By FELIX TECHE NYAMUSA, SDF MBENGWI parliamentary hopeful
President
Biya Paul in his end of 2012 speech announced senatorial elections and eventual
creation of the constitutional court (municipal councils and parliamentary
polls assumed obvious because they are routine we think) for 2013 but by design
or mistake kept aside. Regional councilors who are an integral of the
Electoral College for senators. Regional councilors, Senators and
constitutional court in Cameroon despite their provision in the 1996
constitution have not been actualized for any tenable reason. Because of the
insincere rogue tradition with which the powers that be have for several
decades treated Cameroonians, the mention of barely senatorial polls and
constitutional councilors is taken as another grand deception - either Biya
will desecrate the constitution, as often in executing this or nothing at all,
even the pronounced Senatorial and constitutional court will be come a reality
in 2013.
Confusion
is regularly maintained in Cameroon-governance so as to probably ensure the
protracted incumbent CPDM regime to extend her strangle hold on Cameroonians.
Biya
who for above 30 years has downgraded Cameroon to a consumer economy, with
little or nothing, except primary raw material, harvested and exported so does
by maintaining a one-man-show ruler ship – a show of the executive:
·
Here the electoral
code is substandard (No two round presidential or other votes
·
Cameroonians only
become eligible for vote at age 20 but curiously they can obtain National
Identity cards and enroll in the military and other irregularities)
·
Supposed independent
ELECTORAL BODY, ELECAM is essentially composed of CPDM personnel despite the existence
of over 100 political parties in Cameroon.
·
Elections here are
regularly if not always rigged in favor of the incumbent ruling CPDM party.
·
Corruption is
perpetuated mostly from top – the executive has deliberately amongst other
things, refused to obey article 66 of the national constitution on assets
declaration.
·
The educational
system here is in principle not tailored to make students studying in Cameroon
acquire inquisitive creative mind .Thus the high prevalence of unemployed
persons, their academic qualifications notwithstanding, since they have not
been drilled to self employment and provision to others of job opportunities
·
The highly heralded
single electoral code of just a few months ago, April 2012 has been abused.
According to this code, municipal and regional councilors form the Electoral
College for senators. But Biya in his advice-bankrupt one-man-show
announced senatorial polls for 2013 while mentioning nothing on regional
council elections.
·
It is hoped that
such a void will be corrected without delay, less the Cameroon polity gets
unnecessarily heated again with possible unpleasant consequences (social
strife, disturbance of economy and general destructions). Rumors are even
rife that regime sycophants want the current questionable councilors (brought
in by the controversial election body – NEO) whose mandate long expired to
elect the upcoming senators! Further, the divisive single electoral code
is silent on the number of regional councilors per constituency
·
Biya banal speeches
for the past over 30years (whose character will projectable be maintained),
consists of promises, expectations and never a portrayal of already achieved
concrete projects.
CONAC 2012 REPORT
Executive
created anti- corruption body, CONAC, is obviously not what will serve most
Cameroonians rationally. Article 66 of the national constitution which is
the supreme law of the land is meant to do this and nib corruption in the bud.
Similar structures can assist no doubts but article 66 will be able to handle
all Cameroonians including the president of the Republic, a thing CONAC and
others are not authorized to do.
Many a Cameroonian wishes all wrongly indicted persons by CONAC to seize the
law courts, in addition to other means, and address the issues to clean their
image. CONAC however may fetch out criminals- no reservation on this but regime
perceived premeditated enemies will be included in this lot for political
victimization
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. Minute by Minute Report on Cameroon and Africa
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