Psychopaths who want to destroy Cameroon!.

"Peace, peace, peace," is the incantations being spewed out from roof tops by the Bishops of Cameroon, traditional rulers, members of the ruling class, opposition candidates, civil society leaders and Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, that organised the elections.

Would citizens, like in a football match played on a level playing field with the umpire demonstrating transparent fairness, not be jubilating after the final whistle, no matter who wins?

In the case of the October 12 election, which the Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, likened to a soccer match between Coton Sport and Real Madrid, the atmosphere is intoxicated with the fear of the possibility of violence with hallucinatory savagery if the verdict of the Constitutional Council does not reflect the will of the people.

But why should politicians, many psychopaths, be worried about peace if they know the Constitutional Council verdict will respect the will of the people as expressed in the ballot box? 

Who did not see in videos and texts, the will of the people being celebrated in songs and dances as results at polling stations were announced at the end of voting as required by law?

It has been a long journey begging for peace. Bishop Paul Lontsie-Keune of Bafoussam has, in a public statement, reintegrated: "I would like to recall the path we have traveled together to build this peace. Without being exhaustive, I mention the various exhortations in favour of peace and the pilgrimages during which a powerful symbol was given to us each time: the tree of peace that everyone took home to be an artisan of peace everywhere". 

He then asked: "Can we hold the tree of peace in one hand and with the other stuff the ballot boxes, falsify the minutes of the elections, corrupt the voters or the authorities responsible for ascertaining the truth of the ballot boxes?”

"And similarly, can we hold the tree of peace in one hand and with the other destroy public property? Threaten, intimidate or subdue others?" added Monsignor Paul Lontsie-Keune

Taking the cue, in a statement, the Archbishop of Bamenda, Andrew Nkea, who also doubles as president of the National Episcopal Conference, nevertheless, expressed "satisfaction with the efforts made by Elections Cameroon to ensure that the vote took place peacefully".

But he noted "certain irregularities that seriously hinder our progress towards democracy."

The Group of Civil Society Organisations for Electoral Reform also, in its preliminary declaration, expressed deep concerns over the conduct of the election, during a press conference in Douala on October 16.

It noted “limited accreditation for independent observers, denial of access to polling stations, the arrest of citizen monitors, and the heavy presence of administrative officials at polling centres". 

The representative of the candidate of Cameroon National Salvation Front, Issa Tchiroma, at the vote-counting Commission also banged the door on the Commission complaining about refusal of the Commission to compare polling station results submitted by Divisional Commissions suspected to have been falsified, with those from polling booth representatives.

There has been a plethora of such complaints. But as the President of the Board of Directors of ELECAM, Dr Enow Abrams, told reporters in Yaounde, multiple copies of results of all 31,653 polling stations nationwide are produced after the vote count in each booth.

This means even before the official results are proclaimed, additions of all those results can tell the "will of the people".

Dr Enow Abram explained that the National Vote-Counting Commission is performing its role “...in full compliance with the law, with inclusion, traceability and transparency assured at every stage”. He called on the population to be vigilant. 

“Let us avoid spreading or believing unverified information that could undermine peace and national unity," he noted. 

The Guardian Post joins in calling for peace, which of course can only be nourished with justice, not intimidation, not by the bullet but also by the truth from the ballot box.

If the verdict by the Constitutional Council reflects the "will of the people" as they peacefully expressed in the ballot box on October 12, peace will naturally reign and the nation jubilates, irrespective of who wins.

But if not, there will still be "peace", which, as in Jean Hélion's Theologico-Political Treatise, "...is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice". 

The war would not be on the streets like in the North West and South West Regions but in the consciences of egoistic psychopaths and hypocrites who refused to drink from the chalice of truth in preference to 30 pieces of silver.

They will not destroy Cameroon, but only ridicule an electoral process. As the Bible teaches, "only truth will set them free". The consciences of psychopaths and hypocrites will bleed till death in such inner wars, while the nation outlives us all, God, or Allah, being the Helper of those who stand by the truth.

This story was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3602 of Wednesday October 22, 2025