Government Faulted For Making Maurice Kamto A Hero!

- Rene Sadi’s Press Brief Denounced For Replicating 1990 Launch of SDF

By Musa Isa

Maurice Kamto

Rene Emmanuel Sadi, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization MINATD has tried to clarify on government’s position in blocking the alleged launch of a new political party. Rene Sadi addressed pressmen a day after Maurice Kamto, a former member of government was blocked from presenting the manifesto of his new political party - the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, CRM, at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel last Tuesday August 13, 2012. The move has since received criticisms from political analysts, who pinpoint the fact that the MINATD boss had actually aggrandized what would have been low keyed.

Journalists and sympathizers of the ex-member of government had stormed the Yaounde Hilton Hotel to be briefed. But as Chronicle gathered, authorities had allegedly informed the management of Hilton, not to allow the hotel for such. Maurice Kamto and his folk were thus not provided access into one of the halls, which was blocked, with no lighting and air condition systems. One of the spokesmen read out a prepared release, before Kamto was carted out of the hotel, in haste, escorted by policemen.

Clad in a white Hausa Boubou, Maurice Kamto was whisked-off in his car to an unknown destination. Journalists were thereafter merely told that he will address the press later at the French embassy at Olezoa. Policemen took Hilton hotel hostage until Maurice Kamto’s departure was assured.

Reacting to the disruption a day after, Rene Sadi told newsmen that the initial intentions of the press conclave had been derailed. Reason why the Divisional Officer for Yaounde III accompanied by policemen, ensured that things were actualized in line with the request. Critics have lashed at Minister Sadi, for behaving in same way the SDF was launched in 1990.

The MINATD boss said Alain Fogue Tedom, Chairman of Mouvement pour la Renaissance du Cameroun, MRC applied through the Yaounde III DO last August 7, 2012, for authorization for a political manifestation through a press conference at Hilton. But said, the objective was violated. He said Fogue had instead transformed it into the launching of the activities of a coalition of political parties and civil society personalities.

Minister Sadi said Cameroon being a state of law could not see the violation of the law. He posited that Maurice Kamto was not even mentioned to be one of the participants of the activities of the day. He said this gives reason why the Yaounde III DO did not have to receive any instruction even from the SDO or he, (the Minister) to embargo its holdings.

However, here is the press statement read out in darkness, launching Maurice Kamto’s Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) last August 13, 2012:

Press Conference, August 13th 2013 At The Occasion Of The Launching Of, The Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM)

Official Declaration

“United We Stand, Divided We Fall”

- In face of the vital challenges for the Recovery and the Prosperity of Cameroon;

- Considering that fifty-two years after “independence”, a state of moral, political, economic, social and cultural misery still remains entrenched deep in our Country;

Considering the evident inability of the opposition spectra, taken separately, to achieve a true change of this horrendous system running this country;

- Considering the pressing message from the Cameroon grass roots, inviting political actors, promoters of a real alternative, to unite and to melt themselves within the framework of a robust political organization, established throughout the country and within the diaspora;

- Considering the obstacles related to individual selfishness and all sort of schemes of division, all things which for too long have blocked all attempts for the unity of the opposition forces;

- Considering the need for consolidating the base of national unity hindered by the practices of division and hatred between communities, by finding in the framework of new dynamics, adequate and concerted answers to the concerns expressed in particular by the populations from the English mainly speaking regions of the country;

- Considering the need for promoting the republican values in particular those for justice, integrity, hard work, fraternity, freedom, and the imperious necessity to impel a powerful national awakening of the frightening challenges which are standing up in front of Cameroon;

- Conscious of the urgency to mobilize and set in movement the whole kinetic energies and other goodwill in the country and the diaspora, to take up the challenges for a solid and durable economic take-off, ensuring a shared prosperity inside and a power respected outside;

- Affirming our will to place the management of the Cameroon commonwealth under the sign of probity and governance;

We, political parties, organizations and high profile personalities of the civil society, men, women and the youth, coming from various socio-cultural, linguistic and professional horizons, have by mutual agreement, and in a patriotic fervor, decided to merge our structures and our capacities, thus creating a major political party called “Cameroon Renaissance Movement” in acronym, CRM.

The Movement for the Renaissance of Cameroon is structured around a pragmatic ideology carried by republican, patriotic and panafricanist values on the political field, freedom of enterprise within a framework secured by the State strategist of the economic plan, and deep humanism laying on the principles of a powerful national solidarity and the equal share of the fruits of national prosperity on the social field. Here, it is about the great synthesis of principal currents of thought which have structured the progress of people throughout the history and which underlies the Great Vision of the national Renaissance.

As of today, the Cameroon Renaissance Movement invites all Cameroonians for mobilization.

We must abandon our fears!

We must set aside our selfishness!

We must overcome the diktats of fatalism!

Let us unite and let us act!

May God bless our country!

Long live Cameroon!

The President of the Provisional Coordination of the MRC Yaoundé, on August 13th, 2012