The National Executive Committee, NEC, of the Social Democratic Front, SDF party, has told President Paul Biya to stop roaming from one country to another.
Prior to his return to Cameroon over the weekend after a long absence from home, President Paul Biya’s prolonged stay abroad, featured on the agenda of the NEC meeting that was held from August 30-31.
The NEC, in a two-page ‘special resolution’, noted with dismay that the country is undergoing a chain of crisis coming from all fronts and Biya is nowhere to be found.
“Besides declaring war on Boko Haram, President Biya has taken to going abroad and roaming from country to country and abandoning his role as Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces,” means he is deserting his duties, the resolution observed.
The resolution, signed by the SDF National Chairman, Ni John Fru Ndi, states that, with the escalation of Boko Haram attacks in the Far North, resulting in loss of lives and property and the massive recruitment of Cameroonian youth to frustrate Biya's regime, coupled with the Ebola scare;they expected that the President Biya would gather courage and invited religious, traditional and political leaders to seek solutions to these problems.
“The fact that in the circumstances of the ongoing crisis, the Biya regime decides to deal with this perilous national crisis without consultation of the major political forces and other stakeholders …, he should take full cognizance of the social, political and cultural dimension of the current crisis hitting Cameroon,” otherwise “the Biya regime will be held accountable for the imminent collapse of our nation,” stated the resolution.
According to the SDF, the Biya regime’s continuous and sustained efforts to block any hopes of a peaceful and democratic political transition in Cameroon has been characterised by the manipulation of the constitution in order to perpetrate himself in power, electoral fraud, issuance of National Identity Cards to non-nationals for electoral fraud, advanced corruption and embezzlement in all sectors, total destruction of the moral fibre of the State, total absence of justice and the reign of impurity.
The SDF party argues that the generalised hopelessness of the youth has exposed them to all types of undesirable and unfortunate options.
The critical social and economic situation of Cameroon, considering the fact that the State has been placed under abject poverty engendered by Biya and his cohorts for the past three decades, observes the SDF. They can’t understand why, with the highest budget allocated to the military, Biya is still unable to “equip, train and motivate our defence forces adequately to face today’s challenges.”
Fru Ndi, nevertheless, appealed to the international community to join the SDF to arrest the situation.
