Cameroon Reformation Party Chairman writes to Cameroon Concord

Foligar Kum Lang Chairman of the Cameroon Reformation Party United Kingdom

There are many sides of the man Paul Biya. At 81, his followers are calling on him to govern again for another 32 years. President Biya understands that corruption and embezzlement are crimes punishable by the Cameroon Penal Code.

As a senior political leader deep within the Sub Saharan region, Biya knows that fighting corruption in any advance democracy like Cameroon requires special investigation and prosecution run by decent and honest investigative Magistrates, policemen and the Gendarmarie including the press.

We of the Cameroon Reformation Party like President Biya are aware that such investigative unit should be created by an act of parliament and should have complete independence.

By some strange happenstance, the fight against corruption and embezzlement of public funds in Cameroon is now headed by a Head of State who in the past did ask for concrete evidence of corruption and blatantly refused to investigate illicit enrichment by men like Antoine N’timi, Edward Akame Mfoumou, Jean Baptist Bokam, Edzoa Titus, Martin Belinga Eboutou, Mendo Ze etc.

The present anti corruption drive by the ruling CPDM crime syndicate is nothing short of a joke. Corruption can never be fought and won without a proper judicial process with complete access granted to the media. By shunting the fight against corruption to CPDM oligarchs, Cameroon is slowly heading to its last journey of many dangers with Biya as president.

Most Cameroonians do not still grasp how an individual can steal one billion or even fifty billions. But if the media were given complete access to cover those trials, there would have been an open process to recover the large sums of money stolen.

The sudden deaths of five prominent Cameroon government officials as a result of their arbitrary arrests and detention at the Kondengui High Security prison has revealed the fact that the Biya government does not intend to fight corruption and embezzlement.

The late Ambassador Jerome Mendouga former Cameroon ambassador to the US, the late Catherine Abena, former Secretary of State at the Ministry of Secondary Education, the late Henri Engoulou, former Minister Delegate of the Budget, the late Andre Booto a Ngon, former Minister of Finance and the late Dieudonne Angoula former Director of Telecom at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication all died in very shameful circumstances.

The people of Cameroon were never given the opportunity to listen to these highly placed civil servants as they made their cases against allegations meted on them by the Republic of Cameroon.

We of the Cameroon Reformation Party believe that these untimely deaths shall eventually bring evil to bear on Cameroon. The unity of every nation depends on how the nation is governed and not by one man dishing-out numerous presidential decrees and empty slogans.

Mendouga, Catherine Abena, Engoulou, Angoula and Booto are all gone and Cameroon tax payer’s money still remains in foreign banks. CRP thinks the time for Cameroonians particularly those in the diaspora to take action is now.