, at a time when a vacancy of power not regulated by the Constitution was likely to throw the country into chaos.
In such a situation that Paul Biya had organized, if the People were an alive being, it would have undergone a heart attack. And a heart attack by the People generally ends up into a chaos.
Yet, Paul Biya had planned the conditions of this chaos, while laughing quietly and cynically in his cozy rooms at the Intercontinental hotel of Geneva, Switzerland.
Stonily and cynically indifferent, Paul Biya’s strategy consisted in ordering his government lieutenants to react, once the concerned independent media and political leaders dared state a word about the information on his death - like they did with us, unfortunately in a precipitated and unplanned manner -, by denouncing the "propagators of false rumors".
The Cameroonian independent newspapers - they would have published something similar to what we did since June 5 - would have been shut down and the authors of the accused articles would have been arrested.
The political leaders who would have stated their views on the subject would also have been arrested, accused of a "plot against the security of the State", prosecuted like vulgar individuals for being "the source of the rumor mentioning the president of the republic’s death ", etc, etc.
Paul Biya would thus have the gold pretext to ordering a radical change of the "republican institutions" in his favor, in particular by anticipating presidential elections - in order to make Cameroonians vote at a time when they would still be under the effect of fear because of an angry president’s terror -, by modifying the Constitution by removing any clauses that mention a limitation of presidential mandates, and also by removing any mention of the Senate institution.
We don’t need to be soothsayers to reveal the dark and low intentions that animated Paul Biya when he fabricated the rumor on his own death. Idriss Deby has just done it in Chad, by modifying the Constitution the same way and by dissolving the Senate institution.
There is no need to raise questions as for knowing if this is the new strategy drawn by Paris, in order to throw our nations back under the tyranny of potentates reigning on a democratic desert.
In fact Jacques Chirac had given to Deby the total support of France, through a message "of friendship, confidence, gratitude", adding that "France remains very vigilant and ready to support all which contributes to political stabilization… and generally to peace in the area".
Paul Biya also counts on another big support, that of the United States, when he permits himself to thus seek peace by preparing the war.
Indeed, during his "traitor" visit at the White House in Mars 2003, the Secretary of State Colin Powell said of Paul Biya while friendly tapping on his shoulder: "the government of the United States will do all possible to reinforce the government of Mr. Biya". And he continued: "Cameroon is an island of stability in that part of Africa".
We can now understand why Paul Biya, during his triumphal interview two days ago, made a point of insisting on stability, by hammering that "the country is stable", or "I invite Cameroonians to redouble vigilance to preserve their stability".
It thus becomes clear that Paul Biya sought to create an evidence of instability that he was to present thereafter to Jacques Chirac and to George W Bush, so that the latter would support his diabolic plan of throwing Cameroon into the chaos of a primitive tyranny. And he would have succeeded… if we had not imposed him a quite professional sabotage of his Machiavellian plans.
Consequently, Cameroonians should get today, more than ever, to the work of a thorough thinking about the system which governs them, whose strings are pulled by the West. A West determined to maintain terror on our nations, through the tyranny of their henchmen placed at the head of States unsuited to the African context.
If the solution of a fundamental change, by the People, of Western-like institutions that maintain Cameroon and Africa in vermin is not applied, there will not be a foreseeable tunnel end for our reduced to poverty people.
The republican political system, imposed by France on Cameroon and other African countries under its influence, is the fundamental source of instability in our countries. Not only these countries are controlled by imported and unsuited institutions, and therefore difficult to function, most of all there are dangerous mechanisms and sources of instability that are added, such as the absence of provisions for constitutional succession.
Because, if the Cameroonian president dies, chaos and violence would be inevitable, because of the succession battles that would result. There is not better source of instability than that.
Yet, the Cameroonian president Paul Biya only makes fun of it, "laughs" of it.
Ndzana Seme
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