How senior staff uses dire situations for career advancement in Cameroon

One staff of the monitoring intelligence service, by name Mbomka said: “I had always suspected that, Mr Mbong, even though a seemingly practising Christian did not love this regime”. He continued: “If not, can any one tell me, why he did not react to the news that has happened in Makari?” Then another one called Kenny asked: “what region is Mr Mbong from?” A third by name Manny responded: “May be he is an Anglophone”. And a fourth called Lusala said: “well, if he is an Anglophone, then we have an enemy within”. Mbomka came on again: “look, if Mbong thinks that, those Muslims will help Anglophones have their own Republic, then, he is deceiving himself”. And a fifth by name Nkonseka replied: “Mbong may be an Anglophone or a francophone or a Christian. But what you all fail to understand is that, he is a politician and none of them are loyal to Cameroon or Biya. I am here to look for bread and butter for myself and my family. I don’t care about details”. Mbomka, Manny and Lusala, all replied in unison: “Hey, he has just made his coming out, so, you are equally not patriotic”? Nkonseka retorted: “if you people think that, I will be intimidated, you have failed.” And he went on: “Look! I am not patriotic and if your own benchmark of patriotism is to support this government or pretend to support her, I can now expose you all and you will discover that, when you use your finger to point at any one, three fingers of your own hands are pointing at yourself”.

Whether Nkonseka’s reaction was a threat or not, it bore an immediate positive result, for fear gripped his colleagues who feared that, Nkonseka might truly expose them. Lusala said: “let us forget about our futile arguments, and let not Mbong’s action destroy us. We have been working together for too long and we now a family and our mutual brother’s keepers”. As the staff of the monitoring service were walking toward their office and arguing, Mr Mbong stood up after his prayers and rang Reka Nyolo, who was secretary general at the presidency of the Republic and when Nyolo lifted his phone, Mbong broke the news to him. The secretary general at the presidency was very happy, for he knew that, the regime had something to capitalise on and which will be used as an offer to the US government in exchanged for their support to the government of Paul Biya. But while Mr Nyolo was happy and he rang his own boss to break the news, his joy was dampened by the reaction of his boss whose name was Roger Abono. Mr Abono told him: “the news you have just given me is another blow to this government.”