SOME GRIEVANCES FOR PAUL BIYA IN BUEA

SOME GRIEVANCES FOR PAUL BIYA IN BUEA

Recently, I boarded a taxi in Buea. When I got off, I handed the driver a 2000 franc note which he took. While searching his pockets he complained that he might not have a thousand francs to give me, the reason being that there was a shortage of 1000 franc notes in circulation.

“When Pa Paul comes, this is what we taxi drivers are planning to tell him!” he said.

“Who is Pa Paul?” I asked

“Paul Biya, of course”, he answered.

Another passenger in the taxi joined in:

“What is a thousand francs that you want to complain about? We want to stand ahead and tell him when he comes that the problem of electricity cuts here in Buea has become not just frustrating but irritating and annoying”

A third passenger said his own greatest concern was water. “There is an acute shortage of water here in Buea and people have to go to great lengths of self sacrifice, suffering and pity to get any water at all”.