NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A VALIANT HEART No. 00019/13-07/RDPF-KUMZSE/ADN-2025
MY CITIZEN APPEAL: THE FUTURE OF OUR DEAR COUNTRY "CAMEROON" CALLS UPON US ALL
The convening of the electorate is not only the signal for a new election, but also an opportunity to open a political debate focused on the future of our nation. The time has come, no longer for quarrels over the President's age, but for courageous discussions on our economic, financial, and monetary autonomy, and on the control of our strategic resources.
Why not consider the partial or total nationalization of our key companies such as Boissons du Cameroun (SABC), CAMRAIL, or ENEO? Today, SABC, the market leader, is majority-owned by foreign groups, yet it generates hundreds of billions in revenue each year for the benefit of foreign shareholders, who claim to be helping us, while the dividends they receive are a thousand times the so-called aid provided to cooperation. The renationalization of ENEO is already underway, proof that Cameroon can regain control of its vital sectors.
Faced with globalization andv competition, it is time to rethink our economic model to ensure that the wealth created primarily benefits Cameroonians.
I call on the media, political actors, and civil society to engage in a constructive, fact-based debate to build a sovereign, inclusive, and sustainable economy.
Cameroonian voters, are you ready to defend the national interest and demand responsible management of our resources?
Cameroon's future begins today: United for our sovereignty, let's build tomorrow's prosperity together! 🇨🇲 What Cameroon gained under Paul Biya:
1. Reintroduction of a multiparty system and electoral democracy in the 1990s, with pluralistic elections (even if contested).
2. Maintenance of political stability and relative peace in an often troubled regional context.
3. Peaceful settlement of the Bakassi conflict with Nigeria, through international arbitration.
4. Long-term GDP growth: Cameroon's GDP increased from $18.6 billion in 1990 to $46.3 billion in 2019, and growth has resumed thanks to public investment programs and macroeconomic reforms.
5. Infrastructure development: construction of schools, universities, health centers, rural and urban electrification projects, and access to drinking water.Economic;
6. Reforms and structural adjustments with the IMF, allowing for a degree of macroeconomic stability and partial debt cancellation.
7. Creation of an anti-corruption commission (although results remain mixed).
8. Fight against Boko Haram and regional cooperation for security.
9. Modernization of certain sectors (telecoms, roads, airports) and opening up to international investment.
Comparison with recorded and incurred losses:
- Several public companies and banks have effectively disappeared or been privatized, often due to the economic crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, mismanagement, and corruption.
- Living standards and certain social benefits (scholarships, free education, security, social cohesion) have declined or disappeared, fueling nostalgia for a more prosperous and just era.
- Despite economic growth, wealth distribution remains unequal, and youth unemployment remains high.
- Democratic progress is real but remains limited by disputes over election transparency and freedom of expression.
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8. ONAREF (National Office for Forest Regeneration): True. ONAREF existed and carried out forestry projects in the 1980s, but disappeared during forestry sector reforms and the reorganization of forestry institutions.
9. CENADEFOR (National Forestry Development Center): True. CENADEFOR was replaced by other structures (such as ANAFOR) in the 2000s, following the reorganization of the forestry sector.
10. INTELAR: True. INTELAR, an IT company, ceased operations in 1990 and was replaced by HI-TECH COMPUTER.
11. SOTUC (Cameroon Urban Transport Company): True. SOTUC was dissolved in 1987 after serious financial difficulties, ending organized public urban transport in Douala and Yaoundé.
12. Free public school, high school, and university: Partially true. Primary education was free and compulsory in the 1960s and 1970s, but this free education was suspended in the 1970s and then partially reintroduced in 2000/2001 for primary school only. Supplies, books, and other fees remain the responsibility of parents, and secondary school or university have never been completely free.
13. Student scholarships and benefits:
True for the past.
Until the early 1990s, the Cameroonian government provided monthly scholarships to students and facilitated their mobility abroad. This system was abandoned in the early 1990s with the economic crisis and the reforms imposed by the World Bank.
14. Administrative competitive examinations with training, housing, and direct assignment: Previously true. Administrative competitive examinations were more numerous and offered comprehensive support (training, housing, guaranteed assignment). Today, these examinations still exist but are more selective, fewer in number, and the government no longer systematically covers all successful candidates.
15. Back pay for new civil servants: Previously true. New civil servants did indeed receive back pay of several months after taking up their duties, but this practice was significantly reduced or eliminated with the budget crisis.
Summary:
Most of the claims regarding the disappearance or privatization of banks, public enterprises, and social benefits are accurate and documented.
Many social and educational benefits (free schooling, scholarships, competitive exams with subsidized education) were very real in the 1960s and 1980s, but were reduced or eliminated starting in the 1990s due to the economic crisis and reforms.Free education remains partial and limited to primary education.
Power comes from and is vested in God, and men and women are created in the image of God and are the ones who physically decide the allocation of power in a democracy through elections and voting at the ballot box!
The fundamental question remains unanswered: How was the late President Papa Ahmadou B. Ahidjo, who was not as educated as the current President Papa Paul Biya, with him at his side, able to succeed where he failed?
A word of warning to amateurs who think that simply elevating a Professor to the highest office is enough for Cameroon to emerge and prosper, they are fundamentally mistaken!
Dear Compatriots, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Together, let's awaken the Cameroon that wins! Our future, our choice, our Cameroon!
Cameroon first, for all and by all: united, let's demand change, let's build our future! 🇨🇲
Dr. Antoine De Padoue Ndemmanu, Ph.D. in Social Economics Contact: (+237) 690 922 056 / 670 655 614.
