“Why?” Nyolo asked. And Nyolo continued: “those people simply want to serve all mighty Allah honestly”. “Have you also now become a Muslim?” Roger responded to Nyolo’s expensive joke and dropped his phone. Abono immediately rang Mr Juan Pedro Lawson, who was the prime minister. Juan Pedro Lawson was not only an Anglophone; he was also a practising Protestant Christian. When he lifted his phone, he discovered that, the speaker on the line was Roger Abono, the secretary general at the presidency of the republic. Mr Pedro first thought, since elections were looming, perhaps the secretary general who in Cameroon operate like the vice president and mouth piece of the president, wanted to inform him that, he has been sacked. But to his greatest surprise, he heard an almost crying Abono on the line and who was pleading: “Pedro, Pedro, please, try and do something, Makari and Couseri are now sharia zones”. And he continued: “Nguelemedouga has gone mad. You also know that, elections are around the corner” the Prime minister was overwhelmed by the declaration and appeals which followed. But he asked Roger Abono: “what is really wrong Sir?” And Abono responded: “don’t you know what sharia is all about? Makari and Couseri have been declared Sharia zones and like an octopus it will spread her tentacles throughout the three Northern provinces”. Mr Lawson paused and said: “Oh now, I can understand your anguish. But you know that, I must first inform the Speaker of National assembly Honourable Abdulkadir”.
And the prime minister went thus: “After which, I will ask the Minister of Territorial administration Mr Aminu Jibril, to remove Nguelemedouga instantly from the post of sub district officer of Couseri and seek for his replacement with some one susceptible of bring law and order in both affected towns”. The prime minister went ahead: you see, Roger, I will have to get all this steps through, which might be long , but that is how the administration operates and also because, since I am an Anglophone, I don’t want that, when things go wrong somewhere, Anglophones should be considered whipping boys. Furthermore, as you know, elections are around, perhaps Honourable Abdulkadir likes what is going on in his province, region and electoral constituency. Roger listened to the speech of the prime minister which was becoming too long and was glad when his boss ended. Then he told Mr Lawson: “alright, if you are not going to act, here at the presidency of the republic, we are going to do something and fast”. Calm down, Lawson retorted to Roger. And Roger replied: “I am calm; I just wanted to inform you, because normally, I would have acted without informing you or even the president of the Republic. However, I choose to contact you because, I don’t like the way things do operate in this country, as far as your post and responsibilities are concern. I also decided to call and inform you because; you are my direct boss in the absence of the president of the republic. But you do not want to act, so thank you, and have a nice day”.
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