3 MINUTES THAT NEVER WERE
I have listened to some of the concerns you (Anglophone teachers and lawyers) have raised. Assuming that the concerns are founded, there is good reason for you to feel that you are on the margins of the mainstream of our community.
We may have lost sight of some key aspects of our heritage in the overall management of our diversity. If we did, I want to assure you that it was never out of bad faith or malice.
I thank you for drawing my attention to the issues. You have demonstrated that you care deeply about our country.
I ask you to give me some time to PERSONALLY assess the situation and it will not be long before I announce some major decisions. Other changes will take a bit more time, but the ball won't stop rolling.
Meanwhile, I urge you to return to the courts and to classrooms. We have a country to build and it is our common responsibility to do so.
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How much time did it take you to read the text above?
3 minutes? More? Less?
That's the time it would have taken to arrest this problem from the start if someone had said these lines.
- People would not have been arrested,
- The internet would not have been shut down
- So many lives would not have been lost
- The military could have focused more on fighting Boko Haram
- 30,000 Cameroonians would not be refugees
- Tens of thousands more would not be internally displaced
- Thousands of Anglophones would not have lost a school year
- 'One and indivisible' would have made better sense
- The economy would not have suffered as much
- Ghost towns would have remained in the annals of the history of the 1990s
- Mancho Bibixy may have remained a little known journalist
- Mami Appih would still be alive
- Ekema's 'academic prowess' would still be veiled (sadly)
- Cameroon's human rights record would be less tarnished
- Batibo would still have its Sub-divisional Officer, his wife a husband and his children a father
- Secessionists would not have stood a chance to mobilise
- Many would not have known what is VPN
YET, THE 3 MINUTES TEXT WAS NEVER READ AND WE'RE ALL PAYING THE PRICE... A HIGH PRICE
We may have lost sight of some key aspects of our heritage in the overall management of our diversity. If we did, I want to assure you that it was never out of bad faith or malice.
I thank you for drawing my attention to the issues. You have demonstrated that you care deeply about our country.
I ask you to give me some time to PERSONALLY assess the situation and it will not be long before I announce some major decisions. Other changes will take a bit more time, but the ball won't stop rolling.
Meanwhile, I urge you to return to the courts and to classrooms. We have a country to build and it is our common responsibility to do so.
******************************
How much time did it take you to read the text above?
3 minutes? More? Less?
That's the time it would have taken to arrest this problem from the start if someone had said these lines.
- People would not have been arrested,
- The internet would not have been shut down
- So many lives would not have been lost
- The military could have focused more on fighting Boko Haram
- 30,000 Cameroonians would not be refugees
- Tens of thousands more would not be internally displaced
- Thousands of Anglophones would not have lost a school year
- 'One and indivisible' would have made better sense
- The economy would not have suffered as much
- Ghost towns would have remained in the annals of the history of the 1990s
- Mancho Bibixy may have remained a little known journalist
- Mami Appih would still be alive
- Ekema's 'academic prowess' would still be veiled (sadly)
- Cameroon's human rights record would be less tarnished
- Batibo would still have its Sub-divisional Officer, his wife a husband and his children a father
- Secessionists would not have stood a chance to mobilise
- Many would not have known what is VPN
YET, THE 3 MINUTES TEXT WAS NEVER READ AND WE'RE ALL PAYING THE PRICE... A HIGH PRICE
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