The Controversy in MINCAM - Broken Laws

A Response to JK's Take and Others (Scroll down to find the text) Posted in the MINCAM Forum on January 3rd 2012.

JK!

A forum such as this one demands a certain freedom of thought - an open-mindedness that presupposes a latitude towards topical discourse. Whether our idiosyncrasies allow for contributions of intellectual acclamation or not is certainly not a reason to preclude any member from sharing and better still from advancing a subject for the inquiry of the forum. Great minds as these that make up MINCAM are certainly not afraid of controversies. Let's imagine for a moment that the ex-president so hated the present leadership that he "manufactured this so called controversy," your perusal of the quoted text and subsequent interpretation makes one wonder whether it is written in Greek.

JK: One moment, so that we take a look at the English in the text. The active verb in the first statement is "becomes"; the third person singular of the infinitive “to become.” Etymologically: “Middle English bicomen, from Old English becuman; see gw- in Indo-European roots.” Contextually, it would mean “To grow or come to be”. Its synonyms would be: convert, develop; and if you like, some other phrasal forms like “come to be”; “turn out to be” etc.

The ongoing thread has as central theme - the creation of a new position NOT a vacancy becoming available. Board Secretary talked about the board’s decision “to change” what in the past had been number of board members so conveniently that a position was created for the outgoing chairperson who did not only come back as an unelected board member but also as its chairperson. Now, back to semantics; to create and to become are not synonymous. The question of law here is whether the Board of members can circumvent MINCAM laws with impunity. Mark you, JK, in any and all democracy, the power to make, amend, and change laws rests with the people. Probably the only difference is that ours is an “advanced democracy” - the hallmark of Biyaism, becoming a canker worm that lives within the very best of us wherever we are.

The president of MINCAM has a responsibility to serve the people and to protect the laws of the institution. It should never be said of the Office of the Presidency that favors were granted or received and/or that the laws were not rigorously followed. The solution to a breach of any covenant is not and may not be a slapdash preservation of any consensus ad idem produced as a consequence.

Kenneth Forbin is a respectable and devoted member of MINCAM. I know him and work together with him in different functions. I’m also happy to call him my friend. This, JK, is not to cloud what you see as an unabashed hypocrisy in people like Mike Fondugallah who chose to speak their minds freely as they should. Mike is my friend, so too is Robert. The office of the Chairperson of MINCAM Board of Governors, I dare say is sacrosanct and whoever achieves the trust of his peers to occupy it for a given term should not be shrouded in controversy - fabricated or not. Ken should observe the resignation he tendered before until that time that according to MINCAM's constitution, very well quoted by JK below, there becomes a vacancy.

Keep your thoughts alive! There is nothing more interesting than to know that my fellow Cameroonians take these matters seriously.

Happy New Year 2012!

Brendan Banteh

Member: MINCAM’s Communication Committee