He is 53 years old, has been involved in politics since university, and he says out loud what many whisper following the resignation of Prof. Maurice Kamto as head of the MRC.
In a very strong opinion piece, Vincent Sosthène Fouda takes a stand against the current political game: making Maurice Kamto’s downfall a project. “It must be said clearly, with dignity, with a sense of the State: politically killing Maurice Kamto cannot constitute a political program,” he declares. For him, this obsession reveals “a worrying strategic poverty.” As if after Kamto, Cameroon would miraculously improve.
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Fouda dismisses: “It is confusing the foam with the sea.” His message is simple: democracy is not a theater where one waits for an actor to leave the stage. “It is a worksite. An effort. A patient construction.” And he lists the real urgencies that the debate on Kamto makes us forget: modernizing the State, rebuilding the social pact, breaking systemic corruption, restoring trust, preparing the succession, and integrating the technological future.
His final sentence strikes like a manifesto: “The greatness of a Nation is not measured by the fall of its adversaries, but by the height of its projects. For that, the opposition and Cameroonian political life need Maurice Kamto.” A position taken 5 days after the shock letter from Prof. Alain Fogue from Kondengui, who also denounced the “state kamtophobia.”
Two texts, two different men, same observation: Cameroon after Biya will not be built solely on the elimination of Kamto. Beyond these two politicians, other actors on the national political scene have made statements following Maurice Kamto’s resignation as president of the MRC. This background is almost the same on the side of