REACTION TO THE LIKELY SACKING OF PRIME MINISTER YANG (Part 2 of 3)

REACTION TO THE LIKELY SACKING OF PRIME MINISTER YANG (Part 2 of 3)

other younger more qualified Cameroonians who could be running the country in line with the modern and cosmopolitan world? Should we not be giving more support to the gentleman who refuses to be part of a sham? The Prime Minister’s job in my opinion is not public relations. He is there to coordinate. Public Relations is the job of the President, since he is the face of government. So should not your article focus more on an absentee president who seems not to even understand his own job description? 

About a year ago, the President of Guinea had to make mention of Cameroon’s cabinet where the president is always absent and never holds cabinet meetings. Almost as a knee jerk reaction our `illustrious` President convened a cabinet meeting two days later.

Take the floods you mentioned. While the Prime Minister is busy coordinating Ministerial response to flooding in the North (In this case, Health, Social Welfare, Agriculture, Education and perhaps Defence, etc) the said ministers should be in the trenches ensuring the wellbeing of their population. President Prevale of Haiti rolled up his sleeves in 2010 and worked with everyone else during the cholera outbreak. When are we going to see this in our Cameroon of “Grands Projets”?

4. Hungry Cameroonians

We do not eat democracy. People are hungry and often a bag of rice would stave the hunger and buy a few votes. But that is not the long term solution and the Prime Minister should know that better. By not encouraging that culture, Yang has tried to stamp out a very negative practice that has permeated the Cameroonian society:  neo-patrimonialism (folie de grandeur). 

The big-man syndrome is the phenomenon where people distribute money to gain cheap popularity and by so doing keep the people downtrodden. Should we not be worried about the source and accountability? We have never been informed in any financial report of x million that was part of the Prime Minister’s lavish distribution scheme. Achidi Achu was the king of these acts but how does a country run when millions are so lavished? And we throw ministers in jail for embezzment? 

Doling out money has done nothing but emasculate us poor Cameroonians to the point where we worship corrupt individuals for donating a small fraction of our own money to us through a bag of rice. The biggest. . . 

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