WAY FORWARD IS NOT BACKWARDS
Holy Wata Dey, by Deacon TASSANG Wilfred,
Understanding the Wiles of the Enemy
“Common sense demands that when an enemy like Yaoundé says go to the left, you should in fact go right; when he says come, run for your life if it is dear to you.* This lesson I learned long ago. We can always understand a man's mindset from his favorite statements and actions or reactions to situations. "Un ne shonze, palequip qui ganeh", is a typical system phraseology within the Yaoundé junta. As simple as it appears, it means everything about how the system works. *"Gagne"* in this statement means anything that keeps Paul Biya in power, not, and especially, not in the interest of the people. Not to change the team that wins also means not to change the winning strategy.
What are the strategies that Yaoundé has used over and again that have maintained the junta in power for this long? Understanding these might also open the eyes of the struggle to how the enemy has used us to delay the hands of the clock. As one of the guest speakers at the SDF 25th anniversary workshop in Bamenda on May 26th 2015, I was charged with telling the SDF party present why the party had fallen from grace to grass. On that occasion, I looked at Chairman Fru Ndi in the eyes and told him how he had become the number one reason for the party's decline. Of course I gave him reasons no one present could refute. The hall that was in constant applause when I painted the glowing hay days of the party slummed into graveyard silence when I took on Daddy Chairman.
At the end of the workshop, many of the party's top brass came over, shadowed by the crowd, to say *"thank you Sir."* With hindsight, I can now say that I didn't tell the entire truth. Those same people who came along to shake my hand were themselves the problem of the party, at least, their greed and uncontrollable quest for power against the good of the commonwealth were aspects of the problem. Yaoundé has always known this and used it for good effect then against the party, and is using it even much more today against the revolution. The name of the game is *"divide and rule."* Remember "come no go?" It came like a joke more than 25 years ago, sounded childish, but its effects are felt even today. I am talking about divide and rule. Let me tell you a little anecdote. Some time in 2011 when *Club2020, (a political column which Yours Patriotically ran in "the Post" newspaper), was pushing the SDF party to consider Joshua Osih and Kah Wallah as the party's possible candidates for that year's presidential elections, something happened that exposed Yaoundé to me at dusk.
One evening, I received a call from Kah Wallah and we met at Jua Hotel, on Station Hill Bamenda. Amongst other people present in that meeting was the proprietor himself, the Hon. Paulinus Jua. It didn't take long for Lady Wallah to tell her story. In a few words, some very highly placed personalities within the ruling party and government had approached her and convinced her to put up her candidature in the upcoming elections. They would bankroll her campaign and support her."* Kah Wallah had yielded; that was the purpose of that meeting. To put up her candidature, she had to resign from the party. That was how a rising star was pulled down. Another split. The timing couldn't have been better. I didn't specifically know what my sister expected from me, but I Ieft that meeting disappointed; Yaoundé had gotten this one too, so cheaply.
Kah Wallah was not the first party stalwart to fall to this lowly trick played by Yaoundé. The same thing had happened to Ni Big Ben when the French deceived him and abandoned him during the campaigns. Unfortunately, gullible self-seeking people never learn. Those who know Kah Wallah also know that she will be a key asset in any outfit she joins. She is a strategist, and a great one, and runs an NGO called *"Strategies."* The first time I met her was at my first trade union training workshop in Yaoundé about ten years before the Jua Hotel meeting, (which workshop she facilitated) and I left convinced the lady had a lot to offer. Take away from the party its chief strategist at the eve of elections, and you have dealt a deadly blow. And Yaoundé did. And once more, the SDF was greatly weakened. How is this game played? As you know the editorial is me reading articles that undaunted finds interesting and educative enough for every Ambazonian to hear, so just in case you want to see more of such beautiful articles, find it at our website at
