Obama's Ancestors Provoke A Stampede For Riches

« Etone » traditional genealogist, this man-Démosthène Raphael Messanga Ombolo has come-up with something far beyond his wildest dreams.

In the course of his research, Messanga Ombolo, due to the nature of his research findings, has attracted envious on-lookers upon himself. He says « Barack Hussein Obama’s are origine of Cameroon » and of the « Etone  people» in particular. Upon hearing this researcher’s findings, many government officials, university lecturers and other academicians, journalists and animatorshave taken him in disgust as a result of their jealousy towards him.

According to the thoughts of many of these people, the name Barack Obama is equivalent to millions of CFA Francs. Therefore, as Messanga Ombolo says he has discovered Barack Obama’s indigenous  « etone family », for sure, the U.S president will send him millions of dollars.

With this selfish thought in mind, some government officials have gone to the extent of initiating grandiose ceremonies, call the national pro-governmental radio and television station to come and record the event ; all this without the concent of Messanga Ombolo who is the person who came-up with this theory.

In the main government universities in Yaoundé, a group of of lecturers, some doctors, others professors, have fraudulently copied Messanga Ombolo’s research findings and sent it to a worldwide and internationally renouned edting company [Edition L’Harmattan] in France for publishing as though they were the intellectual proprietors of all this theory.

Démosthène Raphael Messanga Ombolo, overwhelmed by the knowledge of these « big men » stealing his research findings, decided to move out and spread the information to alllocal cameroonians, every layman he could meet. This is how i met him as he was crying out his eyes on this very bad thing these fellow doctors and professors have done. Seeing him in this miserable state, i said i would help him get his work known to most cameroonians and even worldwide so that we would nulify the negative actions of these academicians who work not for the interest of science, but instead, for their selfish desires.

This is how Messanga Ombolo engaged in radio and television talk shows. From one radio to the other, he talked about his research findings and how some disrespectful lecturers plan to snatch his work and make a name for themselves.

Often in the dark, some government officials came to him and asked for Messanga Ombolo to go public and say that the village of Barack Obama’s ancestor who’s name is OBAM BITA is the same village from which he « the big man » and government official is origine too. A shameless and non-scientific act which Messanga Ombolo says he will never accept to do.  That is, [Lie to the international opinion]    

Again, angry of Messanga Ombolo’s refusal, these « big men » who have government money, went ahead to corrupt journalists with other radio and television animators. These journalists would invite Messanga Ombolo for a gentleman and polite talk show. But, as soon as the programme begins, when these journalists know they are « ON AIR », they will start harrasing him with embarassing questions ;allirrelevant and nothing to do with his work. Messanga on his side will fight back and not let himself overwhelmed by these corrupt journalists. Most of the radio and television talk shows in which he participates often turn into hot, frantic debates. [one versus all]. Anonymous persons would call in the talk show via telephone and try to discredit Messanga Ombolo’s findings. But, he would invite them to come in personfor a normal intellectual debate face-to-face. Yet, nobody would come.

To the cameroonian government, Messanga Ombolo sent letters presenting the project he has for the village of Barack Obama’s grand father. What he has in mind is that the villafe, the empty tomb of « OBAM BITA » [Barack Obama’s grand father] becomes a place of pilgrimage.-This is the part that makes the « big men » salivate as they know a great number of millions will be made available for this project if it is validated.

Thus, in the ministry of tourism and the ministry culture where he submitted this project, these big government men are blocking the advancing of Messanga Ombolo’s documentsas much as is possible. They say « Messanga Ombolo wants to eat alone all the millions without giving them their own share » Hence, it is better the document does not advance.

Hatred has grown up to the level where these officials, with their ramifications all over the government apparatus, one faithful day came and shut-down Messanga Ombolo’s business. Though he has all required documents, legal papers that is. They came along with the national television which took images of the closing of the business. These same images were shown in the different televised newscasts both in French and English for everyone to see that Messanga Ombolo has been brought down to zero. Life became like hell for him. But, he did not give-up the fight..

On my part, i continued to hammer and disclose what Messanga Ombolo is going through. On the internet, certain people be it in Cameroon or abroad became interested in the plight of this man’s research findings and project. Even the very renouned publishing house « Edition L’Harmattan » in France could not publish the stolen story sent to them because already, there was enough talk about Barack Obama’s ancestral family found in Cameroon.

Messanga Ombolo on his side,wrote to government institutions about the closure of his business and the business was re-opened. He pressed judicial charges against those behind the closure of his business. But, nothing positive has yet come out of this judicial action. He wrote to the Cameroon commission for human rights. From their part, he is still waiting for an answer.

His project in the ministry of tourism demanded some subvention so that he goes to Kenya to finalise his research given that he has invested all his money in this research. This is exactly where these big government men and women hold him tight.

As Barack Obama has just invited most African heads of states, Messanga Ombolo again went to talk shows and cried out « If Barack Obama decides to come and visit his ancestor’s ground in Cameroon, how will this happen ?  since our authorities have abandoned his grand father’s empty tomb in the bush, and the village is in a miserable state, far in the equatorial rainforest »  

To this question, the two ministries [ministry of tourism] and [ministry of culture] do not give a damn as to whether itis something relevant or not. What they want is that, using the name and project of of this genealogist-Messanga Ombolo, they can distract a great number of millions from the government treasury. They have gone to the point of using impostors. But, Messanga Ombolo says this situation will happen only after his death. So long as he is still alive, he will go ahead and defend his research work and its findings. These big men may can work as hard as they can to prevent him from having international recognition, the inspiration of finding Obama’s ancestors remains his. A God given inspiration.