The Examination Executive Committee, EEC, is the highest academic organ of the GCE Board. It is this body which determines what should be the essential curriculum orientation of Anglo-Saxon education in Cameroon.
It determines the quality of Anglo-Saxon exams and validates the GCE exams before they are published. It is the link between what is taught and what is learnt so as to assess what is learnt. So what are Francophones doing in this Committee? To what extent do they master Anglo-Saxon education to find themselves in such a decision making organ? I know that the statutes of the GCE Board say that only persons who did Anglo-Saxon education and are deemed to be quite knowledgeable in it can accede to such high positions in the GCE Board. So what are Francophonese doing there? These are the questions any discerning citizen of Southern Cameroons should be asking.
Is it not because the Francophones have infiltrated us right into our bedrooms with the sole purpose of running us over that they now are the people deciding our educational future? It is not because they are there that the GCE Board has been forced to organise French-oriented exams like BAC for almost 20 years now? The BAC exam was introduced by Dr. Omer Weyi Yembe when he and Dr. Herbert Nganjo Endeley worked with the Government to throw Mr. Azong Wara out of the GCE Board.
It was the trade-off between these individuals and the Government of La Republique du Cameroun: “I give you the position of Chairman and Registrar of the GCE Board and in exchange you allow us the Francophones to manage and run the GCE Board as we like.” Dr. Yembe was even heard saying (way back in 1997, after they helped the regime in Yaounde to hijack the GCE Board) that if you don’t allow the Francophones to be in the decision making, they will not give money to the GCE Board. And those Francophones who kept lurking around the GCE Board at that time were heard saying “C’est nous qui payons, nous devonsgerer”.
So this means that the Government of Paul Biya, pillages Southern Cameroons; they exploit our resources with careless abandon, use their demographic superiority to dominate power and impoverish the people of Southern Cameroon; leaving us in a state of beggarliness and bondage. They have destroyed our economic system: the Cameroon Bank, the Railway Station in Kumba, Power cam, our electricity corporation, our Produce Marketing Board, PMO, and more, and even now, they are destroying the GCE Board which we fought a three year battle to obtain.
Francophones like a certain Evelyn Mpoudi Ngole, who are always on the EEC of the GCE Board, are the agents with which the regime in Yaounde is messing up the GCE.
She is the principal character who has now introduced another educational obscenity into the GCE (after the other obnoxious concoction called BAC in English) called French for Francophones or bilingual GCE, which has now changed its name into Intensive French.
Even the present Registrar, Humphrey Monono, does not understand what this contraption means. But he does not have the courage to oppose it. Unlike 20 years ago when Anglophones would have stood up like one man and refuse such nonsense, we just watch now as our system is being gradually degraded by people whose real policy is to wipe out the Anglo-Saxon component of this country.
The present Registrar does not have the pluck to resist such infiltration, nor even to get his Government to pay teachers’ allowances because the regime has him by the balls. He is one of the lynch pins of the regime with which they pollute and soil the hopes and plans for the future of Southern Cameroons.
The regime has put him up and so if he rejects them now, they will simply find an excuse to nail him! Some opinions hold that he is even an accomplice of the regime in its delaying of the examiners allowances because he allowed teachers to have a banquet in Fru Ndi’s residence. Monono simply cannot hide his disdain even for the crumbled SDF party. He is an unapologetic “Bakweriphone” or at most, a “Southwestophone”.
However, he and all those other sons and daughters of Southern Cameroons who collaborate with La Republique to destroy the hopes and dreams of the Southern Cameroonian people should know that their actions neither help them as individuals, nor their tribes, nor anybody of Southern Cameroonian origin.
This is because the regime’s ultimate objective is to bring those hybrid Cameroonians they are forming (Francophone by birth and origin, but Anglophone by education) to fill all positions meant for Southern Cameroonians in this Paul Biya’s contraption called Cameroon. So Monono should not think that he is working for his Bakweri tribe, or for “his” Southwest.
Eventually it will be people like Madam Mpoudi Ngole who will become the Registrar of the GCE Board and Monono might then offer a homecoming for her somewhere in Edea where she hails from. The regime is confident that it has every weapon with which to completely annihilate the Southern Cameroonian component which others abusively refer to as the Anglophone in this country and so it is preparing its own brand of citizens to be the Cameroon of the future. Only the intensity, with which they are contriving to teach French to our Southern Cameroonian children, right from nursery school, tells you that this regime means business. These are its weapons of colonisation.
The same holds for the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea, Dr Nalova Lyonga, who is reported to be helping to “Francophonise” the HTTTC in Kumba by making the entrance exams into the school easier for Francophone students. After all her sister, Dorothy Njeuma did so for the University of Buea by making it easier for Francophones to get admission than Southern Cameroonians.
The view of this writer is that the Nalova is under pressure from the regime in Yaounde to do their bidding, just like Monono is said to have explained that he was under pressure to allow malpractice to happen at this years’ GCE exams. And even though she knows that her position on the HTTTC entrance exam will not go down well with the people of Southern Cameroon, she does not have the pluck to stand up and say NO to the regime. Dr Nalova taught me in the University of Yaounde and stood out as an astute no-nonsense woman.
Unfortunately, she has turned out to be just another lackey of Biya’s regime. Such high degree of sycophancy, especially from graduates of reputed foreign universities makes a mockery of such universities and even of university studies as a whole.
The late Professor Benard Nsokika Fonlon would have supported me in this assertion! Some years ago, students of the Buea University went on rampage because they wrote the entrance exam into the school of health. But the regime imposed its own candidates on the list of successful candidates who never even wrote the exam. The Vice Chancellor at the time, Professor Lambi said NO to this irregularity and was regularly sacked by this regime which has absolutely no regard for uprightness, decency and values.
It must always be remembered that it was because Anglophone students of the erstwhile University of Yaounde said NO to this regime, that the University of Buea was created in 1991; that it was because the teachers association TAC, led by Azong Wara said NO to this regime that the GCE Board was created in 1993.
These two institutions have then fallen back into the hands of apologists of Mr. Biya’s cabal and the Buea University which used to be “the place to be” has now become “the cesspit to avoid”. Like Monono, Nalova should know that she is not working to bequeath this university to anybody but to the colonialist Francophone regime of Mr Biya as explained above.
Let us just say that Foncha and Muna who led us into this unholy union with La Republique, thought they were doing good, but when they found that it was a poisoned apple, they had the opportunity 20 years ago to say their “mea culpa” to the betrayed people of Southern Cameroon before they died.
All those citizens of Southern Cameroon who hold appointed positions in the regime of the coloniser; those CPDM people who function with this regime without loudly proclaiming the designed plan of La Republique to annihilate Southern Cameroons, may not have that grace to apologise to their people (like Foncha and Muna did) when their own time shall come; and the people of Southern Cameroon will be all the worse for it.
Yet, they dare not think that it is impossible to loudly take the SCNC stand while serving the colonial master because there is one clear example in Professor Verkijika Fanso who is a prolific writer and lecturer, but who does not hide his pro-Southern Cameroons stand. Any of them who cannot emulate Fanso’s example are guilty of criminal docility and complicity with their oppressor.
