Where is Paul Biya??? Kah Walla taking over Douala.

Kah Walla, presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential race in
Cameroon successfully led thousands of youths in a peaceful march in
the city of Douala on Cameroon's Atlantic coast on 23rd February 2011.

The peaceful protesters were met with government sponsored thugs who
have a history of brutalizing civilians. Over the course of more than
30 years in power, Mr Biya and his family have slowly drained the
country of its resources, and robbed the people of their dynamism.

Popular artists like Lapiro de Mbanga have been jailed, successful
industrialist like Yves Michel Fotso, have been imprisoned just for
making it big - Biya hates competition.

So it came as a surprise, when Ms Kah Walla called for the protest
march. She was dragged by thugs to the middle of the street, and shot
with a high powered jet from a water canon. The stream of water
contained chemicals and it is still not known the long term effetcs on
Ms Kah Walla.

With the people struggling for their freedom in the streets, there is
still no sign of Mr Paul Biya.

Speculation is rife that he may be planning to suddenly resign, and
head into exile in Switzerland. That would have been conceivable a few
weeks ago, but now, a Cameroonian Pro democracy group called the CODE
has located the luxurious Chateau where the Biya family lives in
Geneva. For Biya to move from Etoudi straight to this Mansion is now
unlikely. Many Cameroonians will be calling.

He may seek asylum in a third country like ... Well no country in the
current global environment seems likely to want an aging Third World
Despot.

As the world reconfigures itself with a New World Order emerging, a
world where people are empowered with new media (and the new masters
being those who control these new media including Youtube.com and
Facebook.com, ...) and where national boundaries are blurred, there
will be little room for dictators and strongmen, who derived their
power from obfuscating information from their fellow citizens.

Wherever it is that Paul Biya may be hiding, Cameroonians will hunt
him down, and that image of Kah Walla, a lone woman standing defiant
in the face of Paul Biya and Chantal Biya's thugs will forever be
seared into the collective memory of Cameroonians. Biya has just days,
not weeks. He should leave now before any Cameroonians lose their life
because of his blind hunger for power.

Whatever the outcome, his next stop will be The Hague, where he will
answer for the loss of lives of teens in Douala, and just so he knows,
Cameroonians have not forgotten about the Bepanda 9.

Biya Must Go!!!

Kah Walla Will Remove Paul Biya - World is Watching

Cameroon Presidential Candidate Kah Walla has rallied youths in
Cameroon's economic capital, Douala, in a bid to remove strongman,
Paul Biya.

For 30 years, the oil-rich nation has been racked by under development
and repression from thugs unleashed on the population by Paul Biya.
This motivated many youths who do not see any improvement in their lot
to take to the streets.

Paul Biya's thugs have a history of using extreme violence on peaceful
demonstrators. In 1990, and most recently 1998, thugs backed and armed
by Mr Paul Biya have cracked down on civilians seeking democratic
change. Women and children suffer severely under this repressive
regime.

It was a refreshing change when Ms Kah Walla took up the challenge to
face Biya in presidential elections. In a country where Mr Biya
encourages the repression of women and girls, where female genital
mutilation is still carried on to this day, where gay men are
imprisoned just because of their sexual orientation, and the prisons
are full of political prisoners, leading civil society and other
figures have decided the time has come for Biya to go.

So, in this spirit, a peaceful protest was organized in Douala by the
youths. Of course, as would have been expected, the Biya thugs showed
up again, with batons and guns and had the activists thoroughly
beaten.

But in true repressive fashion, they turned out not to know what the
Internet means and are clueless about facebook, Twitter or
Youtube.com. There, after Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya, "Cameroon",
and specifically "Paul Biya" is trending very well. Which is good
news for the people of Cameroon, but bad news for Paul Biya.

The first few wires have been put out. CNN has picked up on the story,
and there is an animated debate going on there.

More telling is the US embassy issuing a warning to its nationals
traveling to Cameroon. This means that the West has determined that
the government of Cameroon is no longer capable of keeping its
territory secure. A good indicator that the current regime is on its
way out.

Like clock work, the same chain of event in Tunisia, and Egypt are
taking place in Cameroon. By Saturday, things will be really bad and
protests may reach the capital Yaounde. It takes just a report on a
major news channel which is what Cameroonians watch anyway. No one
will want to be left out, and the movement will only grow.

Biya had the option many years ago to organize free elections and step
down with dignity. With each passing hour, his options are getting
smaller. Whoever takes over the reign of power after Biya will release
the hordes of influential businessmen like Michel Fotso and the Titus
Edzoa, former secretary general of the presidency, both political
prisoners of the Biya regime.

They will go after Biya with a vengence. Assets owned by Biya will be
frozen. The presidential jet will return to Cameroon, and now, CODE
leader Brice Nitcheu has proven Biya has a Chateau in Switzerland and
that too will be the object of scrutiny to determine the owner and
the provenance of funds to acquire the property.

Whatever the case, it does not look bright for Paul Biya. Kah Walla
and Brice Nitcheu are showing that tools like the Internet, Google,
Twitter, Facebook can be as effective, if not more so than the
Billions of Dollars Paul Biya pays public relations firms to
perpetuate his dictatorship.

The time for dictatorships in Africa is over, the time for despots
like Paul Biya is over, the time for the people of Cameroon to Rise UP
as one Man has come.

BIYA must GO!!!

Brice Nitcheu: The Man Who Brought down Paul Biya

A Cameroonian Pro-Democracy group, The CODE, has ratcheted up pressure
on Cameroon's embattled leader, Paul Biya. Mr Biya, who has ruled the
oil rich nation for 30 years with an iron fist has his day of
reckoning fast approaching.

Members of CODE based in Europe recently made a coordinated march on
Mr Paul Biya's sumptuous lakeside home in Geneva.

Time was when Cameroonians would be issued statements that Mr Biya is
headed to Europe for a private visit. These trips stretched to many
months at times. Of late, it looks more like Biya's lair will be
starring in this year's presidential election in Cameroon. Brice
Nitcheu, harnessing the power of the internet, and social networking
has been putting a lot of pressure on Paul Biya.

From tracking the destination of the planes he takes using websites
like flightaware.com, and using Google and other online tools, pro
democracy activists in Cameroon have been empowered, and the Biya
enigma is falling apart like a house of cards. Now, Cameroonians are
actually seeing the man who has oppressed the country for three
decades for who he is: just a simple old man who has mismanaged his
country's resources, uses the public treasury for personal gain, and
refuses his fellow countrymen the opportunities for growth and self
development; things he is seeking for his very own kids in
Switzerland.

From now hence, Mr Nitcheu has shown the way. From a free and
democratic Switzerland where he can freely demonstrate that Biya is
unfit to rule Cameroon, Brice Nitcheu has dealt the greatest blow yet
to Mr Biya and his kleptocratic, gerontologic regime.

None of the current crop of presidential hopefuls in Cameroon has the
single key to dislodge Biya from power, but with each Cameroonian
playing their role at their level, Biya won't be in the presidency at
Etoudi when 2011 comes to an end.

Brice Nitcheu, thanks for the good work you are doing. Cameroonians
are taking note.

Disclaimer: I don't personally know any of the CODE members. All
articles here are strictly my personal views and reflect my personal
take of events.