DIEUDONNÉ ESSOMBA WRITES:
Somebweeks back, we brought you a report about Dieudonné Essomba a very sound minded Francophone of Bulu - Beti extraction where he warned La republique time and again that they will never win the war, he tagged it as "Stupid war " actually they declared on Ambazonia. He told LRC without chewing his words that these Ambazonians you see today sooner or later you will see them no more. He quotes examples of South Sudan etc and say Ambazonians are in a legitimate fight which to them is an ideology and that no army in the world has won such a war.
That was just a reminder of Dieudonne Essomba's story we handled earlier,
Today he writes on the
"THE SAD LONELINESS OF GOVERNMENT".
He Says, and I read..
I have repeatedly warned the Government about its University Dons and their Advice.
Our academics have rarely gone to school for the beauty of knowledge. For the overwhelming majority, it is the desire to come and swagger with their degrees that would give them primacy to have the honours of the Nation and to occupy the highest administrative positions to manage the budget. The tragic consequence is that they do not work to improve themselves and give practical content to their knowledge. They recite books, theories and authors and this is what they call "knowledge", but they do not care about the practical content of their knowledge. But they do not care about the operational usefulness of this bookish knowledge for their country.
As long as the country is doing well, you see them pontificating on the media... but at the slightest difficulty, they flee without warning. One of the illustrations of this situation he highlighted is the terrible economic crisis in which Cameroon is desperately struggling. In his words, he said, This crisis, I announced since 2012 when I noticed that the Development Programme of Cameroon did not respect the balances and especially, the permanent threat of underdeveloped economies represented by the terrible ''External Counterpart Lock''. Now, I will explain this concept once again: a country can only develop if it buys from the outside to match what it sells. Otherwise, it gets into debt and runs the risk of an adjustment. Consequently, a country's development only makes sense if it maintains its external balances.
ONYEE, your right because you can't have a growth policy without worrying about how the income generated will be used. In other words, you have to make sure that this additional income is directed towards the consumption of local goods, and not towards massive imports. If you don't take this precaution, what will happen? Well, you will indeed have growth, but at the cost of an explosive trade deficit and debt. And that is exactly what is happening in Cameroon!
It is in view of this phenomenon that Dieudonne Essomba proposed the creation of a binary currency that would forcibly block part of the income generated by growth and direct it towards local production. Since Cameroon has neither a monetary policy nor a trade policy with regard to the EPAs and the WTO, binarisation was the only way in which we could have neutralised the External Counterparty Lock and escaped the crisis. Unfortunately, He was savagely opposed by those academics who inspired and advised this famous, totally irrational and one-armed "Great Ambitions Programme".
Another aspect highlighted by Dieudonne Essomba is Government's loneliness , he says "this famous Anglophone crisis that is destroying Cameroon. Our country is not an exception in the world and we do not have the monopoly of the Secessions. The study of secession movements shows that we can have two types of results:
-either the Secession is resolved, by force or by political concessions
-or it wins and obtains separation.
To solve this problem, one should not assume that the Government will win, because Nigeria has defeated the Biafran secession! Because, if Nigeria did it, Sudan failed to defeat the South Sudanese secession and Ethiopia gave in to Eritrea.
We should therefore not assume a victory for the central state, because nothing tells us that the case of Ambazonia is closer to Biafra than to South Sudan!".
It is these errors of analysis supported by high-profile academics that have pushed the Government into this bloody abyss where Cameroonian youth are drowning. As I said from the outset, against these enlightened academics who were calling for my arrest, the Anglophone crisis is not one that can be solved within the framework of a unitary state. It is a secession that is too big since it extends over 42,000 km2 and embraces 20 percent of the population. Secondly, it has obvious historical foundations since Southern Cameroon had a different colonial history and existed as a federated state.
You cannot therefore obliterate these realities overnight on the basis of a selective reading of history and legal and institutional fiddling. It was clearly a lie to believe that Anglophones could be absorbed into a unitary state and such a project was totally unrealistic. Cameroon's academics, through abstruse quotations and abracadabra theories, convinced the government that all it had to do was to use force. By using convoluted expressions such as 'third category force' or fancy words, they gave the secession a totally romantic vision of a small movement that could be reduced by a squad of gendarmes. Now that Secession is revealed in its true nature as a fierce and ruthless bloody war waged by people presenting themselves as an army of liberation against the occupying forces, these academics have disappeared.
They are nowhere to be seen. Except two:
-Owona Nguini who has exchanged his status as a high strategist teaching at the Ecole de Guerre for that of coaching the Indomitable Lions
-Edouard Bokagne who became an exegete of the Bible.
