On Wednesday August 31, 2011, the BBC World Service's Africa Have Your Say program organized a panel discussion on the viability of the forthcoming presidential election in Cameroon. Panelists included myself, Felix Bate of Reuters news agency, and Issa Tchiroma, Cameroon's minister of communications and government spokesperson, along with phone-ins from around the world, interviews conducted in Cameroon, and contributions from Twitter and Facebook.
I will be revisiting some of Issa Tchiroma's rather outlandish statements in a subsequent post. In the meantime, however, you can listen to the entire one-hour program by clicking on the player below.
Brilliant media staging with actors involving a Minister of Information with no PR expertise, an arrogant blogger obsessed with presentation rather than content,a biased Western media (BBC) and a presenter with little background knowledge of Cameroon's political history. An explosive mix of opponents implying but not explicating.
We look forward to your analysis of the Minister's "outlandish statements". Let's see how your accusations correspond to empirical facts
Posted by: cadmun | September 06, 2011 at 01:40 PM
Hahaha, what a surprise! Mr. "Cadmum" appears again to talk about everything and nothing.
If neither the Minister (who lacks PR skills per you) nor the other participants were able "explicate" the Cameroon situation, how about you helping us shed light on these issues? After all, the owner of this blog has given you this platform to comment, uncensored, even when you are insulting and being outright rude.
Pray, what are these PR skills that the eloquent minister does not have? What are these facts that the "arrogant blogger" failed to present? Why wait for the blogger to present his rebuttal to Tchiroma? You, who knows the system better than the "ignorant" BBC journalist, and who understands the Biya regime even better than the regime's propaganda minister should just give us an seminal expose.
Please, we are dying to read from this newly minted expert on Cameroon.
On another note, I wrote back in April that Mr. Dibussi should start moderating comments so that we are spared these inanities, but unfortuntely he has not. So we are constantly being punished with stupid comments by people who are not even courageous enough to use their real names...
Posted by: Bande Peter | September 06, 2011 at 02:41 PM
A hired hand or is it a "rent a crowd".
"There is one thing in the world more contemptible than the slave of a tyrant—it is the dupe of a SOPHIST."
Posted by: cadmun | September 06, 2011 at 05:10 PM
Cadmun did not follow the discussion. He is probably one of the hired hands the regime is using to invade web pages with reckless comments.
I am very sorry for his kind. They are like the proverbial slave whose yoke was removed, but turned back to his master to say he was not feeling confortable without the yoke.
Clowns and jokers like Cadmun should come out in the open with rational and objective comments.
Posted by: Samuel Chidong | September 07, 2011 at 03:09 AM