Two years ago, Southern Cameroons lost one of her greatest literary
icon, critic and visionary- Dr Jacobs Bate Besong. His passing on came
as a shock to us all . We wailed uncontrollably wishing it never
happened, because our society needed him most at that time. Today, the
society Dr BB staked his life to mend, is now worse.
The ills of the regime he decried through literary codes are perpetually being decoded, and the words he used to portray the injustices in our society are being reverberated in our subconscious, as incidences of the meanest abuses of human rights by the Yaounde regime are reported everyday.
The Oppressed continue to be oppressed, and it is becoming clear that a few years back when the people thought the regime was dishing out some 'doses of liberty' the regime was actually just presenting a decoy of itself, to deceive their Brettonwood masters and be admitted to the Hall of Shame-Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative. They got the money , and now the old monster has emerged again. A public servant has become a public master. Every Bulu or Beti man in uniform or without uniform has become his guardian angel. Talking about his infinite ills anywhere has become a taboo.
Dr BB, today, a bad situation has become worse! A teacher like you has been charged for castigating 'his almighty' for causing a standstill in business and other activities anytime he is coming for holidays to La Republique du Cameroun from his home abroad. They allegedly wanted to charge the young teacher for plotting to assassinate 'his almighty' . I just imagine what you could have written in such a situation.
The suffering masses you left are becoming desperate. The billions stolen are still unaccounted for. Your kin, West of the Moungo are still " l'ennemi dans la maison", while the sycophants haven't stopped singing their praises to their undeserving lords. Real quislings!
Today, VOTO(Voice Of The Oppressed) remembers Dr BB, two years after. May his spirit spur more people and intellectuals to take up or continue the fight against social injustices he tirelessly waged.
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