The Yaounde regime has deployed machine gun ships, armoured cars and a full-scale military arsenal in the major cities of the Republic
The Man-Eating Regimes of Africa and the Desecration of Human Lives.
The Yaounde regime has deployed machine gun ships, armoured cars and a full-scale military arsenal in the major cities of the Republic. This paints a clear and drastic picture of a de facto war waged by a small, unscrupulous group of individuals called the government against 30 million Cameroonians. What’s even more painful is that these weapons were purchased with the taxes and resources of the people, intended to ensure their protection, collective development, and well-being. Paradoxically, these weapons are now being used to decimate them from the surface of the earth. A similar drama with the same proportionate human cruelty is being played out in Tanzania. Hundreds have been killed, and no one will be held responsible bc the powers that be have conceptualised power as literally being their divine preserve. In a normal society, every bullet a policeman unleashes to take away the life of an unarmed civilian must be cross-examined and reviewed to apportion guilt, innocence or responsibility and punishment. The circumstances must be elucidated through clear and well-established administrative and judicial procedures. The fellows killing unarmed civilians in Cameroon and Tanzania may never be questioned or asked to explain the circumstances that unleashed the beast in them to take away human life. The powers that be have banalized and “carricaturised” the sanctity of human life and human existence in general. In no circumstances should hundreds of citizens be killed to maintain an individual grip on power ad vitam erternam. More embarrassing is the reckless slaughter of hundreds of youths in the prime of their lives just to safeguard the interests of an individual 93 years old, who has spent his whole life wallowing in barbaric opulence and unquestionable authority. All this at the bewildering expense of the very millions of citizens now being slaughtered like goats. When individuals wielding power in a state dismiss the rule of law and the constitution and resort to reign with their whims and caprices, then the fundamental essence of a Republic becomes irrelevant. They open the gates to jungle life and the survival of the fittest. Rousseau’s discourse on the social contract has been mocked and shredded with impunity by these African despots. Power is for their personal interests, and the citizens become mere flies to be smashed on the wall. The horrendous events in LRC should awaken our collective conscience on the urgent need for us to turn a new page from the 43 years of brutal monolithism that has desecrated the value of human life just to safeguard the paranoid interest of an individual and his coterie of friends and court jesters
Hon JM Ntam
