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| Mafor Yaah Yefon Ama Tutu Muna |
There is a lack of common sense in most musicians;
this is typified by the way some of them do behave in public. The jeering of a former cabinet, Minister Ama Tutu Muna during state ceremony in Yaounde is I may say, is a bit insipid and hazy, but the point would
have been seen by a child anywhere else as stupid. When such a behavior is coming from those
who consider themselves celebrities it raises alot of questions and confirms why some musicians are a laughing stock in the countenance of
humanity. It is important to appreciate the mind-set from which such reproach
is issued; and how public intellectuals are viewed. Every society produces its
own public intellectuals. When a group of people without common sense is constantly torn by the dialectical
tensions that exist between classes and interests, there is reason to doubt those who claim to be leaders of such a group of people. Musicians are supposed to be models in society hardly ever, those who pass for it in Cameroon operate from that same skewed mind-set that intellectualises
the greater good as that which belongs to the overriding few. It is really
pathetic that some musicians want to make a mountain out of a mole hill just
because Minister Ama Muna was asked to leave office yet the same noise-maker
hardly raise their voices over the atrocities. Shame…. This is the
first time for this type of sadistic jeering has occurred and it should never
happen again. For
the society which tolerates this type of behavior, there is no hope of recovery
until it wakes up and gets out of the darkness to offer and insist on the
protection of all of the people, and preservation of human dignity, and rights,
especially that of women.
Born on July 17, 1960, Mafor Yaah Yefon
Ama Tutu Muna was the only English speaking female cabinet minister of the
North West in the predominantly male cabinet. A linguist by training, from the
University of Montreal, Canada. After more than 9 years in Government, Ama has set records in Anglophone Cameroon. She goes into history books in great names and deserves respect for her contribution in nation building.
Mafor Yaah Yefon Ama Tutu Muna became the new
person in Momo politics in the late 90s when she revamped the Mbengwi Abi Fall
Sub Section of the CPDM. Her successes led to the putting in place of the
Mbengwi Women Cooperative that became her spring board in politics. Ama Tutu
Muna suddenly became the most influential CPDM political figure in Momo when
she staged the most successful sub section conference that witnessed the
presence key personalities like Ismael Bidoung Mkpat and late Ateba Ayene.
Ama
has had the passion of becoming a successful woman entrepreneur with her FEMI
Construction company and left a mark of greatness she constructed the Bamenda
High Court. She was able to connect with poverty sickened people as champion
and founder of FEMI Construction. She also enjoyed a list of accomplishments to
her accolades. Her open mindedness earned her several recognitions from renounced
palaces in the North West Region. She crowned Yaah Yefon by the Fon of Nso and
Mafor by Meta Fons.
To
consolidate this, President Biya appointed Ama on December 8, 2004 to work
under Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, the then Minister of Commerce as the
Secretary of State in charge of Commerce. After her appointment, she made
successful strides and revamped the CPDM in Momo Division. She also created the
North West Women Forum-NOWEFF. Mafor
Yaah Yefon Ama entered into records as a woman emancipator.
In
2007, Ama was appointed as Minister of Arts and Culture. Apparently Ama’s love
for the 'Kaba Ngondo' fashion and love of culture expect her to go beyond what
can be deduced from her manner of dressing. Ama would be remembered as the
first full flesh female minister from the North West Region and the first
Anglophone female cabinet minister that served for almost 10 years. After all,
she is still very young and her future is still in front of her, not behind.
But
with all these knacks, where did she go wrong?
Her
only wrong doing is that when she entered the Ministry of Arts and Culture,
there was dust everywhere and she took time to make it neat. Since in Cameroon,
everyone who is able to take a microphone and make some noise is considered a
musician, Ama thought it necessary to improve on their lots. Yet the same
lunatics have turned out to be her newly-forged critics dripping with Viagra
and venom, and they have a clearly identifiable target: Ama Tutu Muna. These bunches
were waiting
on Ama Muna like lascivious and hungry dogs, ready to attack her person, her
policies and her actions. Singing and jeering a stateswoman can only be
described as an act of ingrates just because she toppled the sordid order from
where they freely fed without any efforts.
Her new critics are angry- not hungry
yet- since the political limbo, no thanks to Ama for making this obscure
ministry enviable.
Try to make something out of their
baleful cacophony of distraught expressions of frustrations over Ama’s
leadership and you hit a confusing bend. To these fellows, all the good things
the ministry of Arts and Culture has pleasantly experienced since Ama came were
done by Oyono while everything bad has been by Ama Tutu yet these woe-criers
don't tell us that some of them have received millions as authors’ rights with
the noise they make of microphones. We mourn a nation where political
buffoonery became the norm.
Mafor
Yaah Yefon Ama Muna deserves respect for what she has done for this nation as a
politician. Whenever I think of these musical ingrates, their obscene nature of
arrogance is reflected in the way some of them were brought up and the way they
lived till date. The
problem with these artists is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
There is nothing basically wrong with some of them and the main problem is the
unwillingness or inability for them to put a leadership who is able to rise to
the responsibility and to the challenge which are the hallmarks of true
leadership.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
