#MrPresident It is my understanding from the President’s Youth Day Celebration speech that President Biya acknowledged being a failure. As someone who has acknowledged failing the youths, President Paul Biya should have refrained from insulting Cameroonian youths, whose precarious situations have been as a result of Biya’s negligence, mismanagement of the country, recklessness and unpatriotic behaviour. For over 33 years as President of Cameroon, Cameroonian youths cannot be proud of President Paul Biya and cannot identify any of the President’s achievement.
The President himself timidly acknowledges how shameful he has been as a good example of a bad President. It is true when Biya says that ‘’our youths constitute a major asset for the nation’s future’’ and that the youths are ‘’numerous and full of potential, dynamic and ambitious, conquering and creative’’.
The President himself timidly acknowledges how shameful he has been as a good example of a bad President. It is true when Biya says that ‘’our youths constitute a major asset for the nation’s future’’ and that the youths are ‘’numerous and full of potential, dynamic and ambitious, conquering and creative’’.
While President Biya says Cameroonian youths ‘’were not afraid’ to achieve good things, Biya fails to give a tangible reason why these youths have never been encouraged by his regime to achieve success.
Cameroonian youths according to Biya, ‘’were equal to weather the deficiencies in our country’’, deficiencies caused by his poor governance which he claims ‘’is still in the building process ’. How can a President who has been in power for 34 years be so shameless to define his country as one still ‘’in the building process’’?
As President Biya points out, some Cameroonian youths were able to ‘’achieved the excellent results which we can all be proud of’’. What Biya fails to note is that he should be the only Cameroonian who should not be proud of this achievement because he did nothing as President to contribute to the success of these super hard working and creative young Cameroonians. No credit should be given to President Biya.
By saying that some youths are ‘’still hesitating and dragging their feet’’ is an insult to our patriotic youths. If the Biya regime had provided structures and infrastructures, many young Cameroonians would have equally excelled in different domains. Mr President , please stop blaming and insulting the youths. You should assume the responsibility of your failure and their failure.
The President claims that patriotism should not be considered outdated, but ‘’remains a mark of responsible and nobly asserted citizenship for the nation’’. However, President Biya fails to understand that he is the most unpatriotic Cameroonian, who should not dare to lecture the youths on patriotism.
While it is true that ‘’regardless of’’ our ‘’role in society’’, the youths ‘’should be patriotic’’, Biya fails to understand the fact that the youths have not been able to do more as a result of lack of support and encouragement from his administration which has no sense of direction not as a result of unpatriotic youths’. Patriotism come from inspiration.
The CRP finds it insulting to the youths and to their parents when the President thinks that ‘’the farmer on his farm, the pupil or student in their studies, the workman on his work site, the teacher in the classroom, the doctor or nurse at the hospital, the researcher in his laboratory, the civil servant in his office, the trader in his shop, the mechanic in his garage, the sweeper at his workplace, the transporter driving his vehicle’’ are all unpatriotic.
President Paul Biya advises that ‘’we should each comply our trades with patriotism for us to become forces of progress for the Nation’’. How does President Biya know that Cameroonians are not plying their trade with patriotic love? Cameroonian youths ply their trade with love for their country but they cannot progress because the President does nothing to support them.
How patriotic are his own children to this country?
The President thinks that only the soldiers fighting Boko Haram are patriotic; ‘’take the example of our youths who are engaged at the war front’’ who ‘’have been protecting our country from the terrorist threat’’. Biya, claims the young soldiers ‘’are sustained and driven by patriotic love, often to the point of sacrificing their lives’’. Now the President wants everyone to be a soldier. While CRP applauds the efforts of our soldiers who are often prepared to sacrifice their lives, CRP condemn the President’s unwillingness to make sacrifices himself to improve the lives of the youths.
The President goes further to insult most Cameroonian youths when he says the behaviour of some soldiers ‘’is unlike that of some other youths who do everything possible to get recruited into the public service and then desert their duty stations while continuing to receive their salaries’’. And the President continues, ‘’some youths join the public service just to obtain a service number, as they are fond of saying’’.
Mr President , if these bad practices have been taking place under your leadership for 34 straight years, then you are a no-fit-for-purpose President. You should hold yourself responsible for being incompetence. You desert your country all the time and stay at Continental hotel in Geneva when you are supposed to be in the country working. Mr President , not all youths are dishonest.
CRP agrees with the President that ‘’the unbridled quest for easy profit and wealth is a road to perdition that should be shunned by the youths’’. So, on behalf of Cameroonian youths and on behalf of CRP, I would like to shun you, Mr President and members of your administration, including those who had worked for you. You are a disgrace to Cameroon and a good example of bad leader.
Some youths were wondering if the President actually understands their problems, considering the facts that the President spends most of his time abroad and nothing is being done to improve the livelihood of the youths. However, CRP now finds out that the President is aware of what’s going on when he tells the youths, ‘’I am fully aware of the difficulties you are facing. I know your doubts and worries. I know especially that you have difficulty getting a job’’.
Mr President , what have you done about it? 34 years in power is more than enough time to resolve economic crisis and to achieve economic boom/growth for any President of a country rich in natural resources. What are you doing with the proceeds generated from the exploitation of our natural resources?
CRP now understands why in 2009, you were able to shamelessly spend over 23 million fcfa a day for 43 bedrooms in Hermitage and the Royal, two luxury hotels in La Baule for three weeks. The 23 million fcfa per day excluded food and beverage, leisure; casino, spa sessions, shopping etc.
CRP would like to tell President Biya that he owes the Cameroonian youths an apology. Mr President , I can guarantee you that, your apology will not be accepted by the youths.
The President claims that, ‘’our capacity to create decent jobs is constrained by external factors related to the global economic environment’’. What the President fails to understand is that the CPDM government officially declared economic crisis in 1985. Since 1985, we are still in the same situation if not worst. If external factors are responsible for lack of job creation, how then since 1985, Cameroon is still not progressing and other countries like Rwanda, Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (which were worse off than Cameroon when Biya took over office as President) are progressing? If the President does not know the answer, CRP will provide him with the answer. The reason for this is due to Biya’s poor governance, resulting from Biya’s incompetence leadership. The President lacks good management skills. State budget is under mass embezzlement. The state is run in a ghost manner.
Biya also claims that the youths are unable to get jobs because of ‘’some domestic red tape’ and he promises, ‘’we are not giving up’’. The domestic red tape has been created by youMr President ! If you have not been able to resolve the problem for 34 years, there is no guarantee that you will ever do it. In fact, there is all indication that Cameroon is going backward and will continue to regress under your dictatorial and incompetent leadership.
The President claims that ‘’their efforts over the past few years are starting to pay off’’. What efforts are you referring to? Why didn’t you give the youths a few examples of the results? The President did not do that because he has nothing to show to the youths.
Mr President . You talk of an inexistent ‘’Three-Year Emergency Plan and the fake ‘’launching of the extensive industrialization programme’’ to ‘’create many job opportunities’’. You are addressing the youths but what you fail to understand is that the youths are mature enough to understand that you are not good even at inventing stories.
By saying that ‘’the development of our agricultural sector will be accorded a prime place’’, you have finally confirmed that you killed the agricultural sector which used to be the backbone of our economy and the top on the agenda of your predecessor President Amadou Ahidjo.
Mr President , how can you ask the youths ‘’not be afraid to take the plunge and become the agricultural entrepreneurs that Cameroon needs’’, when you have completely destroyed the agricultural sector?
Where are the subsidies and incentives?
Structures, institutions and activities such as Green Revolution, Agric Show, Marketing Board and FONADER (the farmers bank that used to offer loans and agricultural tools to farmers) to encourage agriculture that were put in place by President Ahidjo have all disappeared under your poor and shameless leadership.
Are you not aware of this or it’s that you are in total denial of these facts? I
f you are convinced that agriculture ‘’is a noble and rewarding trade in the so-called real economy’’, what have you done as the President with huge power to improve on the agricultural sector of this one-time lovely country?
Why did you stop Green Revolution and the Agric Show?
Why did you shut down Marketing Board and FONADER?
Why have you failed to construct accessible farm to market roads?
Mr President , why are you shifting your responsibilities to others?
Are you not ashamed to say you ‘’urge the elders to shoulder their responsibility’’?
While ‘’it is proper to urge the youths to work the land and it is unwise to dissuade them from doing so’’
CRP would like to know how this is possible when you have not provided the means to do so.
Mr President , as you know, the youths and the elders do not have the means to carry this forward without your support?
Mr President , are you actually aware that you are the President of a country? Your advice seems to be coming from a man with no powers or a man with powers who does not know what his responsibilities are.
Mr President , you are asking elders ‘’to set a good example’ for the youths and you claim ‘’urban workers should also undertake activities in rural areas’’. You failed to tell the youths and the so-called elders how they are going to do this. ‘’Through their actions and those of the Government’’, (what actions are you referring to?) …. ‘’we should make our villages more youth-friendly’’. It is true that the villages are less ‘youth-friendly’’. It is as a result of your poor policies and leadership. You should be in a position to understand that, accept your mistakes rather than apportioning blames on the ‘elders’.
Mr President , I disagree with you when you say, ‘’it is not a matter of waiting to amass substantial resources’’ and that ‘’it is, first and foremost, a matter of determination and commitment’’. Mr President , you are living in your own world. The youths and the elders are determined and committed. They lack the substantial resources to add to their determination and commitment. Mr President , if you
provide the resources that are needed, Cameroonian youths with their determination and commitment will work so hard and would be able to afford money for the basic things they cannot afford for now. They could even have more money to travel for holidays. Some may even go to Beverly Hills on holidays (not to live as others who do not work do), They will not spend $400 dollars for a single taxi journey because they know the value of hard earned money.
Mr President , you claim ‘’there are many Government programmes designed to support rural development’’ and that the youths should ‘’obtain information on such programmes’’. If there were such programmes, the youths would have been the first to know. Why did you not name the programmes and tell the youths where to get information about the programmes if you are sure of what you are saying?
Mr President , I can see that unlike others at your age, you are aware of Information Technology to the extent that you call it “Android” generation and the ‘’digital economy’’. Congrats. Now you are giving the youths lectures on how to be technologically smart. That smartness of yours was seen on your official website when you shamelessly photo shopped a picture of yourself honouring our (not your) fallen soldiers while you were on your usual holiday trips in Europe.
Why can’t you improve the internet sector of the economy?
We have no broadband or fast broadband in Cameroon. Your expertise in digital economy seems to be limited to Photoshop.
Mr President , you are right when you say ‘’that one of the major challenges for our youths is to manage to keep abreast of the astounding phenomenon of the digital economy’’. However, Cameroonian youths were excited, some were angry and others surprised to learn that their fellow compatriot (who has never worked in a farm, whose parents are not farmers) is using android and digital technology to vert her frustration for being poorly treated by a taxi driver in Beverly Hill. Are you aware of how fortunate your daughter is and how unfortunate her fellow peers are under your poor leadership and management?
CRP finds your description of the Cameroonian youths and their parents for not being patriotic, committed and determined as insulting.
Mr President , you seem to be the only Cameroonian who is aware that the ‘Government has opened three Pilot Centres of Excellence in Douala, Limbe and Sangmelima, at the cost of about 21 billion CFA Frs. to provide retraining and skills upgrading for senior technicians and other skilled workers’’. Can we know exactly where these Pilot Centres are and how come cfa 21 billion has been paid out for what is apparently inexistent? Is this how you spend our money? On ghost projects!
Mr President , CRP has not seen any proof of ‘’the economic integration of youths’’ that you are claiming. Where is the ‘’greater momentum to enable our youths to make the most of the numerous programmes and projects’’ that you claim ‘’are underway or in the pipeline’’?
Mr President , how can you shamelessly claim you ‘’have just given instructions for the launch of a three-year “Special Youth” plan worth CFAF 102 billion in total’’?
Giving instruction is one thing and actually launching the plan is another thing. The truth is, you have given no instruction and you think by saying you have given instruction, you will make the youths jump and applaud you as the North West Chiefs jumped up and clapped when you said you have ordered for a feasibility study on the Menchum Dam Project. Feasibility study is different from the actual construction.
By the way, why try to spend cfa 102 billion frs for the fake launch of a three-year ‘Special Youth Plan’ when you can open close to100 new and large industries with that amount of money? With 102 billion fcfa, my economic advisers tell me CRP can create at least 90 industries and provide at least 500 permanent new jobs for each of the 90 industries?
My dear youths
The President goes further to claim that his plan would ‘’facilitate and accelerate the economic integration of our youths’’ thereby letting the youths to demonstrate their “economic patriotism”. Mr President , who tells you that Cameroonians are not economically patriotic?
Mr President , CRP finds your address to the youths as extremely disrespectful and insulting. You show no remorse for what our youths are going through and you actually try to shift the blame on the youths and their parents.
CRP sympathises with the youths. On behalf of CRP, I would like to condemn in the strongest possible terms, the way you have treated the youths since you came to power some 34 years ago.
Mr President , you ask the youths to attend and ‘’reap the benefit from the good citizenship education programmes offered by the Civic Service Agency for Participation in Development’’. If there is anyone in Cameroon who needs to attend ‘good citizenship education programme, that person should be President Paul Barthelemy Biya Bi Mvondo.
Mr President , you claim ‘the sky is gradually clearing up’ and that the clouds are dispersing progressively’’. That is not true to any Cameroonian except to you.
Mr President , while you claim you are aware that the youth, ‘’more than the other population segments, are affected by unemployment’’, CRP would like to remind you that you are the sole cause of these problems. Unfortunately, you are unwilling and incapable to resolve them.
Mr President , you urge the youths ‘’to look to the future with more confidence’’. How can they look to the future with confidence when you have killed their hopes by refusing to provide them with jobs?
The President tries to be humble by saying that ‘’of course, we have not yet reached our goal, but we are making progress against all the odds’’. CRP economic experts have told me that the goal of the youths can never be reached with you in power and that despite all the opportunities and resources available at your disposal, you are not making any progress and you will never improve the situation.
Mr President , Cameroonian youths deserve better treatment. They have been patient with you. You have taken their patience for a weakness.
CRP is with the youths and we shall do all what it takes as a young party, a party of committed and determined Cameroonians who are not ready to betray the cause of their very foundations.
You have succeeded in the past 34 years to divide and rule the opposition parties and to successfully bring most of them under your control.
This time, the drummers are playing a different music. A music you are unfamiliar with. The dancers are now leaving the old dancing floors as they are now listening to a good and different brand of music. Luckily enough, the dancers have the right skills to dance to the rhythm of their new DJ.
This is our time. We shall get back our country from you and put it under our control. CRP is determined. There is no turning back.
SOURCE CAMEROON POST LINE
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