The secret plan of tribal circles around Paul Biya

Behind the official statements of support and loyalty which emanate from the tribal circles around the president of Cameroon are hiding of competitors to the throne who will not hesitate to eject if the opportunity presented itself.

Since the return of the multiparty system in Cameroon in the years 90, the tribal circles around President Paul Biya has not ceased to show that they are willing to do everything, including the civil war, to maintain power.

So every time power has seem to evade them, they have not hesitated to play with fire, by raising the spectre of the division according to the criteria of ethnic differentiation, provoked and maintained a climate of stinky suspicion, to achieve their purposes.

It is in this context that we must place their last exit of the Tuesday, September 02, which they called "the call of the Lekie", the name of a department close to Yaounde, known for its loyalty to the president.

The exact title of the document initialed by a minister and other personalities: "Call of the Lekie for a total war against the Islamist sect and foreign and its complicity in Cameroon", which aroused passionate reactions, recalls as well as the Cameroon as its president had stated May in Paris at the end of the mini-summit dedicated to Boko Haram under the leadership of Francois Hollande - facing a threat warrior from abroad, in this case the neighboring Nigeria.

Further, the document also says that in their excesses murder on the Cameroonian territory, the Islamists - who have made the fight against the values of the western civilization their leitmotif- benefit from local support.

It is in the facts, since one of the signatories of the document is found to be a member of the government in full exercise of its functions, a formalization of the rumour maintained since a few weeks ago, according to which behind the veil Islamist, Kansi is an armed insurrection part of the Far North Cameroon to seize power.

Further, the document made public after a confabulation in Obala, a small town in the Lekie explicitly under the negative form, the intentions of those who maneuver in the shade, to cease power from Paul Biya. Now to the "political blackmail akin to an attempt of hostage-taking or destabilization of the institutions of the Republic or to a political conspiracy, inspired by various purposes, including the personal political ambitions or regionalist"

They are the ones that the text as a local newspaper has called "document detonating right out of the laboratory of hatred" designated as enemies to shoot. If the charge of conspiracy which they are as well the subject is very serious, it seems however dubious, having regard to the reality on the ground.

It is indeed difficult to admit that influential people, engaged in a rebellion to take power adopt the strategy at the time ruinous, stupid and suicidal, to begin by devastating the territory which could serve as their fallback base.

Up here in effect, only the populations of the North Cameroon have paid a heavy price in the incursions of the Islamists, who have slain dozens of them, set fire in the schools of their children, destroyed or looted their property. The summit of power in fact shows more and groggier, absent, hesitant and mute as if by its deafening silence it is declared package and sought lessee for a place obviously vacant.

In this context, the tribal circles around Paul Biya, strutted to their benefit, have again emerged from the old ruse of the stigma of a part of the political class and, therefore, in the populations which they would be favorable, to retain power, at the price of a dangerous diversion.

At the head of the list of signatories to the "Appeal of Lekie", there are two political personalities originating in the center of the country, the political bastion of Paul Biya: the minister delegate at the superior control of the State, Henri Eyebe from Ayissi and the irremovable chairman of the parliamentary group in the National Assembly of the CPDM in power, Jean Bernard Ndongo Essomba.

They are the same people who since the failed coup of April 1984 against Paul Biya openly undermine the emergence of a national consciousness, in the sole purpose of maintaining power.

In the 90s, when the country was very close to know the political alternation by the track of the polls, they ruthlessly vilified suspected nationals of the west, Bamilekes and Anglophones who had massively followed the sling against the power and vote for the opposition.

The word "Anglo-Bami ", collectively designate to those who called for the change in all their wishes. Persecution was triggered against them and many traders in Bamiléké were expelled from the south of the country while the hordes manipulated looting their property.