Communication
minister, government spokesman and the leader of the Cameroon National
Salvation Front (FNSC) party, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, is once again in the
spotlight. After the jailed former minister of territorial administration and
decentralization, Marafa Hamidou Yaya, presented him not too long ago as having
soiled hands as far as the December 1991 Douala plane crash was concerned,
Tchiroma’s blood brother recently made a gesture which reveals the minister as
greedy and self-centred.
Hassana
Tchiroma, a retired customs officer and member of the FNSC, has quit the latter
party and joined the Social Democratic Front (SDF) owing to what he calls his
brother’s high-handedness and unwillingness to share.
To Hassana,
Issa is unnecessarily callous and evil given that he eats alone while the other
members of the FNSC languish in desperation.
This is a
veritable slap in the face of the Communication minister and an indirect
confirmation of the declaration made by Marafa that Issa Tchiroma is a man of
double standards. If it is his own blood brother who quits a party that both of
them formed and joins another one, then the matter is really serious.
Hassana’s
decision comes on the heels of squabbles within the FNSC which led to his
dismissal from the party for alleged indiscipline. But he told the press that
his brother dismissed him not because he was truly indiscipline, but due to his
(Marafa’s) determination to show President Paul Biya that he could go to any
length to support him.
In other
words, it is a subtle way that Issa Tchiroma Bakary is using to implore the
head of state to forget the accusations made against him by Marafa.
It is indeed so sad that one’s own brother could
lose confidence in one in such a manner; that the government spokesman allowed
himself to be made to fall so low in the eyes of the public. For this reason,
Issa Tchiroma earns our disgraceful down score of 2/10.
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