CPDM Mfoundi, paid to clap for Macron
French President, Emmanuel Macron will be in Cameroon from July 25-27, 2022.
The City Mayor of Yaoundé has asked the people of Mfoundi division in the Centre region to mobilise and welcome Macron.
Members of the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement, CPDM, in Mfoundi have also been asked to give Mr Macron a pomp and pageantry welcome.
But they will be paid as they clap for Macron’s arrival. A leaked document shows that each section, CPDM, WCPDM and YCPDM shall receive stipends for the mobilisation amounting to FCFA 10.5 Million.
Why should a poor country like Cameroon spend so much hyst for dance groups and cheerleaders receive a visiting President?
Cameroon is struggling with numerous economic problems including a hike in prices of basic commodities and fuel scarcity.
The problem of a Cameroonian now is not to welcome a visiting President but to find means to keep the family moving. Perhaps for those to benefit from the money sharing booty, its another means to put food on their table but for how long shall they continue to eat crumbs and get fed only when a President comes visiting?
Such a high profile meeting would have gone unnoticed if Paul Biya was to visit France. There will be no justification for any French elected Mayor or politician to pay money for French citizens to clap for Paul Biya.
Why Cameroon?
The exaggerated case of Cameroonians bowing to a visiting President is alarming!
Whenever President Paul Biya of Cameroon visits France, it’s the Cameroon Embassy in France that prepares for his including handing over a bouquet of flowers to the Presidential couple.
Cameroon is a former French territory with 80 percent of the population French speakers. Though gained independence from France on January 1, 1960, the country has continued to bow in front of France, using Francs CFA, a member of French neo colonial organisation, La Francophonie.
