By Neba-Fuh
Whether Mr Jerome Mendouga, former Ambassador of Cameroun to the United
States of America sought asylum in the US or not, is insignificant , compared
to the harm he is alleged to have caused the people of this nation by
getting involved in a shady deal to buy an unfit plane for a worthless
ruler. After all, immigration officials of host nations do not grant
asylum depending on whether the reasons for your persecution or
would-be persecution in your country of origin are necessarily justified
or not.
Great thieves and butchers in the name of African
dictators have been granted refugee status in countries which are not
unaware of the atrocities they caused while in power.
All the
hullabaloo about Mr Mendouga seeking asylum is just unnecessary. It is
his right! But what is not his right is to deprive poverty-stricken
people of this Great Triangle of their daily bread.
Today, the Ambassador is being caged in a dungeon of Kondengui Prison alongside his fellow plunderers for corruption charges! We, in our normal anglosaxon culture, consider him 'not-guilty' until he is proven otherwise. And for those who have continually struggle to defend Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, this is your time! He needs you more now, not us!
The Albatross affair has recently been the focal point of the so called Operation Epervier( Operation Sparrow Hawk). If the 'natural' candidate had died in that technically unfit plane that much tax payers' money was wasted in the process of purchasing, who would have been the RDPC candidate in the upcoming 2011 elections? Gambling with the life of an eternal ruler is nothing less than an expensive joke. More heads will roll!
When Former President El hadj Amadou Ahidjo bequeathed an enviable economy to Mr Biya, in 1982, one wouldn't have imagined that 27 years later, this nation would limp into such abject poverty, orchestrated by white-collar hoodlums who gradually, but steadily emptied the people's treasury with impunity. When the people cried foul! They were asked to present proofs 'Ou sont les preuves?' Corruption was en vogue! Even when the international corruption watchdog, Transparency International cried foul, by conferring on us the title of 'Most corrupt nation on the planet' twice, the chief embezzlers responded by mounting all kinds of laughable defences. How on earth will there be 'proofs' when thieves are set to chase thieves? Bretton Woods tightened their conditionalities, they reacted, because they needed more money to plunder;- arresting, charging and sentencing a few, but never recovering the people's stolen billions.
It would take the unforeseen destiny of putting the life of a 'life-president' at risk, as a result of a corruption deal, to start pointing his finger at his fellow embezzlers. But where are the other four fingers pointing? It is not when a thief catches a thief, that the former ceases to be a thief.
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