By Angie Forbin( Journalist)
Kamto in 1 year has lost his basic right as a citizen to run for president before the very eyes of the people who claimed to love him with a savage regime that doctored a ministerial website to justify its hatched and executed plan to distastefully remove him from the race for the top job earlier this year while the country looked away.
He has lost time which he will never recover, efforts, money, health… supporters…he has been ostracized and martyrized scrutinized and bastardized.
He has been harassed, his supporters have had their dreams dashed like sea waves on high tide to the rocks. He has been banned from basic internal party activities by a regime that only looks at things from the prism of nail and hammer. A regime that speaks the language of fire and gunpowder to flies. A regime that brandishes protesters as assailants while firing live rounds at men with peace plants.
KAMTO has lost an ally. Not just anyone.
He has lost a man who gave him a massive light ray of hope in a night darkened by a tenebrous regime that ultimately came down swinging a large cowardly blow of exclusion from a presidential race he had prepared 7 years long in earnest. KAMTO lost the man who selflessly stretched his arm out to him in a time of dire need.
The last decade has easily been his most challenging yet, tirelessy persecuted by a blood thirsty regime that quivers feverishly at the sound of the word ‘change’.
KAMTO has had bad years, he has tasted jail, he has separated from party collaborators, buried some, but the year 2025 has been a devilish one for him.
In the past he has been there for Cameroonians and it is time for them to return the favor. A good turn deserves another…in silence and in respect as he grieves EKANE in his own way.
There are moments when BIYA’S fiercest adversary of 2018 needs a hug… or atleast the right to tranquility. These are the times.
The Dalaï Lama once said ‘The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings’.
He brought Cameroonians hope and life while the regime squandered billions during the COVID19 pandemic. He comforted families during landslides and other major national tragedies while the regime did nothing but menace, steal, jail and kill.
He spoke up where other politicians cozied up with the ugliness of this regime. The man we saw today was shaken by the death of Ekane. He spoke with knots in his throat fighting to hold back tears and expressing the feelings every lover of change has felt since the damning News of the passing of a MAVERICK. ANICET EKANE. A NATIONAL TREASURE. A man who was the antithesis of the Biya Rogue regime- Brave, loyal to a noble cause, candid to the very end, intrepid and selfless.
Kamto went to visit him on Monday and met his ghost. Imagine the shock?! After grappling with the repressive ban of his extraordinary party convention over the weekend by a zealous Divisional Officier. Turbulence in his party as it experiences growing pains… A triple whammy…
I beg of you, allow this man to take it all in. Even a dog has the right to lick its wounds. KAMTO is not a dog but a man who built an outstanding career bootstraps up entrenched in principles of justice and love for the common man shaped by the execution of Ernest Ouandie which he witnessed as a fifteen year old lad hiding in a tree.
The man’s mettle has been tested a time too many on this treacherous thankless path called opposition politics. He has done well where many ended up surrendering to the regime’s scraggly carrots after being broken into submission by its fragmenting and dehumanizing cane strokes.
He has sacrificed too much too long for a bunch of 30 million ungrateful conceited arrogant and noisy armchair politicians (not all but you get me
). Let KAMTO mourn however he wants to. He has earned it, sweat, blood, public humiliation, heart, mind and money. He did not kill Ekane and he is not responsible for the disgraceful rigging and manipulation of election results that has plunged the country into this umpteenth nightmare. Let him mourn in silence in peace in tears as he chooses.
His perceived character flaws, Winny says Nelson Mandela had some too, MLK etc
The sand of the revival of politics as the center of daily conversation in Cameroon carries his massive footprints. He is the revival of Cameroonian politics.
THE RENAISSANCE. A MOVEMENT. AN IDEAL. A NEW WAY OF LIFE! THE ENVY OF THE CONVENIENT OPPOSITION.
He has done what the BIYA regime and all its Superman professors with grandiloquent arrogance incompetence mediocrity and brutality will never live to dream of doing and have not cared to do in 43 years.
To those who believe they can do better. Please do better.
To those who believe he has done nothing or that he has not done enough, the floor is yours. This is your time to shine. Do yours too.
