Biya’s gov’t has outlived its usefulness – SDF MP

The group leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) party of the National Assembly, Hon Joseph Banadzem has declared that “the Biya government has outlived its usefulness and thus can no longer deliver good results to citizens".

He therefore called on voters to massively register on the electoral lists in order to cast a sanction vote on the CPDM-run government in the forthcoming elections.

Speaking to The SUN at the dawn of the June Ordinary Session of Parliament, the SDF Parliamentary Group Leader at the National Assembly hammered that “I don’t know how a regime which has failed in 30 years to provide its citizens with simple portable water can feed people with dreams that they can lead Cameroon into an emerging country. That is impossible under this regime. These very incompetent people created CAMAIR and sank it and now they came up with CAMAIRCO and are still sinking it. I am therefore appealing on voters to give the SDF party a chance with majority in Parliament through ballot box so that we can propose something else.”

Acknowledging that Cameroon is passing through serious energy crisis, Hon Joseph Banadzem decried that “We have been on energy crisis for years but this regime has absolutely refused to tackle the challenges despite the billions of francs spent on mammoth programmes, the basic needs of the people are not met".

"Some of us at individual levels have tried to show government the way. You may remember my experiences of hydroelectricity in Kumbo for the past 9 years and the people there do not go through these problems. So there are solutions to such energy crisis but we are faced with an incompetent government which has absolutely decided to close their eyes and ears to the people’s grievances”, he continued.

The MP disclosed that the SDF will redeposit its private member’s bill on amendment of the electoral law which was once tabled before it suffered from outright rejection from the CPDM majority. “We are also looking forward to re-filing another private member bill on dual nationality which equally suffered from a rejection.”

Hon Joseph Banadzem qualified the ring road promise of President Biya as a mere farce and said Bamanda like nearly all other parts of the country is suffering from poor road networks for the past 30 years under the present regime.