INCREDIBLE BUT, TRUE
1- CAMBANK (Cameron Bank) looted
2- BIAO looted
3- SCB (Société Camerounaise des Banques) looted
4- Crédit Agricole, looted
5- SOFIBEL in Bélabo in eastern Cameroon Looted
6- BCD (Banque Camerounaise de Développement) looted
7- ONCPB, looted
8- CAMAIR (100% Cameroonian) looted
9- CAMSHIP (100% Cameroonian) looted
10- CAMRAIL (100% Cameroonian) looted and sold
11- SONEL (100% Cameroonian) looted and sold
12- SNEC (100% Cameroonian) looted and sold
13- SOCAPALM (100% Cameroonian) looted and sold
14- OCB (Cameroonian Banana Office) looted
15- SNI (National Investment Company) looted
16- LABOGENIE, looted
17- SOTUC (100% Cameroonian) looted
18- FOGAPE, looted
19- SODENKAM of Kondjock looted
20- CELLUCAM (Cellulose of Cameroon looted
21- ONAREF (National Office for Forest Regeneration) looted
22- CENADEFOR (National Forest Development Center) looted
23- INTELAR, destroyed
24- – Public school was free
25- High school was free
26- University was free
27- Each student had right to a salary of 29,000 F each month. That is why many guys got married while still studying.
28- It is on the basis of one’s educational level that one was admitted to a competition.
29- Candidates admitted to the administrative competition were trained, housed and fed at the expense of the State.
30- At the end of training, one was directly assigned as a civil servant.
31- New civil servants received after 6 months the reminder, that is to say that the State paid them the first 6 months of salary at a time.
32- 2 trains connected Douala and Nkongsamba each day so that many people lived in Nkongsamba and worked in Douala.
33- 2 trains connected Kumba and Douala each day.
34- 3 trains connected Yaoundé and Douala each day (in the morning, 2 p.m. and the sleeper).
35- 3 trains connected Yaoundé and Ngaoundéré every day (; morning, 2 p.m. and sleeper).
36- Mbalmayo was connected to Yaoundé by train.
37- Each member of the family of any teacher working in the far North was entitled to a return plane ticket. The big planes dropped them off in Douala or Yaoundé and the small planes took over to drop them off in their hometown. The same journey took place in September for the return to the place of assignment.
38- Cameroon was united.
39- There was no tribalism. We did not hear: Go home!
40- The elections were transparent.
41- The entire Cameroonian road network was regularly maintained.
42- All the streets of the cities were lit.
43- There was a standpipe every 200 m to the point where many found it useless to make a water supply to their homes.
44- Monthe Institute, the largest private college in sub-Saharan Africa destroyed to give more visibility to the Ndi Samba Institute
45- Several ministries burned.
46- National Assembly burned (Mystery mystery: Why don’t we have fires under President Ahidjo?)
47- Cameroon did not know of assassinations of prelates.
48- Peace reigned throughout the national territory.
49- We travelled from North to South, from East to West in complete safety. No cutters of all
50- The resources of our subsoil were preserved for the future Cameroon. Only aluminum and oil were exploited.
51- You could obtain your national identity card in 24 hours at the latest and without a certificate of nationality.
52- The electoral campaign against a backdrop of tribalism did not exist.
53- Each language teacher was entitled to a scholarship at the expense of the State.
54- Youth was the priority of the State.
55- Five-year plans: the State set itself objectives to be achieved after 5 years. And all the projects came to an end.
56- The Agro-pastoral shows allowed farmers and promoters of the sector to exhibit their products and receive rewards.
57- Operation Sahel vert which consisted of the fight against desertification in the northern part of the country.
57- Food self-sufficiency allowed each Cameroonian to eat their fill.
58- The majority of Cameroonian cities each had their own air force.
58- Most Cameroonian cities each had their own aviation.
59- Each Cameroonian city had a movie theatre.
60- Tax cost 3900F per year. The Renewal changed its method and injected tax into all consumer products. Even the baby born paid tax the same day through the diaper that is brought to him. Result: the citizen pays tax 100 times more today.
61- there was no overtaking on the right.
62- Motorcyclists put their foot down or braked to let the one who has priority pass.
63- Cars and motorcycles never used the sidewalk to jostle pedestrians.
64- The red light was respected.
65- When you were wrong, you asked for forgiveness. Morality was the rule in Cameroonian society.
66- The presidency’s slush fund was always full.
67- The motorcyclists did not create the traffic jam themselves to stay there and argue for hours and, as if by magic, when the road opens, everyone continues on their way as if nothing had happened, without worrying about the other.
68- The State gave work to the majority of young people through the various competitions that were launched each year and recruited according to the merit of the candidate.
69- The Ministry of Education went 10 years without changing school books.
70- There was a salary increase every December 31 in the end-of-year speech given by the President of the Republic.
71- here is the amount of the scholarship that each student had to collect at the university’s pay counter at the end of each month as a salary:
– First year: 25,000 F
– Second year: 30,000 F
– Bachelor’s year: 40,000 F
– Master’s year: 50,000 F
– Doctoral student: 60,000 . This is why many young men got married while still students.
72- The university restaurant was free.
73- There were no tolls on the road.
74- Cameroonian roads had vertical and horizontal signage, which guaranteed safety in transport. This is why accidents were rare.
74- Teachers working in the Far North who were not going on vacation sold their plane tickets with a power of attorney in support. You could easily get a Maroua – Douala round trip plane ticket for 80,000 F. At the Cameroon Air Line counter, with the power of attorney, the ticket was changed to produce another one bearing your name.
75- During the deliberation of administrative competitions, PLANNING was carried out. A form of regional balance according to which each province was entitled to the same number of admissions.
76- The terms indigenous and non-indigenous did not exist in Cameroon. All citizens were simply Cameroonians.
77- The indigenous people did not break and loot the businesses of non-indigenous people.
78_ When President Amadou Ahidjo wanted to see a traditional chief, he would meet him in his palace for a chat. Ahidjo respected our traditional chiefdoms. The Renewal has made our traditional chiefs simple administrative auxiliaries who help him stuff the ballot boxes to stay in power.
79- The traditional chiefdoms were respected.
80- We were proud to be Cameroonians
THE 80 THINGS CAMEROON HAS LOST SINCE 1982
