US OUTING: DIEUDONNE ESSOMBA Rubbishes Biya's Gov't, Citing That France Won't Be Spared By The US!

In response to the presentation of the Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor NAGY, to the US government, Dieudonné ESSOMBA, the CameroUnian Economist, in what is titled, The Price of Political Stubbornness, rubbishes the Biya's government over the senseless approach to solving the Anglophone problem.

Read out Dieudonne Essomba in the following write-up;

Pressure from the United States on the Government of Cameroon is becoming more and more intense. One month after the suspension of Cameroon from AGOA, they come back in force, like a terrible booster shot.

Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor NAGY said that the people around Biya and his military victory are mistaken, because he believes there will be no military victory at NOSO. He also called for the Government to enter into genuine negotiations with the secessionist forces, including a solution that satisfies the English-speaking moderates. Calling for the transfer of power to Anglophones, he implicitly threatened to support the Secession, recalling that faced with the stubbornness of the regime, some Anglophones who felt authentic Cameroonians now prefer separation.

This gentleman whom we saw in the company of the Secessionists is not on his first outing against the Biya regime. Following the fall of Omar Bashir from Sudan, he said that the next on the list was Biya.

It's not good when a power like the USA is against you! And when Americans insist on a case, it means that serious things can begin at any time. Because they are not bluffers! And they do not care about the morals of others: they obey their own morals and not those of their victims. And this terrible morality is the balance of power, dressed in their "democratic values".

Those who wanted to play the clever thing with that felt it in their flesh: among the most recent, Gaddafi with a bullet lodged in the skull, Saddam Hussein hanged, and many others have suffered the worst way! South Sudan and Eritrea became independent when the US decided!

And all this, in front of China, Russia and other powers on which they hung their crazy hopes! But also in front of the packs of pseudo-patriots who pushed their Government to the error, denounced the true patriots who called for prudence and reason, plastered on the weapons which they will take to fight the Americans, but took the leg in their necks from the first bomb, at the very moment when they sacrificed the leaders they claimed to support or partitioned their country.

Since 1961, Cameroon has always had a healthy attitude of prudence, avoiding to present itself as an enemy of a foreign country. It was the right attitude, because a pot of earth carefully avoids the grounds that iron pots wrought.

But since the Anglophone problem, we have changed paradigms to enter into direct confrontation with the powers that matter.

An internal problem that we could have solved internally, with a little modesty! But pushed by fundamentalist ideologues and obtuse leaders, we have squandered all the opportunities that have come to make peace. Applying the worn-out techniques of another time, we thought we could avoid the necessary reforms of our own state by blaming others, especially the Americans, for the political destabilization of Cameroon.

Some have tried a diversion saying: "The Americans are behind the Ambazonian terrorists! "

As if it was an argument!

Of course, this support is possible! It is even probable! But when you said that, you solved what problem? You dissuaded the Americans from supporting the Secessionists? Moreover, if the Americans are with them, it clearly means that they are smarter than the Government! Our government simply does not have any intelligence, because how can one, in a Darwinian world, put oneself at the back of a power like the USA? This reflects a lack of judgment!

Others hope that France will support them. But France is not even worth the state of California and it is not the least weight in front of the USA. True, the US has always spared France in its former colonial possessions and have always let it act as it pleases. But precisely, Anglophones are not a former French colony! So there is no hope that the US let France impose its solutions in a colony that was not its own! All that France can do is let the Anglophones who do not belong to her former colonial empire leave, and remain to impose her order on the French-speaking Cameroon!

For 3 years, we have said and reiterated that Cameroon did not have the political, economic, financial and diplomatic means to come militarily over the Anglophone Secession. And we urged the proclamation of the Federation, the only way to remove from the Secession the very powerful argument on which they rely to legitimize their action: "They came to the Francophones on the basis of a federal state. This federation has been removed in a fraudulent way. They do not want the unitary state anymore! The Government refused to return to the Federation, they took up arms! "

 Labels in this form, it is impossible for the Government to assert its thesis in the eyes of the powers of the world. Indeed, in an environment where the most stable and powerful countries are precisely federal countries, to whom can he make accept his thesis of the unitary state that would better national unity? The people they are trying to convince are the living testimony to the power and unity of a federal state! So will he convince who with his unitary state?

Secondly, in today's world, any suppression of the autonomy of a people appears as a violation of the rights of peoples to self-manage, and above all, the major indicator of repressive and dictatorial regimes. It is therefore not clear how the Government of Cameroon can be regarded as a country of human rights and freedom when it tries to prevent the debate on federalism and asserts that the form of the state is not negotiable!

This phenomenon worsens with the nature of the current regime in Cameroon. For legitimate reasons or not, the power of Biya has already taken 37 years with an officially 86 years old Head of State. It is not this kind of regime that Western countries listen to with respect. Spontaneously, with a priori bad, they are very badly disposed to listen to the arguments of such regimes, as well founded as they are.

This means that the government has mismanaged this case. The suppression of the Federation was a fault, and even if it can be supposed that it was for good reasons, it is not enough to justify the fault, because, as they say, hell is paved with good intentions. The intelligence would have ordered to return to a renovated Federation, to present the episode of the unitary state as a transitional passage between the old federation based on colonial referents to a new federation based on local cultural references.

The Anglophone problem was solved in a definitive way, and at the same time, the more general problem of Cameroon's diversity, which maintains an increasingly explosive inter-communal tension.

But instead of following this intelligent solution, the regime has braced itself in ideological postures and childish patriotism that have only aggravated the situation. Refusing to take the true measure of the English-speaking problem, a symptom of the radical failure of his unitary state and his decreed national units, he spent his time tackling, believing that he was gaining time. First, by denying the problem with speeches in the official media, with an insolence that bordered provocation! Then, trying to prevent the debate on federalism!

As long as they believed in arms, it was not even imaginable that they could accept the slightest concession. But this concession, this recognition of the Anglophone problem, they ended up doing, under the pressure of Ambazonian weapons that they hoped to naively reduce in a week with a squad of gendarmes, as well as the international community.

But the worst is ahead! The famous Grand National Dialogue on which all expectations were based gave birth to a mouse. The secessionists have rejected the resolutions and continue their bloody attacks more fiercely. More than ever, Ghost Towns remain intense. And even abroad, this Dialogue has had no favorable echo with the powerful powers that count, and who claim to continue the dialogue initiated by Switzerland, where participate the Secessionists who also enjoy great sympathy for their cause.

In reality, Cameroon is going to a two-state Confederation, and there is almost nothing left to prevent this terrible evolution. A Confederation in which the Confederal President will have virtually no power in the Anglophone Zone, with an army that will be divided in two, a budget in two, oil that supports 40% of foreign revenues and 25% of the budget of the State by 2.

This is also the price of stubbornness. The Biya regime has been 37 years old, and like all the regimes that have lasted too long, it has lost all sense of prudence and has come to believe that it will be able to escape all adversity through cunning, decay and small steps.

It is possible that the English problem is the end. And that by dint of getting rid of their logic, they end up losing power, freedom and even life.

(Translated by Google directly from French)