Laurent Esso Has A Good Story to tell From Belgium by Mbiydzenyuy D. WANTANGWA

As earlier announced, La Republique's Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, Laurent Esso was today in Bruxelles, Belgium where he was supposed to explain to Cameroonians in Belgium, the situation of the Southern Cameroons to the Cameroonians there.

If this man did not pick his greatest shock today, to see how much rejection he faces from the citizens of the Southern Cameroons and probably other Cameroonians, then either he is a hardened criminal, or a higher Devil or a Stoic or all of them.

This is a figure that comes through very terribly in the minds of Southern Cameroonians. We remember the first Press Conference where Laurent Esso, Issa Tchiroma and Jacque Fame Ndongo got it totally wrong from day one and since then they have insisted and continue to insist that they understand the problems of the people of Southern Cameroons. He is alleged to be at the origin of the arrest of Lord Justice Ayah Paul Abine. He has made a series of paper-plaster decisions about the legal system if not a bad immitation or call it, a travesty of what the lawyers demand. Remember, during that press conference he refused to recognize the Common Law system of the Southern Cameroons, and later on went ahead to create common law departments in various courts and law schools.

With other Ministers, he was supposed to meet the Cameroonians in the diaspora, who to please in this endeavour, maybe the dictator President Paul Biya his master or to blind-fold the United Nations or for God's sake, what occasioned these meetings. The very protagonists of division, who are at the cause of the escalation of the crises that have crippled the educational and legal systems in the Southern Cameroons, are exactly the wrong persons to have embarked on such a fruitless and risky adventure.

While Ebong Ngole and Ghogomou told their own set of lies in the United States of American he was trying his own hands in Belgium, thinking he could make away with it, without knowing that the meeting in the USA had already infuriated Southern Cameroonians in Belgium.

Now the question still remains. What are we to expect from the other meetings scheduled for the other parts of the world. Will they still hold? Were these Ministers not conscious of the results they would get from the field. State coffers which are almost depleting, are still being emptied further in such badly aimed attempts. While the Biya administration is aware of the demands being made by the people of Southern Cameroons, the International Community, and other international bodies, they still plan one aimless strategy after another. And we are tempted to ask this question: Is the Biya administration and its adherents and disciples willing to genuinely solve the problems of the people of Southern Cameroons and the problems of the country they want to call their own? They stand a better chance to answer.

The protesters in Belgium were infuriated by the fact that the delegation in the USA had deliberately told lies about the arrest of their leaders in jail and now still want them to listen to them.

We shall still be watching to see how this stage of the political drama unfolds.