By Fai Cassian Ndi
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
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| HRH Fon Kum Gilbert of Kung |
HRH
Fon Kum Gilbert of Kung village in Fungom Sub Division of Menchum Division in
the North West Region of Cameroon has decried the manner at which some
traditional rulers have been reduced to nothing by CPDM bigwigs and government.
Fon Kum Gilbert who has been very bitter over the non-functioning of GTC Kung
which was created since 2011 condemned the way some politicians and
administrators have transformed traditional rulers to toys given that his
community has been deprived from education which is a Human Rights. He also
frowned at the prostitution of titles to underserved persons and the way some
of his peers have engaged in the illicit sales of land to the detriment of
their subjects’.
When
we asked the Fon what he thinks as with regards to the way traditional rulers
in Cameroon are being used like common boys by incompetent and lazy CPDM
politicians in the North West and South West Regions, he vehemently called on
Northwest and Southwest Traditional rulers to shun away from being forerunners
for and behind corrupt and doubtful politicians and administrative authorities.
“We ought to serve the political, traditional and cultural roles in
constructing a democratic and developed Cameroon”. According to HRH Fon Gilbert
Kum, “Fons need to serve as custodians of their various traditions and cultures
other than what is qualified as “Auxiliaries” to the administration, as coined
in the 1977 Presidential Decree”. “The term auxiliary” he added is a term he
qualifies to be “politically and administratively overloaded, which implies
that traditional rulers are forceful collaborators to the administrative
authorities and the CPDM regime as a whole political entity. Implicitly, “they
must forcefully cooperate with the administrative authorities and the regime in
place even on maladministration and malgovernance projects and or activities.
Traditional rulers, he emphasized, need to serve as a democratic, political and
societal “institutional recall” mechanisms that aim at redressing societal and
malgovernance behaviors that are orchestrated by the corrupt and incompetent
lazy politicians. He lamented that on the
contrary traditional rulers nowadays have turned to play obnoxious roles which
he qualifies as a “traditional power burden” towards their subjects and the
society. Harping on this traditional power burden, Fon Kum Gilbert cited
pathetic cases whereby some of his peers have engaged in prostituting
traditional titles (for money to illegal persons) and have sold almost all the
land to the detriment of their subjects.
Fons
and Chiefs he noted “should be natural aristocrats who respect the principles
of “noblesse oblige” other than a self aggrandizement objective in the
destruction of their communities and their subjects’ interests. To him,
traditional rulers need to accommodate the most of the ingredients and
political attributes that are found in a royal personality even if they are not
affluent financially. He urged fons and chiefs to think traditionally,
culturally, politically and democratically why is it that CPDM ministers who
have been in government business for more than thirty years are still
interested in anchoring a royal stool and most of the times justifiably and
illegitimately.
On the controversy
surrounding the non functioning of Government Technical School Kung, created
since 2011, Fon Kum Gilbert and the ensemble of his subjects strongly opine
that some personalities are behind the unpatriotic and malgovernance behaviours
preventing it from going effective. When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
