Letter to Marafa Hamidou Yaya



Dear Mr. Marafa Hamidou Yaya,

It is with a heavy heart that I read about your sentencing to twenty five years in jail. I want to make it clear to you that my chagrin stems not from your proclaimed (by you) or perceived innocence but from the death of any form of justice and legal procedure in the country that both you and I love. If things were otherwise, Mr. Paul Biya would have been a defendant, if not a respondent in the travesty of a trial that sentenced you and Mr. Y. M. Fotso. I agree with you that Mr. Biya and the system he has perfected is the cancer of Cameroon and until he is removed and that system scraped from our country, we will NEVER emerge as a prosperous nation.

My sympathy goes to you today and countless other Cameroonians who are victims of the whims and caprices of the owners of Cameroon's justice system. There are many men and women languishing in jail today for crimes that range from insulting a bigwig to questioning the President's authority. People like Enoh Meyomese, Mayor Kingue, and many others who happened to be on the wrong side of the Pilferers' mood are spending time in jail for ridiculous charges. Every one knows that we cannot emerge as a nation without a guarantee of due process for every Cameroonian.

In your letter to Mr. Biya, you mentioned that he:

  • has a net worth of $2.5 Billion
  • usurped the Presidency after being voted out of office in 1992






These two facts are well known to Cameroonians. We know for example that ALL ministers in Cameroon are very rich people. You also quote public information as evidence of your accusations. We know, and I hope you know this, that you too Mr. Marafa are a very rich man. We do not know how you made your fortune. By a syllogistic deduction we can safely conclude that after 30 years in power, Mr. Biya should be extremely wealthy and to some degree with your help. What we don't know, is how this happened. This is where you come in Mr. Marafa. For you to have any relevance in our quest for a better nation, you must expose to the Cameroonian people the method that the Mafia in Cameroon uses to siphon Cameroon's resources into those private bank accounts overseas. Show us documents, give us details: who attended what meeting, who visited what country with a suitcase full of cash, what is the exact address of any of Mr Biya's properties (those in the US can be easily verified through public records as you know)? How did YOU make your own money, how were YOU bought (we know you were) into the scheme of vote theft, who are your accomplices, etc?

You see Mr. Marafa, you may take comfort in the fact that your letters make the Biya regime uncomfortable, draws crowds at your trial, or push some to call you Mr. President, but I hate to break this to you, YOU will never be President of the Republic of Cameroon. Your sympathizers are a bunch of cowards who can NEVER move into action on your behalf because they don't believe in you. I am not sure they believe in their country anymore, but I may be wrong on that.

Mr. Marafa, in your various letters, you seem to hold back a lot. As a common citizen who loves his country, I advise you to tell it all to Cameroonians. Begin with the role you played, ask for forgiveness without expecting any because you do not deserve any forgiveness in my eyes. In 1990 and beyond some Cameroonians from the world beyond, had the choice to stay at home with their families and let things be the way they were. They did not. They gave their lives with the hope that things will be better. What did YOU, Mr. Marafa do? You sat in the comfort of your air-conditioned office and allowed an impostor to rule over Cameroon for another twenty years! Imagine if you had done something, anything in 1992! Imagine where your position would have been among our country's most respected men and women! We would have had five Presidents at least to this day. You never let that happen. You chose comfort and today you manipulate us with half truths that we already know.

The ball is in your court. Some of us still want to play with you, but it must be an interesting game.







Marafa's Letter to the President (translated into English)


Mr. President

Thank you for sentencing me to 25 years to jail for something that you know very well that l did not do. For the 25 years that you sentenced me to jail make sure that you leave to see every one of those years because for the time that l am going to be in jail l will make sure that you don’t live in peace. I will be telling the people of all the things tha


t you Mr. President have ...done for all these years that you have been in power. Let the Cameroon people be the judge for all the information that l will be putting out in the Press and Social Media.

You are the richest man in Cameroon net worth of more than $2.5 billion

Now how did you become the richest man in Cameroon without you or your family doing any business? A little bit of total recall on your path to becomes the richest man in Cameroon. On March 16, 1983, Le Canard enchainé uncovered two presidential acquisitions in France: one on the Avenue Foch in paris; the other in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean. In May 1984, L'Evenement du jeudi estimated the fortune of you and your family at close to 70 million euros, including chateaus in France and in Baden-Baden in Germany. On June 1988 you and your late wife Jeanne Irene bought a hospitile in Baden Germany for $150million at the time and later handed over the Hospital to very close family friend who is still listed as the CEO/owner of the Hospital. In 1990, you had your son Frank Biya buys three apartment complexes in Rockville Maryland just off the capital Beltway I 495 where he was listed on the wall as the sole proprietor and he later removed his just before the 1992 Presidential election. In 1992 the then director of the SCB Bank Robert Messi Messi now on exile in Canada alleged You and your late wife Jeanne Irene, had emptied the coffers of the bank to build a palace and a golf course in your village Mvomeka’a which you have never publicly disclaimed this allegation. The Cameroon people have no knowledge of the revens from the oil refinery or SONARA well you know well that 75% of the oil money goes to your bank accounts in France, Geneva where you have since became a distinguished and honorary citizen, Bermuda, Monaco, Singapore and Cayman Island. The U.S. imported $544 million worth of crude and fuel oil from Cameroon in 2008 and exported $59 million worth of drilling and oilfield equipment but still the citizens don’t see all this profit. In a 2009, the Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD) denounced you Mr. President as being among a list of leaders with ill-gotten wealth.

International communities have criticized you Mr. President

The American ambassador to Cameron says that you Mr. President spend the country’s funds like a personal bank account. In September 2009, you and your entourage spent 600 million CFA francs, occupying 43 rooms during a three week vacation at La Baule, in France at the cost of 60.000 dollars per night. According to a French online newspaper, Rue 89, your vacation was over the top more expensive than that of the American President. You were widely criticized for having rented a villa for 30,000 euros per day in August 2009. Our country as you know is one of the poorest countries in the world (with $2,257 GDP per capita as of 2011) with 48% of its population living below the poverty line.
Corruptions. During the 2006 trial of Ondo Ndong,-the Director of “ Feicom” it was revealed that your wife’s foundation and ancillary organization received a total of about 200 million CFA francs which was true and you did ok for the money to be given to her foundation. During the Elf Aquitaine affair, the convicted director of the company Loik Le Flock-Prigent revealed that you Mr. President, like most other leaders in oil producing Third world countries where Elf operates, receive a percentage of each barrel of oil exploited from Cameroon. Le Flock-Prigent explains that in 1992 you did received him in audience and requested 450 million CFA francs for your electoral campaign.

Cult

In 1999, a French inquiry into the activities of the high priest of the Amorc Raymond Bernard revealed that you had paid 3.6 million CFA francs to the cult from Cameroon’s oil revenues. Earlier in 1999 you had given the leader of the French cult (l’Ordre du Temple Solaire) a painting worth 5, 6 million CFA francs and another gift of 2 million CFA francs as well as a bank transfer of 20 million francs to the same cult. You gave the aforementioned sect a 99 year –interest free loan of 40 million francs. Because you are completely beholden to cults, there is a popular saying in Yaoundé that one had to be a Rosicrucian to become a member of your government. Your sects breed human sacrifices and demand human body parts like the heart, the brain and genitals for their esoteric practice.

Victims

Mr. President, you are a capricious schemer who methodically breeds discord in your entourage to reap dividends; you invariably fires a minister only to appoint his most implacable adversary, and encourages the new appointee, to layer allegations against his predecessor. You play musical chairs with your ministers, elbowing out those who are competent, hardworking and ambitious- William Eteki Mboumoua and Professor Joseph Owona, became victims of their own positive attributes, when France and many Cameroonians thought of them as competent enough to replace you. You use the alibi of “embezzlement” to clip the wings of your ministers who show overweening ambition. That is how Professor Titus Edzoa Olangena Awono myself and Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni were framed and jailed. Those who have been arrested ostensibly for corruption are only those who have threatened your position. The fawning sychophants like Mendo Ze, Fame Ndongo, Biyiti Bi Essam, and many others who are perpetuating corruption have remained free.

Politics of ethnicity

After the 1984 abortive coup d’etat, the Beti were lionized, and created a tribal war council “Essingan” headed by Joseph Owona, which systematically positioned Beti clansmen in all strategic positions in the government, the security forces, and the economy and in the clergy. In 1987 a flunky of your regime Professor Hubert Mono Ndzana accused the Bamileke of “ethno fascism” for supposedly attempting to control all strategic areas of the country. As sacrilegious as it may appear, the Beti clergy waded into the ethnic battles when in 1987, 50 Beti priests in the Douala diocese sent a letter to the Vatican protesting against the appointment of a Bamilike Bishop in their diocese, alleging that Bamileke priests where encouraging their tribesmen to monopolize the Catholic church, and to increase their birth rate so that by 2020, half of the country should be made up of Bamileke tribesman.
I will continue in my power to tell the Cameroon people everything that you have done over the last 27 plus years including the presidential results that you have change in the past even when l advice you not to do so in 1992 when you lost the election. So long as there is no separation of powers, and the judiciary is beholden to the whims and caprices of the president corruption at the highest level will continue.

Marafa. H.yaya

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