A recent Wikileaks cable on Cameroon has revealed to the bewilderment of Cameroonians that in the course of a discussion with former US ambassador to Cameroon HE Janet Garvey, President Paul Biya literally admitted that inertia and impunity in Cameroon have destroyed the country under his watch for the past 29 years. This is supported when he is quoted in the cable as saying some ministers, and notably Inoni Ephraim “have not stolen enough” to be arrested. The questions are how much, must a minister steal to be arrested. Despite the ongoing selective arrest of suspected embezzlers, corruption continues as before.
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Impunity in Cameroon: When ministers “have not stolen enough to be arrested”
Congo 1961- Cote D’Ivoire 2011: Lessons from the UN, European backed coup d ‘etat
By Aloysius AGENDIA
Just as in 1961
when the Congolese nationalist and 
Pa
n Africanist Patrice Lumumba was arrested with the complicity of Belgian
forces and UN troops and handed over to Moise Tshombe, and subsequently killed
under the auspices of CIA, Belgian forces and neo-colonial agent, Mombutu Seseko,
on April 11, 2011 the president of Cote D Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo was overthrown
by French troops in an assault at his residence that also included UN troops and rebels forces of
Alasane Ouattara. This coup d ‘etat was the completion of the earlier failed
coup d’état of 2002 and 2004. Just as President
Laurent was being humiliated on television, two French ships were already about
leaving Abidjan sea port with millions of barrels of oil. And that is just the beginning
of another drama that risk making Cote D Ivoire take the shape of DRC today i.e.
a banana republic. That is certainly not
my wish.
The imbroglio in Cote D Ivoire: A function of servitude, corruption and unpatriotism
By Aloysius AGENDIA
I have read with a lot of interest and in different forums various stance in relations to the recent and ongoing problems in Cote D Ivoire and on the problems plaguing Africa in general. I have read also the insistence that the only solution is for Africans take their destiny in their own hands and stop blaming people. Quite a good number of those views are true but generally, the positions that seem to apportion the blame on African ordinary citizens are wrong and do not help our cause in anyway. Does identifying the real cause of a problem constitute apportioning blame unnecessarily? I am yet to be clarified on that. At the end of the article is my response to the stance taken by Dr. Christopher Fomunyoh on the ongoing election imbroglio in Cote D Ivoire. Dr Chris Fomunyoh is Africa Director of the National Democratic Institute and presidential aspirant in Cameroon for the upcoming polls in 2011.
Why grant asylum to economic and political criminals?
Take look at history and you will realise that several people who have plundered various African countries with or without the complicity of western, fellow African and Asian country leaders either in the domain of politics and the economy, have either died out of their country of origin or be…
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