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Opinions of Vendredi, 19 Septembre 2014

Auteur: Camer.be

The war against Boko Haram cannot divide Cameroonians

In recent weeks, the sociopolitical landerneau of Cameroon is in effervescence. The war the country faces against Boko Haram seems to divide certain opinions, not on its effectiveness and its necessity, but compared to the litany of glitches that it tends to create.

Even though the war against Boko Haram raised a sacred union between Cameroonians around the head of the State Paul Biya and our defence forces who risk their lives on the front of a furtive belligerency, the war unfortunately creates brawls in our opinion.

Worse still, it draines misunderstandings between the members of certain ethnic communities, some disparate glitches, confusion of roles in a certain national press often critical and acerbic against the army, and even suspicions among elites of crimes against certain nationals in the North.

The most blatant case of observed quarrels, concerns the recent disagreement between some elites of the Lékié and the president of the National Assembly.

It all started in the famous "call of the Lékié" written by a congruent portion of irresponsible elites (who received a scathing disapproval of other elites and the youth of the same corner) which indexed citizens of the North as the authors of a creeping rebellion against the regime.

Call of the Lékié, xenophobic text which criticizes a part of the populations of the national triangle with which we form a single Nation, a single Republic, a single State, Cameroon, country of 250 ethnic groups and as many languages living in peace and harmony, long before the German penetration, the double Anglo-French tutelage.

Historically, Cameroon has kept its entirety, its sovereignty, its hospitality, its secularism, its national unity.

Our country has managed to preserve the peace that many nations are envious. Therefore, politico-tribales initiatives of despicable positioning of some Cameroonians against other Cameroonians are not honouring the scribes who write them and disseminate.

Responses of such pamphlets to similarly weaken national unity so dearly acquired, and the preponderance of Cameroon so ardument provided.

The enemy is Boko Harm and not the Camerounians. "Cameroon faces an assault, and the President of the Republic needs us all, together, and without exception, at the front, and not selfish fractions."

The young elite of the Lékié did well to recall that the war in Rwanda saw eight hundred thousand deaths due to tribal bickering. By time of war, we must avoid seditious and inappropriate outputs in the current context.

What is also far from true, we have a solid and formed cosmopolitan and national army. For their selfish interests, they want to see Cameroon in fire and blood.

Fortunately, it is necessary to marvel at, the majority of Cameroonians who support the head of State, and exhibited a spirit of proven patriotism cannot be distracting and do not want to let themselves be lead in a childish tribalism, even less in a useless devolution because the peripheral battles that would almost 'forget that we fight terrorists who want to partition Cameroon and undermine democracy, to our freedom.

The war against Boko Haram cannot divide Cameroonians. The war will be long, but it is not lost in advance.