AN ARMLESS REVOLUTION IS THE OPTION

Mr Tar Paul

The numerous calls for registration and reregistration and eventual voting in choosing the next president of Cameroon, come next year is a call to reawakening: reawakening of consciousness, consciousness to civic responsibility; a call to reawakening, reawakening of the love for the fatherland; reawakening of the consciousness for a rebirth of Cameroon. But experience, they say, is the best teacher. What have we experienced in the last four decades? The changelessness of non-change. A state where man, to use the view of Thomas Hobbes, is a wolf to fellow man. Hopes should not be lost given that we have another option.

Karl Marx and Kwame Nkrumah amongst their likes will guide us: a revolution will do it for us. Yes! But what type of revolution? An armless, none violent and non-vandals-involved revolution. An intellectual revolution. A patriotic revolution. A God-fearing revolution. A revolution interceded for by our ancestors. A revolution in which the pen and not the gun is the weapon. A revolution in which the application of reason and not emotion is the method. A revolution in which moral rectitude and not political manipulation is the principle. A revolution in which the attainment of the aspirations of the people and not the ego of the tyrant is the goal.

An objective revolution is meant to liberate a subjugated people. People held in chains of political captivity, religious dogmatism, epistemological ignorance, military tyranny, and what have you. Jean Jacques Rousseau is convinced that though is s born free, he is everywhere in chains. Cameroonians are not an exception. I am convinced that the cry of Cameroonians today is the cry for a God-sent Cameroonian to cut off the chains of political captivity and manipulations that have made the exercise of the right freedom of choice an illusion. They need like Plato would view, a philosopher-king (a leader who rules with wisdom). Such kings could be born. Many are already born in Cameroon. Such kings could be trained. Countless have been trained in Cameroon. To born leaders, train leaders and deny them the opportunity to lead is a crime against humanity; but to refuse to vote thereby allowing idiots to rule is a grave crime against humanity, worse than the first. A good political mark of the educated is inferred in the choice of the ruler; ensuring that leadership of a people is in the right hands and in the right time; ensuring that election of a leader is based on national interest and not on tribal prejudices and biases. Such a mission can conveniently be championed by the educated class in collaboration with those having genuine passion and will to guide leaders.

        If all learned men and women of Cameroon (whom I think majority are vibrant youths with overflowing potentials and competences) register massively and on the D-Day vote massively and use reason and faith; objectivity and honesty to defend their votes from political bandits and undemocratic hijackers whose sole intention is to steal the votes, kill the country and feed fat on the nation’s resources, then we shall win. Even if the candidate to be declared winner of the 2025 election has already been chosen, before the elections got organized, such organizers shall be humiliated and put to shame. Let the revolution start now in the registration phase of the non-negotiable change. 

Paul Tar