Letter from Buea to Yaounde

Dear Ngwa,

There you go again.Very soon, you will start pushing blame. But know that when anybody who becomes your friend soon falls out with you, or you soon fall out with them, it means you are the problem.

And it is a bigger problem if you don’t realise that you are the problem. Then, maybe, one of them should tell you to consult a psychiatrist.

Why is it that the Nkunkuma’s friends of yesterday are all his enemies today? And, is there any guarantee that those who are claiming to be his friends today will not become his enemies tomorrow? I pity those who are running their mouths and playing his apologists today, because they will join the others in Siberia, nay,Kondengui, in the not-too-distant future.

As I have observed, you guys running the affairs in this geo-socio-polarised and fragmented polity called Cameroon, need to be all literally swept and put into a huge asylum, for the rest of the people to have their freedom. There seems to be something terribly and generally wrong with you in Government.

If you doubt me, visit Muyuka and you would see for yourself that there is really madness within your party and its authorities, agents and assigns.

How can a Mayor construct a grandstand along a Trunk ‘A’ road and major thoroughfare like the Buea – Kumba highway with its heavy and speeding traffic.

And you and my children will be expected to march there on February 11 or you and me on May 20. Is that not a man-made disaster waiting to happen - or better still - begging to happen? Who is the administrator that endorsed such a project? Where are the representatives of the people of that area who could not reject such a project? Find out and tell me, Ngwa.

I hear the people up country; men, women and children, came out in their numbers and became roadmen and women. I hear they were filling the potholesand maintaining the roads and gutters with their hands, until the Government ashamedly and reluctantly rolled out machines to do the roads or asked contractors to do them.

Ngwa, your silence for all this time is very suspicious. You were surely taking part in the works to tinker a form of educational system that is neither Francophone nor Anglophone in the name of Harmonised Higher Education.

I hear that your Francophone minders want to give us another raw deal in the name of harmonising University Education? God forbid! They should dare that.

Just like they attempted it with our cherished Common Law system and Anglophone lawyers stood up like one man and condemned it, we, the parents, are ready to face the consequences. We, together with teachers, have resolved to stand up like one man and fight this disguised assimilation. Our Common Law and our Education are the only things left of our Anglo-Saxon culture.

How do these people reason? You would think they have fallen in love with our Anglo-Saxon educational system that is why they are flooding our schools with their children. Yet, they are at the same time trying to destroy it.

That will happen only over our dead bodies, Ngwa. Tell them!

I am looking forward to hearing from you that you have warned them against that.

Yours sincerely,

Mbella