Ateba Eyene revolts against Biya

CPDM baron and erstwhile Biya fan Ateba Eyene, has, in a thinly veiled rebellion against his party, tribe and region’s guru, indicted Biya’s governance for inaction against social ills plaguing the country. Although he, like several other progressive minded members of the ruling party, professes unconditional loyalty to the president, reading through his letter will leave you with a very different impression (The translation is mine).

Dear Mr President,

It is always an immense pleasure to share some reflections likely to draw your attention to some problems that can jeopardise the future of our country with your Excellency. You see, Mr President, during your interview with a western radio more than twenty years ago, you declared that you would like to be remembered as “the one who brought democracy and prosperity to his people.” Who can say better! However, in 2013, it appears that only part of your desires have been realised, this because the overall wealth of the country lies in the hands of some unscrupulous individuals.

These individuals have set up a criminal system at all levels, a system that is based on the control and manipulation of the masses, especially the youths. Nothing indicates that this evil technology based on intimidation and blackmail can free Cameroon and Cameroonians from poverty. The country, even its smallest, lives in fear, appearances not withstanding. We are highly impressed by the hypocrisy of some of your collaborators in charge of reporting these problems to you. The fact that within a few months, Cameroonians of 16 to 25 years have been murdered in the most odious of manners cannot be dismissed with the wave of a hand. The fact that some of their body parts have been removed for mystic reasons cannot leave anyone indifferent. Everything is happening as if the several occultism followers in our country are determined to live in agreement with their cosmic laws at the cost of the reigning misery and injustice.

Mr President, all those who have been privileged to receive some ethical and moral education which stipulates that success should come through sustained effort and hard work are lost in our Republic which has been transformed into a republic of connections. Here, political commonsense is in deficit while those involved in complex clubs develop a curious political mentality, one that is detrimental to our progress. The number of our compatriots falling victim to the evil powers of members of secret societies, sects and mafia networks is ever increasing. Yet, several Cameroonians are honest and ready to do everything for peace and emergence in the country. Unfortunately, this latter group confronted with the paranormal logic of the occultists.

Sir, public opinion under your regime is worried by the fact that several members Masonic lodges and secret societies, despite not being qualified, occupy posts and positions to which qualified non-members of these sects can never dream. These Illuminati, apart from their secrets which they hide from the public, have nothing to add to our social dynamics and innovation, hence the incompetence you have observed as head of state. A study carried out by Jeune Afrique in 2009, showed that Africa is dominated by sects.

From all evidence, Cameroon seems to be the champion in the issue with all its negative social consequences. Concerning the consumption of drugs, experts reveal that the country passed from a mere drug transit country in 2011 into a consumer and cultivator.

As for alcohol, brewery statistics show that Cameroonians consumed 600 million litres of beer, that is, the equivalent of a river, in 2012.  For the same year, our country was ranked first importer of Bordeaux wines in Africa, an identical rank for the consumption of champagne. In the latter cases, mindful of the price of a bottle of Bordeaux wine or champagne, the elite surely are responsible. The elite are therefore proving to be predatory rather than productive. Can all the money they devote to drinking not develop the country? Isn’t it a paradox that a “highly indebted poor country, HIPC” achieves such performances in consumption of luxury wines? Meantime, the layman, the youths, children are bound to make do with miniaturized whiskies with such diverse names as Kitoko, Lion d’Or, King Arthur, Nikita. Where else has such a thing been seen?

Mr President, the fact that Cameroon has the same reputation as Poland in alcohol consumption and the same reputation as Columbia in drug consumption surely forces people to be wary of us! This is not just a discussion on the invisible. The alert this book raises on lodges, sects, drugs and alcohol should bring your Excellency to take special measures to bring back the country into the spirit of 1982 on the basis of rigour and moralisation, concepts which should mark the authenticity of your regime. We can cleanse our society of ritual crimes by fighting the lodges and sects that drives the brainwashing of our citizens and destruction of their spirit. We can fight ritual killings by fighting alcohol and drug abuse since the perpetrators of these ritual crimes are usually high consumers of both alcohol and drugs.

Your Excellency, there is no dignity and no efficiency in establishing sects at the heart of the country. This encourages social exclusion which is a factor of conflict in all societies. It is also a mode of dependence on the West where the gurus of the said sects live. Ritual crimes are subject to the geopolitics of chaos and need to be fought to the same extent as or even more than corruption and embezzlement.

I propose that you create a special court to judge perpetrators of ritual killings. This will sure re-establish confidence between the Cameroonian people and their leaders and give more credit and legitimacy to your speeches on the well being of people and property, the new awakening and audacity called for in the youths. We also suggest that you encourage and help the creation of coalitions against immoral phenomena in our society since it is your regime which has will bear the burden of all deviances at all levels of society.

In addition, Mr President, we should observe the heightened risk of a generational conflict born of the narcissism of the old people in our country. The fact that several among them die while still in function removes all dignity from the notion patriarch in the African sense. This aspect of the issue should be taken very seriously to avoid any unpleasant surprise.

It is not sufficient to have been minister, director general, member of parliament or governor, to be presumed to have experience. We have come to understand that this technique is simply aimed at conserving power, at a time when the country needs new ideas to take off. In a government full of people who have accumulated too much, each person is trying more to protect what they have acquired.  Each one is trying their best to prevent the next person from taking their post. Against such a backdrop, it will be futile to expect any concrete results.

Mr President, if nothing is done to formally and significantly resolve the worries of grassroots Cameroonians who have been supporting you through the years, the thesis of impunity will forever be legitimized. Yet, no head of state aspiring to mark the history of his nation positively can abandon it to lodges, sects, alcohol, drugs, homosexuality and ritual crimes. At more than 80 years, one has to be honest and vigilant since history’s court knows no alibi.

Regards