Biya is considered as a reformer but he must stop repression and intimidation, says The Foreign Office

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A Foreign Office source yesterday claimed President Paul Biya of Cameroon has been a reformer for overs years despite his regime brutal attacks on pro-regime change protesters.

The Foreign Office insider suggested President Biya`s aims were being thwarted by other members of his long standing regime.

The Foreign Office believes that for Cameroonians authorities it is not too late to abandon totally the brutal repression and follow through on promised democratic institutions reforms.

The violent regime repression must stop and president Biya  should order his authorities around the country to show restraint and to respond to the legitimate demands of his own people with immediate and genuine reform not with brutal repression.

For the moment it is impossible to scrutinise the future and even to know what will happen next after the presidential elections that will be held next October 9 or 10 or 11 in Cameroon, the source added. The Foreign Secretary close`s advisor said  Britain " utterly" condemned the brutal repression and disappearances of people in Cameroon.

 President Biya`s power depends on a wider group of people in his own family and relatives and of course other members of his government and for that, we " Britain" are not sure how free will be the next crucial presidential elections and how free the president he is or will be to pursue a reform agenda.

Opposition figures in Cameroon strongly believe that, they will be ready to break the corrupted regime unless real democracy is introduced. A group called, Cameroon O Boso, said change and only a real change of regime would safeguard the nation from failing into a period of violence, chaos after the election results will be published.

Cameroon on a path which may lead to Biya-free governance

Cameroonians who long ago lost faith that anything will ever change may have cause to reconsider as the ruling party will host in the next coming weeks  a joint ordinary and extra-ordinary congress since the last presidential election in 2007, with a harsh scolding from their leader Paul Biya that the sclerotic habits of a geriatric government and fake decentralised planned economy, impunity and corruption must end.

 As the Cameroon People Democratic Movement ( CPDM) will debate the future and the vision of the country, Paul Biya and his close advisors point to a brave new system. 

According to an insider, the long awaited congress is expected to bring new faces into the top positions of the regime and approve a set of risky reforms first outlined in these informal meetings that the general secretary of the  central committee, Rene Sadi has been organizing around the country.

 Rene Sadi`s difficult and impossible mission is to save the communitarianism revolution brought by Paul Biya and his allies without destroying it. Rene Sadi needs to overcome the inertia of a top heavy bureaucracy not comfortable with the reforms he seeks. The left wing of the ruling party that its considered as reformist group encouraged by the leader himself will propose a system of term limits under which no one could serve in top positions for more than two successive five year term.

 This motion that will be moved by the reformist group during the next congress needs to be approved by the majority of the party member before even been adopted by the congress and endorsed by the leader, Paul Biya.

 The term-limit proposal if agreed implies that Cameroon is approaching a time when Paul Biya will not longer be at the helm. But from what it is been said and taught around members of the party, there are mixed messages.

 What it is true it is that this last congress will be opened on a sad known news about members of the party and ex-government ministers been in prison accused of corruption and embezzlement..

.During the congress it is said that during his speech, Paul Biya will say declare that the changes will come without hurry and fear, but without a pause.

 The promise of change after so many years of stagnation may give Cameroonians hope, but will also unnerve them.

As a reason for his failure, Paul Biya will announce that the government does not have a reserved of well trained replacement with sufficient experience and maturity to replace the current acting members, nearly all of whom are now in their 60s and 70s.

 Laurent Esso, the acting general secretary of the presidency in Cameroon and former justice minister is one of those who are now nearly on retirement age after been shifted in many government positions.

The time had come to instigate systematic rejuvenation of the whole chain of party and administrative posts.

Raid on Douala, Bamenda and Buea protesters raises fear army ready to hijack revolution in Cameroon

Underground demonstrators turn their anger against Cameroon`s heavily armed general and commanders after attack by security forces accusing them protecting a failed regime that doesn't care about his own people aspiration.

Cameroon`s deepening political and social crisis, which has followed the attack by security forces on streets where demonstrators were expressing their anger against Biya regime, took a dangerous new turn last week as unidentified soldiers armed with clubs and rifles stormed protesters` homes. Douala, Bamenda and Buea are considered as strong hold for opposition leaders and also protesters against Biya regime.

 At least it emerged that dozen of February 23 call of public anger demonstrators`leaders has been arrested in a pre-dawn raid and family member injured during the coordinated military operation. Cameroonians securities forces fired live ammunition to disperse hundreds of protesters in Douala, the main economic capital city of Cameroon as the country is facing an increasing underground anger against the ruling elite.

Unidentified organizers are calling from their bunker an organised monthly protests that could be a serious escalation in the protest movement. But the country has already been there in the earlier 1990 and 1992 and today a large majority are not longer kind to follow the same road for a call for regime changed said an identified source.

The demonstrators, angry at the slow progress of reform since the last presidential election where the winner Paul Biya promised to fight against corruption and poverty and push the country forward sustainable development policies by creating more jobs for young people and nothing has been done, had been demanding a total change or regime and also some demanding the trial of Biya and his close associates and an immediate transition from Biya regime to a total new regime with new faces in the country.

everywhere around the country there are reports about a growing number of underground protesters. They are underground because most of them work as civil servant and are not really happy by the way their own government that they work for doesn't do enough for them to relieve the poverty and also to fight against corruption.

 There are a growing and an increasing number angry people and also the intention revealed the increasing impatience and mistrust that many Cameroonians feel today and even since the last presidential election in 2007. Some protesters today are accusing the top army general commanders of protecting Biya and his close associates.

The military issued a statement covered by the government afterward blaming " outlaws" for rioting and violating the country law about street protests and also they stress that they will not tolerate any acts of rioting or any act that harms the interest of the country and the people.