The Chia Report

The Haitian Apocalypse - A Survivor's Tale-(Part 1)

By: Julius N. Fondong*, with intro by Innocent Chia.
When news of Haiti’s earth-shattering quake broke I got worried sick whether my friends and acquaintances had survived.  At the end of a frustrating day of several dead-ended inquiries, I stopped by the home of my close friend and neighbor, Jerome Ewang, to share in the overwhelming burden of not knowing whether or not his brother was alive. Having met his brother a couple of times here in Illinois while on his vacation from Haiti, the tragedy for me was getting unmasked into faces that were familiar and personal. Of all the people that I know in Haiti, Charles Mengale was the one I had last seen, and scenes of his pensive demeanor and quiet presence seized over me. As the minutes crawled into an hour and conversations with Jerome and his wife - Miriam - went on, a visibly restless Jerome was now negotiating with God that “whatever happens, let him turn up alive.”  It was our very own Julius that confirmed to me via Facebook that “when I saw Mengale he was alive but has suffered some serious injuries”. He is currently undergoing treatment in the neighboring Dominican Republic and our thoughts and prayers are with him, his family and the thousands of Haitians for whom the world may never be the same. The Chiareport now presents Part 1 of a survivor’s tale by Julius N. Fondong.

If Cameroon Were Haiti

By Hinsley Njila and Innocent Chia

The horrors of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti’s capital last week, six miles below the surface of the earth, will be etched in many a mind for the rest of eternity. Its infamy also guarantees that we will never find out the exact number of people who’ve died as a result. Moreover, the world will never know the identities of these brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and sons and daughters. While it’s obvious that such a tragedy couldn’t be avoided, there are lessons in this calamity for Cameroon and other poor nations to be better prepared to potentially save thousands of lives if the un-likable happens.

God!!! Why Haiti Again?

By Pastor Eric Mangek Ngum* (Intro and Editing by Innocent Chia)
The human toll in the natural calamity that has blanketed Haiti may be reaching the six figures (100,000) by the time a complete count is done. Unfortunately, that “complete” count may never be complete even as eye reporters are conveying tales not only about mass graves, but also the doubling, tripling and squeezing of corpses into old crypts. Its ugliness is so compounding one easily forgets recent man-made and natural disasters that have sworn the kiss of death on the impoverished Island of Black descent that gained independence in 1804.

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In the several paragraphs that follow, Pastor Eric Ngum Mangek takes the approach of the healthcare professional that must apply iodine to a fresh wound to cut off the bleeding and stop possible infection while the patient is cursing under their breadth. I, Innocent Chia, personally thank God for “Passing Over” the offices of several Cameroonians working in Haiti. Some names that come to mind are Collins, Mengale and our regular contributor on the Chiareport – Julius Fondong. Another friend, Laura was devastated on her Facebook page as she watched helplessly on TV from Cameroon. But could God not Passover the entire Haiti and spare its already afflicted people? 

A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – BARACK OBAMA

By Walang M. Abang
Mr. President, accept greetings from the people of Africa. This essay may not represent the view of all the peoples of Africa, but it will certainly cut across the lives of all people of African origin living in the Diaspora. Africa is blessed abundantly with many natural resources and peoples of various backgrounds and cultures. We are a generation that has started taking our responsibilities into our hands by working hard to excel in whatever domain we engage. What I write here should not be taken for a complaint; these are just my observations which I want to share with you, hence, with the rest of the world.
 

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The Environment - What Next After Copenhagen?

Interview conducted by Innocent Chia
The inability of World leaders to arrive at some real actionable compromise deal at the Copenhagen Environmental Summit literally stunned a great many hopefuls who are living witnesses of a globe that has been experiencing extreme climatic mutations. Historically, however, the Scientific community may not have been surprised that politicians - in identical  
fashion to those who executed Galileo for stating that the world was round and debunking 
prevailing knowledge that it was flat –  politicians decided that executing the World with a wait and see approach was less harmful than committing their respective governments. A month after the start date of the summit,The Chiareport returned for a follow-up conversation with the Climate Change Deputy Project Manager at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Dr Richard T. Munang to help explain and give fresh perspective on all that transpired at Copenhagen.

Yang Vs. Biya

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By Innocent Chia
For those of us that have lived long enough to endure the ineptitude of 27-plus years of President Biya, palpable frustrations in his inability to manage the country star in reminders such as the recycling of the Ebolowa Agro-Congress that was scheduled to hold on the aftermath of the Bamenda Congress of 1984. Injecting the Ebolowa Agro-Pastoral Show in his year-opening 2010 address to the nation is a painful reminder of projects that have either been abandoned on the sole premise that they were part of Ahidjo’s Five-year Development plan, or because the regime has never ever had a clear agro-pastoral vision for Cameroon. Whatever the case, Biya’s regime hardly can showoff more than a palm-full of projects it has initiated and completed successfully. Most everything is copy-work from the haunting ghost of Ahmadou Ahidjo, the Post Master.
The purpose of this piece is twofold: the first is to fact-check the mining projects that Biya has outlined in his 27th consecutive speech to the nation on December 31st, 2009. By the end of the day we conclude with absolute certainty that his speech writers either failed in their research work or that Biya warned them to include misleading falsehoods as to the beginning dates of projects in the Mining sector. Seccondly, we attempt a lopsided comparison of Yang’s six months in power to the 27 plus years of Master Biya bi Mvondo. Our conclusion does not fail you either – P.M Philemon Yang has been absolutely brilliant in comparison to the F grade score of his boss.

P.M Philemon Yang Promotes Canadian Interests; Tipped to Betray SCNC

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Co-written and Edited by Innocent Chia
Philemon Yunji Yang has never before held elective office. He has always enjoyed being golden-spoon fed into bureaucratic bottlenecks and by machinations of autocratic regime(s). This readily explains his abrasiveness when,  barely a week following his appointment as Prime Minister of President Paul Biya’s farmland - the Republique du Cameroun – he eagerly handed the trophy to the heavy delegation of uninvited Northwest Fons who were trading greed for shame. The Prime Minister said ‘thanks, but no thanks” and returned the symbolic traditional gifts - North West traditional regalia and “red feather” – that the delegation of traditional fossils had offered to him. But his sassiness or lack of sophistication in dealing with the band of Royal beggars – who considered it insulting to have been handed a paltry CFA 100,000 per delegation – has lasted less than a full moon. He learnt on the way to a recent mission to the North West province – for festivities marking Biya’s 27 year monarchy – that you can only curse the barber if you are perennially bald.