In the past, our founding fathers, most of whom were Bamileke and Bassa, fought side by side to liberate the country from colonial rule. They sacrificed their lives and died in terrible suffering so that their children could enjoy a life of freedom. It’s a bit like your father watching you play with your ball and your new shoes in the garden of the beautiful house he built, while in his day he played barefoot in the mud and slept in a hut. A father spares no effort to give his children a better future. Our founding fathers dreamed of a great country for future generations, and as bullets tore through their bodies, they smiled in agony, seeing us free, happy, and fulfilled in the future. Like a mother who smiles at her newborn baby, knowing that she will die in a few minutes because her uterus has ruptured and she is suffering from internal bleeding. But she accepts death with pride, knowing that she will live on through her baby.
But today, when a regime made up of cursed children has come to put chains around the necks of the children of the founding fathers to deliver them to the colonists, they have gone so far as to incite a Bamileke and a Bassa to betray the liberation struggle we are waging to complete what the founding fathers started.
The Biya regime has decided that since there is a myth surrounding the Bamileke and the Bassa, who are presented as revolutionary patriots, we will destroy them and make them the worst traitors in contemporary history. We will shatter this myth, and since the history of independence presents these peoples as liberators, we will ensure that they are now considered traitors and sellouts.
From now on, we will no longer say that the Bamileke and Bassa liberated Cameroon; we will say that they sold out the struggle against the Biya regime for a few perks.
Denis Kwebo Tchinda and Dieudonné Yebga will bear the curse of this betrayal on their heads and those of their descendants. And like Judas Iscariot, they will not even have time to enjoy the thirty pieces of silver that the regime gave them as payment for their betrayal.
If one of them were my father, I would tell him not to touch the regime’s money. It is cursed money, money made with the blood and suffering of the Cameroonian people. But as in history there is always a Judas when there is a Jesus, events will take their course and Jesus will be glorified and Judas will be hanged.
