A recent post indicating that the effort to remove Paul Biya from office can be helped by Cameroonians in the diaspora makes a valid point when it also indicated that Cameroonians in the diaspora are highly disorganized. This disorganization, also reflected by the disorganization of the opposition back in the country, is partly caused by Cameroonians who are still on the government payroll back home even though they now live and work in America or Europe. These Cameroonians also take bribes from Paul Biya in order to give the impression that Biya has massive support in the Cameroonian diaspora. Thus, the Cameroonian diaspora cannot do much to remove Biya from power. Many of them have vested interests in seeing that the Biya dictatorship endures.
However, one group that can easily remove Biya from power is the Cameroon military. It is well known that Biya has made common cause with the Cameroonian army and tries as much as possible to appease them. This appeasement, as the military knows well, is at the expense of the general public. If the role of the military is to protect the people, then they should recognize that Biya has himself become a menace to the well-being of the people and therefore needs to be removed. It will be better for the people to live under clear military dictatorship rather than under a regime that passes for a democracy but is in effect being ruled by the military. Thus, the military has a duty to overthrow Paul Biya and gain the helm of power. There will be international outcry when this happens but, as is always the case with these things, a procedure will be put in place to reorganize the country. There is no way the country can be reorganized under the stranglehold which Biya has on it right now. Thus, rather than defending Biya against their own people, the Cameroon military has a duty to remove him from power. Biya's stranglehold on the country has made all peaceful means of change of government and the improvement of the lives of the people impossible. We must not kid ourselves. We will have a better transition from a clear military dictatorship than from the current Biya dictatorship. The military should go ahead and remove him.
However, one group that can easily remove Biya from power is the Cameroon military. It is well known that Biya has made common cause with the Cameroonian army and tries as much as possible to appease them. This appeasement, as the military knows well, is at the expense of the general public. If the role of the military is to protect the people, then they should recognize that Biya has himself become a menace to the well-being of the people and therefore needs to be removed. It will be better for the people to live under clear military dictatorship rather than under a regime that passes for a democracy but is in effect being ruled by the military. Thus, the military has a duty to overthrow Paul Biya and gain the helm of power. There will be international outcry when this happens but, as is always the case with these things, a procedure will be put in place to reorganize the country. There is no way the country can be reorganized under the stranglehold which Biya has on it right now. Thus, rather than defending Biya against their own people, the Cameroon military has a duty to remove him from power. Biya's stranglehold on the country has made all peaceful means of change of government and the improvement of the lives of the people impossible. We must not kid ourselves. We will have a better transition from a clear military dictatorship than from the current Biya dictatorship. The military should go ahead and remove him.
3 comments:
It is just a dream, you will wait for very long to see the military overthrow President Paul Biya but nothing will happen. The army is loyal and they have no complaint. President Paul Biya has always met their requirements just like those of Cameroonians as a whole.
It is just a dream, you will wait for very long to see the military overthrow President Paul Biya but nothing will happen. The army is loyal and they have no complaint. President Paul Biya has always met their requirements just like those of Cameroonians as a whole.
Why bring yourself to groung level by exposing your stupidity? President Paul Biya does not need to bribe anybody for their support. The support of Cameroonians to President Biya be it in or out of the country has always been spontaneous. The army is loyal to their President and will in no way overthrow him, not even with the complicity of the diaspora, better stop dreaming.
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