The theory of corruption and the corrupt political system in Cameroon

--- On Thu, 12/1/11, Jonathan Awasom <wisesayings10@yahoo.com> wrote:

My fellow Cameroonians and members of the civilized International Community

Greetings again.

Part One

As we struggle endlessly to build a virtuous and free Cameroon society, it is  obvious that  a stream of unconscious and  uneducated  CPDM school of thought  have chosen to come in between what we seek to accomplish by trying to defend the same corrupt system in Cameroon that we, the people  have long past a vote of no confidence against them.

We will not succumb to their intrigues and manipulations because we know that the head of the snake carries the  poisonous venom. The man who wants Cameroonians, Africans and the world to believe by either crook or hook that he is still President of Cameroon is  very corrupt beyond corruption with his government officials.

There has never been any controversy as to the nature and scope of  their corrupt leadership because it is something terrible and requires urgent action,which explains why I have never been at ease with them.The kind of corruption we see in Cameroon is the worst, yet in  human history. These folks are dangerously corrupt and worst still have everything that is against human dignity to get away with it for too long.

I always do my research very well before I pour out my frustration( this unending protest) and perhaps knowledge, vision and energy as a voice for the voiceless in our conscientious endeavors to stamp out corruption and evil in our world. I neither write in a vacuum nor do I imagine things to bother anyone with since I also invest so much time  and effort in exploring what others have said about what I am thinking and writing about.

This is very true about corruption in any form or shape except that I am very specific about corruption caused by a Cameroon corrupt political establishment that is corrupt beyond corruption( corrupt tyranny and dictatorship like the CPDM regime ,Party and government of Cameroon is totally inconceivable for anyone to dare embrace them)

I don't agree with those who think that because we  are all human beings and sinful, those who broke our laws, violate our humanity as well as seek to destroy the dreams and aspirations of others be given  some sort  of  free pass. They can be punished and forgiven but to be given a free pass because we are all sinful or fallible is wrong and unacceptable.

" The problem of corruption is particularly difficult to eradicate because the cost that would be involved to achieve this are very high.The authors suggest that perhaps should aim at minimizing corruption by means of personal involvement; and institutionally by means of limiting the discretionary powers of the state authorities.The former places the responsibility of the fight against corruption upon each  individual in a society, especially those in which corruption is rampant. The latter points to the rule of law and the necessity of checks and balances for agencies of the state"  Osvaldo Schenone and Samuel Gregg

When I lay my hands on a useful information and knowledge, I articulate it in the light of the state of corruption and evil in Cameroon/ Africa in order to capture and harness the contextual relevance of  the philosophy and science of education. What I mean is education is very important when it is carried out within a particular context where the circumstance demands an occasion for people to be educated or set on the path to be enlightened against ignorance. 

Suppose I was to pursue a Ph.D in Education in terms of policy making, it will be only relevant if I speak from the inside of the society where I was born into the new society where I  am being groomed as a future Statesman. I call this strategic learning, which enhances effective diagnosis of the perfect threats to good governance and development of my country and people.
 
Osvaldo Schenone and Samuel Gregg write in their book " A Theory of Corruption"  The Theology and Economics of Sins also considered as a Christian Social Thought Series  that;

"There is perhaps no greater problem that handicaps the flourishing of developing nations than that of corruption.Though corruption is associated with the original sin that marks the heart of every person, corruption is also a social scourge that debilitates the daily economic and legal transanctions upon which all of us ultimately depend for our material survival.For many people, corruption is invisible, as it is often limited  to specific sectors of the economy.For  others, it is an omnipresent feature of their existence.In all cases,howerver, corruption is ultimately derived from the personal choices of individuals to violate the law that, as Saint Paul reminds us, is written on our hearts, Romans 1:15" ( That law to me is also article 66 of the Cameroon Constitution,which calls for all Cameroon government officials  to declare their assets but they  are trying to hijack both the law of Saint Paul and the laws of Cameroons and it is not permissible) 

The stolen assets and ill-gotten riches of corrupt Cameroon officials and their children within the United States and other parts of the world must be ceased pending enforcement of article 66 of the Cameroon Constitution as well as investigation into all their pro- Bernie Madoff and Pondi Schemes.
In 2004, President George W. Bush of the United States introduced the No Safe Haven Law against corrupt foreign nationals and their children from being allowed within the United or admitted into the United States  if there were found guilty and charged of corruption. I believe that Cameroon officials and theirr children overseas are not only corrupt but have been  instrumental in the gross violation of the human rights of Cameroonians as far as killing innocent citizens in order to protect their corrupt life styles at home and abroad.

This law still exists and as the voice for the voiceless, I am calling upon the Supreme Court of the United States, the White House, Congress and  the US Council on Foreign Relations to cooperate with us , Cameroonians living wihtin the United States on political asylum  to enforce this law against the Cameroon corrupt foreign nationals and their children living within the United States of America and other Stakeholder nations around the world.

The number one embezzlers and corrupt Cameroonians in recent history are the men and women who have usurped the civil rights of Cameroonians and trying to make themself President,Chief Justice  and Parliamentarians for life in the person of Mr. Paul Biya as President of Cameroon, the President of the Constitutional Council, Chief Justice  of the Supreme Court of Cameroon and all the CPDM majority Parliamentarians, Ministers, Ambassadors and Governors of all the ten regions of Cameroon. These individuals are on the wrongside of history.

Mr Paul Biya  has no moral capacity as well as the political mandate to stamp out corruption as well as effectively prosecute perpetrators because he is also as corrupt as those he pretends to prosecute.  It is an act of injustice for him to think that he is invincible and beyond prosecution.  Even so I have been very troubled by the fact that he thinks that the more corrupt Cameroonians are the better for him and his sole ambition to be President for life as a strategy to avoid prosecution.This is bad news for  governments around the world who adore good governance and the rule of law under the canopy of strategic planning and capacity building with respect to the SWOT analysis theory. What about the Thermodynamics theory in physics?

I can explain all these later but I am very clear that government and political power is about the people and should not be hijacked by a clique of individuals who send their children overseas into flamboyant living and at the sametime killing, murdering and oppressing the rest of the citizens who are not in control.I am strongly against the CPDM regime as well as some Church leaders who have taken advantage of our people as though they ever  had to choose what country to belong to during and after colonization, whatever that was!

Consequently, I strongly disagree with his cohorts and followers at home and abroad who are erroneously or intentionally trying so hard to convince us that an illegitimate and illegal President MUST be allowed to rule us again by the use of force! No, Mr. Paul Biya and his Constitutional Council and Supreme Court hijacked our constitution and conspired to usurp our sovereign human rights and constitutional civil rights, which are enshrined into the Constitution of Cameroon as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other International laws. His rubber stamp Parliament became toothless bull dogs because they are also corrupt.

I have the profound moral obligation to ensure that the CPDM regime and party, which is also  illegally operating within the United States of America, to  understand that my position against their illegality, illegitimacy, injustice and abuse of power has never been altered by any form of propaganda, threats and intimidation. I was very clear since 2009 that Mr. Paul Biya and any other member within the CPDM regime and CPDM Party were never going to be eligible to run for President and that if any of them used any means necessary to do so AS THEY HAVE STUBBORNLY DONE, it would be considered illegal and criminal.

I have been consistent and time has proven that I was absolutely right. Long before the 23 Cameroon opposition got entangled into all these, I had also warned them not to participate in an illegal elections organized by a regime that has no legitimacy and mandate to so do.
Yet, the defied reason and commonsense until the truth prevailed as they have turned out to be the hunted( because the 23 opposition leaders participated in a corrupt, fraudulent and illegal Presidential election for money and not out of the political goodwill to ensure that Cameroon is changed from bad to good governance) instead of the hunters. I applaud my fellow Cameroonians from all walks of life who listened to the call for all of us to boycott from the said fake Presidential elections.We, the people have own way   of rebelling or revolting against the statusquo.

While other people rise up in their huge numbers on the streets in protest, we Cameroonians chose a different revolutionary path,which was MASSIVE BOYCOTT  galvanized through the cyber revolution with endless protest letters, memos and castigation of the said horrible regime ,which culminated into an unprecedented awareness about the uncivilized activities of the CPDM regime and Party all over the world. In this light, I am once more urging all Cameroonians and the world again to continue to cooperate with us until Mr. Paul Biya and his CPDM regime and Party leave power immediately.

 We must all stand with the oppressed and those who choose to sympathize with brutal dictators and a criminal regime with corrupt officials like the CPDM regime of Cameroon, either directly or indirectly for convenience must know that they are guilty of destroying the destiny and future of a whole generation of peace loving citizens bubbling with energy and enthusiasm to build a new Cameroon. AS THIS YEAR 2011 COMES TO AN END, I MUST MAKE IT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT WE, CAMEROONIANS HAVE SAID ENOUGH IS ENOUGH TO THE CPDM REGIME IN OUR OWN WAYS AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO A  BETTER FUTURE AS FROM 2012

The mentality of the beneficiaries of the Paul Biyaism CPDM regime: They really think that he is invincible !I just have a serious problem with this individual who projects his Master and Boss Mr Paul Biya whom I truly believe is the number one embezzler and thief as some sort of invincible human being in this world who is above every law of man and nature! This is what this new propagandist of the regime states;

 ...then His Excellency Paul Biya may need to go beyond words, to make some very serious decisions regarding the fate of the same people he appointed to serve in his Administration. Individuals who may have abused the President's trust by behaving like common criminals and fools"

All members and supporters of the CPDM regime of Cameroon at home and abroad do not believe that their number one man, Mr Paul Biya has done anything wrong! They are constantly separating him from others within his regime, government and Party who are partners with him in abusing power and behaving as criminals and fools in their own words, of course!

The first thing that all of them must understand effective immediately is, no Cameroonian was going to be invincible and above the laws of our country and laws of nature. That is why we have mounted a very active and ongoing  non-violent revolution against anything and anybody that is CPDM or associate with such an endemic vicious  system of government. Truth be told because we must never condone.It is our moral duty to stand up to every evil, injustice and bad  that threaten our common humanity together. I have never thought about a Cameroon society isolated from the rest of  world but one must  not be preyed upon because the people are well enlightened but lack the means to stop Mr Paul Biya and his corrupt regime.

The current status of Mr Paul Biya of Cameroon

Mr Paul Biya has been told over and over again that he and his CPDM regime, Government and Party are on the wrong side of history. I mince no words when I state categorically that I  DO NOT recognize Mr Paul Biya as President of Cameroon and most importantly that he should not be allowed to continue  their insanity on a whole generation of innocent citizens who deserve better.
He has not earned the mandate of the people of Cameroon at all and this is because we, the people believe beyond any reasonable doubts that Mr Paul Biya is bent to die in power because for over 29 years as President of Cameroon , he is;

•The number one embezzler and thief  of public funds
 •The number one corrupt Cameroonian who has not honored article 66
 •The number one murderer of Cameroonians
 •The number one abusers and violator of the human rights of Cameroonians
 •The number one hijacker of  the constitution of Cameroonians for sefish ends
 •The number one dictator and tyrant among all of his cohorts within his cycle of corrupt power

Consequently, in order for any change to be effective and meaningful in Cameroon and among Cameroonians, the number one enemy of humanity and the progress of Cameroon and Cameroonians must be changed.He is not above the laws and we must stick with the facts with respect to the constitution of Cameroon and international laws that frown against crimes against humanity by the CPDM regime.

How moral escapism is injected  into the debate to kill the effort.Then comes another uneducated fellow who states as follows;

"It is not just the government even the people are corrupt. The assumption from the Reverend is that if you remove CPDM from power, the society will be free of corruption. That is not true and I am sure even he knows that. The problems in Cameroon are systemic and require a radical reorientation of the society itself, not just the government"       CPDM-USA

This is what is called in literature Moral Escapism. The government is corrupt and the people are also corrupt.Therefore, nothing should be done so that the blame game continues while powerless and helpless people remain oppressed and decieved to believe that they are indeed corrupt! What  he is actually talking about is called  situational corruption just as a police officer would pose as a prostitute to arrest a married man addicted to sex to the extent of paying a prostitute to have sex.
Those who pay prostitute must stop their immoral and criminal actions because when there are no pay masters, there won't be any more prostitutes on the streets.This is pure and simple. What I mean is if we get rid of a corrupt and immoral government like the CPDM regime of Cameroon, then we are less likely going to raise more corrupt and immoral Cameroonians in the near future.  This is what I know .

These kinds of  people are in this usual business of blaming the victims for their moral and spiritual failures. They don't ever realize that they are  perhaps most responsible for their circumstance. We must save our children from this generation of very corrupt men and women whose immoral leadership has corrupted and pollutted the atmosphere of  sanity in Cameroon and among Cameroonians.

Morality is taught and learned while immorality is unlearned
Nobody in this world was born with morales. We do acquire morales and as time goes on we build our own moral values based on a  lot of factors but one thing is absolutely clear about being a member of a society.The fact that every soceity is expected to have laws, rules or a set of rules and principles by, which everyone agrees are decent and modest, and ethical enough for a good and healthy co-existence changes the conversation about trying to blame someone else for our own moral failures.

So, if we have rules or laws, they must be enforced. If those who are supposed to enforce those laws are not truthful to perform their duties, well, they must be a reason why they are obstructing justice or standing in the way of good governance and the rule of law.When we are born into this world, a good  society expects us to be taught while we are are on the recieving end to learn to the extent ,which it boils down to a give and take mutual responsibility.

Tell me how kids can acquire morales on their own without some role models or father or mother figure in their lives?  It is a rare tragedy to see how some of  these  Cameroonians tend to  reason so subjectively and sefishly when  confronted with hard facts.

I was born and raised in Cameroon and while a student from elementary school through college,  our teachers taught us morales so that as we grew up we would make informed decisions between right and wrong. They taught us  because they were fully conversant of the fact that if we were not taught, we would be exposed to the immorales that  are more prevalent than moral norms because of human nature.

They  made us to  learn and  understand the difference between right and wrong  and expected us to conduct ourselves in that light in society, school, church and at home/community. By the time I was back at home, my parents, too had some very serious moral lessons to offer and back and forth these lessons  impacted my upbringing till date.  It is frightening when any Cameroonian is trying to downplay on these simple truths about life.

How can one blame a child who is born and raised under a culture of corruption as a result of a very corrupt and egoistic politicians who do not care about the moral and spiritual failures of their fellow man because it  does not affect their stolen and ill-gotten wealth and the wonderful lives they  are offering  to their  children overseas at the expense of other children held in bundage in Cameroon?
The moral responsibility to ensure that government functions with an appropriate code of conduct guided by ethical principles /rules is a shared responsibility provided that government does not use the military against its own people. The citizens of Cameroon did not ask the CPDM regime and folks to be corrupt.

This is a choice they made consciously because it was  part of a  grand scheme to frame up every other Cameroonian to get entangled in their vicious cycle. What I am saying is that if government as  parents cannot provide  or create a safe and free environment for children to play  with the hope that they would have the liberty to develope appropriately, then any form of abuse by the parent as government must be guarded against.

The metaphor  for protecting the vulnerable people

Government is to a county and citizens just as parents are to their kids. Does it ring a bell now into their head about proper parenting skills and the moral responsibility of parents to ensure that their children are well nurtured in a safe and peaceful environment? How dare  they  blame children for being corrupt when their government did not offer the choice for them to be righteous in their behavior.

Instead their government used every covet means to render a sense of morality irrelevant by empowering criminals or rewarding those who do wrong. What has become of cognitive perceptions in upbringing? Corrupt leaders most definitely inspire corrupt citizens or followers until someone with the moral compass,  moral clarity and moral consciousness  and moral audacity comes forward  to differ from the rest. Then at that point all hell broke loose!

Framing up children to grow up corrupt is dangerously evil and misleading

To me , this is even yet another crime against innocent children who have been poisoned with corruption right from birth by an inept government. The CPDM regime and Party intentionally created a corrupt environment in order to destroy Cameroonians with their bad blood political system. It is a very bad blood government that nobody  in their normal senses should identify with.
This is even punishable by the life sentence penalty with the possibility of no parole because they did  it on purpose. I will seek the life sentence penalty for all these CPDM officials if the investigation shows that the corruption is intentionally enabled. Of course it is very true following the statements of Mr Paul Biya in favor of his Prime Minister.

It is alleged that Mr Paul Biya said, his PM did not steal too much  money  as compared to others.So for that simple reason , he was not liable to be charged for corruption, embezzlement and other corrupt crimes. The CPDM regime, Party and their President are enablers of corruption and have collectively ruined the destiny and future of our children in Cameroon born under their reign of corruption, terror and gross violation of human rights of Cameroonians.When we are focused on ways to solve a problem, those who are the initiators must do everything to blame the victims. The Cameroonian people did not ask the leaders of Cameroon to encourage, enable and allow corruption.

Human beings are born into this world with a sinful nature but everyone has an opportunity to make an about turn , what we call a U-TURN or TRANSFORMATION and it takes various dimensions depending on who, where, where, when, how and for what purpose one was born and raised.
Mr Paul Biya and all his fellow CPDM people had at least one of their parents as a moral figure in their lives who either influenced them negatively or positively. Their church, school and community was not left out in their upbringing and must have played a very vital role in  their lives.
So, what became of their childhood days in Cameroon and how could they forget that they were once kids? There is no other better way to solve the endemic corruption in Cameroon and among Cameroonians other than to start enforcing the constitution of Cameroon under violation.

I have already suggested very clearly what steps we must take to build a virtuous and free Cameroon. Those measures must be taken into consideration ,which include but not limited to change of President and the system of government. When we change these two things, we will replace them with a new generation of Cameroonians who will rise up to the moral standards we  deserve in order to give a new face lift to Cameroon and Cameroonians.

This is what I am working towards because there is concrete evidence to support any claims against the  criminal and immoral regime of the CPDM regime ,which has tolerated and enable evil , injustice and corruption as a means of moral escapism. Again it means that when they steal 100 millions frs CFA and someone steals 1000 frs CFA according to the CPDM regime, everyone is a thief by that action whereas it is only a ploy  for self-defense and narrow escape from accountability.
The truth is, all CPDM government officials who have taken loans and never paid back as well as failed to declare their assets according to article 66 should be charged with serious crimes and obliged to pay back all stolen and ill gotten wealth.

If anyone of them have directly or indirectly caused the moral  downfall of any Cameroonian child by their corrupt influence, they should be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. We need real rigor and moralization in that Cameroon and among Cameroonians and we  will do it. It is only a matter of time.

THE CPDM PEOPLE MUST STOP BLAIMING THEIR VICTIMS and respect our constitution especially article 66, which calls for all government officials to declare their assets. This is the constitution and article 66 is well embedded into it. The possible names of such individuals who have stolen loans and never to pay will be forwarded to the International Community very soon.
Thanks for your Cooperation and Pass it

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 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:06 AM, WANDA MISORI <misoriwanda@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Hello Brother Esale,

I am very convinced,  after reading Rev Awasom's contribution here, that he may be out of touch.
I was in Cameroon in 2010 and the system is very corrupt. It is not just the government even the people are corrupt. The assumption from the Reverend is that if you remove CPDM from power, the society will be free of corruption. That is not true and I am sure even he knows that. The problems in Cameroon are systemic and require a radical reorientation of the society itself, not just the government. Plato's allegory of the cave suggests that people who have been in darkness for too long prefer darkness rather than light.I went to Cameroon and even my own family was encouraging me to give a policeman money for no good reason. When I asked why they told me that is how we live here. Rev Awasom should be reminded that it is not just the government. We all have to take responsibility for reshaping the country.

Thanks

Misori, charles

Huntsville, AL


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