A
Open Note to the Two Newly Appointed Banso Professors
(through
Shey Woo Scandy)
Shey Woo Scandy, whatever the motive of the
appointment, there is nothing now that we should be happy about. You yourself
have seen and acknowledged that it is the piece of meat, Honourable Joseph
Wirba talked about. What a timely prophecy he out rightly made. If those two
professors have courage, they should turn down those appointments. After
killing, maiming, torturing, kidnapping our people, they come and give some two
obscure positions and you and other adherents of such that you call politics
would expect the Nso man to clap or to be happy about that. The blood that has
been shed by this regime of Nso people has not been atoned for and I expected
that even from the traditional point of view, you like a Shey should understand
that better, before invoking our Christianity to reiterate the point. The Blood
of innocent is crying out throughout the land, and my appeal is that no one in
Nso land nor in Southern Cameroons should dare celebrate any of those odious,
hideous appointments. From my authority Shey, let me tell you that such appointments
at this time are appalling, indeed an abomination, albeit, loathsome both in
the eyes of God, Allah or Nyuymbom, Call him with which version, HE or THEY
reject such Machiavellian manipulations. More if you need.... My Advice to those
Professors, Wir Fon, Angaa Yeey Ve Abaa, Ven Yuuri mo kijung. These set of
appointments are following after the rejection of those who were first
preferred to you and trust me, they may be on their way to Kondengui if the
skies do not shine on their heads. You were first of all more qualified earlier
than now, why were you still being left behind. And at the time your own
juniors and brothers and sisters and daughters were being maltreated, tortured,
raped, maimed, kidnapped to unknown destinations and the political repression
continues in its wildest dimension, what do you imagine are going to be your
obligations at least from face value? And now frankly speaking, what do you
imagine will be your internal obligations of allegiance to the powers that have
put your there? What written and unwritten reports are you supposed to hand to
Yaounde? Are you upon assuming your functions very certain that you can perform
better to the people than Professor Nalova of Buea whose demise you have just
witnessed? And performing better, to whose favour? is there anything in the
educational system that will change because of your presence there? Is there
anything in the genuine Anglo-Saxon character of things that you think you can
successfully change without the blessings of Professor Jacque Fame Ndongo who
is your boss? Are you going into these offices as faithful slaves, or as
conquering lions? Permit me to take you to another personal level. Two of you
are called "Victor" and "Julius". These are conventionally,
Christian names, and we want to suppose that you are Christians not just by
names but by conviction. You are assuming your positions at a time when lots of
people have been wondering if those Christians in government are even worth the
name. If they are not just some fellows who grab positions in Church and
society to make their weight felt by both and more groupings, so that everybody
or at least most can hear your heels when you pass and applaud. Now is the time
to put your Christian convictions and your positions in government to a genuine
test, because, i assure you, that in the nearest future, those government
servants who trample on the people and at the same time come to the Church and
assume principal positions, we shall soon spit you out of the Christian communities
and no amount of financial contributions that they give to the Church in the
hope of corrupting the Church and pocketing the Church will be able to save
them. Call it judgement, but when they trample on the people they don't have an
appropriate name for it . I must assure you sincerely, that your appointment
puts you between the Lion and the Cliff. This is a dilemma that many of your
colleagues have found challenging to solve. Do you prefer your Grand Master to
your people? Your money to the sufferings and plight of your students? Your
positions to the common good? and we can continue to ask. Permit me to come
back to this: Remember, that on the day of reckoning, whatever you conceive it
to be, your Judge will not be Paul Biya, or Fame Ndongo or call them anything
in this government. I have watched and listened to your colleagues fanatically
singing the praises of the President as if he were a demi-god having put aside
their Professorial status and capabilities and assumed some strange songs of
the betimes whimsical and un-statemanlike statements of the head of state. They
quickly forget that if they truely qualified or merited the Professorial
positions, then they stand a better chance, to correct the president, and as of
now, academically speaking, President Paul Biya is not a Professor. So you are
supposed to give him sound direction to lead this country and specifically the
Educational system from chaotic assimilation into some consistent sanity.
Again, as you assume your position how do you hope to be rated by the people,
in whose name you have been used for regional balance or whatever they call it,
how do you hope to be rated by the government and how do you hope to be rated
by God? I invite you both, go into the secret of your rooms and away from any
distractions and examine with serious reflection, your conscience as to what
await you ahead. It may be a head-on collision with many forces and that you
should already be aware of. You may be a stepping stone to achieving both good
and evil and God forbid that represent a stepping stone to evil. Whatever, the
case you should be careful that this country that is presently sitting on a
time bomb should not meet you on the wrong side. A Word to a Wise Is Enough.
Good Luck. Pray your God and Act with Fear of the Lord.
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