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.

P.M Yang went back shamelessly telling the people, whose traditional leaders he had received with less scorn than Meka felt in Ferdinand Oyono’s “The Old Man and The Medal”, that the CPDM mafia boss he was campaigning for was the only deal - the real deal – while the SCNC was not an option they could afford to believe in. What he and his boss fail to tell us about themselves, because the facts stare at them in face everyday, is how they can move from one lie to another and think that they are believed for anything in Southern Cameroons – the Ring Road project was promised when Biya came to power; the deliverables on the white elephant Limbe Deep Sea Port are projected for the year 2050, under the stewardship of Chantal or Frank Biya…But we digressed from our focus on P.M Yang.

Yang's Parcours to Power

Philemon Yunji Yang's (political) paternity has been inextricably linked to the Hon. S.T. Muna, the deceased former speaker of Cameroon's National Assembly. Two significant events justify this view: Firstly, the appointment of the 28 year-old prosecutor with only six months experience into the cabinet as deputy minister of interior on June 30, 1975. Secondly, the replacement of Dr. Henry Namata Elangwe, a former deputy Premier of West Cameroon and political heavy-weight Minister of Mines and Power by a junior cabinet member bore all the fingerprints and scars of the Endeley-Muna rivalry.

As Minister of Mines and Power, Philemon Yunji Yang became the official collaborator of the French construction company (ProcoFrance) and involved in the management of an oil refinery, SONARA, in Victoria. Therefore, for all intents and purposes, Philemon Yunji Yang has full knowledge of the extra budgetary allocation and beneficiaries in the distribution of Cameroon oil revenue through 1981-1984! After all, in 1979 the new Minister of Mines was considered to be among the finest legal minds in town, and charged with sealing a deal that would insulate the local population from wanton exploitation of natural resources without securing corporate responsibilities for the development of Limbe, and the Southwest (region) indeed.  Such responsibilities would have included free education for all aboriginals of the Southwest from kindergarten through High School or University, a monthly stipend to resident citizens of Limbe…etcetera, etcetera. He did not.

Appointed as Cameroon's Ambassador then becoming High Commissioner, Philemon Yunji Yang used his 20 year absence from the political corridors of power advantageously in combining his intelligence gathering skills and mastery of diplomatic ruse. In order to easily infiltrate pro-independent Southern Cameroons organizations, Philemon Yunji Yang expedited consular services at Ottawa as an alternative to activists fleeing the racketeering practices at the Cameroonian embassy in Washington D.C. To their utter surprise, the fatherly-figure High Commissioner Philemon Yunji Yang - who had issued passports to SCNC activists in Canada - was a different character acting as National Security Advisor in full confrontation with the independent English speaking organization.

Ambassador Yang Bends Over to Kiss Ass of Biya's Mother-in-law

It is also well known that Ambassador Yang’s hospitality and generosity to his guests and the Cameroon community in Canada was legendary. The High Commissioner is known to have hosted sumptuous receptions repeatedly at the Embassy residence for the pleasant entertainment of a certain Mrs. Rosette Marie Mboutchouang, President Biya's mother-in-law!
According to various sources, Chantal Biya's mother was the one-way bridge to be crossed by politically isolated High Commissioner Philemon Yunji Yang into higher cabinet responsibilities. In return for such deserving favors, Philemon Yunji Yang is believed to have been the “architect” who devised the political career of the Presidential mother-in-law in running for Mayor of Bangou in the West Region of Cameroon.

Philemon Yunji Yang's appointment as deputy Secretary General at the Presidency (National Security Advisor) was a strategic wild card leveled in the justification of rotating Prime Ministerial appointments between elites of the North West and South regions. Deputy Secretary General Philemon Yang's visit to the Anglophone provinces in September 2005, disguised as a show-down with SCNC activists was indeed a covert political operation in reintroducing the future P.M to the Anglophone electorate.

Yang Promotes Canadian Companies Plundering Cameroon’s mineral resources

As Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, High Commissioner Philemon Yunji Yang extended his hospitality tentacles by tapping into the corporate greed resources of Canadian Mineral Resources companies. In March 1995, High Commissioner Philemon Yunji Yang, introduced and facilitated Canadian stock-traded GEOVIC Mining Corporation officials to the Achidi Achu government, expediting the processing of mineral exploration permits for cobalt-manganese-nickel project in exchange for his predecessor’s 20% ownership rights!

High Commissioner Philemon Yunji Yang even duplicated his “god-fathering” of greedy Canadian corporate interests with sub-standard social responsibility through the sponsorship of Mega Uranium that owns and controls 92% of Cameroon’s Uranium rights-not surprising why the 2010 fiscal year budget is prepaying for feasibilities studies of foreign companies! See http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Mega-Uranium-Ltd-TSX-MGA-956563.html

Another incestuous relationship between P.M Philemon Yunji Yang and Canadian corporate interests worth examining is that of Aluminum of Canada (ALCAN) a.k.a Rio Tinto over the last six months. On July 29, 2009 ALCAN secured a concession from the Yang government to produce 400,000 tons of aluminum annually in exchange for constructing two hydro-electric power grids in the Kribi vicinity. The project will cost an estimated CFA 2500 billion - a no-bid good contract price fixed independently by ALCAN at the whole risk and expense of the Cameroon people.

The same ALCAN - which consumes more than half of the electricity produced in Cameroon at below market prices during the last 40 years - therefore, partially liable for the frequent power outages, quickly tricked the Yang government into prolonging their monopoly 30 additional years!

Perceptions of Conflict of Interests

As Prime Minister, Philemon Yunji Yang is not unfamiliar with image tarnishing consequences of lingering suspicions or perceived conflict of interests that shattered the credibility of his most recent successor – P.M Ephraim Inoni battered by the inelastic prolongation of the Albatross affair.

Besides failing to resign as Chairman of the yet-to-be operational single aircraft company-CAMAIRCO and failure to declare his personal assets 90 days upon assuming the office of Prime Minister, Philemon Yunji Yang appears to have earned his initiation into the pervasive club of corruption.

The heavy conflict of interest perception cloud is darkening on Cameroon’s Prime Minister cum CAMAIRCO Board Chairman being accused of machinations causing the delay in the acquisition of new aircraft and cash-strapping Gilbert Mitonneau, former General Manager and Lions Aviation Group executive.

Disoriented arbitration of cabinet conflict

Prime Minister Philemon Yunji Yang’s six month tenure in office has been marked by an unprecedented intra-cabinet conflict rifting the Minister of State in charge of Transport and his Finance counterpart over the authority to purchase new aircraft for CAMAIRCO.

The disagreement peaked when the Minister of Finance over-stepped his jurisdiction by publishing vacancy announcements for CAMAIRCO, responsibilities that are clearly defined to be within the competency of the corporation’s board of directors and the supervising authority-the Minister of Transport. Bello Bouba Maigari’s subsequent boycott of the return-in-flight service ceremony of CAMAIRCO’s lone aircraft was worthy of Prime Minister Philemon Yunji Yang’s attention in convening a crisis meeting.

The Prime Minister’s hasty endorsement of an air service management agreement between the Minister of Finance and Lufthansa Consulting without seeking statutory technical opinion from the Ministry of Transport during his presentation of the 2010 draft budget appears to have further heightened tensions within the cabinet.

P.M Philemon Yang’s ambivalent handling of the CAMAIRCO intra-cabinet crisis portrays him as a political lame-duck in renewable six (6) months probation disregarding the rule of law and sympathizer of dysfunctional government policies for the benefit of oversized ego cabinet members.

Paul Biya’s next Anglophone Campaign Manager

Having stripped constitutional powers of succession from his Prime Ministers and outsourced a 40-day ceremonious transfer of power to his Northern Alliance partnership at the dysfunctional National Assembly cum Senate, Paul Barthelemy Biya Bi Mvondo appears to be running an employment agency for campaign managers.

To qualify for that position, the applicant must demonstrate Paper Master a.k.a Prime Minister robotic dependency skills of diversion in undeliverable white elephant projects in English to a customized electorate on behalf of the stay at Swiss-Mvomeka Rigger-in-chief. This electoral rigging distraction was conceived, experimented and upgraded to implant a 14 day Presidential succession delusion into the psyche of the Anglophone electorate delivered by English speaking messengers.

 To this effect, Simon Achidi Achu was rewarded for the 20-seat parliamentary booty from the North West Province as Paper Master and Campaign Manager (1992). Paper Master Peter Mafany Musonge confiscated 14 parliamentary seats in the South West Province for the CPDM (1997) plus two Transparency International Corruption Prizes and campaign manager (2004). Paper Master Thomas Ephraim Inoni consolidated 14 parliamentary seats from the South West and orchestrated the rigging yields of additional CPDM seats in the North West Province.

In order for Paper Master Philemon Yunji Yang to match or surpass the record of previous Campaign Managers, he must discredit the SCNC and SCAPO to the international community by labeling those activists as “terrorists” a precursor of declaring a state of emergency in the Anglophone Region of Cameroon.
Two footnotes in the preparation of this plan are worth serious consideration: Firstly, the special recruitment and training of 4000 “deferred child-bearing” commandos under the direct authority of most trusted Presidential nephew cum Minister of Defense. Secondly, these battle ready commandos will precede and overstay the heavily armed elite Presidential security accompanying Paul Biya to the EMIA (Military Academy graduation ceremony) in December 2010 at Bamenda!

SCNC /SCAPO as Terrorists Organizations

Why all this? Biya has figured out that a shortcut at reconciling his budget in 2010 is by labeling SCNC a terrorist organization. According to this thinking he will get some money from Interpol, which is giving money to countries that are siding with the international community to fight terrorists.
According to solid Intelligence reports, the major difficulty with the plan resides in the fact that the SCNC and SCAPO are not unknown quantities - especially after the recent verdict at Banjul recognizing Anglophones as a separate “people” in Cameroon. The track record of SCNC / SCAPO (as much as SCYL would rather consider itself a military wing) is leaning more in the pacifist direction. SCNC could have claimed responsibility in the collapse of the Mongo Bridge. It did not. It could have claimed responsibility and created great angst over the killing of 21 soldiers in Bakassi. It did not. The list goes on and on.

But the Biya regime would rather try and fail than pass on one more opportunity at hammering another nail into the Anglophone coffin.

Comments

[Jean Paul]

I totally agree with you. But what should we Southern Cameroonians do? Our own brothers in the Biya regime are those betraying us for their greed and selfish interest. GOD BLESS SOUTHERN CAMEROONIANS. Someday, salvation will come.

[Mbango]

Massa you dong moof ye close. Craw craw dey for nyi nyash.

[ntam charles]

What ever!History and the world is on the side of the Southern Cameroon.Southern cameroonians shall continue to raise their voices,they shall continue to fight for what is theirs until the day of freedom comes.

[bamenda boy]

Innocent, He sent ur dad on retirement this evening. Going by your article, he hasn't got any good attributes. what a one sided write-up

[Facter]

Naah. Philemon Yang could not be selling whole hog to Canadian polluting interests. He is a sophisticated guy. He was the Chair of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. He has to know the terrible environmental hazards of allowing companies that strip mine boundless access to our lands, air and waters. It would be seriously disappointing if he cut these deals.

[Ras Tuge]

SCNC, a terrorist organisation! And who will take them seriously? Labeling SCNC asuch will all but bolster the image of the organisation, and the eventual scrutiny of the group will simply discredit the regime. Yang and others of his ilk are smart enough to avoid this trap. This is definitely not in the interest of the Cameroon government. But nice try, Innocent. However, the SCNC is just as dormant as a hibernating Polar bear.

[Ngalim Bernard Yongabi]

Honestly, I wonder whether this is the very Philemon Yang I know. Sure there is no human being without shortcomings. He is better than the picture painted here. Is the SCNC supposed to be accepted by all Cameroonians of English expression? Maybe yes, maybe no but it depends on the individual. As human beings, we have our opinions, likes and dislikes and all these are motivated by one factor or another. In any case, nothing pays but the truth.

[njemnu jamjam]

Rubbish, utter rubbish! Bombastic sounding language with little substance. Hallmarks of a lound clanging cymbal. You have nothing to show for this talk. Besides Southern Cameroon will never exist as a nation, because it is just the imagination of disillusioned people.

[Paa Ngembus]

njemnu jamjam,

You sound like one of those disillusioned people Bozo.

Grow up.

At least have the intellectual honesty to recognize excellent prose when you see one, even if you disagree with it my little ignorant brain-washed ragamuffin.

Take care.

Paa Ngembus
THE SOUTHERN CAMEROONS SHALLBE FREE SONNER THAN YOU THINK.

[Alter Ego]

Southern Cameroons Heh? So that the Bakweri man will start fighting with the Bamenda man over property? Spare me all this nonsense. We all like pointing fingers. Oh this person did or did not. What have you done? How many people have you put together to help develop your village? Put roads? Try it. You will find that to be most effective than making noise. The people with the power are not just politicians but those with the money.

If all Cameroonians are wise, especially the biggest complainers from the grassroots, they will watch the Bamilekes and learn. Put your heads in business, play politics with the right people so your projects can be executed. Empower your communities and you will see progress. I laugh whenever I read from dreamers about secession. As if it were to happen Cameroon's problems will be solved. What a joke.

Well written article Mr Chia but please let's stop breaking too much sweat over partial pictures of individuals in politics. Who knows what corners they have been boxed into or what unscrupulous compromises they have to make? Who knows if we would have made better or worse choices if we were in their shoes? We don't know.

All we know is what we can do. Or we pretend not to know because it is so much easier to point fingers.

[kilo]

Lord Ego,
sure you have visited the western region, the heart of the western region and you ve discovered these guys are so at ease, that they are just fine. Inso far as we praise solidarity and hardwork,we must not forget window dressing is too dangerous.

Its to myopic on your part to start putting on the lime light the NW SW "problem" here.
What we are talking is the restortation of the historical and cultural heritage of a peaple thats at risk of being annahilated by a colonial master with the benediction of its own pple.
Ego, know nobody here is playing the blame game, we are simply identifying the causes of the problem, the causes you seem to agree so well.
Note, never look at your situation and think every thing is well, persimism and escapism (what you are playing) are too dangerous for an intellectual for they help develop inferiority complex.

Chia, for sure, i do not agree with his approach in this write up, Part one and two put together, i think the underlying problem, southern cameroons and its independence its so sacrosanct
It wd be wise, chia for instance if you tell us the taxes that have been increased in 2010 finance bill,for i have a copy and there seem to be no such thing.

[dango tumma]

Let me tell every man/woman whose origin is from southern cameroons, it would be better you die than living a slave under french cameroun, freedom, indpendence is your natural birth right. french cameroun can accept to be slaves to the french, that their token, we must insist,no for ourselves
becuase the best life is that which is lived for others(albert einstein) but for knowing that we have a country, we can rightfully call ours. we can take off and land there. freeedom is every thing, to those who knows it.

[AntiTrolla]

Informative article. A good investigation. I cannot beleive how young Yang was when he entered government. Some people sell their souls early! The issue here is not whether this write-up is one-sided or not. Let those who want to sing Yang's praises sing them. I concede he must have done some good things.

The issue here is whether he did these bad things or not.

If he did, and I think he must have done at least one of them, then he is not the clean guy they tried to sell us. The mining and other concessions are very bad. These people are selling us down the river. No good he has done can be better than the evil of selling Cameroonian resources to foreign companies. He should be hanged.

And his champagne party will end one day.

[ntaho boniface]

Mr. Chia would have to hone his journalistic skills if he is to be remembered as someone who ever did journalism. I find in his writings not only arrogance, but childishness of biblical proportions. There is a style to be tough or mean on politicians when one is writing, but when you coin phrases like "Paper Master Philemon Yunji Yang" in a bid to sell this to your audience,I begin to doubt whether he ever did journalism. His rather very swift manner of passing judgments on politicians, without authentic research, again calls for doubts. When emotions run high, as it happened with the recent Cameroon Ambassador incident in Washington, D.C., one would expect a journalist to be level-headed in the midst of those trying to be heard, so that at the end of the day, his words would remain indelible in our consciences.That is the role of journalists. Keeping people well informed amid disorder. What was his approach over this incident?Insults, denigrations and what have you. To my surprise, Anglophones, eager for rumours all the time, buy into all these, without any iota of doubts. It's ridiculous, to say the least.

[Va Boy]

Ntaho: this is a citizen journalist, a blogger. He is not answerable to you and he is doing an excellent job.

[Innocent chia]

Let any who has not aired cast a stone on Yang