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Cameroon: Advice to Misguided And Disgruntled COIC Interest Group Members
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The Post (Buea)
OPINION
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Chief-Elect Njie Mandenge
Conversation and information are fast becoming a lost art and many people are rescuing that fascinating art from the flaccid substitutes of back-fence gossip, bar room badinage, and parlour platitudes.
John Locke once said: "I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for the information, and to my rule of conversation with all descriptions of man on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits." To which Jan Struther added a few years later: "private opinion creates public opinion.
Public opinion overflows into national behaviour, and, as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. This is why private opinion and private behaviour and private conversation are so terrifying important" and these two famous men prescribed nothing but intelligent meaningful, sincere, specific and constructive conversations that could enhance the society.
Accuracy of events and statements are those first elements of truth, accuracy is a near kin to falsehood. On the solid and well-documented theory that ennui is perhaps our greatest enemy today, I have decided to write this open letter to condemn all those who style themselves as interest group members of the Cameroon OIC Buea and yet do not have the interest of the centre at heart.
It beats all logic that people hold their general assembly meeting and come out with recommendations and resolutions unanimously: the revision of their articles of association, the updating by payment of their annual subscriptions of their membership etc and when they are politely reminded to meet up with their financial obligations before the next annual general meeting, they resort to petitioning, slander, defamation and blackmailing against those appointed or elected to manage their affairs.
Albeit, this little group of detractors failed to sell their nefarious idea of inciting interest group members to boycott the general assembly meeting that saw an unprecedented attendance of up-to-date members that represented 97%. Surprisingly, even some of those who had earlier endorsed a memorandum calling for a boycott were in attendance.
Some presented apologies and even threatened to institute legal or criminal actions against Mr. Julius Monangai, the initiator or ring-leader of this rebellion. According to some of them, their signatures were only or fraudulently grafted to a petition written by Barrister Ngale Monono on behalf of the disgruntled group. What a sinister and Machiavelli idea!
Now that the annual general assembly of OIC has taken place and new articles of association have been adopted, what else do these detractors have in stock? Perhaps it is worth reminding them that if they fail to pay their subscriptions before the next general assembly, they would simply loose their membership. A stitch in time saves nine, so please; they should hurry up and pay their accrued dues.
As it is often said, "fools bite one another, but wise men agree together." There is also this ancient proverb. "If the experienced say: "destroy," and the inexperienced say: "build," then better destroy and do not build; for when the experienced destroy, they build, and when the inexperienced build, they destroy."
The last word for these "boycotters" whom I believe are suffering from agnosticism, is that there is nothing wrong to be ambitious. But let them remember that "ambition makes the same mistakes concerning power that avarice makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a means to happiness, and finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
To the Board of Directors, and Executive and management of Cameroon OIC, permit me borrow some few words of Norman Macleod "Courage, brothers! Do not stumble, Though the path be dark as night, There's a star to guide the humble Trust in God, and do the right etc...
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You should also bear in mind that those who wrestle with you only strengthen your nerves. You are a dignified group and keep it up for the good of the needy and underprivileged youths of our community.
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