What is peace if we have the power to stop the massacres in NOSO, the rape of women, the burning of villages, the killing of civilians, men, women, children, the elderly and the disabled, and do not do it?
What is peace if we set fire to a hospital, burning the sick just in order to discredit its opponent? What is peace when we reward thieves and punish honest citizens? What is peace when the sons of the poor are denied access to prestigious schools in the country? What is peace when tribalism is instituted as a mode of governance?
What is peace when one does not eat one's hunger because one instituted theft, mismanagement, corruption as a mode of government? What is peace when there is no justice, when there are no laws or laws only when it suits or to harm? What is peace when we confiscate power by force, when we turn people into sacrificial lambs just for trying to access power as well?When you embellish a party leader with all his directorate in the name of safeguarding public order?
What is the peace when one dedicates a tribe to the gémonies, When one marginalizes a fringe of Cameroonians whose only crime is to be born in Cameroon? Peace is not just the absence of war. The frustrations born of injustices are at the root of all wars. Peace is justice, equality and fraternity. Justice must be distributive, that is, give everyone what they deserve. Are we so far?
We can not be beggars for peace and condone injustices, You can not beg for peace and accept tribalism.
You can not beg for peace and wallow in silence.
You can not be beggars for peace and accept theft, misappropriation of public funds. unless it is a figure of speech which consists in saying only the opposite of what one thinks.
One can not beg for peace by sowing the seeds of war.
The night is never eternal.
Journalist: Charles Martial Guemne?