For Biting the Finger that Feeds, Moja Moja now sings “Had I Known” in arc dungeon
Moja Moja, the notorious Bakweri chief from the Bwassa community in Buea LGA has spent his first night in custody at the Secretariat de la Defence (SED) at Camp Yeyap in Yaounde. How he found himself there is an irony of fate. Reports say this yesterday LRC’s hero in Ambaland and today a wanted guest in LRC dungeon was caught trying to flee to neighbouring Nigeria. Having abused human rights with extrajudicial killings of innocent Ambazonians, parading on dead bodies(dogs, rats) in broad daylight with the complicity of his Yaoundé paymasters. the queer soldier and traditional chief who has an axe to grind with human rights lawyers for exaggerated human rights violations equally suffered from verbal dysentery.
People of Moja Moja’s ilk are very opportunistic. They are like locusts in a cornfield. Amid the revolt of La Republique du Cameroun’s colony, Ambazonia, the illiterate chief elected himself sell-in-chief, standing up tall against the legitimate aspirations of his people. Using his uniform and gun as an element of the occupier Rapid Intervention Brigade known by its French acronym as BIR, he wreaked havoc in the Southern Cameroon federal capital, Buea.
Now, everyone knows that the people of Southern Cameroons have suffered unspeakable hardship, deprivation and disregard by the La Republique du Cameroun colonial system. Everyone knows how the system functions – give you a bit of money, give you a shell appointment with nothing in it, or promise to build a school or a road and it never happens. Moja Moja got carried away by the flattery of the slave master and he turned his guns against his people.
Moja defied the people of the Southern Cameroons; whenever lockdowns or ghost towns were declared, he came out and demonstrated cheap braggadocio. Accompanied by a group of other BIR brats, he tortured, humiliated or even killed citizens of Southern Cameroons under the close watch of the CPDM PM Dion Ngute, Governor Okalia Bilai, former PM, Mafany Musonge, former Mayor of Buea, Sen. Mbella Moki and other seemingly knowledgeable but foolish elite who have sold their souls. He did not seem to care about the suffering our people have already endured at the hands of the colonial master for 63 years.
Moja was a traitor; he betrayed his people. He killed a UB student and claimed that he was a freedom fighter. He taunted the liberation movement and openly prayed for the defeat of his people by colonial forces. It is perhaps important to pause for a while and look closely at why Moja’s behaviour was a monumental error.
1. Moja is a custodian of our rich culture; he should have known a truth ingrained in our culture – that you don’t fight against your own people. Even if you are right, you just have to stay quiet and let time prove you right.
2. Having watched another zealot, Patrick Ekema, descend into hell before our very eyes, he should have known better.
3. Moja’s parents were juju priests. His mother used to give babies to women who could not have children and also helped women to make their husbands faithful to them. His father had very potent stuff as well, which he inherited with his mother’s charms. When you have such a powerful shrine with snakes, you should always align with the truth because those spirits are easily irritated by disloyalty.
4. Moja had his kidnapping ring. He organized the kidnapping of one of his sisters by some of his BIR associates. His siblings arduously contributed and paid 4.5 million Frs as ransom. The family’s investigation later showed that Moja Moja had cashed the money. Disappointed and frustrated, the family washed their hands off anything Moja and never returned to the family compound.
5. This same Moja caused a pregnant woman who had no connection with the liberation movement either as an activist or a fighter to be incarcerated and to have her baby in prison.
Seeing that he was alone and drawing from previous examples, Moja should have shown restraint since it became clear that he was alone. Although his anti-graffi rhetoric suited some of our narrow-minded politicians begging for La Republique favours. What goes around comes around and Moja is not alone, his drummers will follow him to the land of “Had I known” sooner than later.
