WHAT IS WRONG WITH NTEMFAC OFEGE?

Recently, the moderator of the popular Cameroon yahoogroup discussion forum,  CAMNET, Pa Fru Ndeh announced a censor on a contributor, (Prophet) Ntemfac Ofege.  Another group member, Booh Herbert reacted by censoring himself in solidarity with Ntemfac. My first reaction is that Booh threw in the towel too soon. He should have stayed on and put up a fight. Even so, the focus is not Booh, but Ntemfac.

The reason the moderator gave for sanctioning Ntemfac was that he was posting religious messages that were out of place and excessive on a forum that was meant to be political. The first question I ask is whether the dividing line between politics and religion is so thin as to be so immediately distinguishable.

The next point is that if we claim the forum is purely political, we must go further and qualify its political nature by stating that it of necessity prioritizes content that bashes the Biya regime and upholds the SCNC. There is no balance. From that view point, the forum is more of a propaganda tool than a mediator. Why has that aspect of it not been moderated?

The next point is that by trying to gag religion, the moderator is behaving like the Cameroon government which allows Religious Studies to be taught by the country`s schools and examined by the GCE Board at both the Ordinary and Advanced Levels but strangely refuses to recognize it among other subjects when it comes to employment or further education.

 The paradox is that for a forum that purports to sanitize Cameroonian society just like a government that claims to fight corruption, the status of religion ought to have been upheld strongly in the debate and not choked.

By the way,I have often read Ntemfac`s religious posts and they make a lot of sense to me. I did not know him to be so seriously steeped in religion when he was a junior to me at Sacred Heart College, Mankon, just as I was a junior to another CAMNETWORK member, Mishe Fon. Nevertheless, I respect his God-given inspiration.

So, let Prophet Ntemfac Ofege and his religious postings prevail!