₦airaland Forum

Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio yesterday expressed regrets on the ceding of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon.

He said the people were still bitter over the experience.

The governor spoke when a delegation from the United Nations on International Boundary Matters, led by Mrs. Rosa Marie, visited him.

His words: “The Bakassi Peninsula saga will remain a bitter pill for the people of Akwa Ibom because 80 per cent of our indigenes lived in Bakassi.

“Due to the saga caused by the boundary crisis between Cross River and Cameroun, most our people died as a result of poverty. I hope all the agencies present here today have realised their mistakes.

‘’The returnees from Bakassi who are my people and most of them who are not from this state are well taken care of by the state.

“We have singlehandedly put in funds for their welfare. At every point in time, we must be our brother’s keeper by trying to help one another.”

power is

must we win all the time?

cap28:
Im amazed that some nigerians actually think we  are better off than camerounians under biya, what is the difference between cameroun's form of dictatorship and nigeria's? simple - cameroun has had  one tyrant ruling over them for decades while nigeria rotates its own tyrants, as a matter of fact we've improved because now we get to elect our own tyrants who continue to degrade, exploit and abuse us but no matter how badly they treat us we always forgive them and elect another set every 4 years, at least now we can elect tyrants from different ethnic groups unlike before when we were stuck with tyrants from the north only - now thats what i call democracy

THE WORST DEMOCRACY IS BETTER THAN DICTATORSHIP!

greateros:
congratulation to Ca-MOR-ON-ians for successfully voting in your great grandfather paul Beer again.

Keep drinking and dancing makosa! i guess that's all you need to live!

CONGRATS to u Neyah. I now understand y u enjoy spending time with Nigerians on NL i see you don't have men in your country - only makosa dancing she-males! No offense!

cameroon has samuel eto and a successful national team. they love to have fun, party and drink alot

the worst democracy is better than dictatorship!

Biya is one of Africa's longest-standing heads of state.

Cameroon's President Paul Biya (78), in power since 1982, was re-elected by 77% of the electorate on October 9. He is routinely compared to other long-serving African autocrats including Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.

Married to a woman 38 years his junior, Biya spends "working holidays" of up to three months in Geneva. In February 2008, when the country's constitution was amended to scrap term limits, taxi drivers started a revolt in which 200 people died.

The Mail & Guardian spoke to Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian political theorist and historian based at Stellenbosch University, about what drives African autocrats like Biya and why they survive so long.

Were the elections free and fair?
In the present circumstances, the possibility of free and fair elections in Cameroon is quasi-nil. There is no independent institution in charge of administering elections. Elecam, which stands for such an institution, is controlled by the ruling party and most of its members are known to belong to that political formation. The entire state apparatus, from the bureaucracy to the police, the military and the official media, is mobilised to campaign for the incumbent. Even to talk about "elections" under such conditions is simply farcical.

Three decades at the helm and they continue re-electing him. And he does not seem to have campaigned much. Cameroonians must love him.
He firmly holds them by the balls. He has understood that, in order to stay in power, he needs to do nothing at all. He has invented a style of rule we should call "government by inaction", a form of spectral government that doesn't even require him to be in his country for long periods.

In fact, he spends much of his time either in the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva or in his village. He hardly ever holds a Cabinet meeting. He doesn't even seem to recognise some of the Cabinet members he himself has appointed.

If ordinary Cameroonians are tired of his leadership, how will change come?
It won't be the result of peaceful elections. Many citizens are disillusioned and are fast coming to the realisation that for change to happen might require a modicum of violence. The problem is that the social forces capable of organising such a violent revolt are missing.

Some opposition figures seem to be in bed with the government. Is there an opposition or a vibrant civil society?

The opposition is not only frag­mented, it's short of money and imagination. Corruption and venality are rife. Civil society is emasculated. Most people are struggling for daily survival. They are told -- including by the churches -- that peace at all costs is better than the quest for justice, freedom and dignity.

Cameroon's President Paul Biya (78), in power since 1982, was re-elected by 77% of the electorate on October 9. He is routinely compared to other long-serving African autocrats including Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.

Married to a woman 38 years his junior, Biya spends "working holidays" of up to three months in Geneva. In February 2008, when the country's constitution was amended to scrap term limits, taxi drivers started a revolt in which 200 people died.

The Mail & Guardian spoke to Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian political theorist and historian based at Stellenbosch University, about what drives African autocrats like Biya and why they survive so long.

Were the elections free and fair?
In the present circumstances, the possibility of free and fair elections in Cameroon is quasi-nil. There is no independent institution in charge of administering elections. Elecam, which stands for such an institution, is controlled by the ruling party and most of its members are known to belong to that political formation. The entire state apparatus, from the bureaucracy to the police, the military and the official media, is mobilised to campaign for the incumbent. Even to talk about "elections" under such conditions is simply farcical.

Three decades at the helm and they continue re-electing him. And he does not seem to have campaigned much. Cameroonians must love him.
He firmly holds them by the balls. He has understood that, in order to stay in power, he needs to do nothing at all. He has invented a style of rule we should call "government by inaction", a form of spectral government that doesn't even require him to be in his country for long periods.

In fact, he spends much of his time either in the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva or in his village. He hardly ever holds a Cabinet meeting. He doesn't even seem to recognise some of the Cabinet members he himself has appointed.

If ordinary Cameroonians are tired of his leadership, how will change come?
It won't be the result of peaceful elections. Many citizens are disillusioned and are fast coming to the realisation that for change to happen might require a modicum of violence. The problem is that the social forces capable of organising such a violent revolt are missing.

Some opposition figures seem to be in bed with the government. Is there an opposition or a vibrant civil society?

The opposition is not only frag­mented, it's short of money and imagination. Corruption and venality are rife. Civil society is emasculated. Most people are struggling for daily survival. They are told -- including by the churches -- that peace at all costs is better than the quest for justice, freedom and dignity.

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so happy for them

the winners

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Eleven supercars worth up to £5 million have been seized from outside an African dictator’s Paris mansion as part of a foreign aid money-laundering investigation.

The vehicles, which included two Bugatti Veyrons, a Ferrari 599 GTO and a Maserati MC12 are all registered to Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the president of Equatorial Guinea.

Police swooped on his £15 million mansion on the prestigious Avenue Foch, close to the Arc de Triumphe, this morning, piling all of the vehicles on to a car transporter. They are all thought to be ‘ill-gotten gains’ bought so as to hide huge amounts of cash smuggled into France from Africa, said a police source.

He is one of numerous African heads of state who regularly receive vast handouts in foreign aid – including British cash via European funding.

‘There is an on-going judicial investigation into money laundering and other crimes related to the receipt of foreign aid,’ the source added. ‘These seizures have resulted from this enquiry.’
The cars, which all appeared to be new, also included an Aston Martin V8 600lm, Rolls-Royce Drophead Coupe, a Porsche Carrera GT, and a Ferrari Enzo, as well as various Bentleys.
Obiang Nguema, who is the current chairman of the African Union, was not thought to be present at the time of the seizures, though a member of his staff told police that the cars were ‘mainly used by his son, Teodorin Obiang'.

The Supreme Court of France has appointed an investigating judge to conduct a judicial inquiry into claims that Obiang Nguema has used state funds to purchase property include the Avenue Foch house.
Equatorial Guinea is oil rich, but poverty remains rife and there are regular allegations of high-level corruption, especially by Obiang Nguema and his eldest son, Teodorin.
All of the cars have been impounded and – if the Obiang Nguemas are unable to get them back – they are likely to be auctioned.

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Nayah is the best!
good 2 see yr thead here

I agree with pagan. we lose our culture due to inter-tribal marriages