Traditional Rulers: 21st Century Political Bandits

Traditional Rulers and elites are still in self denial of what is actually taking place. They keep believing that what is happening is a tiny minority who want to cause destabilisation of their one and indivisible Cameroun. They still look up to Biya, begging audience with him, begging him to visit their region. These rulers who are supposed to be neutral having a high moral authority to speak on both sides have become the worst enemies of their people. They have become political agents, actors and promoters of the regime and in this light they have all lost the respect the people had for them. For some of them, they think the lives of civilian matters not and many can die. Their lives have become more important than the thousands the regime has massacred since 2016.

Pity to learn that these ones who called themselves South West Chiefs and South West Elites Association are begging for an audience with Biya and they are meeting on August 25 in Buea to talk and the theme of their meeting is how to ensure an end of the social-political crisis so that an enable environment for elections will hold. These bandits who call themselves chiefs and elites are not interested in stopping the senseless war. These are people that for once have not raised a voice against the massacre going on in their communities.

Every day at least 2 civilians are killed by the military, yet the numerous burning of villages, killings, these bandits in the name of chiefs have offered no word likewise their colleagues in the Northern zone. You can see all they are interested is elections-how to help Biya win so that they continue to reap from the regime at the expense of the people. Their move is only self interest because in no time, not even once have they shown sympathy or stand with their subjects. They failed.

The Chiefs are complaining that there is a deliberate attempt by some people to crumble the economy of the region as if those fighting in Bangem, Manyu, Lebialem, Meme, Mbonge, Fako etc are some strange people taken from space and transported to fight there. They are still in ‘wakalanda’ land thinking that what is happening in the region is being done by some strange people, whereas it is their very subjects, those they have lived with for years but these subjects have risen to say “NEVER AGAIN”

Today is Monday and Restoration Day (Ghost Towns) is 100 percent effective in all 13 counties from the Southern to the Northern zone. The chiefs are complaining that their region is being crumbled with ghost towns trying to regionalised the crisis- another failure. The conflict has enveloped all communities in the Southern Cameroons yet they do not see. Now we hear of mega South West and North West conferences, holding in Buea and Bamenda respectively in the weeks ahead sponsored by these chiefs/Fons and CPDM elites. Again, these nincompoops are in stark off reality with what is happening on the ground. Their interests are elections and nothing else.

The revolution is one of either we live free or die and let all Chiefs, Fons, so called elites be aware that the Never Again Generation are watching and if they think this generation will sit and watch them sold out then they really have been hypnotised by Biya and have no idea on what this generation can do.

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Mark Bareta.