Cameroon / Post-election crisis: Issa Tchiroma or political indecency in the face of the people’s suffering
In the aftermath of the October 12 presidential election, Cameroon is sinking into a post-electoral crisis with devastating consequences. In Douala, the country’s economic capital, life has come to an abrupt standstill. Just four days of paralysis have been enough to suffocate households and bring the informal sector the true lifeblood of the national economy to its knees.
More than half of the population, who depend on small businesses and daily labor, are watching their incomes vanish. Savings groups have stopped functioning, markets are empty, and families are struggling to feed themselves.
At the heart of this turmoil, the role of Issa Tchiroma Bakary, an unsuccessful presidential candidate, is provoking anger and indignation. His calls for mobilization, followed by protests of unprecedented violence, have plunged the city into chaos.
While ordinary people endure hunger, fear, and material losses, the politician continues to deliver grandiose speeches about a supposed democracy.
But behind this facade lies an ostentatious deceit; that of a man whose priority is not Cameroon’s peace or security, but his own political visibility.
Issa Tchiroma presents himself as a defender of the people, yet his actions prove the opposite.
How can a responsible leader encourage the economic destruction of an already struggling city without proposing any accompanying solutions? How can one preach justice while causing suffering to those they claim to represent?
His attitude reflects the irresponsibility of a disconnected elite, quick to instrumentalize popular hardship for personal ambition.
While Douala suffocates, families are simply trying to survive. Cameroon does not need rabble-rousers; it needs peacemakers. The true measure of a political leader lies not in their ability to mobilize the streets, but in their capacity to preserve national cohesion and heal the wounds of a suffering people.
By fueling anger and division, Issa Tchiroma strays from the very values of patriotism and responsibility he claims to embody.
His words ring hollow in the face of the real distress of Cameroonians. History will remember not his slogans, but the guilty silence of a pseudo-leader who, out of pride, chose discord over peace.
Marc KAMGA
