The above statement is the speech of an angry, honest
cameroonian citizen.
Why did she say this ? She said this because, overhere
in Cameroon, in the month of june 2013, there will be both municipal and
parliamentary elections in-order to vote new persons with their new
orientations or maintain the incombent
with their tradition.
From a normal, clean and clear point of view, these upcoming
event has to stimulate and pull populations towards registration offices in huge numbers. But, unfortunately
for the election organisers, this is not the case. Given the scarcity of
persons who voluntarily come to register in the voter’s lists. Some mobile
registration offices stay open til 8 :30pm evening time hoping to grab a
few registrations here and there. It is obvious for everybody the participation
of the masses is at its minimum.
Also,in the different radio and television stations that
broadcast within the Yaounde capital city and environs, it is common to hear
people call and voice out their disgust, the reasons why they do not get
themselves registered in the voter’s lists of their neighbourhoods. Thes are
some of the reasons :
-Lack of pipe-borne water in the Yaounde capital city.
-The non-payment of retired workers pensions [How are they
going to live ?]
-Sacrificial killing of young girls and their sex organs
mutilated.
-At the age of 90, an old man is still maintained as
chairman of the board of directors of a first class hospital here in Yaounde.
This situation has developped a climate of laxity, corruption and other bad
practices in the hospital which eventually falls on the heads of innocent
patients who come to seek health.
-Electricity cuts in Yaounde [How will children study in
their homes ?]
-Upon the death of a
lord mayor,the law in Cameroon stipulates 60 days after this sad event, a new
mayor should be voted and installed so
as to avoid prolonged vacancy. Unfortunately, in one municipal territory where
the mayor died some time ago,this law is not respected. And, it is this issue
that makes the populations of that municipality angry and ready to boycott the
upcoming elections come june 2013.
