Most Cameroonians agree that someone like Biya would not be president in any other country but Cameroon. If it were in countries like Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Nigeria, or Kenya, Biya would no longer be presidend. These are countries that have learned not to tolerate the rapacity which regimes like Biya's perpetrate against their people. On top of the fact that Biya has repeatedly rigged the electoral process in Cameroon to impose himself on the people, it was recently reported that he gave a national address from a foreign country. That is, his February 11, 2012 address to the nation was a taped address. At the time of the address he was somewhere in Europe and the people of Cameroon did not know why. It is only in Cameroon that a purported leader could address his people from a foreign country without any explanation. It is now being reported that Cameroon, a very resource-rich country in Africa, is now begging for international aid to feed its starving people. That Paul Biya has taken such a rich country and turned it into a beggar is astounding! It is only in Cameroon that such travesty can happen while the people just sit on their misery. It is often said that a country gets the kind of leader it deserves. This may perhaps be correct. However, I am not quite sure what Cameroonians have done to deserve a rapacious plunderer like Paul Biya. Perhaps their docility and willingness to settle for the lowest common denominator is to blame. Perhaps Biya has effectively taught them to think so low of themselves that they now think that their proper place in the world is to be beggars, in spite of their enormous wealth. How else can one account for such an apparently thorough emasculation of such a proud people?
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