Anicet Ekane’s death: Let Kamto mourn in tranquility, he’s earned it!.

He has lost time, efforts, money, health, supporters…which he will never recover. In addition, he has been ostracized, martyrized, scrutinized and bastardized. 

He has been harassed and his supporters have had their dreams dashed like sea waves on high tide to the rocks. He has been banned from basic internal party activities by a regime that only looks at things from the prism of nail and hammer. A regime that speaks the language of fire and gunpowder to flies; and a regime that brandishes protesters as assailants while firing live rounds at men with peace plants. 

Prof Maurice Kamto has lost an ally- not just anyone. He has lost the man who gave him a massive light ray of hope in a night darkened by a tenebrous regime that ultimately came down swinging a large cowardly blow of exclusion from a presidential race he had prepared seven years long in earnest. Kamto lost the man who selflessly stretched his arm out to him in a time of dire need. 

The last decade has easily been his most challenging, yet, tirelessy persecuted by a blood thirsty regime that quivers feverishly at the sound of the word ‘change’. 

Kamto has had bad years, he has tasted jail, he has separated from party collaborators, buried some, but the  year 2025 has been a devilish one for him. 

In the past, he has been there for Cameroonians and it is time for them to return the favour. A good turn deserves another…in silence and in respect as he grieves the late Anicet Ekane in his own way. 

There are moments when Paul Biya’s fiercest adversary of 2018 needs a hug, or at least the right to tranquility. These are the times.

Dalaï Lama once said: “The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

Kamto brought Cameroonians hope and life while the regime squandered billions during the COVID-19 pandemic. He comforted families during landslides and other major national tragedies while the regime did nothing but menace, steal, jail and kill. 

He spoke up where other politicians cozied up with the ugliness of the autocratic Yaounde regime. The man we saw today was shaken by the death of Anicet Ekane. 

He spoke with knots in his throat fighting to hold back tears and expressing the feelings every lover of change has felt since the damning news of the passing of the maverick and national treasure, Anicet Ekane. The late Ekane was rightfully the man who was the antithesis of the rogue Biya regime. He was brave, loyal to a noble cause, candid to the very end, intrepid and selfless. 

Kamto went to visit him on Monday and met his ghost. Imagine the shock! This came after he grappled with the repressive ban of MRC’s Extraordinary Convention over the weekend by a zealous Divisional Officer, DO. 

I beg of you, allow this man to take it all in. Even a dog has the right to lick its wounds. Kamto is not a dog but a man who built an outstanding career bootstraps up entrenched in principles of justice and love for the common man shaped by the execution of Ernest Ouandie, which he witnessed as a fifteen-year-old lad hiding on a tree.

The man’s mettle has been tested a time too many on this treacherous thankless path called opposition politics. He has done well where many ended up surrendering to the regime’s scraggly carrots after being bullied into submission by its fragmenting and dehumanizing cane strokes.

He has sacrificed too much too long for a bunch of 30 million ungrateful conceited arrogant and noisy armchair politicians (not all but you get me). Let Kamto mourn however he wants to. He has earned it- sweat, blood, public humiliation, heart, mind and money. 

He did not kill Ekane and he is not responsible for the disgraceful rigging and manipulation of election results that have plunged the country into this umpteenth nightmare. Let him mourn in silence, peace and tears as he chooses.

His perceived character flaws, Winny says Nelson Mandela had some too. The sand of the revival of politics as the center of daily conversation in Cameroon carries his massive footprints. 

He is the revival of Cameroonian politics- the renaissance, a movement, an ideal, a new way of life and the envy of the convenient opposition.

He has done what the Biya regime and all its superman Professors, with grandiloquent arrogance, incompetence, mediocrity and brutality will never live to dream of doing and have not cared to do in 43 years.

To those who believe they can do better, please do better. To those who believe he has done nothing or that he has not done enough, the floor is yours. This is your time to shine. Do yours too!

This article was first published in The Guardian Post Edition No:3645 of Thursday December 04, 2025