a écrit le 26 novembre 2016 à 7h00 @TPO (Allemagne) le 26/11/2016 Ã 03:59
I often keep my views on this forum to football but your comment requires that I break that self imposed boundary. I am not a member of the SCNC neither do I condone violence by people expressing their views or gratuitous brutality from security forces, as we have seen in Bamenda recently. However, statements like yours are what help to fuel feelings of animosity among people who hail from what once was British Southern Cameroons. Such statements based on views that do not see the whole picture or a lack of historical knowledge is the firewood that activist use to burn your much vaunted national unity.
Could you kindly tell me the first and the last time that a Minister of Finance, a Minister of Territorial Administration, a Minister of Defence, a Minister of Education, the Secretary General (not deputy) at the Presidency, DGSN, Minister of Foreign Affairs, was a person hailing from the former West Cameroon? Is it that there are no competent people from that part of Cameroon to handle such issues of national importance? If a man or woman hailing from former East Cameroon could be ambassador of Cameroon in the United States of America, what makes it so impossible for one from former West Cameroon to be ambassador to France?
Mind you, what the so-called Anglophones are protesting about is not posts and appointments. Those are just symptoms or the visible side of a deeper and more alienating circumstance which you as a former East Cameroonian or so-called Francophone does not experience and may not understand.
That legal documents, decrees, decisions and what have you are mainly available in French or badly translated into English is a constitutional aberration. But more importantly, the fact that no one gives a damn about it is what fuels the malaise you are witnessing.
Do you think it is normal that French alone is the command language in the military and police in a country that is officially bilingual? Is it normal for a Senior Divisional Officer (Prefet) or Divisional Officer (Sous-Prefet) to issue official written orders in French without translation in an area which is majority English-speaking? Isn't contemptible that the only training school for magistrates does so only in Civil Law and that French-speaking judges are sent to English speaking parts of Cameroon and ask the people appearing before court to speak in a language they don't master because h/she can't understand them?
Is it normal that
I often keep my views on this forum to football but your comment requires that I break that self imposed boundary. I am not a member of the SCNC neither do I condone violence by people expressing their views or gratuitous brutality from security forces, as we have seen in Bamenda recently. However, statements like yours are what help to fuel feelings of animosity among people who hail from what once was British Southern Cameroons. Such statements based on views that do not see the whole picture or a lack of historical knowledge is the firewood that activist use to burn your much vaunted national unity.
Could you kindly tell me the first and the last time that a Minister of Finance, a Minister of Territorial Administration, a Minister of Defence, a Minister of Education, the Secretary General (not deputy) at the Presidency, DGSN, Minister of Foreign Affairs, was a person hailing from the former West Cameroon? Is it that there are no competent people from that part of Cameroon to handle such issues of national importance? If a man or woman hailing from former East Cameroon could be ambassador of Cameroon in the United States of America, what makes it so impossible for one from former West Cameroon to be ambassador to France?
Mind you, what the so-called Anglophones are protesting about is not posts and appointments. Those are just symptoms or the visible side of a deeper and more alienating circumstance which you as a former East Cameroonian or so-called Francophone does not experience and may not understand.
That legal documents, decrees, decisions and what have you are mainly available in French or badly translated into English is a constitutional aberration. But more importantly, the fact that no one gives a damn about it is what fuels the malaise you are witnessing.
Do you think it is normal that French alone is the command language in the military and police in a country that is officially bilingual? Is it normal for a Senior Divisional Officer (Prefet) or Divisional Officer (Sous-Prefet) to issue official written orders in French without translation in an area which is majority English-speaking? Isn't contemptible that the only training school for magistrates does so only in Civil Law and that French-speaking judges are sent to English speaking parts of Cameroon and ask the people appearing before court to speak in a language they don't master because h/she can't understand them?
Is it normal that
