MPs’ Plenary on Boko Haram, CAR insurgencies: Biya hardly learns!
By Felix Teche Nyamusa, SDF 2018 Presidential hopeful.
Unavoidable crises/insurgencies sometimes befall countries with accompanying catastrophic impact hugely incapacitating those with wanting good governance practice. The Cameroon national assembly, 27 November 2014 plenary on insecurities meant in principle for the executive to explain her modus operandi vis-à-vis the Boko Haram, Central Africa Republic (CAR) crises on Cameroon rather than a beginning interactive session on charting solutions helps the country in little or no way!
I, Felix Teche Nyamusa, SDF 2018 presidential hopeful(pending primaries) in line with my party, the SDF , and other goodwill Cameroonians advised President Paul Biya, like in most instances at the beginning of the Boko Haram, CAR crises to diagnose the nature and depth of the predicament through the people’s legislature in order to properly tackle them. Biya paid deaf ears - look at the consequences today: high Cameroon human death toll and displaced persons, huge sums of money spent from our limited reserve, insecurity …yet the matter is not over! Summoning the assembly to cajole support from MPs with no analysis of the problems in question is to say the least of trivial help for the commitment of these legislators and or their ability to adequately convince the electorate on these is doubtful. It is no secret that any government policy without citizens’ support is often very costly to succeed.
No meaningful President declares war, state of emergency ... without consulting the legislative body (Parliament) of the state except in acute emergencies in which case an extra ordinary assembly session is convened thereafter for in-depth deliberations. President Paul Biya callously, in far away France solo, declared war on a Boko Haram insurgents without identifying them and their rationale moreover in so doing the country was and is not adequately protected – “Boko Haram” probably today sees Cameroon as an enemy zone hence their incessant attacks and killings of Cameroonians more than nationals of other neighbouring states to Nigeria the insurgency’s head quarter. Biya has to immediately get to involving the people - the genuine opposition, civil society, the clergy … in addition to the parliament ( though majority legislators are CPDM lacking popular trust and scarcely in touch with the electorates because they were manipulated into these
positions by the pro-CPDM ELECAM).
A country (Cameroon) with a heavy want of democratic institutions – constitution, elections body is gearing for catastrophe, instability – (here the pro-CPDM constitution makes the president to usurp the functions of the other arms of government - legislature and judiciary).We had vanguard traces of the impending calamities in the 1950s UPC wars of independence, the early 1990s SDF revolution, the 2008 hunger, fuel and bad governance crises. Each of these disasters always left serious blows to the socio-economic state of the country. The Burkinabes have just driven their 27 year on the seat dictator president Blaise Compaore, Togo is currently boiling, North Africa had boiled and overflowed – yet Biya still fails to learn!