Even as President Paul Biya, National President of the CPDM request with insistence that all Cameroonians contribute in their own small ways to the emergence of the nation by 2035, others have chosen to destroy and to derail well meaning Cameroonians from the reality. The latest victim of this macabre campaign is Franck Biya- a young, humble and peace loving Cameroonian, who despite his solid professional and university training and having all the opportunities and chances to walk the rungs of public administration, decided to go into the private sector where a lot of challenges tenacity and creativity is the watchword.
The Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement thinks like Albert Camus that there is more to be admired in man than to be chastised. The party abhors all attempts, all diabolical attempts where when somebody does not belong to one’s political party, he is seen to be evil. Convinced like Socrates that nobody freely becomes evil, the CPDM prefers to allow everybody that has been accused of any crime to the Cameroon Justice system which is independent to take a decision. This means that every accused person gets an opportunity to defend his/her self and a sovereign decision is taken.
Rather, some unscrupulous Cameroonians have taken upon themselves the role of the courts to be judging and sentencing people in the courts of public opinion without the smallest iota of shame. They simply identify, judge and condemn people based on their political leanings or their tribe or family of origin. When people have failed to win regularly organized elections they turn to other ultrapolitical maneuvers in order to convince their floating electorate that they still matter.
The Objective of These Tropical Robespierre
An exhaustive decoding of these tropical Robespierres is to enable a majority of Cameroonians believe that Operation Epervier is a politically motivated initiative where the regime goes for its enemies. They would want people to understand that this operation has nothing to do with the redressing of the economic situation and restoring a healthy financial situation. They fail to understand that this falls in line with the ‘rigour and moralization’ policy instituted since November 6, 1982. For quite some time they have been giving the impression that President Paul Biya is a satanic hero animated by the lone objective of perpetrating himself in power and has never offered anything to Cameroonians, not even roads, water, electricity, university, hospital, not even the restitution of Bakassi to Cameroon, not even optic fibre, talk less of primary and secondary schools. They see only the negatives in whatever Biya does.
But those who see things differently, those who support the politics of truth, responsibility, solidarity, fraternity and prosperity and liberty of President Paul Biya are seen as misfits and do not qualify to find favour in them. It is even inadmissible that some of these adversaries of the New Deal who have the tendency of pushing the incongruous beyond the limits and attack even people who only want to peacefully do their own businesses. After looking around in vain to crumble the political system, they have gone for Franck Biya. And in a vain attempt to criminalize him they have gone for tons of lies about his person.
The Unassuming Franck Biya
Franck Biya is a young brilliant and modest man who is successful as a business entrepreneur and many detractors do not take this lightly. With a rich background he still did his nursery, primary and secondary education in Cameroon leading to the obtention of certificates like the CEPEC, BEPC, Probatoire and BACC. He continued with his higher education studies in the United States of America where he obtained a B.A and later an MBA in Business Administration. In all, he has had a smooth educational and remarkable career. Can one honestly claim that he has only been spoon-fed. Not at all! After his education he chose the right path using the right means and methodology, the path of excellence. He took the pains to remain discrete and efficient, far from the ostentation that his privileged position of the son of a head of state confers on him naturally, as is obtained in other countries. After all, I am aware of other young people like him in other places who are constantly in the public eye.
Franck Biya took all the pains to be courteous, he would have decided to be arrogant, insolent, but he chose to be humble, meticulous, hardworking and creative. He took all the risk to create his own company, convinced like the Economist Joseph Schumpter that an entrepreneur is one who takes risks. In opting for this, he wanted to create more job opportunities for Cameroonians. In doing this, he also contributes by paying taxes. When he takes a loan from the bank, he does everything possible to settle the loan and on time, the same any economic operator worth his salt would do. He contributes like every youth of his age running a small and medium-size company to increasing the gross, domestic product. He laboriously cultivates his garden, as once said Voltaire. The financial operation imputed on him by certain misguided individuals who are against the New Deal and propagated by a certain media is part of a normal procedure that any entrepreneur can undertake whether he or she is a Franck Biya or M. Dupont in order to maximize his financial fortunes in all honesty and in total respect of commercial law. Mr. Jean Pierre Amougou Belinga has explained with all clarity and detail the mechanism of such operations in Cameroon Tribune of November 22, 2012 (P.7). It is needless today to come back to such explanations.
All the activism around the financial operations of Franck Biya gives the impression that Franck is a natural successor to his father. The truth I can tell you is that there is no natural successor in Cameroon . Natural succession takes place in a monarchy. Cameroon is not a monarchy. It is a democratic and liberal republic. Accession to the supreme magistracy, follows particular led down mechanisms- inscribed in the constitution.
I advise everybody to cultivate his garden by for example mobilizing citizens who have reached voting age to go get the names on electoral rolls, judiciously treat his documents, get involved in agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry, arts and craft, manage well his/her enterprise and others. Anybody who cultivates his garden judiciously, be it in politics, economy, social or cultural, will be recognized by the nation. And this is sufficient for a human being.
In the CPDM, this is the credo: that everybody should go down to work in peace and for love of county. Only Cameroonians, sovereign and masters of their destiny, would freely choose the successor of President Paul Biya, when history shall decide to come out of its quietude. Leave Franck Biya alone. He just needs but a peaceful atmosphere toi go about his business.
Translated from Cameroon Tribune, “Chronicle’s translation”
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