Fuel Price Hikes! - Biya to sack Philemon Yang anytime soon for refusing to sign the governments announcement on fuel price hikes. Notice that it was the SG at the Prime Ministry, Louis Paul Motaze (the REAL PM) who actually did sign on behalf of government; - ...were busy increasing fuel prices while, for instance, the Secretary General at the Presidency pockets some 2.5 million frs on a daily basis for fuel allowance... Yes, you go it right -- 2.5 million frs every day including weekends and public holidays! - The Cameroonian youths are callling on Biya to resign here and now for gross incompetence! Alamin Ousmane Mey, Finance Minister was dodgy on a question on Cameroun Calling of July 7, 2014 surrounding recent fuel price hikes. Ace journalist, Samson Websi had quickly realised that the minister had beat around the bush, so he did what any other serious journalist would -- he helped the cunning minister with further reiteration -- compelling him in a manner most patriotic. I do not exactly remember his words but the sense in his question is conspicuous; ... but Mr. minister, could there not be another way for government to raise money for development such as cutting back on ministers fuel allowances...? This is where I come in! Let us see why the minister babbled with words in frantic but futile efforts to cover governments outlandish spending of hard earned tax payers money veiled in the subterfuge, Fuel Allowance. Ill concentrate on the 2013 Budget because I am not privy to the 2014 budget; however, the two budgets almost constitute a mirror image of each other. Did you know that .... * In the Finance Law of 2013 (definitely theres a repeat in 2014 because it has always been so since 2010) that the Secretary General at the Presidency pockets some 2.5 million frs on a daily basis for fuel allowance... Yes, you go it right -- 2.5 million frs every day including weekends and public holidays! Now, according to the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the cost to fly a Boeing 747-400 is some 5,000 dollars (some 2.5 million F Cfa) for two hours. This means that the SG at the presidency flies from Abuja to Yaounde for work EVERY DAY! * Something called Depenses Communes (whatever that means), which is at the mercy of someone, was allocated some 198 billions. That is, if money for the subvention of political parties and the 2013 elections as prescribed for by Law No. 2012/001 of April 19, 2012 were deducted, that someone would have about 480 million EVERY DAY to play about with at their whims! * External Relations Ministry was allocated some 2.4 billion (two-thousand million plus) EVERY MONTH for the purchase of office equipment, official feasts & entertainment allowances; * If we cut back on our outlandish expenses, we would have enough to employ thousands of youths with a salary of 100.000 frs each in the next ten years and of course we wouldnt be talking about over-burdening the common man on the streets with fuel price increase! It is even the more hurting that a huge percentage of our roads are untarred, yet, this administration continue in their stubborn refusal to equitably distribute the national pie but are busy diverting monies from such wastes to private bank accounts abroad! In fact, I feel an iressistible urge to equally mention that: * A Combination of PMs provisions, fuel, entertainment & mission allowances is some 8.8 million EVERY DAY. And note that every other ministry spends billions of hard earned tax payers monies on entertainment and so called allowances; * PMs purchase of office materials & vehicles stands at some (3.8 billions yearly), that is 318 million EVERY MONTH. If you go through the budget of the other ministries, youll notice that, just like the PM, every other ministry change their office furniture and other equipment every year. That is to say that, in Cameroon, all office furniture become unfit for use after every year! * The Economic & Social Council, an institution we dont even know where their office is. Neither have we ever heard of a meeting they ever held lavish some 5 million EVERY DAY as running provisions; The aforementioned analysis of our Finance Law which is a product of Cameroons parliament, which, as has been previously echoed by many, needs a complete rebirth! The Biya gerontocracy teleguides an overwhelming CPDM parliament to do his bidding. A gerontocracy that is increasingly looking like the pre-Gorbatchev Soviet Union whose entire leadership was made up of the infirm, senile and “walking dead” of the Politburo. No right thinking executive can ever come up with such a waste scheme called a bill. The problem of cameroon is ONE MAN - Paul Biya. If he had the country at heart, he wouldnt send such nonsensical bills to parliament; he would fight to stay in power but fight to see the country move forward! Questions: 1. Why with so much waste, Cameroon still parades the international community begging for loans? Loans which shall be repaid not by this gerontocracy but by the youths tomorrow at exhobitant interest rate! 2. Why would we increase price of fuel when just cutting back the fuel allowance allocated to certain big names would suffice? A very wicked and incompetent regime indeed! Akoson A. Raymond, PAP National Secretary for Organisation.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:31:52 +0000
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