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Embarassing Biya Landmarks: 25k jobs.

From "rigueur et moralisation" to "le Cameroun des grands ambitions" through "democratie avancee", Biya's landamrks are tall in pomposity but pale and embarrassing (for those who care) in reality. Mr Paul Biya's policy gurus, and speech writers, have showed reckless abandon of modesty and restraint to coerce Cameroonians into believing that we "need" a washed-out-near-octogenarian for President after a 29-year malaise waiting for "le bout du tunnel" (another Biyaism). To pull off such an extraordinary feat, they have leaned on the virtues of a gullible, greedy, power-hungry, hungry, alcohol-prone populace who care about one thing only: get into the civil service and swindle as much money as possible. When we were children, our neighbors had an abandoned car in the front of their house, a Simca, and we would play in the carcass of the car and pretend that we were driving, going fast, zooming through the dusty streets of Tsinga (