Letter from Yaoundé to Buea

Dear Mbella,

After weeks of procrastination, you finally broke the impasse. But let me tell you that writing is not a burden.

It is quite a relieving venture, as you put down your thoughts and make your voice heard on paper as Edward Albee says.

Lest I forget, let me tell you that the noose is tightening up on the baby politician who ran his mouth over there.

How could he insult Fako King Makers? Let us wait and see how he faces the wrath of Efassa Moto. If he were not just a parvenu, an academic “Catherine the Great” and a political simpleton, he would not have insulted the honourable woman.

If he were anybody with baby sense decency, he would have restrained himself from talking about the woman’s “Jerusalem” which he claims is a watery mess. He has ignited war and every arrangement has been made for his political funeral.

I hear the Star Building tenant is telling everyone who cares to listen that he does not like journalists.

But as head of the ngumba, he does not need to like journalists to be able to work with them in the heavy task of nation-building.

As soon as he got into that house, private journalists were stopped from covering anything there. In his blind press phobia, he has refused to see that his boss is instead putting down barriers for the private press to cover the Unity House.

By his words and actions towards journalists, the leader of the Kwifoin is exposing himself as one of the detractors against President Biya’s bid to drive Cameroon to emergence in 2035.

This is so because Cameroon cannot achieve this vision without communication and communication cannot be effective without the mass media that the man hates passionately.

So, what he is doing is sheer political suicide that is paving a superhighway for nemesis. He is behaving like one stupid person who beheaded himself because of one malicious louse.

The fact that one tabloid claimed that he beat up his “Marie Antoinette” over a bottle of wine, is no reason to dismiss the entire corps.

Let him know that no man, no politician, no matter how powerful or vicious he or she is, can win a war against the press.

The all powerful Richard Nixon declared his disdain for the press by saying that journalists are a tiny fraternity of privileged men and women elected by no one.

But before long, this very tiny fraternity of privileged people caused him to quit the political stage on a very dirty slate.

Mola, I have always told you that the land of crabs and lobsters is a modern state wherein the all powerful executive is the keeper of the legislative and the judiciary.

That is why it is Etoudi that decides who is tried for the chopping of public funds or not. Before long, Etoudi will become a den of hardened criminals.

Why did the ngumba man stop the court from trying a suspected hardened criminal at Etoudi who administered “injustice” to huge sums of State funds a few years ago?

Would such a move not lay credence to claims by critics that corruption is the life-wire of the New Deal?

By the way, I hear Ngong Tax is finally enjoying the dungeons for enjoying public funds as SDO of Upper Sanaga.

If you don’t know Ngong Tax or Ngong Ndum, ask the Fundong people. These people wrecked havoc there many years ago. But it is now that nemesis is catching up with them.

I take exception to the awarawara press that takes delight in commenting on the content of a letter that is still in the envelop. The bill tabled last Monday at the hand-clapping house has nothing to do with the much talked about Constitutional amendment.

The amendment bill may come, but not in an ordinary session. What was tabled is another controversial bill on the harmonisation of the Penal Code.

Yet the semantic circumference of harmonisation, to the frogs, goes beyond what it is supposed to be. So Anglicans must be very vigilant. The legal and educational systems are part of a people’s culture and should not be mutilated in anyway.

You see Mola, what goes around comes around. The statement is the pay that the Kadiye is having for his avarice. This drives home the message that the soapbox is a chopping arrangement and nothing else.

Let’s be decent for once and be each other’s keeper.

Yours Sincerely, Ngwa