Vanguard Role Of Youth

Commentary.

Diplomats or other visiting international civil servants who have resided in Cameroon even for very short periods, have always wondered why a country with such huge natural resources and competent human resources, has never been able to obtain the best out of this and make the country a veritable haven of prosperity it is supposed to be. Borrowing a leaf from Chinua Achebe’s small book, “The trouble With Nigeria”, one begins to quickly see where to lay the blame. It is all about corruption and lack of patriotism. Cameroonians seem to be richer than their country, if one were to go by stuffed bank accounts of some public servants or simply by observing the number and quality of buildings coming up like mushrooms in the various new neighbourhoods in Douala and Yaounde. The nation seems to be enveloped into a kind of grab-quickly-before the dawn of a period of rendering account comes. The aberration is that those promoting this state of affairs are the few-chosen or what in biblical terms would be the few to “whom much is given”. In a generalized difficult economic situation, one would have expected these few to show the example either by making sacrifices or, at least showing solidarity with the down-trodden who suffer most, by avoiding the painful corrupt practices we observe today; practices which seem to have thrown any form of patriotism to the dogs. Fortunately, there are still some Cameroonians, even though few, who show acts of patriotism. Take the Indomitable Lions, the national football team. They went to the recent AFCON campaign in Libreville, virtually unnoticed and even with what could have been sufficient government support. They came back with the trophy mostly on account of the sheer determination to win and love of country. Most of them had trained at the expense of their parents and other loved ones and, on this account, bore no obligation to defend the fatherland with such determination. The contrast is easy to contemplate when we put all these civil servants trained at the expense of the Cameroonian tax-payer, who upon graduation and start of duty become veritable rogues in white collars, siphoning the rare resources which could have greatly served in increasing the pace of the march to emergent economic status in the next few years. The fame following the victory is Cameroonian and not individual, as expressed by the overwhelming endorsement of this victory in song and dance across the enti...

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