Cameroonians know their priorities – Fru Ndi to Biya

The National Chairman of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), John Fru Ndi has warned President Biya not to take Cameroonians for granted because they know what they want and how to go about it.

Fru Ndi, the leader of the leading opposition party in Cameroon, who spoke to the Buea-based English Language bi-weekly newspaper, The Post, said acute problems plaguing Cameroonians such as hikes in fuel prices, food shortages, bad roads, high electricity and water bills might just be what will break the ‘camel’s back’.

“Look at the sorry state of our roads. Is it not the same Biya who said he was personally going to supervise the tarring of the Ring Road?” Fru Ndi is quoted as asking. He was very bitter that the creation of tollgates, an idea he said the SDF hatched has failed to produce desired results. This, he said, is because the money collected from tollgates to be used in maintaining and constructing roads is embezzled by government officials.

The SDF Chairman, The Cameroon Journal gathered, was reacting to Biya’s appeal for an international coalition to save Lake Chad and Congo Basin Forest during the UN Conference on climate change in Paris, early this week.

“There are times I am tempted to believe that Biya has very bad advisers because he should have been apologetic that he denied the protection of water catchments, only to turn round and honour an invitation to attend a world summit on climate change.”

Ndi repeated his resolve against joining the Biya’s government – the “SDF will not join the government to collapse along with it.”

The SDF, he added, has its programme which it will execute to liberate suffering Cameroonians as soon as the party takes over power with or without Joining the Biya gov’t is out of discussion he said, because Biya’s intention is to ridicule the SDF and those who will accept to join such a government.

“Can you tell me what changes the Belo Boubas have effected apart from swelling their pockets,” he asked.