Opinion
by Martin Fon Yembe (Coordinator, Global Information Network..GLOBINET)
In Cameroon, politicians of the CPDM regime have
gratuitously allocated to themselves the label of elite, and use it as a passport to speak
for and on behalf of an oppressed and silenced people, especially in West
Cameroon…NW and SW. I began taking
interest in this until last week when a list of so-called ELITE came up with a communiqué
calling on teachers and students/pupils to go back to school and ignore the
ongoing strike!! My first worry was to find out who an elite is and what role
can an elite play in the community.
The conventional definition
puts it that Elite (from late
18th century French élite), is a term that originates from Latin eligere (“to
choose, elect”). In political and sociological theory for a small group of
powerful people that controls a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege or
political power in a society. In Great Britain, and elite is a
select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or quality.
The political elite are the most informed, educated and politically active people who
have a strong influence on public officials. Thus the elite or e·lites or
élite or é·lites. Refers to a group or class of persons
considered to be superior to others because of their intelligence, social
standing…entailing that the elite
is something prestigious or the best of the best.
From
these definitions, are those who signed or purportedly signed the controversial
and ludicrous communiqué elite?
In
a recent publication in Le Messager and other French language newspapers, these
supposed signatories of the communiqué are described as “dupes”! These are
persons who, by dint of the fact that they have been able to please the Central
Committee of RDPC, they find themselves in the corridors of the dirty powers in
Yaounde. They are hostages who will accept to bear the brunt of the diabolic
acts and schemes of the regime against their people. Once you are out of
government, you are no more an elite…meaning that those supposed superior qualities
and abilities wane immediately you are
not in the favour books of the diabolic regime.
Imagine
this scenario going on currently in West Cameroon. None of these supposed elite
has gone to their home community to sample the opinions of their people they
purport to represent…yet, they sit in some air-conditioned luxurious rooms in
Yaounde and issue communiqués calling on parents to send their kids to school
and for teachers to resume classes!!! Elite indeed!
What
does it take for our supposed Prime Minister to use all the billions of Francs
cfa they are using now to buy Fons and press men, to rather dispatch teams of “elite”
say from Menji, Ndu, Wum, Tombel etc to actually get the true feelings of these
people who have suddenly gone into alliance with the Trade Unionists and
Federalists?! Instead, hey are resorting to what we know best of them…threats,
intimidation, buying of consciences and communiqués!!
Facing the Reality of
the Global Union Against the old “New Order”
The
regime is still grabbling with the reality of their being overtaken in their
own track by the Global Union of Social Media. These so-called elite had been
having it smooth in the days of the New Order where CRTV and Cameroon Tribune
could say Martin Fon Yembe is a Gabonese or Ni John Fru Ndi has escaped to
Nigeria and people will believe! Today, a Minute by Minute recording and
monitoring of developments has caught them pants down. I hear them asking
themselves “ What’s going on? What’s happening here? I don’t feel that I’m in
control of anything anymore.” There are some that are aware of what's happening, but
millions more would be shocked to learn the truth. The answers are slowly
emerging. They see people getting the information they had never wanted them to
have.
They are being stopped and they will
find themselves very soon naked in the middle of the market. But only if
everyone works very hard at the solutions, for nothing happens on its own, and
apathy is NOT the answer. We all must identify them, name and shame them in
public places.
However, violent efforts are
inappropriate because: (1) It is wrong to break our laws. (2) Many innocent
people will be killed or wounded and their property destroyed. (3) The Elite
control our courts…our banks, our offices and worse still our chiefs.
It is my humble opinion that these crooks are aware of the
fact that they are losing control…and we must not allow them recover. In the
words of Michael
Gove we join to say I think it's time
that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they've ever got
anything wrong: 'I'm sorry, you've had your day.' Unelected, unaccountable
elites, I'm afraid it's time to say, 'You're fired. We are going to take back
control.' When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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